(Space Rock) Sendelica - Spaceman Bubblegum And Other Weird Tales From The Mercury Mind - 2007, WavPack (image+.cue), lossless

The core material of the SENDELICA’s second full-length album, this time all instrumental, was recorded in one-day session on a mobile studio under the watchful eye of producer Colin Awen (aka Powerstepper) who also played additional keyboards. Intricately entitled Spaceman Bubblegum & Other Weird Tales From The Mercury Mind, it features, among others, live psyche rocker favourites “Spaceman Bubblegum 2”, “Siren - The Second Coming”, and “Indrid Cold”. The trio put the stress on loping grooves, sometimes drawing from the free-jamming of an acid-rock band, but they also are getting into the more intellectual sounds. In essence, SENDELICA had evolved a long ways from the roots of psychedelic rock and, at this point, they take serious inspiration from modern experimental and cinematic music. There's a real looseness and grit to lengthy kraut-jams, weird elegance to more tightly arranged space-prog-numbers, and wonderful atmospheres to melodic non-drum ambiences. There's also a more easygoing, humorous bent to the way three instrumentalists interact, avoiding the over-cerebral stiffness. With all tracks running smoothly together and working as a single piece, the whole thing holds together as a coherent and listenable work. This is much more exciting and intriguing than average psyche rock revival music. (7 tracks - 58 min.)

PRESS CLIPS

"It seems as if Sendelica always have a couple of ideas for every song, around which they create agile improvisations that work all the time, proving that these are musicians that understand each other’s ideas and who are used to playing together… An interesting addition for fans of Hawkwind, Gong and Seventies psyche and kraut rock generally. (Grade: 8/10)" – by Pascal Thiel of DisAgreement (Luxembourg) (September 2007).

"The disc starts off with the languidly mellow, mood setting sounds of 'Sunfazed' which after four minutes segues into the muscular and driving force that is 'Spaceman Bubblegum #2', a track which features a heaping serving of Bingham's inventive and torrid guitar work. 'It's a Neu! Thing' like its title suggests, is an indirect tribute to the legendary Kraut rockers, featuring an airtight rhythmic workout between Pescado and Fields underneath a plethora of electronic sounds and triggered effects. 'Siren-The Second Coming' starts of with a groove before Bingham's inspired soloing once again takes center stage for well over five minutes. By this point just over thirty minutes have elapsed, which gives the listener a pretty good idea of what Sendelica are all about, that is until they totally blow your mind with the absolute guitar tour de force on 'Indrid Cold'. Check out the crazy solo's Bingham tosses out on this twelve minute epic, not to mention Pescado's thick and rubbery bass lines and the busy work of Fields behind the kit. This is hands down the best track on the disc. 'Mr. Floyd Walker' is a minimal ambient piece of music which sounds a bit out of place compared to the frenetic pace of the first five tracks. Likewise the albums final number 'Dawn Of The Dub Revisited' is another gentle, floating and radiating track. (Score: 4/5)" – by Ryan Sparks of Sea Of Tranquility (USA) (November 2007).

The album was also reviewed at: Organ Magazine (UK), Glasswerk (UK), Psychotropic Zone (Finland), Terrascope Online (UK), Aural Innovations (USA), Eclipsed (Germany), Musik Zirkus Magazine (Germany), Rate Your Music (USA), ProgArchives (USA), ProgressiveEars (USA), MerlinProg (Norway).