Gaz Cobain- tactile instruments/vocals/has a bash at expression of all kinds/ technology of the gods/the gizmo
Brian Dougans- the Gizmo/Compassionate Technology Inc
Dave Sanderson- owl vocalising and conga rhythms of the ancients
Gary Lucas-His Guitarness
Alisha Sufit - Voice from the Magic Carpet
Stu Rowe, Antony Argiros- the lost chords
Baluji Shrivastav, Jonathan Mayer- sitar, tablas and the Om
Mikey Rowe, Rainy Moor - Analogue Overlords of the Vintage Keys and Hammond Dimension
Virgil Howe- Drum Circle of One
Kez Gunes- the Pulse of the Lower Frequencies
Edd Keene- Upper Chakra Flutes Dianne Harris- Woman with burning vision
Influences
Flying on a wing and a prayer in the eternally present- cosmic consciousness and sweet bloody mindedness- preposterousnessnessness! Wholefoods-healing-naturopathically speaking of course!! Psychedelic- COSMIC- freaky love grooves- DONOVAN- Rotary Connection, Crosby Kills Hash and Fun, Mahahvishnu Orchestra ,Miles Davis,George Harrison,Osho,David Icke,the Zep and the Floyd, free radicals, expressionist truth seekers,Lao Tzu,ALan Watts,Vipassanah,COffee Enemas ! the Rebel Yell- the Voyagers, Technology of the GOds and God Concepts , the Ancients, Atlantis,Pin Hole Photography, the Om, Colloidal Silver and Charcoal, the Plaeides, Yoga - UNION- AH!!! INDI-AAAAAAH!! the sitar and the eternal drone -Ravi and ANANDA
Krishna,Buddha,Socrates,Krishnamurti, Thank you THANK YOU- spiritual warriors-SOUL-diers !! cosmic space music of every kind-Opulence ,Love celebration- ostentation- free expression-mind expansion- any time anywhere- !!!! Tantra and the TaO- sex is the egg from which the bird of love will finally flyQuantum Theory- splitting the atom and finding a big fat OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM !
Sounds Like
a MONstrous Psychedelic Bubble exploding in your MIND !
" quite simply the best compilation album ever ! " TIME OUT
" . . the strongest argument to turn on/ tune in etc since Lennon thought naming a song after a children's home might be a good laugh. " 9/10 NME
" Compilation of the Year by a light year. It's gonna blow your mind out so bad that you'll be picking bits of your brains outta the carpet for the rest of your days"
the Electric Roulette
"it's a trip .. . a really well put together mix album charting the progression of all things psychedelic, cosmic and tripped out over the last four decades " 4/5 DJmag
' brain-melting . . . you'll be wigging out until daybreak " Esquire
" a reinterpretation of psychedelic music tracing the dots from its birth in 1967 to the present - a dj trip through over 4 decades of genre busting, sonically diverse music. .. a true sonic trip." ROUGH TRADE
" if you're wondering what to ask Santa for Xmas, ask him for an album called "A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind (Vol 1. Space Rock)". I've had it on in the dressing room for a month now. It's one of the best things I've ever, ever heard. Go and find it NOW! It'll blow your tiny little minds . . . "
NOEL GALLAGHER (Oasis ) Dec 2008
" . . a weightless magic carpet ride. It’s packed out with enough acid-woozy beats and progged-up guitar wig-outs to leave you feeling like you’ve transcended bland, dance music compilations and achieved some kind of higher consciousness." the LIST
"A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble is a trip (man). . . synapse-snapping . .mind-melting . . the duo seem to really know their (glass) onions . .expertly weaving this stuff into a pleasing journey through the backroads of your mind. It's a collection that perfectly runs the gauntlet from kitsch to uber cool.Here's to volume two..." BBC online
" album of the year or any other year . . . . fucking mindblowing" NOEL GALLAGHER . . Rolling Stone magazine
the Amorphous Androgynous ' the Peppermint Tree & the Seeds Of Superconsciousness'
available on CD and instant download at
fsoldigital. com NOW !!
here's a shortform AUDIO-VISUAL medley of the album. . .
the Amorphous Androgynous REMIX OASIS ' Falling Down'
'A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Mix '
here's part 1 & 2 of a 5 part / 22-minute mix
Man is not a creature hanging onto nothing-
but someone destined to join leaf, tree and
wind by the thread of love
. . . to the serious arbiters of taste,gaiety,fantasy and foolishness are seen as frivolous and suspect.So the highbrows turn gratefully instead to works of boredom and despair and proclaim such solemnities to be masterpieces '
-James Broughton
It is a far , far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought '
-J.K Galbraith
the AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS is the psychedelic band created by The Future Sound of London, A SAMPLERDELIC FUNKOID ROKTRONIC cosmic ambient oozescape merging the sonic with the lyric -the beat with the beat-less -the classic rock with the epic freeform roll -the mantra with the tantra -to convert the how? into the Tao -To merge the possibilities of technology with the plausibility of NO-OLOGY -to combine a love for the forgotten treasures of old with the unfolding mysteries of the new-to combine the electromagnetic machines with psychedelic dreams, cosmic consciousness with sweet bloody mindedness- the lizards with the wizards and the infant with the Sage and to come out the other side smelling vaguely of roses or maybe sandalwood or even EUCALYPTUS!!
MAY ALL BE LOVED MAY ALL BE FED MAY ALL BE HEALED
Sometime during the 5 year recording /production and writing process of their 6th album THE ISNESS , The Future Sound of London (Brian Dougans, Garry Cobain ) began to realise that this latest paradigm had accidentally formed a 'virtual' band and they were no longer who they thought they were-whether partially , completely or maybe even momentarily . Further to that it was no longer strictly true to call it FSOL. After the naturally arising initial confusion caused by such free wheelin' artistic abandon had cleared for long enough to catch a glimpse of the multi splendoured cosmic potential that lay ahead it was decided to create a new/old band and for that 'band' to take the name The Amorphous Androgynous
.It included in its tender folds a varied and motley bunch of friends and musicians who had contributed throughout the extensive recording process 1997-2002 in which the album was conceived and recorded- It was 'virtual' because the musicians never actually performed in a room together. They each came in turn and laid down tracks and performed to an evolving musical oozescape that became increasingly far fetched and adventurous in the minds and wizardly hands of Dougans and Cobain as the time spun by from 1997 to 2002 .
By the time of its release in late 2002 THE ISNESS revealed itself to be a 'cosmic psychedelic soup of influence' like a 'modern progtronic-rock opera' for the 21st century-
' this other worldly masterpiece is so far out you need a telescope to see it - an album
of infinite possibility' 8/10 NME .......' it's sound is like a beam of white light from heaven ' 6/5 MUZIK
' a modern psychedelic classic' MOJO
The 'virtual' band which FSOL had unwittingly assembled during these extensive recordings became known as 'the AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS'
..
it gradually dawned on the FSOL mutant morph-lovechild that it would be an interesting experiment to bring this 'virtual' band 'the AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS' together for the first time and jam together to complete the cycle - the virtual now becoming manifest- ! The band who had never played together but who had been fused, spliced,sampled and processed in the masterly FSOL gizmo now reconvening to interpret that fusion- ready to fly !!
WOW! What a TRIP that IS/WAS !!!
The AMORPHOUS supergroup is a heady odyssey of rocktronica / cosmic funk / backwards psychedelic stomp through to beautiful ambient folktronic flute and sitar ragas with the odd song or two of love and divinity and mello hippos, all the while beats and samples spew and collide like the Spector Wall of Sound has undergone sudden cross fertilisation with the hippy mutant child of FSOL conceived on a rickshaw ride with the MAHARISHI looking on cackling wildly while in the background a giant kaleidoscopic exploding light fantastic video show hints at the meaning underpinning the universe- suns setting as planets collide and explode in shards of white light and bearded robed hippies dance in hypnotised mantra to the exotic beat.
This band are AMORPHOUS and ANDROGYNOUS - they've
shapeshifted and only seem transfixed to the eternal NOW!!! - this AMORPHOUS entity is nothing less than GRIPPING - catch this BAND if you can - they're in another dimension !!!! THE 5TH TO BE SPECIFIC ! 2012 light years from home !!
I send you this wish… I wish you joy beyond compare, success in all you do. I wish your goals within your reach, friendships true and strong. I wish you gracious wisdom and forgiveness, when you're wrong. I wish you nights of wonderous rest. I wish you strength and courage, and persistence to be your best. And most of all, I wish for you more love than most will find, the grandest love in all the world, the everlasting kind! Wishing you blessings and love for you and your loved ones today and always!
Greetings My Space Friends. Letting you know I've posted a track from my new Photon Shift cd on my player, just in time for your next psychedelic party...
Brian Dougans- the Gizmo/Compassionate Technology Inc
Dave Sanderson- owl vocalising and conga rhythms of the ancients
Gary Lucas-His Guitarness
The 'virtual' band which FSOL had unwittingly assembled during these extensive recordings became known as 'the AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS'
..
it gradually dawned on the FSOL mutant morph-lovechild that it would be an interesting experiment to bring this 'virtual' band 'the AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS' together for the first time and jam together to complete the cycle - the virtual now becoming manifest- ! The band who had never played together but who had been fused, spliced,sampled and processed in the masterly FSOL gizmo now reconvening to interpret that fusion- ready to fly !!
WOW! What a TRIP that IS/WAS !!!
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