There Is Nothing/Live Ethereal Cereal

Artist: Ozric Tentacles
Label: Recall
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 636551430920
EAN: 0636551430920
ASIN: B000050F4N

Release Date: 2000-11-16

There Is Nothing/Live Ethereal Cereal

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Tracks:

The Sacred Turf
O-I
Jabular
Staring At The Moon
Airy Area
Travelling The Great Circle
Imhotep
Thrashing Breath Texture
Crab Nebula
Lull Your Skull
Invisible Carpet
The Eternal Wheel
Kola B'Pep
There Is Nothing

Tracks:

Erpriff (Glastonbury Oct '85)
Tentacular Explosion (Reading Dec '85)
Stupid Reggae (Glastonbury Oct '85)
Aumriff (Reading Dec '85)
Obstacular Explosion (Reading Feb '86)
Og-Ha-Be (Glastonbury Oct '85)
Dots Thots (Reading Sept '85)
Erpitaph (Feb '86)

Similar Items:

Bits Between the Bits/Sliding Gliding Worlds
Tantric Obstacles/Erpsongs
Swirly Termination
The Floor's Too Far Away
Erpland

Product Description

<b>Disk 1</b>
1. Scared Turf
2. O - I
3. Jabular
4. Staring at the Moon
5. Airy Area
6. Travelling the Great Circle
7. Imhotep
8. Thrashing Breath Texture
9. Crab Nebula
10. Lull Your Skull
11. Invisible Carpet
12. Eternal Wheel
13. Kola B'pep
14. There Is Nothing

<b>Disc: 2</b>
1. Erpriff [Glastonbury Oct '85]
2. Tentacular Explosion [Reading Dec '85]
3. Stupid Reggae [Glastonbury Oct '85]
4. Aumriff [Reading Dec '85]
5. Obstacular Explosion [Reading Feb '86]
6. Og-Ha-Be [Glastonbury Oct '85]
7. Dots Thots [Reading Sept '85]
8. Erpitaph [Feb '86]

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Not the best.......2005-09-17

I love the Tentacles, but these CD's of old material are lacking the insiration and technicality of the "Erpland" and newer CD's.

Live-itation.......2002-05-28

What can you say to the start of an Ozric Tentacles concert when the MC comes out and says: "Ladies and Gentlemen, now properly chemicalized, here is Ozric Tentacle (sic)."
For OT fans, even those who have the screen savers with the music on them, this comes as close as it gets to seeing them. Close, but no Blunt.
The late Terrance McKenna, true father of the theory that the human brain evolved through- and would continue to evolve through- the use of mind altering assistance, loved them. He was one big fan. Don't miss him. Join in his quest.
Here is what they do back in Merry Old England and in Europe where they dain to make themselves appear. Precious few appearances by the group in Canada or the US make us fans even the more hungier. We just HAVE TO get them here. And, I think Boston or Providence would be great places. (New York is too stark and raw for these gentlemen. Besides, the scene is way too aggressive; I think, to a New Yorker, "alerted states" is about eliminating New Jersey from the Atlantic Seaboard equation.)
Back to the, ah, fun.
Anyway, this fan who owns fifteen of their albums says: "Buy it. Slap it in the player. You know the rest of the drill.
Oy!

Mixed Bag of Older Stuff.......2002-04-27

As a huge Ozric Tentacles fan, I really wanted to like this reissue of older material. Unfortunately, while There is Nothing is interesting, it offers little that is not done better elsewhere. Live Etheral Cereal, on the other hand, is simply awful. Ozric Tentacles live is an incredible show and this collection from several different live performances does absolutely nothing to reflect that. Most of them feature the band in a selfindulgent doodling mode that is extremely tedious and ultimately just plain boring. This one is for fans and completists only.

More spacey goodness.......2002-02-25

The 4th in Ozric Tentacles cassette-era albums, There Is Nothing is an improvement over Tantric Obstacles and Erpsongs in overall quality. The recording is better, the material more developed, and the instrumentation tighter. This is definitely an energetic CD.

My favorites are the opening rocker 'Sacred Turf', the ethereal 'Jabular', the surf guitar tinged 'Invisible Carpet' (which incongruously opens with a chainsaw sound), the "space reggae" tracks 'Crab Nebula' and 'Kola B'Pep', and the long, synthesizer-driven jam, 'Imhotep'.

I think if you are a fan of the Ozrics, all the (newly reissued) 80's stuff is worth getting, if you don't mind the 80's sounding synthesizers. Newbies should start with 'Erpland', but this would be a good next purchase.

Incredible studio album and a grossly underrated live album.......2001-12-15

There is Nothing is the Ozrics third studio offering, originally released in 1986. There Is Nothing is a vast improvement from their previous cassettes. The performance is better, more energetic, and in your face. The ethnic influences are starting to surface here, but it would be more obvious when John Egan would join the band after There Is Nothing was released. Even the production has quite improved (try listening to Erpsongs, their first cassette, and you'll notice the production is a little messed up in places, and the band did not feel totally confident, that's why it was so hit and miss, that's not such a problem with There is Nothing). The synth sound is better as well, no more just Moog-like solos and VCS-3 like bubbles, there is simply more synths overall, letting Joie Hinton expand more (probably because the other keyboardist, Tom Brooks left, although some sources say he was still there on There Is Nothing). "The Sacred Turf" opens the album and is actually very typical Ozrics, and in fact when people say all Ozric albums are the same (which I'll have to disagree there), these is one song they can point to. There's also an original version of "O-I" that was re-recorded for Pungent Effulgent, this original one is also great, as well. There Is Nothing is by far the Ozric release with the most reggae type numbers here as there are three of them, "Staring At the Moon", "Crab Nebula", and "Kola B'Pep". Plus there's an original version of "Eternal Wheel" which isn't as good as the better known version on Erpland. In fact the original is almost completely unrecognizable, as there's hardly any guitar and it extremely drum machine happy, while the Erpland version succeeds because of actual drums and guitar. There Is Nothing also marks the final album which drummer Tig (Nick van Gelder) played on. He left because of disinterest and several years later (1992-1994) played with Jamiroquai. The way the Ozrics was improving album after album during the cassette era, it's little wonder before the 1980s ended, they were finally able to record for an actual label.

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