Celestial Ocean

Artist: Brainticket
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 741157993523
EAN: 0741157993523
ASIN: B000001JWK

Release Date: 1997-02-18

Celestial Ocean

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Tracks:

Egyptian Kings
Jardins
Rainbow
Era Of Technology
To Another Universe
The Space Between
Cosmic Wind
Visions

Customer Reviews:

Brainticket - 'Celestial Ocean' (Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra).......2003-12-08

This fantastic Krautrock record was originally released in 1973 as it was the band's third album.I know several fans right here in the states that actually remember this band.To best describe Brainticket is to imagine classic Gong with more of a complex song structure and perhaps a dash of early King Crimson thrown in.Best tracks here include "Era Of Technology",the super-trippin' "The Space Between" and the no less than beautifully done "Cosmic Wind"."Egyptian Kings" and "Jardins" also make this an extravagant listening experience as well.Line-up:Joel Vandroogenbroeck-synth,guitar,flute&vocals,Carole Muriel-electronic synthesizer&vocals and Barney Palm-drums.In the liner notes,it's revealed that Brainticket STILL lives to this day.Believe they released a new disc awhile back.Recommended.

A one way ticket for your brain - - - - - - - - -.......2003-03-16

This is an album by a very strange European band that deserves better than what the idiots at Cleopatra have done. What was supposed to be a seamless album (songs segueing into each other) has these INFURIATING intrusive 3 second pauses inbetween each track, thereby ruining the continuity of this wonderfully diverse and imaginative piece of work. This label also screwed up an Ash Ra Tempel CD by putting the wrong track numbers for each track. If you value and enjoy music, you won't purchase anything from this 2-bit operation. Unfortunately, they seem to have obtained the rights to many wonderful '70's releases by obscure bands....
Anyway, I love this album dearly - it has appeared in my dreams before, which is fitting - it is music of pure imagination, and more evocative than much of what you'll hear being produced nowadays. Brainticket RULES - also check out Voyage!
P.S. Hopefully the reissue of this CD has been corrected and restored to its original intentions.

Unique stuff.......2001-10-30

Well, I take one star off because the silly folks over at Purple Pyramid messed up the CD reissue, which I'll get in to later. Well Brainticket was one of those odd bands that never seemed to repeat themselves album after album (the band also had trouble keeping members, Joël Vandroogenbroeck is the only member that's been through all the mess). Cottonwoodhill (1971) was basically a very disturbing electronic jam played on a repeated organ riff, Psychonaut (1972) finds the band doing a more song-oriented album, while Celestial Ocean finds them exploring synthesizers for the first time, which plenty is used (sounds like an ARP 2600). This is truly an odd one because the band was a trio consisting of Joël Vandroogenbroeck on vocals, keyboards, and flute, Barney Palm on percussion, and Carol Muriel on vocals, zither, and synthesizer. One truly freaky album with tons of very beautifully spoken poetry with all sorts of interesting synths, percussion, zither, sitar, etc. The album seems to be inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but I'm not sure what a lot of the lyrics mentioning technology has to do with the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but whatever the case, I have never heard such stunning poetry on a Brainticket album as I had this one. My biggest complaint I have is with those silly folks over at Purple Pyramid. They really screwed up here. For one thing, "Egyptian Kings" repeats twice, so you're better off starting your CD player at number 2 so you only hear that cut once. Not to mention, why on earth is there a one second gap between segued cuts? I don't know why, but in this case, you're much better off seeking out the original LP (released 1973 on RCA, Italy) which doesn't have the technical glitches of the Purple Pyramid CD reissue. But don't be afraid to pick up the Purple Pyramid reissues of Voyage (1976?) and Adventure (1980) as they don't have the glitches found on Celestial Ocean. Nevertheless, if you aren't bothered by the glitches found on the reissue of Celestial Ocean, be prepared to be blown away by the truly unique and experimental style of this album!

E-Ticket For The River Styx.......2001-08-26

Before "stoner rock" there was...well, "stoned rock". Unlike today's pot-rock Iommi-come-latelies, the head bands of yesteryear catered to imbibers of hallucinogenics, which meant banks of vintage keyboards, echoplex and wah-wah on the guitars, and generally bad vocalists hiding behind weird, would-be spacy fx. Especially the Germans, who seemed to never get over "Interstellar Overdrive" and all of whom tried to out-Floyd Floyd. Brainticket weren't Germans (they were Swiss, I believe) but they worked similar territory, and are actually one of the era's better and more musical purveyors of "head music". I was introduced to their music when the local altered-state guru of the neighborhood played me their first, COTTONWOOD HILL, one lava-lamped night. It was plenty memorable, a loose-limbed space jam played over the stream-of-consciousness babbling of one very, very blitzed girl "vocalist". Totally berserk and yet oddly compelling. I tried to find my own copy and could only locate this, their third and probably their best, 40+ way-out-there minutes based on Egyptian mythology. Led by multi-instrumentalist (now I'm only gonna spell this ONCE, so pay attention) Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Brainticket here fashion a trippy, flowing, altered-consciousness epic split into eight "songs". Synthesizers drone and churn evocatively over the rhythm section, a woman intones the spoken-word hippie-mystical lyrics while Joel V simultaneously repeats them in guttural whispers....probably sounds awful, you're no doubt thinking; yet there's something else here, a truly eerie otherworldly quality that makes the whole thing work. By the time CELESTIAL OCEAN winds down to the finale, "Visions", the trippiness comes to a halt and we're treated to one of the most exquisitely soaring piano-pieces ever committed to wax, as good as anything Wakeman or Emerson have ever offered, which moves from romantic-classical to an almost-latin groove before a brief reprise of the earlier hallucinogenic synthesizers. I guarantee that, once heard, you will not be able to get this track's melody-line out of your head, it is THAT good. All in all, a damned unique album: I'm hard-pressed to think of anything to compare it to. I was amazed to find it has been domestically (and affordably) reissued on CD, but if you're feeling bold, you might be pleasantly surprised by this.

A shade disappointing.......1999-12-20

The first thing that crossed my mind when I heard this disc was that here was a third-rate Teutonic-sounding Gong. The cover art's really cool, the instrumentation looks promising, but the compositions really aren't that good. The male singer sounds sort of like the gruff-sounding guy in Amon Duul, and there's a girl singer who provides some (well, sort of) Gilli Smyth-type backing vocals. Some cool spacey Tim Blake-like synthesizer bits here and there, but the end result just doesn't gel - it all sounds forced, contrived.

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