Tantric Obstacles

by Ozric Tentacles

Tantric Obstacles cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Self-Released
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:01:03
  • Community rating: 3.35/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following rapidly on the heels of their first release, this second independent cassette further solidified the band's status as heroes of the British free festival circuit. 'Tantric Obstacles' expands upon their sprawling, instrumental jam-band aesthetic, heavily emphasizing bubbling analog synthesizers, driving slap-bass, and complex, shifting time signatures. The strictly D.I.Y. recordings established a massively loyal underground fanbase completely outside of the traditional music press.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, instrumental, progressive, rhythmic, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Og-Ha-Be (4:41)
  2. Shards of Ice (3:50)
  3. Sniffing Dog (6:32)
  4. Music to Gargle At (3:30)
  5. Ethereal Cereal (2:15)
  6. Atmosphear (4:32)
  7. Ullular Gate (4:27)
  8. Tentacles of Erpmind (0:37)
  9. Trees of Eternity (7:21)
  10. Mescalito (4:04)
  11. Oddhamshaw Style (1:53)
  12. Become the Otter (5:01)
  13. Gnuthlia (5:26)
  14. Sorry Style (3:45)
  15. The Aum Shuffle (3:03)

Credits

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