ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE: It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine Streams Orgone Unicorn, The 44th Release From Prolific Scandinavian Prog/Jazz Group; Album Out Friday On Laser’s Edge

“…mind-bending space odysseys wrapped in a dark, prog-soaked vibe.” – It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine

It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine is hosting an exclusive stream of Orgone Unicorn, the sprawling new album from the prolific Scandinavian instrumental/improvisational progressive/space-jazz group, ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE, ahead of its release this Friday on Laser’s Edge.

ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE arrives with their monolithic forty-fourth title Orgone Unicorn, their first for The Laser’s Edge Group. Orgone Unicorn features many of the musicians who played on Everyone Is Evil, with Mattias Olsson, Jonathan Segel (ex-Camper Van Beethoven), Larry Lush, Martin Weaver, Luis Simões, Hasse Horrigmoe, and KG Westman, joining Scott Heller. The record courses with surreal space passages, with a dark, proggy mood. Along with the array of guitars, bass, synths, keys, mellotron, and more used throughout the record, the percussion showcases interplay between drums, gong, and drum machines.

Recorded at Éstudio Paraíso Nas Nuvens in Central Portugal, Orgone Unicorn was engineered by Larry Lush and Dr Space, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Segel and Dr Space, and completed with cover art by David Graham of Moonboy Art. The 2xLP version comprises five songs, while the 2xCD and digital versions feature two additional songs not on the vinyl – including extended versions of several of the songs – which culminate into an engulfing two hours and sixteen minutes of music.

With the album stream, founder Scott Heller states, “We are very proud to have our 32nd studio album coming out this week, featuring musical adventures in the studio in Portugal in Sept 2023. It is five unique tracks on the vinyl (seven on the CD), which demonstrate many sides of the band, from eastern sitar based jams, to krautrock, and our classic space rock sound. Enjoy.”

The advance album stream is hosted by It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, the piece reading in part, “The album pulses with mind-bending space odysseys wrapped in a dark, prog-soaked vibe. The instrumentation’s a feast for the ears—guitars, bass, synths, keys, mellotron, and beyond—while the percussion’s a wild ride of drums, gongs, and drum machines.”

Explore ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE’s vast Orgone Unicorn album first at It’s Psychedelic Baby RIGHT HERE.

Orgone Unicorn will be released on 2xCD, 2xLP, and digitally this Friday, July 26th. Preorders are posted at the Laser’s Edge webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. If you missed it, watch the surreal video clip of the title track HERE.

Founded in 2006 by Scott Heller, aka Dr. Space, ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE is based primarily out of København, Denmark, with roots across Scandinavia, Portugal, and more. A supergroup of sorts, the members of this expansive entity come from a wide array of Scandinavian rock groups. An exciting live act that always gets the crowd moving and dancing to the improvised progressive grooves, ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE has played well-over one hundred concerts in ten countries.

In their eighteen years of existence thus far, ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE has amassed thirty-two studio albums and twelve live albums, and more. Initially releasing their music through the Swedish label Transubstans, they’ve subsequently partnered with an array of labels, eventually forming their own Space Rock Productions label through which most of their albums over the past several years were released.

ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE on Orgone Unicorn:
Mattias Olsson – drums, congas, mellotron, Poly D
Jonathan Segel – guitar, slide guitar, violin, Fender Rhodes
Martin Weaver – Microfreek and Roland drum machines
Luis Simões – gong, guitar, noise box
Hasse Horrigmoe – bass
Larry Lush – Fender Rhodes, mellotron
KG Westman – sitar; mellotron, synths
Dr. Space – Hammond, Mellotron, Modular Synth, Octave Cat, ARP Odyssey, Poly D

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