Recently landing in our
inbox is the newly remastered/expanded version of the 2014 concept album Tell
Lie Vision from festival favourites Civilian Zen ….. brought up on the dark
Sci-Fi of J.G. Ballard and Moorcock, the bleak comic book writing of Alan Moore
and the late 70s Bob Calvert fronted line up of
Hawkwind, one of the things us Brits do
really well is Post Punk dystopian Space Rock……
Mixing up powerful,
driving Space Rock with more translucent, ambient interludes of synth wash, found
sound and spoken word (spaceship Zen has its own on board poet), Tell Lie
Vision really can’t escape the Hawkwind comparisons. However it’s not the
classic early 70s classic line up that everyone cops Space Rock grooves from
but the, in our mind, more interesting, lyrically complex version of the band
with Bob Calvert, where his vision lead the band away from epic space journeys,
burning suns and exploding stars into a more paranoid future of State surveillance,
urban breakdown, terror threats and where space travel is a bit shit. This is a
totally intriguing album of proggy Space Rock is a must listen for all you
Hawkfans and Spaceheads out there. The Deluxe version comes with almost a full
album’s worth of extended Dub remixes for the crusty dreads to shake their
thang to and get their space skank on at this summer’s psychedelic festivals.
Although the actual album is really good, the remixes are fantastic…….very much
in the style of modern Dub masters such as The Rootsman, Alpha & Omega, The
Bush Chemists, Disciples, The Orb and Dreadzone…….and very psychedelic (we have
always thought that Dub is Jamaican psychedelic music). Tell Lie Vision is surly
a record made by musicians seriously influenced by the Post Punk alternative
scene of the late 70s/early 80s where Space Rock and Dub could happily co-exist
in the same headspace. Break out the bong kidz.
The Deluxe
remastered/expanded reissue of Tell Lie Vision is available as a digital
download from the Civilian Zen Bandcamp page at https://civilianzen-music.bandcamp.com/album/tell-lie-vision-remastered-edition-2016
. Civilian Zen will no doubt appearing at some mind altering, cosmic freakout
festival somewhere near you sometime this year.
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