ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE- CARNIVAL IN PORTUGAL AND LINGUINI SESSIONS (2023/ 2024)

It’s difficult to know what more to say about ØSC. I am not alone in having reviewed their music for a long period of time. The moniker of “Totally Improvised Space Rock” sums it up perfectly, and the popularity of such a relatively inaccessible approach is shown by their sold-out vinyl albums. These two will be no different I suspect, with long sequences of improvised music that is not easy to define, similar in approach to free jazz, but without much connection to it. The music is reliant on mind-melting synthesiser and manipulated guitar sounds of course, but is much more than that with some reverberated dub-stylised guitar in ‘Funkafide’, the opening track of ‘Carnival in Portugal’, a live in the studio release which takes many twists and turns through its 36-minute length. There are even suggestions of a more psychedelic approach on ‘Nero’, the first number from “Linguini Sessions”, with the rolling drums suggestive of early Pink Floyd.