Slipstream - Transcendental

Artist: Slipstream Title: Transcendental Catalog#: AHA!062 Price: $10.00	Tracks on this CD:
	Everything and Anything
	Just You and Me
	Hearing Voices
	Sophies Blues
	Tonight's the Night
	Pulsar
	Midnight Train (Harmonica Mix)
	I Know Nothing
	Healing Hands
	Deep In the Night
	Lost In Space
	Afterburn
	Clare's Ghost

A love-rock symphony where Major Tom meets West Coast pop from former Spacemen 3, Spiritualized guitarist Mark Refoy. Exquisite guitar-pop for fans of Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Robyn Hitchcock, Luna, Roy Montgomery, Echo & The Bunnymen

Hailing from Northampton, England, just a space walk away from Rugby, home to eminent space psych heavyweights Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized, and the musical equivalent of Area 51… Prior to Slipstream Mark Refoy cut his teeth as a member of both legendary ensembles, appearing on Spacemen 3's 'Recurring' as well as Spiritualized’s ‘Laser Guided Melodies’ and ‘Pure Phase’. Slipstream’s sensual guitar-pop majesty is back lit with cosmic atmospheres and flowering psychedelia. From the poignant “Everything and Anything” to the John Lennon-meets-Lloyd Cole-isms of “I Know Nothing” to the monumental magnificence of the Dream Academy-ish "Tonights The Night" to from the dream-drone sultriness of “Sophie’s Blues” to the 60s-psych-apocalyptic Bunnymen-esque grooves of “Deep In the Night”, (whew!) the album explores the imagination to sublime effect. Graphic novel guru Alan Moore ['From Hell', 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen') makes an appearance reciting "Clare’s Ghost” by poet Edmund Blunden.

UNCUT Magazine August 2003: “Jason Pierce may have been the architect but Spiritualized guitarist Mark Refoy was the labourer who gave 1992’s Laser Guided Melodies its luminous sparkle. A decade on, Transcendental finds him still floating amid Velvet Underground crescendos and twinkling, richly romantic space rock (“Everything And Anything”). Graphic novel guru Alan Moore also makes a surprising cameo, reciting Edmund Blunden’s poem "Clare’s Ghost”. A far-flung branch on the Spacemen 3/Spiritualized family tree definitely worth investigating.” (four stars)

LOSING TODAY Magazine, August 2003: “This album drifts dreamily into the consciousness like a love symphony from beyond the stars equipped with the emotions of loneliness and imprisonment as burdened upon Bowie’s ‘Major Tom’ yet possessing a subtle essence of 60’s West Coast pop in it’s most potent and purist form. ’Transcendental’ is as equally warming as it is soft to touch, depth wise it shares a common thread with the Bunnymen’s monumental ‘Ocean Rain’ for simplistic intensity and tender appeal, weave into that elegant tapestry the insular drone nuances of Spacemen 3’s 'Recurring’ and Spiritualized’s ‘Lazer Guided Melodies’ and you have an album that flutters in a triumphant haze at every given corner.”