Amorphous Androgynous – The Otherness – Review
June 24th, 2004| AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS “THE OTHERNESS” PSYCHOBABY Future Sound of London revisit “Sgt. Pepper’s land”. Amorphous Androgynous is the parallel project of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans, mostly known as the Future Sound of London. This is the second work of the duo under this moniker after their first release back in 1993. The story of this album started when Gaz Cobain grew a mysterious illness that took him to a long trip around the world to visit healers and ended up in an Indian village to practise yoga meditation and fasting. He discovered in Mexico that his immuned system suffered a serious degeneration due to poisoning from mercury fillings in his teeth. This album was originally going to be called “Alice in Ultraland”, which is a very definitive name for this collection of post-psychodelic retro-electronic epic. The elemments that form this work are the same ones that would conquer the world back in 1968: Mellotron flutes alla “Strawberry Fields”, swinging Leslie Hammond organs, floating flanger vocals, 60’s Soul beats, funky wah-wah guitars, indian percussions and sitars, symphonic choirs, Carnaby Street pseudo-pop mantras, backward tracks, distortion electric guitars, and minimoog melodies. In brief, it’s an album with all the classic componets from records from the late 60’s such as The Beatles‘ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, The Rolling Stones’Their Stanic Majesties Request” , and Pink Floyd’s “The Piper at the Gates of Down”. In a time where many people think everything is done in electronic music I think it’s very brave to look back at our musical heritage without reservations and to fusion any style with an open mind as Cobain and Dougans did in this record. …………………… Download “The Otherness” MP3s  | ||