Paradise 9 "Take Me To The Future"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Space Rock
Release date: July 13, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Digital Signs (3:58)
2. Crytallized Moments (5:13)
3. Nothing For Tomorrow (4:52)
4. Kosmonaut (6:38)
5. Ocean Rise (7:04)
6. State of the Nation (3:47)
7. Points of View (11:13)
8. Is This The Time (2:59)
9. Times Like These (4:17)
10. Anyhow Anyway (4:37)
11. Distant Dreams (6:51)
12. Take Me To The Future (12;27)

Line-up: 
Gregg McKella - vocals, guitar, glissando guitar, psychedelic clarinet and space FX's
Carl Sampson - drums/backing vocals
Neil Matthars - bass
Tyrone Thomas - lead guitar
Jaki Windmill - djembe, percussion and backing vocals.

Description/Reviews: 

So there are these two strands to this record – not quite defined by the way that they’ve consciously replicated vinyl conventions on their CD and digital album by designating a side one and a side two – but distinctive in their own ways. On the one hand, that engaging, vivacious jauntiness is personified on ‘Nothing For Tomorrow’ and ‘State Of The Nation’ which have a late-70s feel to them in their choppy up-tempo uncomplicatedness. On the other, their influences in the earlier 70s, the Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove of Hawkwind, In Search Of Space, and their love of Gong and of Here & Now manifests itself in the gorgeous sprawl of ‘Distant Dreams’ with its melancholic nostalgia and its gentle reverence to In Search Of Space and others. “We carry dreams that must get through / Of a better place for me and you.” Lovely mentions and nods to ‘Children Of The Sun’ and ‘Master Of The Universe’, and a play-out that seems to have a homage to ‘You Know You’re Only Dreaming’, among other moments… this is simply magical.

Read the full review by Ian Abrahams  at spacerockreviews.blogspot.co.uk

Media/Samples 
Several tracks online

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