Odd. Weird.
Refreshed and reinvigorated from their recent live shows, Ozric Tentacles are back with a full line-up and their 16th studio album, Lotus Unfolding. Following on from 2020’s Space For The Earth and leader Ed Wynne’s solo adventures, the psychedelic warriors are bursting with creativity to bring some light to darker times. Prog catches up with Wynne Snr to find out more.
Words: Dom Lawson Image: Glen Povey
“It’s intuitive, completely,” he states. “I never really have too much of a concept of what a song is going to turn into.
The arrival of a new Ozric Tentacles album is always something to celebrate, but arguably more now than ever. When Ed Wynne’s untameable psychedelic warriors rose to something approaching prominence in the early-to-mid-90s, the UK was a hopeful and optimistic place. Fuelled by the energy of a thousand free festivals and delighted by their own fearless musical cross-pollination, they experienced what Wynne now agrees should be known as an “accidental commercial peak” and, against the odds, fit neatly into a flourishing British music scene that was increasingly comfortable with itself. Three decades later, Ozric Tentacles are releasing their new record – Lotus Unfolding – into a much darker and less hopeful world, with financial trauma, political turmoil and environmental disaster all weighing heavy on our post-Covid brains.