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Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased

Disc One :
01. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- The Dreaming Cat
01. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- Always
03. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- Minstrel Carousel
04. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- We Are Always Here
05. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- Sea Cucumber
06. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- The City Made From Sound
07. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- See Your Dreams In The Sky
08. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- The Shaman Leads The Way
09. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- The Beauty Of This Planet
10. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- Meeting The Dream King
11. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- The Pureity Fountain
12. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- Inash Ra Da
13. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 1- Medievil Tangerine

Disc Two :
01. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Breaking Eggs
02. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- To A Place Unknown
03. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Carol To The Donkey
04. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Floating On Clouds
05. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- The Never Ending Seam
06. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Leap Frogs
07. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Ballad Of TThe Bullfrogs
08. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- The Parrot Stomp
09. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Up In The Jungle Tops
10. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Cows Can Play The Fiddle
11. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Ride On The Giants Shoulder
12. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Sun's Up
13. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Swim With The Dolphin
14. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Spot The Hole
15. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Oroonie Style
16. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Yaruporoon The Human Beat Box
17. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- The Edge Of A Cloud
18. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- You Exist In Space
19. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 2- Moon's up

Disc Three :
01. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Indian Tunnels
02. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Bird Dance
03. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Criss Cross Krunch Krunch
04. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Heart & Soul
05. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Chicken Fairs
06. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Tea & Jelly Cakes
07. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Space Neuron
08. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- In Summer Paradise
09. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Pazzaz
10. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Carnival Of Them
11. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- The Ride Of The Great Moon Snail
12. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- The Inflatible Potato
13. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- The Knowledge Of Fingers
14. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- The Crooked Sticks
15. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Time Chain
16. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 3- Squashy Things

Disc Four :
01. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- Leaving Spirits
02. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- Sky's Alive
03. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- As He Understands
04. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- Take You To The Medows
05. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- Carnival Of Them
06. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- The Erp Field
07. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- Space Rafting
08. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- The Comet Chaser
09. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- Sit Your Bum Down
10. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- As Sweet As Doves
11. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- I Love Your Groovy Shoes
12. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- Awaken Children, Vocal
13. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 4- Pan Thang

Disc Five :
00. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Intro Burp
01. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Hot Butter Slide
02. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Where
03. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Fair Maiden
04. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- The Incoming Of A New Race
05. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Thug Trunk
06. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Octigliss
07. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- The Arriving World
08. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Cyclops Passing
09. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- The Space Travelers Dream
10. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- The Unfolding Cosmic Mist
11. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Cerebal Roundabout
12. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Who Knows
13. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Always A Brighter Day
14. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Bobbing Down Stream
15. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Exotic Fan
16. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- The Urban Guru
17. Ozric Tentacles - Rare & Unreleased 5- Flute Poppies

Bio :
A band from another time, Ozric Tentacles served as the bridge from '70s cosmic rock to the organic dance and festival culture which came back into fashion during the '90s. Formed in 1983 with a debt to jazz fusion as well as space rock, the band originally included guitarist Ed Wynne, drummer Nick Van Gelder, keyboard player Joie Hinton, bassist Roly Wynne and second guitarist Gavin Griffiths (though Griffiths left in 1984). The Ozrics played in clubs around London, meanwhile releasing six cassette-only albums beginning with 1984's Erpsongs. (All six were later collected on the Vitamin Enhanced box set, despite a threatened lawsuit from the Kellogg's cereal company for questionable artwork.) In 1987, Merv Pepler replaced Van Gelder, and synthesizer player Steve Everett was also added.

Ozric Tentacles' first major release, the 1990 album Erpland, foreshadowed the crusty movement, a British parallel to America's hippy movement of the '60s. Crusties borrowed the hippies' organic dress plus the cosmic thinking of new agers, and spent most of their time traveling around England to various festivals and outdoor gatherings. The movement fit in perfectly with bands like Ozric Tentacles and the Levellers, and the Ozrics' 1991 album Strangeitude became their biggest seller yet, occasioning a U.S. contract with Capitol. After the British-only Afterswish and Live Underslunky, 1993's Jurassic Shift hit number 11 on the British charts -- quite a feat for a self-produced album released on the Ozrics' own Dovetail label. The album was released in America by I.R.S. Records, as was 1994's Arborescence. Neither album translated well with American audiences -- despite the band's first U.S. tour in 1994 -- and Ozric Tentacles returned to its Dovetail label for 1995's Become the Other. Waterfall Cities closed out the decade in 1999, and the following summer the group resurfaced with Swirly Termination. Hinton and Pepler also perform in the trance-techno outfit Eat Static, and have released several albums on Planet Dog Records. Ozric Tentacles surfaced in 2000 to release Hidden Step, followed by the EP Pyramidion. In 2002, Live at the Pongmasters Ball came out on both CD and DVD, making it their first venture into the latter.
~AMG by John Bush