Hidria Spacefolk
Symbiosis

THE REVIEW

The Ozric-influenced complex is so apparent that discussing it in such a manner seems unnecessary, but still, with such a vast sound of spatial-ethnic-jazz I must tell you that there's more to say, even if it means articulating in a similar cryptographic idiom.

Quite a nice surprise, these Hidria, to be taken in large doses if you often travel with the crazy English, Maravishu Orchestra, and other such oddballs.

The "Finland" component is significant. More space for melody and less for atmosphere, more space for Oriental-style phrasings and groovistic counterpoint(the near-complete absence of soloistic technicalities and the like is superb and not missed at all) than for the instrumental doodles without rhyme or reason of much ’90s and ’00s prog.

A truly powerful trip indeed.

Now we are in an apocalyptic tundra at the end of the Jurassic era (Kaikados), now in a galactic pandemonium among a storm of asteroids (Kaneh Bosm), now visiting the tomb of Cheops in a mystical and desolate atmosphere (jawharp), now instead victims of a metropolitan chase with lights and sirens that seem to overwhelm us in a flight from ourselves (I-Mantra)…

To be listened to on headphones for a good half-hour of countryside running, or even better, in the car between lush twilight coastlines (when the season allows) and twisting superhighways, but in any case the advice is one: never take your foot off the accelerator!