Oulu Space Jam Collective
Harvest Sage

THE ULTIMATE ACID TRIP

Today we all take off with the longest, most surreal, and psychedelic album I've ever reviewed (maybe).

The Oulu Space Jam Collective is a Finnish collective comprised of members from well-known bands in the local Psych underground (including Deep Space Destructors, just to name one). With this album, a live record recorded and performed LIVE STRAIGHTSTRAIGHT at the Oulu Arts Night on August 17 and released 2 days later, they have created a unique, imposing, powerful, and unrepeatable work. 2 super long jams, divided into various fragments in post-production, which blend to form a total duration of ONE HOUR PER JAM. And in this extreme two-hour overdose, you'll hear everything: electronic, heavy Kraut and Space Rock influences, sitar, keyboards, accordions, Folk stuff, tape synthesizers, dialogues, people speaking Finnish in the background, atmospheric sounds, dissonances, distortions, EVERYTHING.

This album is a true journey, in the purest sense of the word. A super ultrabodily and extraterrestrial experience in the vastest reaches of the universe, a long, exhausting, oppressive, obsessive, heavenly journey like paradise and at the same time dark as hell, where you'll see absurd and impossible scenarios, populated by equally impossible and absurd creatures, coexisting in a universe made of colors, lots of colors, a mess.

It's so absurd it seems straight out of the damn '70s, in terms of sound feel, attitude, and style (especially the latter two), but it's also terrifyingly modern for the bizarre ideas shot within it, in a smoothie of old and new from complete OVERDOSE.

All of this is sublimated by a cover that the word "stunning" can only accompany: a dreamy and surreal scenario, populated by colorful trees and mountains rising in the distance under a shaded sky, where you can even see stars. In front of us, we see 3 absurd animals loafing on the grass: a leopard/big ape with human hair and two tails (one on its rear and the other on its head), a mix between an armadillo and an Afghan hound, and a blue one-armed little dinosaur. In the distance, we see other animals peeking through the trees, seeming like a mix between giraffes and "dinosaur-like" elephants. An applause-worthy delirium

Small final note: DO NOT DARE to listen to this album while ingesting peyote or similar substances, or otherwise your brain will turn into a canned beef

(sorry if the review came out a bit short, but some albums don't need circling around)