CD Review: Sonic Trip Project meets Sunhair - Space Trip Flight Log: PNF 30/11/2018 (English Version)

This review begins with a little prequel. In case you are not interested in this story, scroll down towards the first photo.
In late 2018, the Psychedelic Network Festival took place at the Café Cairo in Würzburg for the eleventh time. Swiss band Black Willows unfortunately had to cancel their show on short call. Thus, a substitute act had to be found which was not the easiest call. Luckily, Sonic Trip Project were already there for their gig on the second day of the festival. They happily agreed to play an exclusive Space Jam together with host Horst "Sunhair" Porkert.
Good news for everyone visiting the Psychedelic Network Festival in 2019: Black Willows are making up for their cancelled show this year.

Almost one year after the eleventh Psychedelic Network Festival Würzburg's Kraut/Space/Psychedelic Rock label Sunhair Music released the recordings from that Space Jam on beautiful couple of CDs. Those of you aquainted with the festival and other releases from Sunhair will easily recognize that it was once more artist Ulrich Mönig who is responsible for the gorgeous artwork of the digipack.
The two discs feature almost 140 minutes of exclusive material of which the first five tracks are the complete recordings from Friday, 30th November 2018's Space Jam. As a bonus the second CD features the track 'Cairo Neon', recorded at the official gig on Saturday, 01st December 2018. Once more, Sunhair joined Sonic Trip Project for this song.

The contents of this CD offer you a great and colourful expedition of strange dimensions and unknown charters of human perception. Sonic Trip Project and their guest fuel their space vessel with a warm bass, scratchy and distorted guitar sounds, galopping drum beats, as well as a vast number of synthies, effects, and modules. What happens after the launch will even make regular watchers of The Sky at Night struggle with closing their mouths. This Space Jam multiinstrumentally interacts with itself while creating a multilayer and intercorresponding soundscape. Themes and motifs interchange, step to the foreground, vanish, or reappear with greater intensity later.

The musicians, too, change positions within this jam, as each of them steps into the centre of the jam from time to time to add a new impetus. While in the background, the band members adapt, modify, and loop the themes and motifs and thus create whole planets which orbit through the concert venue. It is not just an ordinairy space jam what you can experience here. Sonic Trip Project pay hommage to Boney M and present a wild mixture of several styles of psychedelic music and their love for electronic effects. Hence, each motif of this gig is ascending towards the nocturnal sky.

The logbook entry from 30th November 2018 is a beautiful Psychedelic Space Jam to take home with. Not only for those who witnessed this show, the two CDs will create a ton of joy once they are in the soundsystem. Also, this is a great teaser for all events by the Pschedelic Network coming up - especially, the festivals in late November. Finally, everyone who loves experimental Space Rock will have a lot of fun with this work.
My recommendation: press play, turn up the volume, close your eyes, and explore distant worlds.

Line Up:
Vince Cory - Gitarre, Synthies, Samples
Daneel Olivaw - Elektronische Unterstützung
Barry Mart - Synthies
Darren Butler - Drums
Lee Carr - Bass
Horst "Sunhair" Porkert - Synthies, Effekte
Phil Cory - Leadgitarre auf 'Cairo Neon'