Thursday, May 17, 2012

MOON OF OSTARA- THE STAR CHILD CD (4 Zero records FZ011)


 Moon of Ostara is a solo project by Fred Laird from Earthling Society. This is a limited edition CD in only 200 copies. Only 8 pounds. Anyway, this is basically one long spaced out Ash Ra Tempel style synthesizer, drone, space piece broken up into 4 pieces. Fred plays some really cool guitar and some lines like stuff you would hear on the Earthling Society records but this is more multilayers and relaxed but also quite psychedelic with spoken word layers, lots of different kinds of keyboard to fill in the space. It flows in phases where there is a drum track and then the drums goes away and strange stuff happens and Fred leads you off in another direction and these don’t necessarily correspond with the track marks! A long section has this repetitive analog synth loop that a lot of things develop over the top of it. In the last section some of it reminds me of Jean Michael Jarre playing the soundtrack to Evita! A really nice musical journey. Great work Fred…

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