| COSMIC MIND AT PLAY - 1993 | |
 | Mindblowing and breathtaking heavy guitar psych that is amongst the very best I can remember hearing in recent decades! Masterful fluid guitar and cerebral embracing sonic backing that ebbs and cascades. Comprised of four very long pieces, all but one instrumental. Everything that Pink Floyd wishes they could've been, a heavy "Meddle"!!!!! Absolutely brilliant and totally recommended!!!!!! from "Wild Places" mailorder catalogue
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| ORGANIC MIND SOLUTION - 1994 | |
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Believe me, you need a few moments of silence after the last tones of this cd have died down, giving you time to realize what a fantastic masterpiece you have just heard. "Organic Mind Solution" is a candidate for the top-10 of 1995
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| SLEEPY EYES AND BUTTERFLIES (LP) - 1995 | |
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Everybody talks about the new psychedelia, but too much 90's trip music comes from a stale head space: flimsy ambient variations of Pink Floyd's "Meddle"; raindrop synth squiggles copped from old Tangerine Dream lp's; the same tired rain-forest bird songs. The Spacious Mind have a better idea. In the five extended pieces splayed across the four sides of "Sleepy Eyes And Butterflies" (Gates Of Dwan, double-lp), this fine interstellar jam band from Sweden fires up the liquid distortion of its twin guitars over arctic keyboards and distant-thunder percussion. There are echoes of early Floyd, The Grateful Dead ("Dark Star" under a midnight sun) and the mad science of Germany's Amon Duul II in the Mind's wide-open grooves, but there's real meat and motion as well. Rolling Stone # 720 |
| SAILING THE SEAGOAT - 1996 | |
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The five pieces on "Sailing The Seagoat" have a strong basic build-up, that is made all the stronger with help of beautiful vocal- and flutelines and hurdy-gurdy. This is music to relax to, preferably with closed eyes in a dark room, and of course played on very high volume. Though it may sound ridiculous, the feeling is one of blue-skies-running- water-green-grass-and- freedom, you know. Hard to define, in other words. That the Umeå/Skellefteå-based-quintet are big fans of, and also influenced by, psychedelic band The Grateful Dead, is something that's not only obvious in the music, because in the booklet you may read that the record is "for Jerry and the Dead". The Spacious Mind also has a fan-club, SpaceHead, which I guess refer to the DeadHeads. The music of these North-Swedish patriotes has its roots in a distant time, when the hair was long and the beards uncut. That's probably why they haven't reached bigger audiences in their native country. A shame.
Popga #151 |
| GARDEN OF A WELL FED HEAD (LP) - 1998 | |
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The album starts with a psychedelic fairytale and moves on to reveal mind bending West Coast tinged space rock with drifting acid guitar, electronic effects and to quote the sleeve "Far Out Things". Psychedelic caviar for the mind indeed.....
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| MIND OF A BROTHER - 1999 | |
 | Possibly their best album yet, it's a well-crafted space voyage in a Hawkwind/Gong/Omnia Opera style but far more laid back and loaded with long trippy instrumentals and effect laden head trips. Mindbendingly awesome!!
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