FLOATING WORLD

Thirty-nine years ago on the summer solstice, Ozric Tentacles formed at Stonehenge Free Festival. This year, the band’s mastermind Ed Wynne celebrated with the release of a new single, taken from his latest collaborative project, Tumbling Through The Floativerse. Wynne reveals how the album with Gracerooms’ Gre Vanderloo came about and what’s next for his main band.

Johnny Sharp

“We couldn’t help ourselves!” That’s the explanation Ed Wynne offers when Prog asks how he came to make an album with Dutch multi-instrumentalist Gre Vanderloo, aka Gracerooms. That might sum up the former’s approach to making music, whether as Ozric Tentacles, the band he’s helmed for four decades now, as a solo artist (responsible for 2019’s travel-inspired Shimmer Into Nature), in the guise of electronically oriented Ozrics spin-off Nodens Ictus, or in an upcoming project with Ozrics’ long-lost extended family members Eat Static, more of which later. Wynne admits he spends “most of his waking hours” making music, and trifling obstacles such as a global pandemic were never going to stand in his way. In fact, the restrictions and uncertainties of early 2020 only helped facilitate this particular project, even…

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