PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Fifteen long years since Alchemic Universe escaped from Planet Brainticket, finally, Joel and Co (mainly vocalist Kephera Moon, former UK Subs! axeman Nicky Garratt, drummer Jason Willer and keyboardist Jugrgen Engler) log-in with Past, Present & Future (2015). An exhausting trip of over 70 minutes, including 2-parter Dancing On The Volcano garnering an opening 30, Brainticket re-awaken the gods of Ramses via crystallised pieces of Swiss kraut-rock. Recalling intergalactic trips from heady days long gone when sitar and synths were kings (CELESTIAL OCEAN, COTTONWOODHILL, et al), Joel reaches for the stars for instrumental Reality Of Dreams, while there was an 007 feel by way of Proto Alchemy. In the mystic words of Kephera (with help from Kyrsten Bean as guest), exotica and female narration of a cinematic scale represent the retro-fried closing triumvirate of Singularity, Egyptian Gods Of The Sky and the cool Brainticket Blues. Mind over matter, with extensive listens to PP&F, BRAINTICKET will book you aboard to sit aside them before they set their sonic synths for the heart of the sun. MC Strong