ICI MAINTENANTS

The relaxed Galaxy Valley starts off with a typical synthesizer intro. A slicing guitar sounding near to a musical saw and swirling synths are nicely flattering each other. You can immediately feel that this gig will develop to something magical. Guitarist Steffe is offering a virtuoso performance here based on a great technical bandwith. He also serves some rare and mystical vocal contributions like on the following Dinosaur Kebab which owns a more rocking and grooving behaviour - closer to the good old spacey Gong style.

The eleven minutes lasting Beautiful Jam first sounds like a trippy Jimi Hendrix is joining - a really fantastic workout! This develops to a melancholic piece later on based on reggae vibrations. The song title Tough Jam is really suitable - the most tricky and complex one for sure - hard to believe that this was the only gig for this crew ever. Shakalayah and Aya Shamaya are appearing like the Flying Teapot is on the way once more - for me the highlights - the jazzy vibe, the tribal drums, accentuated synthesizer adds, the soaring spacey guitar ... hard to overtop!

'Space And Time' is a recommended snapshot for space rock fans - especially when they are in favour of Daevid Allen infected songs. This is far away from monotonously tinged music - an excellent collaboration of four musicians in a genial mood - 4.5 stars.