PKS Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 Grey Area - Grey Area Artist: Grey Area Title: Grey Area Label: Psy-Harmonics Date: 1997 Track listing: 01. Western Music 02. Real Interaction 03. Umisharma 04. Acusing Light 05. The System Stinks 06. I Knew What That Was 07. Embezzled 08. You Have Been Forgiven 09. Flabbergasted 10. Tirade Of Filth 11. Haunted Dragship 12. Amphibia Review: The australian label Psy-Harmonics Records has come out with a lot of releases, but just a few of them are reviewed here. So here is my little review of this chill out album by Grey Area. Grey Area is a big band with five people. They are from Australia, and ozzie chill is known to be very weird. Like most of the other Psy-Harmonics releases, this is also very far away from the other psy releaes I usually listen to. Grey Area has released a couple of albums on Psy-Harmonics, but also a few tracks on labels like Spirit Zone. They have also had som live performances here in Europe, like Sola Luna 2001. When I listened to this album, I found out that Grey Area is really better live! The hole album is chilled, but with lesser electronic sounds than I expected. You get mostly instrumental music, like piano, guitars, drums etc, and a few weird electronic sounds. There is a very jazzy vibe on most of the tracks. Very hard to explain what it sounds like, but completly different from most of the releases reviewed here. Probably more jazz than ambient over all. There are some nice ambient tracks too, like track 4, but over all, to far away for me. But if you like Psy-Harmonics stuff, check this out! 3/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Inu Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 Great minimalist/acid jazz/trance/whatever... Psy Harmonics defy description as always. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yhar[at]yahoo[dot]com Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 very gooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 very bad realease!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cpt_Shiner Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 this is not by a long shot even remotly psy trance, or even "chill" music. Altho i can say i love gray area, and i absolutly love this cd. Very original and very excellent musically speaking. Its a very jazz influenced. Check it out if your into eclectic music, dont be expecting any boring chillout music tho... Gray area sound different live because they have changed since 1997 and lost and gained members, they are more electronic now and their 1999 albumn Absolute testifys to this, im crossing my fingers that they do release a new album but they have seemed to drop off the radar here in australia, could mean a new album . very nice release!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest combeferre Posted April 18, 2002 Share Posted April 18, 2002 dropped off the radar? you write this FIVE days before they are due to play at a liquid lab party? =) the album is nice, but as was said they sound different now. don't know which I like better..they're both great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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