Sun Dial
Messages From The Mothership
The 10th album by the UK's cultband Sun Dial! Sun Dial is the vehicle of guitarist and singer Gary Ramon, who started recording in the eighties as The Modern Art. He changed the name to Sun Dial when forming his live band in 1990. 'Messages From The Mothership' takes it's inspiration from Gary Ramon catching sight of a UFO in desolate marshland at the age of fourteen. This gives way to a theme throughout which is especially prevalent on side two. There are elements of Pink Floyd, King Crimson and Hawkwind but the album has all the elements of Sun Dial's 'Other Way Out' and those in the know are calling it their best work since then. After Sulatron released some krautrock influenced albums by Sun Dial (and the spaced out Quad album, Gary's old sideproject) it's back to guitar-psych and the tracks have Gary's unmistakable vocal and guitar work interspersed with Hammond, Mellotron and various rare keyboards. Side one has well crafted, shorter tracks which could all be singles in their own right. Side two leans more to the progressive and krautrock, culminating in possibly Gary's best ever guitar work on the finale, 'Saucer Noise.' His astonishingly intricate soloing sounds like a man possessed by an otherworldly force. 'Messages From The Mothership' is a focused but 'out there' album which will please Sun Dial fans and surely win them a generation of new followers. The CD comes in 4-page digifile, limited to 300 copies! The CD also includes an aural easter egg.