Adjusting Nature
“I’ve been Mr Ozric more than 30 years and it’s quite nice to step aside from that and say, ‘This is what I do and I hope you enjoy it.’”
Ed Wynne has been around. He has helmed Ozric Tentacles for 35 years, from spontaneous free festival happenings to chart success. In 1993 Jurassic Shift spent four weeks on the UK chart, peaking at No.11. An impressive zenith to reach for an album of instrumental counter-culture exotica housed in hemp packaging. There must have been something in the air.
Recently he has put the band on hiatus, searching for the spark elsewhere, at least temporarily. He released his first solo record back in January. Its title, Shimmer Into Nature, could be another way of saying, “We come from stardust…”?
“…and to stardust we return,” Wynne interjects, rounding off the quote. “Shimmering into nature is maybe a nicer way of putting it. My dad used to say that 100 years from now we’ll all be ‘damnably mouldy’. I could’ve called the album that but I thought I’d go for the more gentle approach!”
With more than 20 albums in his band’s catalogue, why choose now to step out
