FLOATING WORLD
“We couldn’t help ourselves!” That’s the explanation Ed Wynne offers when Prog asks how he came to make an album with Dutch multi-instrumentalist Gre Vanderloo, aka Gracerooms. That might sum up the former’s approach to making music, whether as Ozric Tentacles, the band he’s helmed for four decades now, as a solo artist (responsible for 2019’s travel-inspired Shimmer Into Nature), in the guise of electronically oriented Ozrics spin-off Nodens Ictus, or in an upcoming project with Ozrics’ long-lost extended family members Eat Static, more of which later.
Wynne admits he spends “most of his waking hours” making music, and trifling obstacles such as a global pandemic were never going to stand in his way. In fact, the restrictions and uncertainties of early 2020 only helped facilitate this particular project, even though Wynne and his son – bandmate Silas Neptune – still had to finish Ozrics’ last album , and he and Vanderloo had only briefly collaborated, with the Dutchman’s synths adorning that album. Vanderloo was
