The Isness, by The Amorphous Androgynous

The Isness

by The Amorphous Androgynous

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Egg Wizard Get this and "The Otherness" and let it wrap you in eternal lysergic love. Seldom bettered. Favorite track: Guru Song.

derek adams I have no idea why I love this so much but that I do. loved the original release and this version is also well worth having. I could listen to a thousand 'similar' records and dig literally none of them. Go figure Favorite track: Little Miss Divinity.

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The Isness ( Abbey Rd Version )
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The Original version of The Isness mastered at the famous Abbey Rd Studios

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1.	Elysian Feels 06:03	buy track
2.	The Mello Hippo Disco Show 03:48	buy track
3.	Goodbye Sky (Reprise) 01:12	buy track
4.	Osho 03:02	buy track
5.	The Galaxial Pharmaceutical 14:47	buy track
6.	Little Miss Divinity 07:55	buy track
7.	Guru Song 03:43	buy track
8.	Go Tell It To The Trees Egghead 05:30	buy track
9.	Her Tongue Is Like A Jellyfish 02:01	buy track
10.	Meadows 04:03	buy track
11.	High Tide On The Sea Of Flesh 05:25	buy track
12.	Goodbye Sky 04:43	buy track

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The now legendary ‘ Abbey Road’ version of ‘the Isness’ was the originally conceived version before last minute wholesale changes resulted in new tracks, different mixes and/or edits appearing in a wholly different order for the commercial release of ‘the Isness’ in 2002. The ‘Abbey Rd’ version had been initially promo’d to ecstatic reviews, receiving an unprecedented 6/5 stars from Mixmag ‘it’s like a beam of white light from heaven’. This is the first time the Abbey Road version has been officially and commercially available.

The band themselves ‘the Amorphous Androgynous’ (a psychedelic supergroup conceptualised and produced by the Future Sound Of London) are said to have always regretted the last minute changes to the album, the creation of which took five years from 1996-2001 post production of the FSOL album ‘DEAD CITIES’ and marks an important chapter in the production duos history and 5 year disappearance where rumours of madness and disbandment were rife among fans of the band only for them to finally appear with this radical new vision and what is now considered something of a psychedelic masterpiece which along with subsequent albums ‘Alice In Ultraland’ (on Harvest Records) and their ‘A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding In Your Mind)’ DJ series (which chronicle and redefine the history of psychedelia from the 60s to the present) did much to activate a third wave of global psychedelic sonic revolution.

The Isness is a vast samplerdelic sonic galaxy where a huge range of instruments (from sitars and numerous eastern instruments to flutes, banjos and conventional rock n roll instrumentation) and countless musicians are employed, collaged and twisted using the studio as instrument (much in the tradition and lineage of the Beatles and other 60s exponents) to form a startling new vision of cosmic space music and to redefine the possibilities of what ‘the song’ could be in the new millennia with its by turn : cosmic , wildly surreal , absurdist lyrics on epic songs such as ‘The Galaxial Pharmaceutical’, ‘The Mello Hippo Disco Show’, ‘Little Miss Divinity’ and many others!

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released June 11, 2002

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