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The second LP for the Big Chill was released on the 29th July 2009. It's also released on One World Music in Australia and New Zealand with slightly different artwork and packaging. It's attracting some great reviews and airplay - I'll post these up here as and when they appear...
You can also buy it from i-tunes: go here to my itunes page.
Reviews and Reactions
"10/10 ! Evocative and elegant nu balearica for daydream believers. Gets my Timeless Music with Emotional Integrity 2009 Gold Award"
Tom Middleton
"Hi Bruce, thanks a lot for the album - I LOVE IT! Nice to discover some great new songs"
Ulrich
Schnauss
"A future balaeric classic "
Chris
Coco (Radio 1/Blue Room)
"Bruce writes and sings
some of the most delicate, and achingly moving songs
that you’ll ever hear"
Pete
Lawrence (Big Chill)
"Just writing to let you know we''ve bought the new album and have to say its one of the best things we've heard in a long time. Seriously.
Its on repeat play in the car and you can't tell where it joins... you really can 'get lost' in it.
Great music to work to as well."
Terry Burgess
"I really can't speak highly enough about the new album - "Induction" wa s a stone-cold classic, but you've upped the bar even higher on this new album!"
Ryan Simoneau
(LA Today)
"I’ve been longing to hear ‘Solitaire’ committed to tape (hard drive?) and damn me if you haven’t nailed it. Definitely up there with 'Blue Horizon’ and ‘I’m Not Bad’ in my book.
I don’t think any music better captures the feeling I used to get from listening than yours – that relaxed, spacious feeling of excitement balanced by the sense of having time enough to enjoy things at their own pace. I was going to say that’s all a distant memory now, but that’s not quite true as that’s precisely the feeling I got from listening to your new record. Which I guess is the weird old magic of music – its ability to conjure up states of mind almost out of thin air.
So I just wanted to let you know that I’m still listening, I’m still a fan and would dearly love to hear your music wafting across an expanse of green countryside (or hot Greek beach) again sometime soon.
Either way lots of luck with this record, it’s a cracker."
Freddie Baveystock
August 2009
'Get Lost' is the follow-up album from Alucidnation's 2005 release 'Induction.' The soundscape is much like the night-set misty drive featured on the cover art: cruisy, undulating and often leading to the unexpected. While predominantly instrumental, Bruce Bickertonís multi-tracked vocals feature sporadically to narrate a personal journey in tracks such as 'Solitare'. Ideal for immersing yourself in when alone, or for underscoring a mellow evening with friends, 'Get Lost' is ambient and inspiring. The final version of the album only came to fruition once Bickerton moved house and established his new recording studio, the perfect metaphor for the type of sound he produces. 'Get Lost' houses all of Alucidnation's well-loved components, albeit in a new room with an entirely new view.
Melissa King
September 2009
"If good music changes moods and alters the way we feel, then this is some of the best music around. I challenge you to listen to any track on Alucidnation's latest without feeling just a little bit better about your life. This is exemplary chill out, each sound finely crafted and assembled into a rich and diverse set of tunes. From the infectious hummablity of Solitaire, the laid back dance of The Infinite Variety and the sweeping soundscapes of Pedal Steel and Meantime this is an album clearly designed and executed by a master musician. The vibe is nostalgic without being melancholy; peaceful but not patronising; professional yet free from being dumbed down for commercial appeal. Buy it. Your life will be better."
October 2009
"Bruce Bickerton loves ambient trance music. [Do I? - news to me!! - Ed]
To be more precise, he loves that form of melodic, dubbed out, effects heavy dance music that made the Orb such a popular band in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Get Lost is an appropriate name for the album – almost a riff on the Chet Baker documentary Let’s Get Lost. However, here it is lost in the music of the near past, beatific crafted versions of memories, audio postcards of times spent and memories revisited as if there is no tomorrow. I’m quite keen on J.S Bach, but the idea of creating music in the form he did is a kind of musical dishonesty that even a person donning the hat of a critic would find repulsive.
Get Lost is full of symbolic meaning – from the band name to the road/path iconography, to uber-cheesy samples like: “the infinite variety forever crossing the threshold”. He even dishes up a pop ballad, ‘Anywhere’, that has the syrup laid on thick, but acts as a testament to the steadfastness of his love.
It may be that I’m a cynic, as it’s quite evident that Bruce is musically talented. After all he has been let loose on the people at the Big Chill in England on quite a few occasions and the promoter of that festival, Pete Lawrence, must know a thing or three? But it’s not just a case of a few old geezers reliving their youth and serving it up to young revelers is it? Or perhaps you know that crowd x want hot soup so that is what you serve them? Even if it is the same old soup that you served them yesterday, and a few too many spliffs have got in the way of making some new soup.
If you have the urge to listen to dubbed out, high end melodic sounds played very politely, this may be for you. And I must admit having also loved the Orb’s sound in the period this album’s sonic blueprint is pitched at. The point of which is to say – why are you reading the words of a foolish cynic?"
Innerversitysound
Front
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And I'm well chuffed to see that I've got my own section in HMV Oxford Street!
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