black chord (orange vinyl)

orange vinyl"
Second album by this American band with 70's progressive rock and kraut influences.
Born in San Diego but bred in the mists of Avalon, Astra have fast-become a synonym for the ethereal, the sublime, and indeed the genuinely progressive. Ever since 2009's The Weirding put these analog-inflected San Diego visionaries on the map alongside the likes of co-conspirators Earthless, Diagonal and Dungen, who - like some lost tribe of prog faithful - have brought this unwieldly and much maligned form of music out of the dark ages and in front of a new generation of mellotron-loving cognoscenti.
01. Cocoon 02. The Black Chord 03. Quake Meat 04. Drift 05. Bull Torpis 06. Barefoot in the Head"