Void Generator - "Collision" ep
(Ph 03 - 2011) [ltd. edition]

deepcycloid (ITA)

The ep opens with ' Stretched Sunlight ' , a long ride that starts with an oriental tampura and harmonium mood in your face . Some tablas following marking a rhythm that are underlined by a very dark bass guitar , and on which various instruments agitate in various ways . 'Out' guitars , nervous clarinet , modern jazz piano . Despite the length of the song, this is renewed with every personal intervention of the various musicians who accompany the basis quartet of Void Generator . Synth , noise s and other effects grow up to a kind of turning point that ended with an unexpected textbook performance rock guitar solo . The fade out is a gem not to be missed . The second track , Collision , is instead a totally improvised live groove of space/ psychedelic edge that points to something typical of the seventies , with a variety of dynamic movements . A praise to the Void who have the boldness played live , they can afford it . Limited series , not for extremists .

Vocokesh - "Dr. Hofmann's Bicycle Ride"
(Ph 02 - 2010) [ltd. edition]

psychotropic zone (FIN)

The album begins with the nice, a bit more structured psych/garage rock piece “Born Losers”. This one has some obvious 60’s vibes. The slower ”Texas Asphalt Blues” gets into somewhat more experimental direction due to its loud lead guitar work but this track is also clearly composed. The hallucinatory and mystical “The Cruising Song” brings to mind the experimental and psychedelic kraut rock bands from the early 70’s and also includes synthesizer. A great jam, actually! The 11-minute-long ”Kesh # 10 (Improvisation)” penetrates even deeper into the depths of human psyche and is really weird stuff. As the title suggests, ”Pretty Acoustic Piece” is a relaxing piece with some cosmic space sounds that you can float to. The slow ”The Highway Song” is heavier, fuzz guitar-driven material. Another slow-paced number is the hypnotic and psychedelic ”1000 Pictures in One World” that includes sitar as well. The 15-minute title track finishes off the album in a rather experimental and mind-expanding style. There’s plenty of very pleasant, heavily effected solo guitar work included. In summary, Dr. Hofmann’s Bicycle Ride is wonderfully weird, psychedelic stuff that all those into acidic instrumental jamming should check out.

Void Generator - "Phantom Hell and Soar Angelic"
(ph 01 -2010)

doommantia (US)

This is the second full length album from Italian Space Rock freaks Void Generator and while previous work has been interesting, this new album with the curious title of "Phantom Hell And Soar Angelic" is a masterpiece of cosmic Kraut Rock meets Psychedelic Space Rock. Void Generator are a band of three vital elements, the early 70's Space Rock vibes, the garage Acid Rock also of the early 70's and more modern Prog-Metal moments, Porcupine Tree came to mind a couple of times while listening to this album for the first time. Blend all that with the Stoner / Desert Rock jamming attitude of Kyuss and early Monster Magnet and you get the picture. Despite the extended running times of the songs, there is also a lot of catchy, infectious riffing from Gianmarco Iantaffi that keep you grooving along the way. It wont be for everyone but those more open-minded Psychedelic riff rockers out there will surely dig most if not all of this album. The only downside is the vocals but there is not much of them anyway, its mostly a instrumental freak out that lasts for a good hour or so. The production is beautiful in its authentic 70's feel and the vintage sounds are just timeless. Out now on Phonosphera Records its hard not to like this. 8.5/10

captain-beyond.blogspot (D)

This is the perfect album for the road after a stressful and nerve wrecking day at work. It is spring, the sun warms the sky. ‘Phantom Hell and Soar Angelic’ oscillates from the car stereo. I’m waiting at the red robot.
The idiot in front of me misses his turn at the green light. I must wait longer, which does not annoy me. I let the side window down and turn the volume up to max. Powerful and with full Stoner bass the perfectly mixed CD roars from the speaker box. My fellow car drivers turn and shake their heads when they glance in my direction. I grin back at them contently and turn up the volume a little bit more to “are you F*@#&% nuts ???!!!”.

aristocraziawebzine

Le influenze di Van Der Graaf Generator, Pink Floyd e Black Sabbath si fondono con la visione cosmica/space di gente come Hawkwind e Tangerine Dream rafforzata dalla istintività desertica che prende vita in forma Kyuss.

Ascoltare un disco come "Phantom Hell And Soar Angelic" mi accende la spia campanilistica che per fortuna quest'anno mi ha già fatto pensare una o due volte: Italia? Cazzo allora ci siamo anche noi!
Se amate la psichedelia e la buona musica in genere, non potete assolutamente farvelo scappare, è da acquisto immediato.

metallized.it

La proposta musicale del gruppo è piuttosto varia: si passa dal progressive inglese degli anni ’70 ad altri generi quali lo stoner, la psichedelia e lo space rock.
Le influenze sono molteplici: Pink Floyd, Van Der Graaf Generator, Gong, Hawkind, Porcupine Tree e Kyuss tanto per rendere meglio l’idea al lettore circa l’eclettismo di questa formazione.

Un ottimo platter, destinato non soltanto agli amanti del rock progressivo, ma a tutti coloro che sanno apprezzare la buona musica.
Spero vivamente non passi inosservato solo perché la band non è americana o inglese: sarebbe un sacrilegio!

Void Generator -"We Have Found The Space"
(self-released 2006)

Aural Innovations #34 (August 2006)

The songs are characterized by hard and heavy metallic space rock 'n roll that brings to mind other contemporary bands like Litmus, First Band From Outerspace and Space Mirrors, but also Black Sabbath and Monster Magnet. Anyway, it all makes for a deep space rock 'n rolling stoner metallic party in the cosmos...The band excel at songcraft and cool lyrics, but also at creating that well structured balance between the core song and taking off into space and developing the instrumental segments and really jamming hard.

There's lots of variety on the album too, with the band exploring all sorts of hard rocking stylistic nooks and crannies. And they're not afraid to ease the pace a bit, alternating between lighter spaced out psychedelic segments before taking off hard 'n heavy again...Void Generator aren't neatly classified and ultimately defy easy description.

I've got We Have Found The Space high on my best of 2006 list. HIGHLY recommended!

Perkele.it

Navigatori dello spazio profondo unitevi. Il primo disco ufficiale dei Void Generator è il nuovo cibo per affrontare traversate intergalattiche. Una preparazione a base di space rock e heavy psych, roba da far girare la testa anche se si resta comodamente a terra.
La creatura di Gianmarco (basso, chitarre, voce), Gabriele (voce, chitarre, basso), Maurizio (batteria) e Massimiliano (synths) è un mostro di incredibile bravura. Un'ora abbondante di stupenda musica, composta da autori brillanti e appassionati, eseguita con perizia e tecnica sopraffina. La sensazione che se ne ricava è quella di essere al cospetto di una grandissima band, una delle migliori in assoluto (non solo in Italia) nel panorama heavy psych attuale.
Non abbiamo paura di esagerare perché basta ascoltare bordate maledettamente hard e lisergiche...un brano del calibro di “Water all over” - fantastico, delicato ed onirico acid rock - non è materiale che si ascolta tutti i giorni...Insomma, “We have found the space” è un disco che farà la gioia di tutti, vecchi amanti dell'hard psych e nuovi adepti dello stoner (astronauti compresi). Non lasciatevelo sfuggire.

Void Generator - "Void Generator"
(self-released 2004)

Aural Innovations #29 (October 2004)

"Sidereal Connection" opens the CD and is a very heavy Monster Magnet-Kyuss influenced piece of psych rock with a wall of sound type approach but also some cool windy and drony synths thrown in to complete the mix. Some really cool dual layered guitar soloing in the middle section of this 6 minute track. "Blues Ky" is a much more open rock track, reminds me a bit of Motorpsycho, with its more poppy happy bass line that leads the song...Fans of Motorpsycho for sure would like to hear this. All 4 songs are quite different on this CD but none as heavy and psychedelic as the opening track. Impressive stuff!

Perkele.it

Oltre ad una professionalità innegabile, la band capitolina sfoggia un enorme bagaglio tecnico e compositivo messo al servizio di brani che spaziano dalla psichedelia pesante allo space rock, con ampie spruzzate di progressive cosmico e visionario.

“ Sideral connection ”...un turbine psycho space rock in stile primi Monster Magnet, si resta ingoiati in un imbuto spazio temporale dove intrecci di chitarre acide, synth allucinati e ritmiche ipnotiche rapiscono i nostri stessi sensi…

“ Blues ky ” ...un'atmosfera molto sixties viene messa al servizio di delicate vocals che costruiscono una tessitura melodica da pelle d'oca...“ Electric tratment ”... la psichedelia pinkfloydiana attraverso i suoni delicati del progressive e della scuola di Canterbury... “ Suite #2 ”, 14 minuti dove la band si sbizzarrisce nel variare registro a seconda delle esigenze: progressive romantico nella prima fase (con parti vocali sentite ed un moog che fa girare la testa…), sperimentazione lisergica e rumorista nella seconda, un senso di sospensione che si placa solo nell'eruzione sonora chiude il lavoro.

Lontani da ogni catalogazione, eccellenti strumentisti, ma soprattutto grandi compositori, i Void Generator sono una graditissima scoperta di questo primo scorcio di 2004.