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THE MACHINES HAVE LANDED :
An obscure Canadian band, which propably came from Ontario, but without much more info around it.The leading figure appeared to be Blaine Selkirk, who sung, played the keyboards and guitar and produced the band's only album ''Part one'' from 1981.Two drummers are in the line-up John Persichini and Ralph Friedrich with Tony Moretta handling the guitar.The album was recorded at the Evolution 2000 Studios in Brampton, Ontario and was released on the unknown, Burlington-based North Shore Records.
The allbum sounds like a Pop/Prog Rock/Theater play with alternative narrations and singing parts, dominated by period synthesizers and drum beats, having a decent instrumental depth with a slightly pompous style and strong influences from British and US Prog Rock from the 70's.The intense singing lines and the pompous use of keyboards come close to some emphatic sections of STARCASTLE, but the symphonic echoes are less pronounced, instead the album has a discreet spacey background, which recall parts of VISITOR 2035's debut.The groovy cuts and the 80's-sounding beats and synths are flirting with what GIZMO were doing at the same time.The most spacey themes come from some nice synth/guitar runs with sequencers in the background, while the slightly distorted vocals are helping also.But you can also draw strong comparisons with bands like TWELFTH NIGHT or compatriots HEADS IN THE SKY in a style that crosses the British Neo Prog territories, using the lines of GENESIS both in vocal and instrumental sections, albeit with an obviously updated sound.Second side is more diverse and convincing with some dramatic tunes and spoken parts, featuring haunting guitar moves and horror-like keys towards the end, which sound a bit more psychedelic and spacey.
Apparently ''Part one'' meant that the guys were ambitious enough to go for a second album, but I am not surprised this work ended up to be a prog obscurity over the years.Not very professional as a whole and its scarcity does not make it a top priority, but the music is pretty good and the vocals decent, if you do not mind listening to some 80's-flavored tunes.
Wow, this is perhaps one of the deadliest psych/space-rock LP's I have ever heard. Recorded in 1981 in Burlington , Ontario, Canada at North Shore Studios.This is a concept piece based on a newscast from a Windsor, Ontario radio station regarding an announcement to be made by the then president Gerald Ford regarding the 1951 discovery of two alien spacecraft and 12 alien bodies. If the story is accurate this announcement validates the urban legends and further actually describes the ships and the aliens.Purportedly the only evidence of this broadcast is a cassette tape made by the cousin of the guy who wrote the music for this LP. Apparently it had been lost for eight years.The brainchild of this project is Blaine Selkirk and he has crafted a space -rock opus worthy of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind,Black Sabbath and Klaatu, and at times he sounds like all of the above. The LP starts with a replay of the taped broadcast ,eerie enough in its own right.Beautiful tubular bells fade in for the first song\"Treckies\" a plea for understanding that we are not alone,washes of synth and spacey guitar and a great hook to the chorus.This closes and a pounding dru
