Track Listing

1. Dorset Perception
2. Star Shpongled Banner
3. New Way To Say "Hooray"
4. Room 23c
5. My Head Feels Like A Frisbee
6. Shpongleyes
7. Once Upon The Sea Of Blissful Awareness
8. Around The World In A Tea Daze
9. Flute Fruit

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10862 in Music
• Released on: 2001-07-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Simon Posford's sophomore outing Tales of the Inexpressible follows on from 1999s Are You Shpongled with more post-trance psychedelica. Post is the operative word as, although this latest album enjoys all of the trappings of the genre, unlike many of its contemporaries it manages not to get caught up in a DMT fuelled dead end of either ethnically correct instrumentals or the mind(less)-expanding fractal acid of Goa trance. Posford, again accompanied by ex-Quintessence and talented flautist Raja Ram, is unafraid of live instrumentation but succeeds in fusing these elements seamlessly into synthetic ambience--hence acoustic guitar on the opening "Dorset Perception" and Harry Escot's dub bass on the subsequent "Star Shpongled Banner". Couple this with a confident production style and forays into everything from drum & bass to dub and you have another accomplished album from the Hallucinogenic Soundlabs. --Kingsley Marshall

Customer Reviews

The best album I have ever heard!
From the uplifting melody of Dorset Perception to the serene vocals of Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness this album is absolute genius.

But then what would you expect, Shpongle were real heavy weights in underground music well before this latest venture:

Simon Posford and Raja Ram are more famously known as The Infinity Project, the pioneers of psy-trance and Simon on his own is also otherwise known as Hallucinogen, writer of the underground trance classic LSD. (Indeed both artists are currently featured on Paul Oakenfold's latest mix, Voyage into Trance.)

However, don't be fooled into thinking that Tales of the Inexpressible is going to be yet another mindless, tuneless psy-trance spin off. It is in fact a detailed, perfectly mixed voyage into the fusion between organic and inorganic sounds which has been achieved with both melody and interest. This is genius to a different level. Along with BT and Hybrid, I reckon Shpongle are up there as some of the most completely under-rated dance artists arround. Buy it, I absolutely promise you'll be blown away.

Visionary,vortextual, multi-genre, journey into conciousness
Having been through journeys through my conciousness, this recording strengthened every realization I've come across. Starting off strong with getting onto your feet and shaking yourself silly, then creeping into the unknown and bringing you through swells of enlightenment and fantasy. The deepening of Tales of the Inexpressible makes for a seemlessly never ending musical escapade of great beauty and light.

Relentlessly inventive
Who would have thought that Raja Ram, counter cultural hero and once the flautist in the excellent Quintessence would have turned into a sly kind of cultural revolutionary waving the flag of Terence mcKenna, rave culture, hallucinogenics .. and found a new soul buddy Simon Posford? Well, thinking about it, I guess it was on the cards..old hippies can shape shift like the best of them.

The other surprise is just how good this album is. It leaps from its box and defies categorisation. Stoned revelrie? Sort of. Trance? A little. But in fact this album transcends genres. it is relentlessly inventive, and just when you think the tracks are getting a bit monotonous,up comes another aural trick which enchants the mind.

It is just as it is billed - a psychedlic circus that has pulled up on your front lawn, assaulting your ears with such a battery of twists, turns, spoofs, rhythmns that in the end you just want to chuck what you are doing and dance along, too. It is utterly fantastic and one of the few albums I can think of where you realise your jaw has well and utterly dropped when it finally ends.

Buy this immediately and as the CD says, "your body is a nightclub, as well as a temple".

If you want to see what happened to the other creative genius of Quintessence, Shiva Jones, checkout his "Shivas Quintessence" album released in 2005. Also excellent, though very different from this.

Now go get your jaws dropped.