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Hello and welcome to the official website of independant musician Nog Cavanagh. Nog makes instrumental music inspired by space-rock, psychedelia and electronica. His first album "Everything Leads to Here" was released in 2005 to critical acclaim and his new album "Sombre Castles of Desire is now available from this website.
Hear tracks from both albums on Soundcloud |
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The album features the wonderful and mysterious ASTRA GLYDE, playing theremin and analogue synths on Tracks 9 and 10.
'Cavanagh moves through most of the touchstones of contemporary space rock, composing mellow soundscapes and crystalline visions here, driving, sometimes even guttural, rockers there, delivering a wide-ranging sense of aural textures that meld together across this record. It's a genuinely multi-instrumental approach ... around each corner, into each individual track, there's something new and interesting while all the time poking at the different vibes and angles of space rock. It's an inventive, creative, exciting and engaging record."
"Marvellous! Sombre Castles of Desire is a CD that all those into instrumental, psychedelic space rock and cosmic ambient should get."
"This is Nog Cavanagh's 2nd release and it's filled with the same styling of deep space music as his debut ( Everything Leads To Here)... There is playfulness, and that genuine 60's psychedelic flavor to it, which I found extra nice... If you like Pink Floyd I think it's safe to say you'll like this CD also. I am glad there are musicians still around like Nog, that can do what they want and make these type recordings from another galaxy. "
Availability: "Sombre Castles of Desire" is now available from this website. The album comes in a jewel box, with four page full colour booklet and costs £9.99 GBP with free worldwide postage. Total running time is 1 hour 2 minutes. |
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Praise for "Everything Leads to Here"
'... A 55 minute excursion into the expanses of outer and inner space...dripping with psychedelia...echoed chorused guitar shimmers and glistens, evoking choirs of celestial bells chiming in a zero-gravity expanse...If Hawkwind had collaborated with Peter Gabriel on a selection of tracks from the Passion album,it might have sounded something like this... Future releases will hopefully find Cavanagh building off this foundation, creating a name for himself as a fresh voice in contemporary space rock.'
'...an amazing aural journey that you can't help but revisit after the music stops. I feel that the name Nog Cavanagh is destined to be synonymous to modern space rock and psychedelia.... by far one of the better recordings in the genre... without doubt a very recommended purchase.'
'...55 minutes of stunning space rock . Hard percussion and searing guitar
plunge the audience into a spacey realm of dazzling astral rock compositions.
Electronics spin and explode, propelling the music to the outer regions of
Galactic space. But the strongest attractions here are Cavanagh's guitar pyrotechnics. Manifesting a gritty brilliance with slick ease, the riffs blaze with a unique fervour, glistening like shooting stars crossing a purple twilight sky... A thoroughly rewarding sonic experience.'
'Multi-instrumentalist Nog Cavanagh explores the universe from his home studio
with his all instrumental music that draws on classic guitar space rock and a
more modern synth driven kind of psychedelia as its influences. ... could be
likened to ambient techno... but with lots of guitar... Through dark textures
and spacey psychedelic excursions, the album ends on a soaring note... reminded
me of some of the bright, upbeat kind of playing heard from Hawkwind in the
early '80's... I'm sure it won't be long before we hear more from this
Yorkshire space rocker.'
'This is an album chock full of instrumental delights, all originating in
classic acid and space rock. My own favourite is the shimmering Out of Body,
which is exquisite psychedelia... a delight.'
'...original and varied. Nog is a talented guitar player, and the stuff works
in other ways as well. Great psychedelic tracks...marvellous...dreamy... worth
checking out if you're interested in
instrumental, psychedelic, underground space rock'
'A splendid space-rock album, blending Porcupine Tree and Hawkwind elements into a timeless musical vortex. Hawke Rating: 4/5'
'Brilliant and an indispensable work, highly recommendable.'
'A beautiful, multi-layered, purely instrumental spacerock piece...'
'With heaps of soaring guitar, sequencers, synths and driving bass, the music
certainly moves in all the right directions'
The album comes in a jewel box, with a four-page litho-printed full colour booklet. Total running time is 55 minutes. Availability: "Everything Leads to Here" is available from this website. The album costs £6.99 GBP with free worldwide postage. Please order via PayPal secure transaction by clicking on the button below. Thank You!
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Contacts and Links
Nog is always pleased to hear from people! Click here to email him regarding CD enquiries, music, general chit-chat and the like. You can't like Nog on Facebook or follow him on Twitter, because he isn't on them.
 Fed up with interstellar space missions? Tired of travelling the Black Corridor? Why not return to Terra Firma and explore the beauties of Mother Earth through the Botanical Illustration of Amanda Willoughby
Website designed by Nog. Images,graphics and audio are by N. A. Cavanagh, copyright 2005-2013.
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