The Amorphous Androgynous

The AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS is the psychedelic band created by The Future Sound of London, A SAMPLERDELIC FUNKOID ROKTRONIC cosmic ambient oozescape merging the sonic with the lyric -the beat with the beat-less -the classic rock with the epic freeform roll -the mantra with the tantra -to convert the how? into the Tao -To merge the possibilities of technology with the plausibility of NO-OLOGY -to combine a love for the forgotten treasures of old with the unfolding mysteries of the new-to combine the electromagnetic machines with psychedelic dreams, cosmic consciousness with sweet bloody mindedness- the lizards with the wizards and the infant with the Sage and to come out the other side smelling vaguely of roses or maybe sandalwood or even EUCALYPTUS!! MAY ALL BE LOVED MAY ALL BE FED MAY ALL BE HEALED

Sometime during the 5 year recording /production and writing process of their 6th album THE ISNESS , The Future Sound of London (Brian Dougans, Garry Cobain ) began to realise that this latest paradigm had accidentally formed a 'virtual' band and they were no longer who they thought they were-whether partially , completely or maybe even momentarily . Further to that it was no longer strictly true to call it FSOL. After the naturally arising initial confusion caused by such free wheelin' artistic abandon had cleared for long enough to catch a glimpse of the multi splendoured cosmic potential that lay ahead it was decided to create a new/old band and for that 'band' to take the name The Amorphous Androgynous .It included in its tender folds a varied and motley bunch of friends and musicians who had contributed throughout the extensive recording process 1997-2002 in which the album was conceived and recorded- It was 'virtual' because the musicians never actually performed in a room together. They each came in turn and laid down tracks and performed to an evolving musical oozescape that became increasingly far fetched and adventurous in the minds and wizardly hands of Dougans and Cobain as the time spun by from 1997 to 2002 . By the time of its release in late 2002 THE ISNESS revealed itself to be a 'cosmic psychedelic soup of influence' like a 'modern progtronic-rock opera' for the 21st century

The 'virtual' band which FSOL had unwittingly assembled during these extensive recordings became known as 'the AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS'

It gradually dawned on the FSOL mutant morph-lovechild that it would be an interesting experiment to bring this 'virtual' band 'the AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS' together for the first time and jam together to complete the cycle - the virtual now becoming manifest- ! The band who had never played together but who had been fused, spliced,sampled and processed in the masterly FSOL gizmo now reconvening to interpret that fusion- ready to fly !!

WOW! What a TRIP that IS/WAS !!!

The AMORPHOUS supergroup is a heady odyssey of rocktronica / cosmic funk / backwards psychedelic stomp through to beautiful ambient folktronic flute and sitar ragas with the odd song or two of love and divinity and mello hippos, all the while beats and samples spew and collide like the Spector Wall of Sound has undergone sudden cross fertilisation with the hippy mutant child of FSOL conceived on a rickshaw ride with the MAHARISHI looking on cackling wildly while in the background a giant kaleidoscopic exploding light fantastic video show hints at the meaning underpinning the universe- suns setting as planets collide and explode in shards of white light and bearded robed hippies dance in hypnotised mantra to the exotic beat. This band are AMORPHOUS and ANDROGYNOUS - they've shapeshifted and only seem transfixed to the eternal NOW!!! - this AMORPHOUS entity is nothing less than GRIPPING - catch this BAND if you can - they're in another dimension !!!! THE 5TH TO BE SPECIFIC ! 2012 light years from home !!