Exclusive album premiere of ‘Magical Kingdom’ by Astral Magic, out June 17th, 2022 via Tonzonen Records.

Astral Magic is a new solo project by Santtu Laakso aka Dj Astro. He used to play bass and moog in Finnish psychedelic space rock band Dark Sun. Astral Magic has no definitive style or form, but everything is and will be spacey and psychedelic. Since the project was started in March 2020, around 300 tracks have been created. Some of the tracks are cosmic, ambient excursions into other dimensions, some are more space/kraut/psych/prog rocking in the vein of Hawkwind, Gong, Eloy, Pink Floyd, Neu! et cetera.

<a href="https://darksun.bandcamp.com/album/magical-kingdom">Magical Kingdom by Astral Magic</a>

Many international musician friends have participated in the recordings.

‘Magical Kingdom’ can be considered as the first psychedelic prog rock album by Astral Magic. The listener is taken into another mysterious, magical world. Other musicians on the album include multi-instrumentalist Jay Tausig (US, drums, guitar, saxophone, flute), Gregory Curvey (US, guitar, glockenspiel), Peter Bingham (UK, guitar), Markku Helin (FI, guitar), Anton Barbeau (US, guitar) and Perttu Lindberg (FI, drums). The album was mastered by Eroc for maximum sound quality.

“I’d like to welcome you all to take part in this journey into the land of dreams and fairy tales, full of mystery and imagination. I want to thank all my co-pilots, especially Jay Tausig who has worked so hard to improve my songs with his skills. Thanks also to Dirk and Alex at Tonzonen for making this release a dream come true on one of my favourite labels. You guys rule!” Santtu aka Dj Astro