For those unaware, Gayle Ellett & The Electromags are back with their third album entitled The Painted River of Light. This instrumental progressive rock offering features four mesmerizing extended tracks flowing with the sounds of Mellotron and Minimoog, Hammond organ and Rhodes piano.

Filled with 48 minutes of rushing currents, psychedelic swirling melodies and pounding solos, Painted River is meant to take listeners on an imaginary boat ride through a fantastical canyon that follows an otherworldly river of light.

“While,” explains Ellett, “they feel like they’re high on mushrooms. It’s meant to sound both familiar and exotic, like you’re seeing colors in the water that you’ve never seen before.”

1. The Illuminating Sands of Time [12:28]
2. Deep Waters Glow Brightly [14:30]
3. Frequency Modulation [10:39]
4. The Rhodes to Discovery [10:31]

Flowing from the fiery headwaters of Topanga Canyon, this incredibly emotive, dutifully sculpted and beautifully free flowing new recording opens on the sweepingly orchestral, guitar and latterly drum-veined The Illuminating Sands of Time and then we are gifted the pulsing sonic elegance, latterly guitar driven Deep Waters Glow Brightly, before they are in turn backed seamlessly by the finely tuned, spatially absorbent and brilliantly structured Frequency Modulation, the set coming to an all-too-soon close on the synth pulsing, rhythmically engaging, at times frenetically charged The Rhodes to Discovery.

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