Cobblestone Below My Feet now available through Ogden Park Music 

Cobblestone Below My Feet has a great communal feel to it. It is boldly genre-crossing and yields new discoveries with repeat listens. More

- Chip Withrow, The Muse's Muse
Cobblestone Below My Feet is a kick-butt extravaganza of expectations-defying, post-modern wonder.
The louder it gets, the better it gets.

- Steve Forrest, Seven Paws Press
Perhaps many American people will think “where the hell is Esslingen or Stuttgart, what on earth is Reinheitsgebot...?” but these are absolutely great ideas and bring the continents a little bit more near together.

- Roy Jung, Germany
Cobblestone Below My Feet...and other tales of devils and onions - 2006

Cobblestone

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Cobblestone Below My Feet
What We've Got
All of That
Zydecongo Stomp


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Artist: Chemystry Set

Title: Cobblestone Below My Feet
UPC#: 795201100429
TC-05, 2006. File under "Music"
Ogden Park in collaboration with Tuber Creations

Produced by Dickie Ogden and the Set, Chemystry Set's fifth CD, Cobblestone Below My Feet, ferments three years of travel, storytelling, friendships, and recording magic into a rich and highly intoxicating elixir. On their fifth release, the band that has made a name for itself over the last ten years with boundary-defying music and message-driven songs is coming of age in this beautifully dynamic tapestry of tightly-arranged and rockin' compositions. Written during and after their 2003 European tour, Cobblestone Below My Feet is an invitation across language, culture, and consciousness. Like a carriage ride through history, hitting the cobblestone with an amalgam of sounds and an ever-fresh poetic luminescence, this album takes the listener into another time zone, all along establishing connections not only to the present, but the future of humanity.
With special guest appearances on Zydeconco Stomp by The Flux' Joe Balestreri on trumpet and Dan Heffez on Alto Sax. Horn arrangements by Research & Development's Nathaniel Hawkes and Baba Ndjhoni. Photography by Debra Baida


Sven Eberlein - Guitar, Vocals

Dickie Ogden - Drums, Gong, Vocals
Patty Hughes - Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Farfisa Organ, Vocals
Joel Oppenheimer - Bass
Baba Ndjhoni - Mandolin, Ukelele, Vocals

At this particular moment in time, when it feels like we live in an age where optimism is a rare commodity, Chemystry Set is here to remind us that itıs not too late, that there are still ways to improve things, and that you really can draw life-changing inspiration from music that genuinely matters. Yes, it really is as simple as that. Buy the album and see for yourself.

- Scott Coldren
Live at the Sweatlodge - 2004

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What We've Got
Ogodo, Ano 2000
No Quarter
Seed for a Dream


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Artist: Chemystry Set

Title: Live at the Sweatlodge
UPC#: 795201100924
TC-04, 2004. File under "Music"
Ogden Park in collaboration with Tuber Creations

A high quality multitrack celebration and documentation of the final show on Chemystry Set's Pacific Northwest tour 2004. 80 minutes of music. It was an intimate semi-private party with open bar. The half-keg kicked right when the band finished! Good partying everyone! Rock, bluegrass, world influences, sometimes progish, groovy, 3 part vocals. Totally rocks.


Sven Eberlein - Electric Guitar, Vocals

Dickie Ogden - Drum Kit
Patty Hughes - Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Vocals
Joel Oppenheimer - Bass
Baba Ndjhoni - Electric Mandolin, Ukelele, Vocals

Every time I hear Chemystry Set I feel like I'm hearing it for the first time: musicianship tight as an atom, music wild and roaming as the imagination of the unknown. It's like everything and nothing I've ever heard, a screaming reminder that rock is rebellion and must be reinvented each time it's played, or else it's just pop.

- Randy Lyman
The Last Real Experience - 2003
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The Last Real Experience
Salaam
Now and Right Here
Follow the Idiopath
Leading the Saint into the Fog



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Artist: Chemystry Set

Title: The Last Real Experience
UPC#: 65905798192
TC-03, 2003, File under "Music"
Ogden Park in collaboration with Tuber Creations

Birthed by the ever-present spontaneous combustions of all that is Chemystry, and produced under the auspices of Dickie Ogden (Dr. Dickie), this third incarnation in the underground trilogy is probably the most refined and momentous creation in the Set's storied journey. Leaving more room for each song to breathe, the Set's ever evolving musicianship shines through the brilliant dynamics, giving more meaning to the album's daring arrangements and twists. And should you wonder about the implications of the album title, turn your attention to that most treasured and ancient wisdom, found between all lines and within yourself: The end is the beginning, be here now!

Sven Eberlein - Electric Guitar, Vocals
Dickie Ogden - Drum Kit, Vocals
Patty Hughes - Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Vocals
Joel Oppenheimer - Bass
Baba Ndjhoni - Electric Mandolin, Vocals

The Last Real Experience is fun, intriguing listening and a highly recommended purchase. It surprises me with new details every time I listen.
- Steve Ekblad - Audiogrid.com
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The Space Between - 2001


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Mwela wa Mwanami
Magical Pie
Sounds from Underground
Tread that Atmosphere
Chestnuts
Mwanda wa SIDA

If & When
Sentinel Species



Artist: Chemystry Set

Title: The Space Between
UPC#: 71428808292
TC-02, 2001,  File under “Music”
Tuber Creations

The follow-up to “Life in the Underground”, “The Space Between” celebrates the growing of seeds and the evolution of life with an uplifting soul journey through themes of community, activism and transformation. An edgy jazzy world groove provides the musical canvas to effusive storytelling, creating a rich texture of multi-stylistic peregrinations. Featuring soul singer Krystle Jones (SF Funk Allstars). Recorded on 2 inch reel-to-reel by avant-garde maverick Oliver DiCicco. Acrylic on canvas cover by Matt Ritchie.  

Sven Eberlein - Electric Guitar, Vocals
Brian Fishler - Drums
Avidan Rose - Percussions, Vibraphone
Joel Oppenheimer - Bass
Baba Ndjhoni - Electric Mandolin, Acoustic Mandolin, Vocals
Krystle Jones - Vocals
Greg Carney - Guitar


Life in the Underground - 1998
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Thwart
Small
To Be Kings
Soiled
The Way of Our Slow Strangle
Ducttape
The Rim
Life in the Undergound

Artist: Chemystry Set

Title: Life in the Underground
TC01, 1998, File under “Music”
Tuber Creations

A groundbreaking debut by the eclectic rock ensemble. 13 tracks weave their way through deep realms of consciousness, telling stories of rebellion, conspiracy, roots and hope. Guest appearances by bassoonist Paul Hanson (Windham Hill), percussionist Avidan Rose (Mobius Operandi, Myron Dove) and Soji Odukogbe (Kotoja, West African Highlife Band). Binaural audio clips from the hands and ears of multimedia guru Tony Idarola. Original ball point pen cover by Matt Ritchie.

Sven Eberlein - Electric Guitar, Vocals
Mark Sand - Drums
Joel Oppenheimer - Bass
Baba Ndjhoni - Electric Mandolin, Acoustic Mandolin, Vocals
Dave Jacobsen - Keyboard
Greg Carney - Guitar


Some sounds vibrate between open-air jazz and old Genesis-type progressiveness. There's a free groove that doesn't give away where the song is going next. All in all, it's a great vibe.   
- Tony Hicks, The Contra Costa Times 

Check out these chunky mp3 morsels by Set Members:
A Person Named Bodell - Sven's interpretation of a Hermann Hesse story (feat. Caitlin Stevens)
Pax Americana - Johnny's State of the Union

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