The psychedelic underground was taken by storm. Burnt Noodle from Northern California;  a mix of Zappa, Beef Heart, Gong, Mellotron, Mini Moog, Rhodes . Cool Hammond and synthesizers. These guys are all very competent players.

~Psychotropic Zone, Helsinki Finland

Burnt Noodle is a group of psychedelic freaks from Northern California who get together every now and then and create improvised jam sessions and then mix the best bits of them together adding strange samples and overdubs. Creative and funny. The last song is a strange, 15 minute trip that ends this excellent CD... even better than their 1st CD.

~Aural Innovations USA

Burnt Noodle can be described as a mix between Djam Karet, The Doors, Gong, New Sun, Ozric Tentacles, Phish, Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa; but that is perhaps making it too easy as their music is quite unpredictable. Their music bears traces from the '60's to the '90's. A very exciting album that I think that some of you would love, especially if your into the aforementioned bands.

~Through Different Eyes Sweden

If you say improvisation, one immediately thinks of the Grateful Dead and more recently Phish. Phish is exactly THE band to whom I'd like to compare Burnt Noodle to. When it really has to be unpredictable then you have found the correct address with plenty of room for guitar solos which feel at home in the softer passages and the extremely loud moments as well. Don't you just say space- rock when you listen to the almighty music of Burnt Noodle!

~Progressive world USA

This band plays extremely psychedelic improvised music and has been compared in reviews to Zappa, Gong and Syd Barrett.

~audio lunchbox

WOW! Far out man...

~Swamp Room records

BURNT NOODLE: “Next Exit” (Self Release)
In the six tracks offered on this CD, you get nearly 53 minutes of alien music. The songs are extensive affairs, with a whole arsenal of moods, singing and electronics employed to nearly ridiculous effect. It captures your imagination, awakens your senses, and gives you an all around pleasure, filled aural escape worth listening to several times. All the tracks here exceed six minutes, and are like mini mystical mantras, but the real spaced- out is saved for last, the fifteen- minute “Jim meets the space aliens”. While the band segues in at an almost Godspeed You Black Emperor- like entrance featuring an array of synths and guitars, before long things shift to intense space rock territory with wailing cello and interstellar guitar overdrive.

What a way to end a terrific hour’s worth of intricate space rock from an improvised bunch of musicians. Joining Paul Lamb (bass, synths, mellotron, e- bow, mini moog), Tom Hardley(guitars, vox and dobro), Alex Strudley ( rhodes, keys synths) and Mark Emerson (drums) on “Next exit” are Richard Fisher (guitar), John Mulvey (guitar), Alexandra Campbell Spalding (cello), Mike Emerson ( Hammond organ) and the Noodle choir; it's obvious that they all had a blast recording this album, as there is a sense of looseness and fun to all the tracks.
~Cosmicmasseur.