Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2011

And onward and along. To repost from the end of the last one:

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any recommendations for which (if any) of the following bands are not to be missed?

[em]Welcome 2 The Void : Chicago Psych Fest 2[/em]
featuring
Mondo Drag
Catacombz
The Great Society Mind Destroyers
Plastic Crimewave Sound
Dead Luke
El Is a Sound of Joy

or

[em]Welcome 2 The Void : Chicago Psych Fest 2[/em]
featuring
Moonstone Continuum
Thunderbolt Pagoda
Sadhu Sadhu
Dark Fog
Black Wyrm Seed
Verma

?? i'm down with plastic crimewave but that's about all i recognize. advice?

― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Monday, January 3, 2011 7:04 AM (15 minutes ago)

Thunderbolt Pagoda is the new project from Erik Wivinius, formerly of Salamander -- just ordered the newest album but I haven't heard it yet.

Dark Fog is pretty awesome space rock stuffs.

comically appropriate name for a band in this thread

catacombz is pretty cool. i am myspace friendz with them. their page has music on it.

http://www.myspace.com/catacombzs

Grabbed mp3s of some live tape that Sadhu Sadhu put out & recall liking it a lot. Vague recollection of it being kinda White Hills/Heavy Winged.

I have seen Catacombz put on thrilling and inspired shows, I've also seen them phone it in.
The cassettes that they make are very listenable.

Snuck out at the end of last year but Shedding's Tear in the Sun is great goddamn morning drone catnip for me right this second. Harmonium drones, contemplative vocals, Spacemen 3's non-rock part goes New Zealand.

Please excuse me for the plug but I just thought some of you may be into the content of my (mostly) drone / ambient / noise blog: http://superreceptor.tumblr.com

Recent posts have included Will Long of Celer, Richard Skelton, Kevin Drumm, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Motion Sickness Of Time Travel...

Last year's version of this thread was a constant source of gold for me, so I'm really looking forward to what it throws up this year.

ned, do you know Olekranon? i think you would dig their new one. *bilal* on housepig/inam.

Great to see Bee Mask's 'Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico' getting a vinyl release on John Elliott from Emeralds' new Editions Mego imprint: http://www.editionsmego.com/spectrum-spools-release/SP+002

AUSTIN PSYCH FEST ANNOUNCES LINEUP UPDATES AND WEEKEND PASS INFORMATION

The Black Angels and Reverberation Appreciation Society proudly announce updates to the Austin Psych Fest lineup. The fourth annual event is set to take place April 29 - May 1 2011 at Mexitas Events Center. Important here to note that this is a new venue for the festival. Due to new city zoning and event restrictions, APF4 has been moved from The East Side Drive-In to this new indoor venue. The band and the RAS are very excited about this new space and the potential it holds for a multimedia experience. The setup is great and there's even a wonderful Mexican restaurant built right in to the multi-stage sonic adventure. More information on this will be announced via the festival website http://austinsychfest.com/ on Feb 13th.

The second round of lineup confirmations are: Roky Erickson, Indian Jewelry, Beaches, Black Hollies, Lumerians, The Soft Moon, Young Prisms, The Quarter After, Woodsman, Lower Heaven, The Meek, The Diamond Center, The Sky Drops, Tjutjuna, Holy Wave

A limited number of $85 weekend passes go on sale Sunday, February 13th at 3pm CST on http://austinsychfest.com/. A third round of confirmations will be announced on March 1st along with daily lineups and day ticket details.

The current lineup includes:

Roky Erickson (Austin TX)
Spectrum (Rugby, UK)
The Black Angels (Austin, TX)
Black Moth Super Rainbow (Chicago, IL)
Atlas Sound (Atlanta, GA)
Dead Meadow (Los Angeles, CA)
Prefuse 73 (Atlanta, GA)
Crystal Stilts (Brooklyn, NY)
Sleepy Sun (San Francisco, CA)
Indian Jewelry (Houston TX)
Black Ryder (Sydney, Australia)
Crocodiles (San Diego, CA)
Fresh and Onlys (San Francisco, CA)
The Growlers (Costa Mesa, CA)
Tobacco (Chicago, IL)
White Hills (New York, NY)
Pontiak (Holtzclaw, Virginia)
Black Hollies (New Jersey, NJ)
Beaches (Melbourne, AU)
Young Prisms (San Francisco, CA)
The Night Beats (Seattle, WA)
Lumerians (San Francisco, CA)
The Soft Moon (San Francisco, CA)
Woodsman (Denver, CO)
Lower Heaven (Silverlake, CA)
Cloudland Canyon (Memphis, TN)
The Meek (Los Angeles, CA)
The Cult of Dom Keller (Nottingham, UK)
The Quarter After (San Francisco, CA)
Vacant Lots (Burlington, VT)
The Diamond Center (Richmond, VA)
The Sky Drops (Wilmington, DE)
Tjutjuna (Denver, CO)
Holy Wave (Austin, TX)

Unfortunately Quest For Fire had to cancel their performance.

are the new black angels better than the 80's black angels? i'll bet they aren't!

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/B/BL/Black-Angels/Kickdown/black-angels-kickdown-83.jpg

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/B/BL/Black-Angels/Kickdown/black-angels-kickdown-84.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M3kh5U9nIM0/S92Is_YamQI/AAAAAAAADss/UbC04kzl2ro/s1600/Black_Angels_band.jpg

do the new black angels have a record cover as cool as the hellmachine cover? i'll bet they don't!

http://www.cmdistro.com/images/xlarge/31114.jpg

You bet a lot, Scott...

new Eternal Tapestry is pretty good. It's a bit slowed down compared to their previous stuff -- kinda bluesy.

heard a track off of that eternal tapestry. made me think of parson sound. that's enough to get me to check out the whole album.

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133621169/first-listen-the-psychic-paramount-ii#playlist

On a huge Jooklo kick

shit! was wondering if there would ever be anymore psychic paramount material. these guys were awesome live.

saw them a couple yrs ago and was blown away. the new one is so good

yes it is

there's more rhythm and less all-out attack than on their other studio one, but it's still ~~intense~~

Psychic Paramount is making my day, thanks!

yeah, this is really good!

btw don't sleep on the origins + primitives collection from a few years back, people. a more mellow, stripped down take on the formula. lots of achim reichel/manuel gottsching delay pedal action. love it!

have now listened to new eternal tapestry in full twice. like it a lot and I was never impressed by these guys before.

yow this psychic paramount thing is great! never heard of them before, thanks for the tip.

album drops 2/22 on no quarter btw

Thanks for the link amon. Thought it was an okay preview

btw don't sleep on the origins + primitives collection from a few years back, people. a more mellow, stripped down take on the formula. lots of achim reichel/manuel gottsching delay pedal action. love it!

WORDDDDDD. Seriously amazing stuff.

The wonderful Golau Glau are live on the Exotic Pylon in a few mins on: http://resonancefm.com/ I think you freaks will dig it.

Peaking Lights "936" blew me away on the first listen. Reminds me of a poppier Blues Control. Very Kosmiche. Sun Araw fans might wanna check it out, too.

Their earlier stuff is much much better. I did not like the new one at all.

This is the first one I've heard.

I blind bought the new Peaking Lights based on past quality. Kind of worried it will be too poppy/formless/chillwave tribal. Earlier shit was noisy/murky/more menacing.

old and new minimalist-drone from pauline oliveros, eliane radigue, yoshi wada, and sun circle:

http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8578:pauline-oliveroseliane-radigueyoshi-wadasun-circle-qattention-patternsq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=96

the yoshi wada is great, it's like a twenty-minute sustained high note on a bagpipe. oh wait, ten minutes in suddenly something happened. now it's kind of… woobering. woovering.

have now listened to new eternal tapestry in full twice. like it a lot and I was never impressed by these guys before

i'm having the same reaction. wasn't that blown away by them before; this new one though's reminding me of the less synthy aspects of harmonia's deluxe

Maybe the new Peaking Lights is hitting me like it's chillwave for people who hate chillwave. I'm enjoying the lack of menace, even though some of those basslines are still awful heavy. I dunno, it's been taking me "there" all week, though. It also led me back to Blue Control's "Local Flavor", which sounded great in the car this week during Atlanta's way premature springtime.

Psychic Paramount II is relentless. Like I gotta get some air after listening to it straight through. This Heat guitars with a drummer who sounds like he's auditioning for Mahavishnu Orchestra.

otm

"This Heat guitars with a drummer who sounds like he's auditioning for Mahavishnu Orchestra."

I.e., totally righteous. Hope I get to see them live sometime soon.

Would The Skull Defekts belong to this thread? Their new release Peer Amid has set my world on fire. I am investing in their other albums for starters.

I really really really really really really really really like that Motion Sickness of Time Travel EP, definitely one of my favorite records of the year so far.

also mad props to Brad at Digitalis for literally tracking my lost copy down and bribing some dude in Alabama to send it my way

Blues Control Local Flavor kind of casting a shadow over all related scenes. That's a monster right there. My TT has been broke down for about a month but I just got a new one, literally, tonight and may set it up and dig into some stuff discussed here that I've missed (Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Peaking Lights). Already a pretty great year.

I guess this is the spot to mention that I saw Samara Lubelski/Marcia Bassett duo last week and it was very good, all kinds of noisy/harsh but v. hypnotic. Tom Carter/Marc Orleans new duo played as well, tore the place up. Pete Nolan was supposed to be on drums but canceled, didn't recognize the drummer. First jam was tentative but solid, second one was out of control. I think they have a record coming out eventually on Northern Spy. Pretty psyched for that one possibly.

yeah, blues control are definitely a fave of mine. I like that they don't flood the market like a lot of these bands too... but I could use some new blues control already.

No More Always - The Skull Defekts . Just Listened to this 16 times in a row and decided that they are too good for this shithole. Hallehluhfuckingwah!

@__@

I want to hear that Skull Defekts joint. I'm kinda surprised how much stuff comes out on Thrill Jockey(and Kranky) these days that are things I'd be into. If you woulda told me that 10 years ago, I'd have thought you were nuts.

i know you guys were talking about the Psychic Paramount album a while ago but it's so fucking good. like right in my wheelhouse.

yeah it's rad! it's funny, when the "post-rock" thing was big in the late 90s i couldn't really stand most of it -- but you introduce a some psychedelia into the mix and it's like my favorite thing.

I'm kind of worried about the next Blues Control album to be honest...hopefully it was not lightning in a bottle

well considering the s/t album and Puff are also great, i'd say they've "got it"

feeling the Eternal Tapestry album-- definitely slowed down, very pretty at times

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QWKJJ2DFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Loving this...

Konx-Om-Pax – Light In Extension [Display Copy]

http://boomkat.com/cds/378948-konx-om-pax-light-in-extension

It usualy takes me a little while to enjoy some of this stuff, but I'm hooked right off the bat here. Really enjoying the Peaking Lights album on Not Not Fun its got to be the best release I've heard from NNF in a while not that I've heard them all like...

How about some Ekoplekz: http://electronicexplorations.org/the-show/146-ekoplekz/ He's got a new tape out on Mordant Music right now and its sounding fresh. Loved his 12" on Punch Drunk last year. Anyone else feeling it?

The new Peaking Lights is on constant rotation. That and the new Lumerians. Have you heard this yet? http://verma.bandcamp.com/

thanks for the Verma tip, this is kicking ass.

Did a search and it looks like last year's Big Blood album, Dead Songs, didn't get a mention in last year's thread (I'm just getting around to hearing it myself) so I'll call your attention to it now. It's their first "proper" full-length after a long series of self-released cdrs and it's magnificent. If you don't know, Big Blood is Caleb and Colleen from Cerberus Shoal (and many related projects) and they kick ass.

Here's a fan made video for "Dead Song" (probably NSFW - boobies are bared):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWs3MFoXjik

I saw Woodsman last night. Drumming was absolutely top notch, tho guitar was a lil lackluster. Two dudes and no bass player, and it was just a lot of drone w/ spacey effects.

The taller guitar player was a real nice dude tho.. conversationally, I just asked how much their LPs were going for and he goes $12.50. I wasn't planning on buying one but I go "Bummer, I only $5" (I really only do) and dude hooks me up anyway. It's pretty rad so far, playing it as I type this.

I wrote about Eternal Tapestry's new one in a bit more depth here

my pals nick and ted at feeding tube records have some hotttt shows coming up if you are in the area or vicinity of northampton, mass this spring:

Mar 19th - Silk Flowers, Clinical Piss, more tba.....
Mar 25th - Dust Savior, Home Body, Cinnamon Urns
Mar 26th day - Brown Bird, Tiger Saw (3pm day time show!)
...Mar 26th nite - Slasher Risk, Dead Line Connector. "Reduce, Re-use, Repeat As Necessary":new paintings and Sculptures by Mike Barrett. Art opening 7-9, music after
Mar 29th - Andrew Coltrane, Tar Pit, Diagram A, Noise Nomads
Apr 2nd - Wet Hair, Blanche Blanche Blanche, Sore Eros
Apr 4th - MV/EE with Mick Flower and Willie Lane
April 7th - Michael Morley/C. Spencer Yeh/Meg Clixby, Dredd Foole/Chris Corsano, Dylan Nyoukis/Angela Sawyer/Id M Theft Able, Matt Krefting
Apr 13th - Dolphins Into The Future, Floris Van Hoof, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Mushmouth
Jun 14th - U.S. Girls, Noveller, Ruth Garbus
Jun 26th - Jabon (Scott Colburn)
June 30th - Sediment Club, Orie Mars Orie See More

Jabon!!! He hasn't played under that name in years iirc

i think i saw him play a house show under that name a month or so ago.

Oh - I guess if figures more in 'garage' genre (what is the current 'garage' thread on ilx?) - but I'm pretty stoked to be seeing Ty Segall tonight in Chicago ... 'Melted' was one of my fave releases last year ...

there's this

Rolling punk / non-indie underground / pitchfork GTFO thread 2011

You can stream the entire new Rene Hell here:

http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2011/03/15/test-pressing-stream-rene-hells-first-two-proper-full-lengths-the-terminal-symphony-and-porcelain-opera/

only my first listen but I think that I prefer the last rene hell album to this one. mellower but also more scattershot and surprising. but wow, the closer on the new one is gorgeous. very nice slow-mo strings action. riyl stars of the lid.

Would The Psychic Paramount's new album fit in here? It is loud, droney and mindblowing. I would imagine they do a good live show. It sounds like Ash Ra Tempel/Lightning Bolt.

^^ still need to hear this, waaaanntt

Discussion of Psychic Paramount just a little upthread. I need to buy it.

psychic paramount and liturgy albums are the big ones I'm really interested in hearing right now...maybe deerhoof vs. evil too

i've heard Liturgy and it's fucking fantastic. deerhoof album was a disappointment imo, but i've never been a huge fan

i don't think there is a rolling experimental electronic and percussion thread, but i saw Tumble tonight and they were very cool. and they are playing in boston on friday. um, if you happen to be near there for some reason...

Tumble
with Mark Cetilia

Spectacle
17 Edinboro Street #3
Boston (Chinatown)
617.435.2566
8 p.m. / $10

TUMBLE is the duo of Attila Faravelli (laptop and electronics) and Andrea Belfi (percussion and electronics) from Milan, Italy. Belfi and Faravelli create sound worlds through instant composition and improvisation. The results of this compositional process is somehow simultaneously chaotic and rational. The rhythms and textures created by drums and electroacoustic devices melt together to create volcanic movements of sound that are diffused through broken and modified speakers. Their first recording, On Tumbling, was released as a part of the 12-CD box set Musica Improvvisa on Die Schachtel this past year.

i bought their new cd and some solo stuff. the new cd is part of a box set that looks very cool. would love to hear it.

various / die schachtel - Musica Improvvisa
A unique survey of Italy's improvised music scene, this immense boxset features ten full-length discs of experimental sounds from ten different improv groups spread right across the country, plus a further DVD of visual scores from one of the bands (Xubuxue). Each CD gets its own individual sleeve, which along with a 24-page booklet and a poster slot into a sturdy cardboard holder. Sifting through this huge project would probably take over the rest of your summer, but even the most fleeting scan through the set reveals some real gems and a consistently high standard throughout (as you'll by now have come to expect from Die Schachtel). Furthermore, this is far from being a single-minded trudge through any one particular musical style. While the various components of Musica Improvvisa are united in their pursuit of extremes and the outer limits of the avant-garde, there's a great diversity to the collection; expect to encounter a wide variety of sound sources, from classical and jazz instrumentation through to computer-driven sonorities. For your reference, here's a list of the groups lined up on this fabulously exhausting boxset, in alphabetical order: A Spirale, Amp2, Amuleto, An Experiment In Navigation, Ligatura, Ossatura, Thau, Tumble, Wintermute and Xubuxue.

hey scott -- i just wanted to tell you that that was an awesome review you gave my friend Raub's album.

raub is a nice guy. i was just talking about him the other day.

or he was nice when i met him anyway. i don't really know him. he is a friend of friends and he used to live around here.

Great to see Bee Mask's 'Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico' getting a vinyl release on John Elliott from Emeralds' new Editions Mego imprint: http://www.editionsmego.com/spectrum-spools-release/SP+002

I'm way behind all you guys (maybe I should keep up with the thread) but this is really excellent. I think what sets it apart from a lot of drone/synth/whatever is the sense of narrative - rather than everything just floating in space it feels like some sort of dream travelogue.

Fabric - A Sort of Radiance is the other Spectrum Spools release so far, it's also great but closer to standard Emeralds operating procedure.

gonna be a good show at the store in april. flaming dragons and more to be announced. everyone come out to greenfield, ya hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3FrnAASFk

Fabric - A Sort of Radiance is the other Spectrum Spools release so far, it's also great but closer to standard Emeralds operating procedure.

― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:39 AM (4 days ago)

This Fabric release is phenomenal.

*******

Also, the Red Electric Rainbow album Dark Days (on Aguirre) is great sonic drone synth music. Not far off from Emeralds as well. It's definitely one of my favorite releases this year. Highly recommended.

http://www.aguirrecords.com/Shop/image/cache/data/red4%20SMALL-500x500.jpg

the Niggas With Guitars lp on Digitalis is pretty cool. Not sure about the name.

Here's a review:
Heavily engaged mission music from the mysterious sect of Niggas With Guitars, coming correct with a stunningly evocative debut vinyl for Digitalis. In the vein of Dylan Ettinger's 'New Age Outlaws' or Leyland Kirby's muddled memories, 'Ethnic Frenzy' is a vivid internal soundtrack for hypnagogic dreamers, warping the memes of Vangelis or Carpenter in much the same way Pat Maher's DJ YoYo Dieting did to DJ Screw or Indignant Senility to Wagner. Cruising in to the A-side we're slowly immersed in smoked-out and sludgy choral drones punctuated with fractured gasps of drum machine reminding of the 1st Chasing Voices 12", before we reach the bottom and everything becomes blissed out and stargazing with a soulful slopped and screwed ending. The second side is more unresolved, amping the drama with a weirdly affecting orchestral synth score before tipping over the edge into paranoid, muffled voices while clammy Italian horror hooks give a dank atmosphere and we're dumped from the boot to blunted back alley 808s. Check the samples for yourself, but we should stress that spending a bit of time with this record is a memorable experience.

http://zeneffects.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/nwg-dsqblg.jpeg

Really digging the new Eternal Tapestry. Those stately tempos remind me of Parson Sound/Harvester and that is a wonderful thing. Glad I ignored the coupla "meh" reviews I read and trusted youse guys.

Is Mouthus still around? I've been listening to "Slow Globes" a little lately; those guys were really onto something with that album (and "Saw a Halo")and all the sudden the deluge dried up. Cough syrup rock! Am I the only guy who feels a bit nostalgic for the psych/noise of the mid-aughts?

Excited for new Religious Knives on Sacred Bones on 4/26. Disappointed that they're not on a major label anymore.

I had a moment this weekend with the Terracid track from the Wailing Bones volume 2 cdr on Foxglove.
I got pretty burned out on mid-aughts psych drone, tbh, but everyone once in a while it can still zap me right between the eyes.

I had to google Terracid to remember that I have something by him ("Evacuation of Earth"?). I like it, though my memories of it are a bit vague. It really was easy to get burnt out on all that shit coming out on cd-r's on teeny-tiny labels back then. Reading overheated descriptions about stuff on Volcanic Tongue was when I decided to bail out.

was just the other day thinking the same thing abt mouthus (ie what happened to 'em). Saw a live a cpl of times round abt 2005/6 and they were stunning both times - within the prescribed parameters of noise-psych-rock whatevs, they were def doing something a bit different, even original

i loved the first religious knives comp but didn't really dig their subsequent alt rock moves/sounds (thought the vox were a big mistake)

this got posted in rolling punk but prolly belongs here

lew from wild america (RIP) has a new tape, its like acoustic bedroom psych, not at all what i expected but i kinda dig it

http://www.noothhing.org/

― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, March 25, 2011 4:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this one too! they're on some kinda american shoegaze tip

New Broken Water EP streaming here: http://brokenwatermusic.bandcamp.com/

And on vinyl here: http://perennialdeath.com/

Perennial have also re-pressed Whet with new artwork.

― Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, March 28, 2011 10:05 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Just heard the word not four minutes ago that Magnog have reunited.

what the world has been waiting for...

I am the world so yes. :-D (My supposition is perhaps biased.)

i liked them enough to hold on to that double album, so that says something. my 90's collection of vinyl is very small.

oh cool i love those guys!!!

bill nace has been putting on thursday night shows in northampton and they always look really cool, but i usually never know who the hell anyone is. i'm out of it. this thursday:

EL-G
Jenny Graf Bibula
Slaughterhouse Percussion
Moon Unit

Pretty sure Moon Unit is Psychedelic Steve from Plastic Crimewave plus one.
Could be wrong.

There's a Moon Unit from Glasgow, with members of Nackt Insecten, & a release on Blackest Rainbow, but this is the kind of band name where there could be a few different ones.

iirc someone on ilm was putting out releases by the british moon unit? they're pretty good anyway.

i missed the blood stereo show on sunday. too much going on. but i did want to see that. them and thurston/bill, um, lots of other people. oh well. they are playing in albany tonight. not that that probably does anyone any good here.

This Woven Music record by Shinji Masuko (from the Boredoms) is real blissed out and very psychedelic.
Sort of reminds me of Super Roots 5 in it's approach, but the results are more serene and meditative instead of just completely overpowering.

get yer freak on tomorrow night:

Tomorrow nite at Elevens (140 pleasant street northampton)

Demolished Thoughts
(t. moore, j. moloney, k. wood)

TARP

Horsebladder

dj sets by Bill Nace, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky

music will start at 10 15

see you there

Anyone heard the new Mountains album yet? I've heard just one track - sounds like they've ditched the Stars of the Lid guitar ambient thing and opted for synths/kosmiche. Either way it sounds good and I'm excited to hear the whole thing.

sounds like they've ditched the Stars of the Lid guitar ambient thing and opted for synths/kosmiche

sounds like the trajectory of pretty much every 'post rock' or 'psych drone' band right now. Who woulda guessed it - John Carpenter, noise dood legend?

sounds like the trajectory of pretty much every 'post rock' or 'psych drone' band right now.

True. I would be mildly disappointed that they're jumping on the bandwagon, except that I'm really into that particular bandwagon at the moment.

new sea and cake album has total chillwave moments on it.

sorta.

I'm really into that particular bandwagon at the moment.

^_^

Anyone heard the new Mountains album yet? I've heard just one track - sounds like they've ditched the Stars of the Lid guitar ambient thing and opted for synths/kosmiche. Either way it sounds good and I'm excited to hear the whole thing.

this is otm, i thought it was kinda zzzzz though. not bad, just not exceptional. but i need to listen again. i was in 90 degree texas sun about 20 miles/4 hours into a run when i played it before. not exactly ideal.

Loving the Great Society Mind Destroyers cassette:

http://gsmd.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-smoke

Divinorum is available for free download.

just got word of a Sun Araw + Eternal Tapestry collaboration, psyched

Huh. Etap dudes sat in with Sun Araw at the house here a couple months back. Went pretty good.

Oh wait, no. High Wolf. Nmind.

The friendship of Eternal Tapestry and Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones goes back to the Not Not Fun curated Neon Commune Fest, January 2007 at the much loved, and missed, Echo Curio in Eagle Rock, LA. Eternal Tapestry shared the second night's bill with Cameron's old band Magic Lantern (Barn Owl and Pocahaunted rounded out the night's festivities!), and the two psych crews hit it off immediately. LA shows were played together every time Eternal Tapestry made it south. Fast forward to Austin, TX for SXSW 2010 when Eternal Tapestry shared a bizarre afternoon parking lot gig with Sun Araw. The Tapestry had a live broadcast in-studio session lined up on KVRX student radio that night, and in true Tapestry fashion they invited their buddy Cameron to join in.

The session took place in a large TV studio on the UT campus, with the band setting up in a big circle. The line-up was Dewey Mahood and Nick Bindeman on guitars, Jed Bindeman on drums, Ryan Carlile on tenor sax, Yoni Kifle on bass, and Cameron Stallones on keyboard and trademark flute. After a brief discussion of mood, the six musicians improvised together for 45 minutes continuously. The music is heard as played that evening - no overdubs, and only a few edits to create a four section suite for the LP release. The piece is titled Night Gallery, in homage to the surreal early 1970's TV show produced by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame. It was this program that the six musicians fell asleep to, and woke up with, during their five day stay in Austin.

the UT campus: breeding ground for the no-wave bands of the future.

egg eggs in the store the other night. rare video footage of me on ilx while they play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKDHlpq4vXs&feature=youtu.be

Just wanted to say, in this thread, that the Follakzoid ep on Sacred Bones is pretty great. Neu! and stuff.

I loved Pulse Emitter's Spiritual Vistas but his new one (Forest, Mountain, Valley) on Tranquility Tapes is something else...

http://soundcloud.com/darylgroetsch

omg that totally reminds me -

http://www.hos.com/#about

they still exist!

Yeah, the new pulse emitter tape is really something. Was listening to an older cd-r and it was pleasant but the difference between that an the newer material is pretty night and day. Excess fat has been trimmed, the tempos have slowed, and it all just feels much less improvised and I couldn't be happier
. Every sound just where it should be.

http://soundcloud.com/le-revelateur/arco-naturale

not 2011 but the Riley-isms of Le Révélateur are hitting my psychedelic sweet-spot at the moment.

anyone heard of a group called 'paperhead' from nashville? very 60s sound with some really nice organ/synth

Yeah I've been digging their lp a lot lately..

Their debut didn't ring my bell as much as I thought it would, but still pretty good.

Promoters in this town need their heads banging together imo:

> julian cope tue 18th oct concorde £19.00
> bardo pond tue 18th oct hector’s house £ 9.50
> circle tue 18th oct green door store £8.50

yeah didn't the clean play at the free butt for 4 quid just last year? whats gone wrong?

oh hang on. wrong end of the stick.

You're right though, the prices have gone slightly daft too. Last time I saw Bardo Pond here, there was only a handful of folks. Guessing it might be less this time what with the Finnish competition. Have no idea what sort of a following they have in the UK these days though.

Circle is the obvious choice there IMO. Not really a tough decision at all.

I know right? Poor the Bardo Pond.

yeah, circle are one of my favorite live bands.

I heard Bardo Pond is amazing live?

Currently loving the new Primordial Undermind LP Last Worldly Bond, off to see them tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0zFNIyp3kE

new Primordial Undermind album ????!!!

if Paik comes out with a new album will someone please tell me?

new Primordial Undermind album ????!!!

oh aye, been out a few months. they are based in Vienna now (where I live).

I heard Bardo Pond is amazing live?

aye!

Bardo Pons was completely amazing live last time I saw them, unfortunately that was 1999, so I can't speak as to the last ten years.

Speaking of stuff that's really old, here's The Roswell Incident (me and Elvis Telecom, live samples from Mr. Mackro and a couple guests.)

http://theroswellincident.bandcamp.com/

Recorded in 1996. There may be some more forthcoming. Mostly put this up on as a lark.

No, I haven't been around in awhile. I'll see if I can fix that.

"Bardo Pons" Heh. That might me a mislogism worth keeping.

Seen Bardo Pond a ton of times, only been less than amazing once.

enjoying the new Night Beats album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxhjMIHO0w8

also Wooden Shjips' West, but everyone knows about them.

Missed all the Bardo Pond and Roswell talk but yes to all of it. And Primordial as well.

And since Ned has mentioned it, the lost TRANSANTARCTIC by The Roswell Incident was just posted to their bandcamp page. Snag it while it's free. Link's just a couple entries above.

This new Locrian record - is the first song supposed to be 8 minutes of fierce hiss or is it just a Spotify glitch?

Must be a Spotify fail. There's a lot of intentional hiss on the other three tracks but not much on the first one. Just lots of guitar, drums and chanting, suitable to conjure the deity of your choice.

Gentle nudge to Ned for a 2012 thread...

It wouldn't feel right starting one myself!

did anyone start a new thread for the new year? Because Austin Psychfest lineup is a corker this year (as always).

I dont think so...? I think someone has talked about it here though recently.

Where's Ned when you need him?

Save us Neddy Fever!

Does this cover the same ground?

Rolling Stoner/Psych/Doom/Sludge/Retro/Drone/Space Thread 2012

lol