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.

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