Roadburn playlist: August (Walter)

Obviously, we need good music on the stereo while we are busy putting together the 2010 edition of the festival. Be on the lookout for updates from time to time on what’s spinning on the Roadburn turntable, CD player and Winamp player (And if you are on Last.fm, come join us here).

This is Walter’s (Roadburn’s promoter / artistic director’s) playlist for August 2009. Please share your personal Top 5 in the comments box below.

The Devil’s Blood - Come Reap (CD / EP Van Records)
Listening to the fantastic occult horror rock sounds of Holland’s very own The Devil’s Blood makes you realize that the psychedelic era (i.e the late 60s / early 70s) was as much about Roky Erikson, Anthony LaVey and The Manson Family as it was about free love, substance abuse and flipped out hippies.

Personally I can’t wait for the highly-anticipated debut album, called The Time of No Time Evermore (scheduled for September the eleventh of two thousand and nine through Van Records), coz I was treated to a sneak preview of the entire album and I was heavily impressed!

Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem One (CD / LP Conspiracy Records)
My ears are still ringing from the heavy, cosmic maelstroms waged by Master Musicians of Bukkake at this year’s Supersonic festival. The band excels at acoustic ethnic drones, outerwordly chants, and ventures into uncharted Hawkwind, Gong and Magma waters by pairing spacey guitar leanings, Tibetan bells, chimes and gamelan percussion with electronic FX. Totem One could easily be the soundtrack to a fucked-up underground movie as weird and compelling as Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain or El Topo. Crazy!

Quest For Fire – S/T (CD / LP – TeePee Records)
Toronto’s Quest For Fire are on TeePee Records (instant cred) and play a dirty, full-blown fuzzed-out mix of classic rock and amphetamine-fueled garage-acid-psychedelica, conjuring up images of Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising as well as molten lava. Quest for Fire are definitely one of the best new bands to appear on the heavy psych rock scene.

Amber Asylum -  Bitter River (CD – Profound Lore)
Intimate, lush, neo-classical drones by this modern-day chamber music act led by the enigmatic multi-instrumentalist and singer Kris Force. Amber Asylum’s haunting and introspective overall vibe, firmly rooted in classical music as well as sporting some post rock influences, is bound to appeal to fans of Sunn o))) and Bohren und der Club of Gore.

Astra – The Weirding (CD / LP Rise Above Records)
Majestic psychedelic prog rock by this American band on Rise Above Records. Believe it or not, San Diego’s Astra isn’t some obscure band from the early 70s finally getting their due, and The Weirding wasn’t excavated from any long-lost archives. Although it could arguably pass as a prized relic from another era, this cosmic album was released earlier this year.

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