Posts Tagged ‘heavy psych’

Album of the day: Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem One

Posted on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem One

Lovingly pinched from Obsidian Grave: Sun City Girls fans! Drone-doom freaks! Here’s your unlikely crossover dream come true, kind of. A psychedelically heavy (sometimes) and always eerily exotic new album on the Conspiracy label from this band with the wise ass faux-ethnic name .

Now including members of Earth and Burning Witch amongst their ranks, and once again boasting cameo appearances from folks belonging to the Sun City Girls and Secret Chiefs 3, this is exactly what we might have expected from this project. Acoustic ethnic instrument buzz and drone meets guitars-leaning-on-amps buzz and drone.

Continue reading: OBSIDIAN GRAVE: MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE -Totem One (Conspiracy).

Tags: album of the day, earth, Grails, heavy psych, master musicians of bukkake, Obsidian Grave, psychedelica, Randall Dunn, Sun City Girls, Totem One
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Foxy Digitalis Interviews EXPO 70

Posted on Monday, January 4th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Foxy Digitalis: What can one say about Expo ’70 that hasn’t been said before? With each release Justin Wright’s continuously evolving space/kraut/drone project continues to garner more praise, making each new release a must grab for fans of experimental and psychedelic music. Apparently Justin thought it was ...read more

Riply of Wooden Shjips gets his thing together with Moon Duo

Posted on Monday, January 4th, 2010

You may have already heard of Moon Duo from their Christmas only download of Silver Bells (get it here).  But are you ready for the seven-minute-dense ghostly, psychedelic street tuff fog of Stumbling 22nd St? We weren’t. It’s ace. Maybe Riply’s mooted move to Detroit is making more sense (as ...read more

Album of the day: Sun Araw – Heavy Deeds

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Tiny Mix Tapes: Cameron Stallones has a very mystical way of discussing his craft. In a July interview with TMT, the man behind Sun Araw used a syntax seldom heard from other musicians. Building “resonant fields,” establishing a “language,” and “speaking the word,” Cameron Stallones and his ...read more

Album of the day: High Tide – Sea Shanties

Posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from The Ripple Effect: Imagine if you will the unholy bastard child of the Doors psychedelica and early Sabbath heaviness with an electric violin tire-ironed into the mix in the place of Ray Manzarek’s organ. Now if that sounds a little hard to put your finger on, imagine ...read more

Album of the day: SubArachnoid Space – Eight bells

Posted on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Lovingly pinched from OregonLive.com: Call it what you will — a trip, a trance, a journey — but heavy instrumental four-piece SubArachnoid Space soundtracks the superconscious, with all the breadth of wonderment and horror between sleep and wake and between Dali paintings and Cortazar stories. Guitarist Melynda Jackson moved the ...read more

Naam: a taste of full-length LP available for streaming

Posted on Saturday, August 29th, 2009

A new Naam track, ‘Skyling Slip’ is available at this location (courtesy of BrooklynVegan). ‘Skyling Slip’ comes off the Brooklyn, New York  group’s self-titled debut album, which is scheduled for release on October 20 via TeePee Records. According to BrooklynVegan, “Naam has gigged quite a bit around New York, logging ...read more

Lightning Bolt: Earthly Delights details revealed; new track posted online

Posted on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Lightning Bolt will release their new album, entitled Earthly Delights, on November 13 via Load. “It’s destined to be leaked onto the internet by……hmmm. Take a guess, maybe August 31? Early September?”, according to a blog on their myspace page. ‘Colossus’, the first attack from Lightning Bolt’s highly anticipated new ...read more

We need more records: The best of US heavy psychedelica

Posted on Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Are you as obsessed with the heavy Seventies as we are? You have to check out Dyvelsten’s Youtube channel. This guy has posted some very cool and obscure underground rock and psychedelica from the late Sixties /early Seventies. Warning: it’s enough to induce a serious case of record collection envy! ...read more

Album of the day: Sleepy Sun – Embrace

Posted on Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Clash Music: Sleepy Sun follow in the line of recent musical luminaries to break free from the parochial mystique of Santa Cruz in the last decade, including Comets On Fire, Devil Makes Three and Mammatus. Now San Francisco-based, they here present eight tracks of breathtaking psychedelic and ...read more