Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

The new Yeasayer video for Ambling alp, for their upcoming second LP "Odd Blood" is deliciously strange, not to sure of the song as yet, we saw these guys play at the Guggenheim in NY recently and there direction has changed a lot since "All Hour Cymbals" but I am still hopeful.
Oh and please check out the guys that directed the clip Radical Friend, their website is the best....ever.

Gerry.

Respect thy elderrrr gents..
..Gerry would.

Gerry Wedd. ..Timeless
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Psychedelic Mixed Bag

Music i have been listening to recently, it might take a while to get through, but the rewards are well worth the time in my opinion. Some of it may be familiar others are more obscure.

CAN - Needs no introduction, just some footage of some repetitious grooves that i hadn't yet heard. (post 1 + 2)

German Oak - Summer of 72, 5-man Düsseldorf instrumental group German Oak entered the Luftschutzbunker (Air Raid Shelter) studio to record their first, eponymous album. The purpose of recording in a bunker was to recreate the feelings experienced by German soldiers during the Allied invasion of 1944. The strange acoustic conditions in the bunker made the music, which was a series of long, spacious guitar jams, sound distant and filled with echo. (post 3 + 4)

Current 93 - are an eclectic British Experimental Music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musicalforms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet (né David Michael Bunting, renamed 'Tibet' by Genesis P Orridge sometime prior to forming the group).

Strawberry Alarm Clock - One of my favorite SAC songs, incense and peppermints off the album off the same name.

Comus - Very beautiful psych-folk band, we played this album non stop whilst driving the Big Sur in California on our recent trip. The song is called Song to Comus.

Brainticket - Black Sand, this one just makes me loose my mind. In a good way.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Another very poppy one, but very cool feel to this band.

Oh and the first image is the band Comus.
Good Luck.

Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna is a philosopher, psychonaut, ethno botanist and art historian amongst many other things. It's rare to find an individual so humble and so full of knowledge, yet even rarer to find one whom can articulate an abundant ocean of cosmic knowledge as well as Terence can. His level playing field approach towards educating the public on the wondrous world of psychedelics is truly something to marvel. If you haven’t already, do some research on this man. Big love Terence!

Lisa Solberg

For more of lisa's work click here.

William Gedney

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SSIN

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Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston has spent the last 20 or so years exposing his heartrending tales of unrequited love, cosmic mishaps, and existential torment to an ever-growing international cult audience. Initiates, including a healthy number of discerning musicians and critics, have hailed him as an American original in the style of bluesman Robert Johnson and country legend Hank Williams. A number of artists -- among them the Dead Milkmen, Yo La Tengo, the Velvet Underground's songs. And he as collaborated with the likes of Jad Fair (a founding member of Half Japanese, who've also done Daniel's songs), the Butthole Surfers, Bongwater/Shimmydisc guru Kramer, and members of Sonic Youth. Daniel gained his widest public exposure to date when, at the 1992 MTV Music Awards, Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain (who constantly touted Daniel in interviews) wore a Johnston T-shirt.

Daniel Johnston will be playing the St Jeromes Laneway Festival
Watch the film "The Devil and Daniel Johnston"
www.hihowareyou.com

Stephan Balleux

My favourtie artist since I saw his paintings at Wardlow in Fitzroy earlier this year.
Take a look see at his website for inspiration here

Erika Somogyi

Erika Somogyi

Free Radicals

Free Radicals is a short animated film by artist and experimental film maker Len Lye.

Lye often painted, scratched, stencilled and even cut holes in film, composing motion and colour to extraordinary effect. In this particular video, Lye directly scratched the film stock, with the resulting "figures of motion" set to music of the Bagirmi tribe of Africa.

To see more of his work go here

Mixtape.

Mati Klarwein

Mati Klarwein is best known for his artwork for the likes of Santana and Miles Davis, but much of his work is unknown,.
I find myself staring transfixed at his paintings searching for the true meaning amongst the mass of colour, symbols and gestures.

Have a look here.

Ghostland Observatory - Dancing to Vibrate

Funky moves.

free your mind and your ass will follow