Om - Cremation Ghat I

Iam really into Om at the moment, i love there tibetan chanting-esqe sounds.

Woodstock

This performance is insane, in particular the drum solo by Michael Shrieve. Wow!

Rotary Connection.

Heard I am the Black Gold of the Sun on a Chess compilation years ago and flipped. Chicago based psychedelic soul feat. the divine Minnie Ripperton. Forget the amateur youtube collages...close the screen and turn this up. Love.

The Books

The Books will be playing the John Curtin on the 14th and 15th January. Come!

http://www.johncurtinhotel.com/
http://www.thebooksmusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thebooksmusicpage

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.

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.

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

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

Kirin J. Callinan

Bowie and Burroughs

Plucked from a 1974 article in Rolling Stone entitled Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman. Two very unconventional minds of the era. Read it here.

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes

"Catherine Ribeiro is possibly the most unique voice in French rock. Often referred as the French Nico, her Portuguese origins are responsible of the unique character of her voice." French psych/folk from the 60s/70s, Magnifique!
Thanks Sam.

CAN - Paperhouse

Couldnt hold off any longer, this is mind blowing.
I think i was mistakenly born into the wrong time period.

Lauren Dukoff - Family

For many years, Lauren Dukoff has been photographing close friend and musician Devendra Banhart and an extended, loose-knit international family of artists who share inspiration variously from folk, Tropicalia, and each other, as well as a range of other musical influences. FAMILY is a collection of Dukoff's striking portraits and candid images of Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Bat for Lashes, Feathers, Espers, Vetiver, Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan, and many others individually and together, in performance and more private spaces.

The book features a soundtrack with artists such as: Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Kevin Barker, Ruthann Friedman & Vashti Bunyan. To find out more and purchase the book click here

Devendra Banhart has also released some tour dates in anticipation of his new album coming out later this year.

New Wave

There is no such thing as New Wave from luze duze on Vimeo.

Ash Ra Tempel

"Ash Ra Tempel (also known as Ashra) are a German Krautrock group of the 1970s, and are an example of cosmic or space rock." (WIKI)

'I dreamt i was on a shuttle gearing for take off, countdown to 0, force of the rockets propel me upward, my arms starting to swell, face quashed into my seat. Then silence, the vacuum of space encompassing all, i look down at the earth hanging, floating below me.'
This song sums up that dream to a tee.

Parisian Goldfish

Psychedelic? Yes. Flying Lotus is on another trip. Directed by Eric Wareheim in conjunction with Warp Records. Make up your own mind.