From the big fucking apple known as New York comes these doods. Had a little too much weed maybe? Well, maybe they fell in the sea of acid as kids I dunno. But, this is some seriously damn hot psyche stuff. Music for the mind ...
Some completely weird and freaked out psychedelig music from a guy called Jesse Rakusin living in Santa Cruz in California. I like it a lot and just ordered everything possible from the sparce info on his MySpace site. He also runs a blog like this with mostly Youtube clips of almost everything. Anyway, go check this strange dude out. For those about to fuzz ...
Ahymsa is a well kept secret from London. They play a musical blend of progressive hardrock, psychedelic stoner and acidfolk. Very varied and with a retro feel you don’t hear from that many bands even though many tries. The record starts out with some chilled piano intro turning into a hard-hitting riff-o-rama and from there the music constantly progresses with elements of both late ‘60s heavy acid rock and early ‘70s hardrock leaving you breathless because the tempo is mostly in the fast lane. “Astra” is a song that starts out as a complete acid trip with drone pipe and percussion but ends in a short burst of ‘70s metal. Closing song “Life in the Sand” incorporates both heavy riffing and slow psyched out passages and ends as the record starts with a piano outro. This recording is from ’06 but the band is soon releasing a new demo and states that their sound has progressed! Wow, if one progress further from this it’s gonna be fantastic. The only minor weak point to me is the production of the vocals that seems a bit sloppy concerning the apparently dubbed backing vocal, but the singing in itself is marvelous and taken directly from ancient times.
This time it's a bit more strange and not desert rock! Garcia appears on the tracks: "Not a Man" and "Diggin a Hole"
There's maybe thausands of net radio stations out there. I even think about buying one of those internet recievers. Anyway, this is Radio T.R.I.P. and they have a broadcast of ALiX from the Giovinazzo Rock Festival here >>
Well, if so you can listen to Waxy out of the very, very true desert. They have Garcia, Mundell and Gary Arce joining them on the track "White Walls". Interesting new name on the evergrowing scene of desert rock.
Italian groove rockers ALiX is a pretty new band to me. I only recently discovered their ’04 album “Ground” but I was hit right between my eyes by that. At that time they played pretty tight stonerrock with a nice twist of steel guitar and a magnificent female vocal with a twist of ‘60’s psyche. I’ve been looking forward to this new album because of the band itself but also because it was to be produced by Steve Albini!
You can get the new Baby Woodrose song "Comin Around Again" for free by following this link >>
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