psychedelia
The Amazing World of MC Escher, Dulwich Picture GalleryTuesday, 08 December 2015
Walls that are floors, floors that are walls, and stairs that go up to go down: in the brain-befuddling art of MC Escher (1898-1972) the mundane everyday meets a world of paradox in which the rules of gravity, space and material reality are thrown... Read more... |
CD: Syracuse - Liquid Silver DreamMonday, 02 November 2015
There's a current running through the underground club / electronic music of the 2010s that cares not a jot for progress – but neither is it retro as such. It's been called “outsider house”, which is a pretty lame name for stuff that is often... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: LevitationSunday, 01 November 2015
Levitation: Meanwhile GardensIf Meanwhile Gardens had been issued as it was meant to be in 1993, it would not have had an easy ride. The band itself was falling apart. Founder member and former House of Love guitarist Terry Bickers had said on stage... Read more... |
Psychedelic Britannia, BBC FourSaturday, 24 October 2015
As part of BBC4’s continued course of musical regression therapy, we revisited a time of wide-eyed innocence, when ideas were big and pupils even bigger. The Sixties had swung and now they were set to start spinning as people looked to the past for... Read more... |
CD: Hawklords - R:EvolutionWednesday, 14 October 2015
Hawklords were one of the first splinter groups from late Seventies Hawkwind, when Dave Brock and Robert Calvert were joined by bassist Harvey Bainbridge, Pilot’s Steve Swindells and drummer Martin Griffin for a short-lived but brilliant... Read more... |
CD: Dungen - Allas SakMonday, 28 September 2015
From its title-track opening cut to the final moments of its closer “Sova”, Allas Sak is recognisably a Dungen album. The musical dynamic between the Swedish quartet’s members and their collective sound is so distinctive that they effectively... Read more... |
CD: Sexwitch - SexwitchSaturday, 19 September 2015
Natasha Khan has taken a fascinating trajectory through the music world. As Bat For Lashes she first came to public attention as part of an early-2000s wave of psychedelia, allied in particular to the furry starchild Devendra Banhart. But her high... Read more... |
CD: Hills - FridTuesday, 25 August 2015
In a way that is reminiscent of fellow Swedes and label mates Goat, Hills play a primal psychedelia that draws from a far broader spectrum of sounds than the usual garage rock and motorik grooves of their British and American fellow travellers. On... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Julian CopeSunday, 23 August 2015
Julian Cope: World Shut Your Mouth, FriedIt’s a fair assumption Julian Cope’s record label Phonogram was committed to the idea that he could be a solo commercial and critical success. Teardrop Explodes, the band he had fronted, had charted and his... Read more... |
Aquarius, Sky AtlanticWednesday, 12 August 2015
"This ain't the Summer of Love," sang Blue Oyster Cult in 1975. Judging by this intriguing new drama, it might not really have been the Summer of Love in 1967 either, as David Duchovny's Detective Sam Hodiak picks his way through the dope and the... Read more... |
CD: 10.000 Russos - 10.000 RussosWednesday, 29 July 2015
There is something strange happening in mainland Europe at the moment. Perhaps this has been spurred on by a feeling that the old certainties of the past aren’t quite so solid, but a mind-expanding psychedelia with an eye for the dance-floor and... Read more... |
CD: Tame Impala - CurrentsSaturday, 18 July 2015
There’s been a real sense of expectation surrounding Kevin Parker’s new offering, with rumours of a disco album from the saviour of psychedelia after a conversion to the joys of the Bee Gees while on mushrooms. That sounded an interesting... Read more... |
