Keyword results: Psych
Blank Realm, 'Heartless Ark'
Intuition plays a large part in the nature of music. Whether learned on their chosen instrument or approaching it from a new angle, the ability of a group of players to lock into and interweave with each other's sounds is a crucial dynamic. This instinctual nature shines through strongly on Blank Realm's debut vinyl release, Heatless Ark.
Here We Go Magic
Judging from its recent prodigious output, the borough of Brooklyn must not have much room for working-class immigrants and black hip-hop heads with its huge influx of folk-strumming, falsetto-loving, glitch-savvy, new age Gen Y beardos.
Here We Go Magic is Brooklyn denizen Luke Temple's new band.
Black Mountain
What:
Black Mountain
Where:
Corner Hotel 57 Swan St, Richmond
When:
Thu Feb 26 and Fri Feb 27, 8.30pm
How much:
$45 +BF from here
Description:
Last year Black Mountain went a bit off the deep end. They seemed to have found how drugs and bands like Yes relate to their lives. Then they combined those influences and made music like the 17-minute-long ‘Bright Lights', which was just one of ten epic songs on the last record.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: A
Maximum Arousal presents Acid Mothers Guru Guru
What:
Maximum Arousal presents Acid Mothers Guru Guru
Where:
The Toff, Lvl 2, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Tues Feb 10, doors 8pm
How much:
$15 on door
Description:
Freak out completely on Acid Mothers Guru Guru - featuring Mani Neumeier from legendary German Krautrock group Guru Guru, teamed with Kawabata Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan's prolific psych collective Acid Mothers Temple. Virtuosic meltdown jamming doesn't get more mental than this - with the added danger your brain may not regain its shape post-show.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: A
Liquidambar
Julian Williams' sound world is dosed with night shade and shaped by rare imagination. Fans of this long-serving cult figure's performance group, Hi God People, may wager the atmospheric depths of new solo disc, Liquidambar, and fall short; because added to the lessons in ceremonial tripping, beyond- human concerns, anti instrumentation and free vocal channelling dealt by that genius group, this album goes further, to truly malodorous depths, via dense multi-tracking and other 'voices speak to me' solo inspiration.
Pikelet plays MIAF
What:
Pikelet plays MIAF
Where:
Spiegeltent, the Arts Centre, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
When:
Wed Oct 15, doors 7pm; Thu Oct 16, doors 7pm
How much:
$22.50 / $30, group (8+) $27, from here
Description:
Melbourne's much-loved Pikelet (aka Evelyn Morris) is pretty famous. She has been in street pics twice over the past year and aside from that is now recognised as one of our country's best folk-psyche multi-instrumentalists. This time around Ms Morris takes to the stage of the hallowed Spiegeltent for an uninterrupted one-hour set.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: A
Like Pearly Clouds, The Sun Blindness
While many new 'psych' proclaimed acts go a path of diet dread and mind-split affectation - little further than the recent, forced drug sound of Brian Jonestown Massacre or first-listen covers of 'Sister Ray' with delay pedals - locals The Sun Blindness are tripping some truly illuminating, positive territory.
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