[Photo by Michael Collins]
Words and Mix by Taraka Larson of Prince Rama
What the hell is psychedelic music? When I ask people to explain this term for me, it seems to always reference back to a sort relationship between music and a “psychedelic experience” of sorts, which I also don’t know much about because I’ve never actually taken psychedelic drugs. So I probably am not the best person to make a “psych mix.”
But what I have made is a “psyched mix,” because although I’ve never had a ‘psychedelic’ experience, I’ve had plenty of ‘psyched’ experiences, a.k.a. moments where music has been directly linked to putting me in an out of body space of feeling especially psyched on life, so here lies the sonic artifacts of those altered states…
FREE ASSOCIATION: Stream Psychic Ills’ Sacred Bones Debut, ‘Hazed Dream’, and Read Their Track-By-Track Commentary
Baptized in bong water like every Psychic Ills album before it, Hazed Dream lives up to its title with an ambient-psych sound that’s as loose and liquified as the neon clumps of wax that glide, ever so slowly, across a lava lamp. With that in mind, we asked frontman Tres Warren to share the stories behind his band’s blissed-out anthems, right alongside a complete stream of their Sacred Bones debut…Continue reading »
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