Can’t Tell You What To Purchase, But Here’s How You Begin
There are few things we can do in life that reflect who we are, what we enjoy and how we wish to experience those things. For music lovers,...
Psychic Bloom
Risen from undergrounds and basements in Tehran, Iran, Psychic Bloom was formed in 2012 to fulfill long-held ambitions and unexpressed burning desires of a young-hearted sun child, Aref...
Peter Wrenleau (Wale) | Interview | “The Memoirs Of Hakeford Wart (Goodbye Capetown)”
In 1972, Peter Wrenleau, known as Wale, unveiled a remarkable LP. After years of obscurity, the album has resurfaced, and today, Strawberry Rain is gearing up to unveil...
Psychedelic Speed Freaks interview
Psychedelic Speed Freaks is a new power trio led by Munehiro Narita, founding member of Japan's legendary High Rise and easily one of the wildest, most original guitarists...
Flute & Voice and Other Musical Passions – An Interview with Hans Brandeis
Hans Brandeis is a German ethnomusicologist, composer, singer and guitarist. He was born in Ludwigshafen on Rhine in 1949, as son of contemporary classical composer Johann Karl Brandeis....
‘Ascend, Ascend’ by Janaka Stucky
Janaka Stucky is the founding editor of Black Ocean Books and the author of the newly-published Ascend, Ascend, an act of ritual magick embodied in a work of...
From The Vault: Fraction – ‘Moon Blood’ (1971)
It’s no surprise that this LP is considered by many the Holy Grail of heavy psychedelic rock. Five tracks. Five timeless behemoths that seem to come from an...
Ariel Kalma
Sarah Davachi and Ariel Kalma made a jazzy ambient album together, called 'Intemporel'. "Using music and repetitive patterns to quiet the mind, induce Dreamtime and induce Visions" How...
The Talented Ms. Highsmith
Two old photos of the young Patricia Highsmith taken during the summer of 1942 depict her—aged twenty-one, just after graduating Barnard College—as a kind of a sphinx. In...
Lyijykomppania interview
Lyijykomppania is ancient band from Kantala, Finland. Being formed in 1981, it lingered 'till 1983 as Lead Company (English translation) and then disbanded. It was resurrected in 1990...