Tagged with Music

Aligning Minds’s newest album, My Heart Is Love, has been described as an ethereal future city. Listening to the album, I feel myself floating in a dream; swimming through a Miyazaki film or a Philip K. Dick novel — underwater undulating breaths, heartbeats, android love songs, dripping tunnels, cathedral hollows, hypnogogic blips and clicks, and siren arias. (more)

Ebbot Lundberg, front man for Sweden's The Soundtrack of Our Lives, is a true storyteller, a modern sonic shaman exploring the innermost depths of the human soul and condition, and the very same fabric that makes up the omniverse. (more)

"Within You With You" by The Beatles, "Echoes" by Pink Floyd, "Thursday Afternoon" by Brian Eno, and "The Art Teacher" by Rufus Wainwright. The are just some of the musical recommendations from Reality Sandwich contributors for those who want to be transported to a higher plane.  (more)

Killing Joke has seen three decades of critical engagement with contemporary culture, bringing ancient traditions forward and embracing a reality unbounded by arbitrary laws. With this interview, I wanted to understand how the death of bassist Paul Raven and extending friendship beyond temporal limitations affected Coleman's life.
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John Sheldon was Van Morrison's lead guitarist at age 17. He has an uncanny gift for conjuring the wild spirit, so when he told me he'd written a song for the famous alpha female Wolf 06 shot and killed just out of Yellowstone, I wanted to share it with others who, like me, are mourning for all of the hundreds of wolves who are murdered for sport.  (more)

Damian Lazarus, head of the influential Crosstown Rebels record label, is transforming the clichéd image of house music. In this interview, Lazarus talks about Burning Man and Day Zero, his upcoming 24-hour dance party synchronized to the end of the Mayan Calendar. (more)

Mystical Sun has been making verdant listening-room electronica for almost two decades. The recently-released 26000 is his first album in four years, a testament to the time-intensive work and, poetically, also a concept album about deep time and epochal cycles. (more)

If Tool and Jeff Buckley had an orgy on peyote in the desert and created a love child, that baby would be Sorne. The live performance weaves together the cycles of a story of five children told through music, visual art, and film. It is a sprouting, living mythos. (more)

The Allen Ginsberg Estate is about to re-release in dowloadable format the most comprehensive audio collection the poet ever produced. Volumes have been written about Ginsberg's poetry, but nothing substantial has been written about the songs. Why not? Because poetry is "literature" subject to "literary criticism," and music is not? (more)

Jason Hahn, the visionary behind the production company Re:Evolution Media and member of the electronica band Nadis Warriors, is dedicated to uniting members of the spiritual community through the celebration of our creative capacity. In this interview, Hahn discusses the "psychedelic explosion" in electronica, performing alongside visionary artist Alex Grey, and Nadis Warriors' approach to healing through art. (more)

Killing Joke's song, "Eighties" was a standard at high-school dances for the latter half of that decade. The band wrote about the end of capitalism and the world as we know it, and the members were magicians who conferred with the spirits. Now they rock harder, heavier, and more beautifully than ever. (more)