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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 14m

Earthrise, originally emerging from the New Jersey scene back in 1975. What we have here is a phenomenal reissue from PQR-Disques plusqueréel of their 1978 debut, and what's so great about the music is how they take the lovely, hazy, kind of pastoral prog you associate with Camel...

It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 3d

It hardly needs saying that the Dutch-Belgian fuzztopian punk trio Ford’s Fuzz Inferno’s latest LP, Ultimate Fuzz Frequencies, is pure fun, whether you’re a punk, a fuzzhead, or both.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 3d

‘A Record of Living Beings,’ the collaborative project of Raimund Wong and Suren Seneviratne, goes beyond conventional musical composition to become a layered, time-spanning exploration of sound.
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Exploring 'A Record of Living Beings' with Raimund Wong and Suren Seneviratne - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

‘A Record of Living Beings,’ the collaborative project of Raimund Wong and Suren Seneviratne, goes beyond conventional musical composition to become a layered, time-spanning exploration of sound. This...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 4d

The 4 Levels of Existence stands as one of my all-time favorite monuments of heavy Greek rock. Originally issued in only a handful of copies on the tiny Venus label, the record slipped quietly through the underground. Writing the liner notes for this Guerssen reissue was a real pleasure.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 4d

The 4 Levels of Existence stands as one of my all-time favorite monuments of heavy Greek rock. Originally issued in only a handful of copies on the tiny Venus label, the record slipped quietly through the underground. Writing the liner notes for this Guerssen reissue was a real pleasure.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 5d

With only a few copies pressed, it was a private hard-rock artifact, a gem that vanished into the ether, cloaked in pseudonyms and whispered myths.

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Stud Uncovered: An Exclusive Interview with Houston’s Lost Hard-Rock Trio - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

In the dusty backstreets of Houston, 1974, three young musicians forged a sonic detonator called Stud. With only 200 copies pressed, it was a private hard-rock artifact, a gem that vanished into the e...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 5d

Peter Morén’s SunYears project has settled into a rich, self-aware pocket, finding a comfortable distance from his past work’s intensity.
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Peter Morén (of Peter, Bjorn and John) | Interview on SunYears' 'The Song Forlorn' - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Peter Morén’s SunYears project has settled into a rich, self-aware pocket, finding a comfortable distance from his past work’s intensity. The new record, ‘The Song Forlorn,’ carefully opens a collecti...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 6d

Fusing together on this very special 7-inch split (PSYLK RD.): Sol Societe and Velvet Penny. On the “Sunny Side,” Sol Societe erupts with a hypnotic, Latin-infused psych that opens up a new world. Flip the record to the “Lucky Side” and float high with Velvet Penny’s journey into a new era of psych.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 6d

Morris delivers a powerful, subversive message: persistence in one’s singular vision is an essential act, a continuous beginning.
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Joe Morris at 70: Instantiating the Continuous Beginning and 'Abstract Forest' - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

A guitarist who plays bass. A free improviser who speaks in Instantiations. A musician who finds the most complex expression through the most efficient means. Joe Morris is a singular presence in crea...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 6d

Isolation, channelled through Nord Electric, shifts from a simple reflection to a vast, radiant expanse, powered by the driving drums of Neil Conti and the recognizable, expansive guitars of Mark Gardener (Ride) and Giulio Sangirardi... (Outer Battery Records)

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 9d

Trapped within mechanistic lattices and spectral tapestries, Diagram's 'Short Circuit Control' delivers an analogic spasm. It’s a deeply felt offering to the fretful self, shining right on the edge of the unknown like some wired, all-night basement jam. (P.U.G Records)

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 10d

Brian Dolphin, a Manhattan native with harmonies inherited from rural folk and adventurous 80s and 90s albums, has spent a lifetime seeking the transcendent moment where individual voices dissolve into one colossal, beautiful sound.
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An Ecosystem of Sound: Brian Dolphin's 'Dolphin & You Compilation No. 1' - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Brian Dolphin, a Manhattan native with harmonies inherited from rural folk and adventurous 80s and 90s albums, has spent a lifetime seeking the transcendent moment where individual voices dissolve int...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 11d

Mass is a band whose story sits quietly in the background of German rock history, waiting to be pieced together. Bassist Günther Viktor Radny started out in the mid-60s beat scene of Regensburg...
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Mass – From the Lost Black Mass Tapes to 'War Law' and Beyond - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Mass is a band whose story sits quietly in the background of German rock history, waiting to be pieced together. Bassist Günther Viktor Radny started out in the mid-60s beat scene of Regensburg with T...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 11d

The late guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton, whose contributions were integral to the early sound of Hawkwind, is the subject of A Wandering Minstrel, a memoir authored by his long-time partner, Marion.

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A Wandering Minstrel: Marion's Intimate Memoir of Guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton and the Early Sound of Hawkwind - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

The late guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton, whose contributions were integral to the early sound of Hawkwind, is the subject of A Wandering Minstrel, a memoir authored by his long-time partner, Marion. Far ...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 11d

From the mind of Alex Eliopoulos, 'Plasma' materializes as a lucid, galvanized synthesis of psych-noise. Recorded through remote artistic transmissions and incendiary, fuzzed-out guitars across continents, ... all coalescing into a striking, abstract sonic cycle of apocalypse and re-birth.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 13d

John Surman’s atmospheric reeds and Kristen Noguès’s mysterious harp on this 1998 recording forge a new mythology of the north, a free-folk fusion where Breton mist meets Cornish sea-salt, and traditional lament is elevated to a heavenly improvisation. (Souffle Continu Records)

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 13d

Born from the psychic contiguity of the Southern church and the juke-joint’s humid drone, the core triumvirate of Daniel Chavis, Danny Chavis, and Hayato Nakao forged a sound in 1980s North Carolina that ...
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Inside The Veldt: An Intimate Interview with Shoegaze Pioneers - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Born from the psychic contiguity of the Southern church and the juke-joint’s humid drone, the core triumvirate of Daniel Chavis, Danny Chavis, and Hayato Nakao forged a sound in 1980s North Carolina t...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 14d

This special record, a proto-electronic DIY masterpiece featuring my interview in the liner notes, is a visionary 1974 album by Bill Holt that achieves a singular synthesis of psychedelia, pop, and experimental modalities. A cult classic. Out via Guerssen.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 16d

The sound of Laveda’s new record ‘Love, Darla’ hits with the full force of a New York City subway platform, all metal, sweat, and low-frequency aggression.
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Laveda’s 'Love, Darla': Born in the Subways of NYC - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

The sound of Laveda’s new record ‘Love, Darla’ hits with the full force of a New York City subway platform, all metal, sweat, and low-frequency aggression. Seriously, this is not the dreamy band you h...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 17d

Amidst the birch-bark silence of a Siberian August, the echo of a forgotten melody, held captive for a decade and a third, finally shivered free. The artist, B’ee (of Birch Book/In Gowan Ring), finally unclasped his ‘Live in Siberia’ recording via Infinite Fog...

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 17d

Upon vinyl's black canvas, the newly minted, remastered double-LP of Magma's monumental K.A., cut at 45 rpm, unfurls a mythic, long-dormant arc of Kobaïan lament and celestial Zeuhl lamentation, giving Christian Vander's '70s vision its definitive expression. (Out on Music on Vinyl)

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 18d

Hooveriii have gone and done it. With ‘Manhunter,’ they’ve hit it square on, finding the perfect spot right at the intersection of jagged post-punk and psych. It’s a whole universe of sound they’ve cobbled together, and it just works.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 19d

Creamcheese in Düsseldorf is undoubtedly one of the forgotten phenomena and places in the history of rock, culture, and art. - Christian Koch

Photo: The Creamcheese DJ booth illuminated by vibrant lightshow projectors, setting the mood for the night. (Credit: Achim Reinert Collection)

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 19d

In Shelley Burgon’s ‘The In Between,’ a single concert harp becomes a world, as its unamplified strings and the fading light of an Ojai day intertwine, crafting an intimate conversation between music, memory, and the unfolding sounds of the natural world.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 20d

Roger Glenn, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist whose career spans more than six decades, emerges into the spotlight with ‘My Latin Heart,’ his first album as a leader in nearly fifty years.
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Roger Glenn Talks 'My Latin Heart,' Cal Tjader, and the Legends Who Shaped His Sound - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Roger Glenn, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist whose career spans more than six decades, emerges into the spotlight with ‘My Latin Heart,’ his first album as a leader in nearly fifty years. Celebrating...

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