Podcast 2021.13 Visions of Suburban Shopping

I corresponded with Jason Edmonds of Magic Castles.
TMODM: What does your music writing & recording process look like?
JE: Usually I’ll get songs in my head and then work them out and track them in my studio and revise a lot throughout the process.
TMODM: How does the place you live — your city, town, landscape — feed into the music you make?
JE: Idk that’s a tough question, prob in ways I’m not aware of so much? I live in my own little world and I’m not paying too close attention to what other bands sound like here in Minneapolis. I have a studio that I share with friends and have a lot of gear and I can record as much as I’d like to everyday. If I didn’t live here I’m sure I would generally do the same where ever I was. Studio rat
TMODM: Which musicians — living or dead — would you enjoy collaborating with?
JE: Jesus on a 12 string acoustic, Buddha playing a wood flute, Mohammed on sitar.

ZOOID is a newly assembled four-piece from Gold Coast, Australia, heavily influenced by psych and garage sounds of today whilst paying homage to the titans of the 60s and 70s.
TMODM: How does the place you live — your city, town, landscape — feed into the music you make?
ZOOID: On the Gold Coast, probably like anywhere, there is small group of people who want it loud and raunchy. We are massive fans of all of the rock n roll, psych and blues greats of the 60’s and 70’s and all we want to do is pay homage to all of our favourite artists and create a collage that makes people want to nod their head or break something or pick up that old guitar again.
TMODM: Which musicians — living or dead — would you enjoy collaborating with?
ZOOID: It would be too hard to pick any artist to collaborate with but we can’t get enough of SLIFT, Fuzz, King Gizz and some others that we will mention when our time machine is up and running.

Spacebombz are a Berlin based psych // rock 3 piece
TMODM: Who are your main influences?
SB: Besides from a pretty steady diet of desert-, psych- and noiserock, we also enjoy hardcore punk, grindcore and dirty south rap a lot.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
SB: We´re currently writing new music and hope to be able to record it and put it out soonish. That might be an ep and will for sure have more than two songs.
And, as soon as thats possible again, we want to hit the road and finally appear live.
TMODM: Are we in some kind of downward spiral or do we have cause for optimism?
SB: Yes & yes.

Djinn is a musical collective from Gothenburg, Sweden, featuring members of Hills and GOAT in their ranks.
TMODM: How does the place you live — your city, town, landscape — feed into the music you make?
D: I get inspired of wanting to be very very far away from the city landscape where we actually create our music. In the forest. Thinking about that, where it is easy to breath and create.
TMODM: Which musicians — living or dead — would you enjoy collaborating with?
D: I would have liked to collaborate with Milford Graves.

Apollo80 is a heavy psych space trio from Perth, Australia.
TMODM: Which musicians — living or dead — would you enjoy collaborating with?
A80: The first person that comes to mind is Dylan Carson from Earth so that I could observe and learn the art of space and time between notes. He is a wizard.
TMODM: How does the place you live — your city, town, landscape — feed into the music you make?
A80: We live in one of the most isolated cities in the world surrounded by open space, beautiful and harsh landscapes. These environmental visuals definitely leech into my minimalist and atmospheric guitar approach.

Farfisa is a wavy, fuzzy, sitar-infused psychedelic four-piece hailing from Manchester England.
TMODM: How does the place you live — your city, town, landscape — feed into the music you make?
F: Manchester’s always been a thriving hub of creativity and I’d consider it the northern centre of the music scene. There’s so much available and so many little bars and venues to visit, the industrial history of the place definitely feeds into the creative process as every building you see in the city centre has a story and a history. As well as this, there’s still plenty of peaceful little rural and nature places for one to clear their head and find inspiration when the city gets too much.
TMODM: Which musicians — living or dead — would you enjoy collaborating with?
F: I’d love to collaborate with John Bonham of Led Zeppelin. The man was an absolute beast and his bombastic, heavy style of drumming has probably influenced my songwriting the most tbh.

I corresponded with Szőke Csaba of the Space Huns, a stoner blues jam band from Szeged, Hungary.
TMODM: What does your music writing & recording process look like?
SC: We are jam band basically, and we barely play together when it is not for preparing for concerts or making music in the studio. So we bring a few ideas or grooves to the studio, and see what can be done with those and if we all feel turned on by a jam, we publish the track/album.
TMODM: How does the place you live — your city, town, landscape — feed into the music you make?
SC: I think it is an organic, breathing part of the music we play. We live in Eastern Europe, close to the Balkans. We rehearse on a ranch nearby our hometown, where there are no mountains, just lowland everywhere your eyes can see. It’s quite a nice and tranquil place in the countryside far from most of the people which feels to be closer to nature and a bit isolated from the madness.
TMODM: Which musicians — living or dead — would you enjoy collaborating with?
SC: Tough question! Our drummer would mention Dave Grohl for sure I think, but I can say we would be all really interested in a workshop or collab with Colour Haze, My Sleeping Karma, Earthless, Kyuss, Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, late 60s’ Jefferson Airplane etc… Or Hungarian free jazz player Istvan Grencso!

Acid Twilight is an underground psych entity from Buenos Aires, Argentina
TMODM: What does your music writing & recording process look like?
AT: Music is my most genuine mode of expression. This particular project was conceived without many clear parameters. It was a process of freedom and meditation. My intention was to make music that invokes altered states of consciousness, mantras between light and dark. A kind of psychedelic continuum, supported by hypnotic bases.
TMODM: How does the place you live — your city, town, landscape — feed into the music you make?
AT: I have my studio installed in a fairly quiet neighborhood in the south of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina with large windows facing the street. Sometimes it is so quiet I open the windows and stare at how the dry leaves dance in the empty street while I make music. I also have a large green space close by, with many plants and trees. The sky is clear so I can observe the stars and relax. Silence and stillness are motivating for me, since this music moves between silences. It was actually conceived from silence.
TMODM: Which musicians — living or dead — would you enjoy collaborating with?
AT: I like many types of music, but for this project I would undoubtedly like to jam with RL Burnside, the Tuareg band Tinariwen, Ray Lynch, Hiroshi Yoshimura or Hailu Mergia. I am a great follower of music African and its tonalities, they are attractive and seductive, something that is not achieved in the West. I would also love to collaborate with Armando Trovajoli or with Ennio Morricone. Make music for movies.

Hibushibire is a hard psychedelic rock group from Osaka, Japan
TMODM: How does the place you live — your city, town, landscape — feed into the music you make?
H: I live in Japan, in Amagasaki, a town next to Osaka, where there are industrial areas, traditional streets and many “izakayas” (pubs) where you can have a drink at a reasonable price. When I’m not busy, I usually go to one of these places to have a drink and have fun. (Now I miss the shops because of the Corona disaster!) I haven’t really been aware of it, but maybe it influences me, at least in a good way.
TMODM: Which musicians — living or dead — would you enjoy collaborating with?
H: I would like to collaborate with “Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention” from the 60’s.
Because what they play is unique, psychedelic and exciting!