The Doomsday Clock is still at 90 seconds to midnight as we go into the new year. In an angst-ridden world nothing beats a good psychedelic playlist. This episode starts off with garage/psych and moves into cosmic territory, including a track from the always interesting Psychedelic Source Records, a European-Senegalese collaboration, and plenty of stoner and space rock.
| time | artist | title |
|---|---|---|
| 01:04 | Daughter of The Vine | Cosmic Eye |
| 06:39 | Wax Head | Jobless Goblin |
| 10:09 | Karkara | Anthropia |
| 18:33 | Ndox Electrique | Ngor Diouf Né Du Wallé |
| 22:29 | Shit The Cow | Luger |
| 25:27 | :nepaal | fractal no. 3 |
| 32:33 | Deadpeach | Madras |
| 39:40 | Otid | The Right Way |
| 43:50 | Dead Runes | Iron Song |
| 50:08 | Schiguli | Lichtecho |
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The Doomsday Clock has been a feature of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947. In recent years they’ve updated it annually in late January. These days they update it once a year in January. Last year they set the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, which was the closest to global catastrophe the clock had been set. This year, seeing no improvement in tensions around the world, they left the it set at 90 seconds to midnight, stating that they were deeply concerned about the deteriorating state of world affairs. last year was the hottest year on record. Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, as Russia, China and the US are modernizing their nuclear arsenals. In addition to that, there’s the uncertainty around articficial intelligence and genetic engineering technology.
The conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine seem to be pulling back to an earlier era when major powers fought one another. In their annual report of the greatest risks facing the world, the Economist puts probability of the fighting in Ukraine and Gaza escalating into wider conflicts currently at “very low” but they also say that if either does happen the impact would be very high. Also, Foreign Affairs just published a story that compares our current moment with the 1930s. They make the point that armed conflicts in the 1930s weren’t related to one another initially but as each escalated the alliances became firmer and the conflict became global. That could be what’s happening now.
I asked some of the artists featured in this episode whether they werw optimistic or pessimistic about the new year. I stopped after a time because I’m growing more pessimistic, particularly watching the presidential election in the US unfold. Of the bands that did answer my question about the new year, they expressed pessimism about the situation globally but also expresed optimism about their person lives and music. And the music in this episode reinforces that outlook. While some of the tracks have darker themes, the music in this episode is powerful. Check out the interviews with the artists that follow, particularly the collaboration Ndox Electrique.
#Fuzz #GarageRock #HeavyPsych #MiddleEastern #PsychRock #PsychedelicRock
Karkara are based in Toulouse, France.
Karim R. – Guitar / Vocals
Hugo O. – Bass / Synth
Maxime M. – Drums / Vocals
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on All Is Dust?
Karkara: The Album depicted a post apocalyptic future where Humans survive in a hostile world. So we can say, movies music but also our strong rock influences like King G, Ohsees, King Crimson…
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Karkara: Why only one ? But if we have to choose one, maybe the first opus of Black Sabbath because it’s getting old as a good wine.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Karkara: A lot of good things, a few gigs with Slift on tour and we are already working on the next album, stay tuned !
⦾ February 7, 2024
Dead Runes
#StonerRock
Stoner Rock from Music City. Nashvillle’s Dead Runes bring the frantic anxiety of MASTODON mixed with the chill majestic vibes of THE SWORD. Head-bangable, dynamic, fuzz-drenched rock’n’roll. “We’re an independent band – no label, no management – it’s all us… Every dollar you spend with us helps us to tour, record, and continue to put out the heavy fuzz. Thank you for your support!”
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Raidho?
Dead Runes: Conceptually, the Raidho rune entails a few meanings, but all tied to some kind of long, difficult journey. Each song on this new record tells the story of a perilous, tough slog. We wanted to take you somewhere. It’s obviously been a turbulent few years on this planet, and all three of us have dealt with more intimate battles amidst the larger chaos. We took the angle of writing from the mid-point of the odyssey… feeling all the pain of change, growth, and wreckage, but not necessarily knowing that things will work out in the end. That’s true to life for us.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Dead Runes: So many to choose from! This is an impossible question, but…
Black Sabbath | Vol 4
Russian Circles | Station
Megadeth | Hidden Treasures
The Sword | Age of Winters
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Dead Runes: We’re dropping our new record “Raidho” on February 7th, throwing a big release party in Nashville on February 10th, then playing shows and continuing to crank out tunes. We’re just getting started!
#AcidRock #Fuzz #Guitar #HeavyPsych #Heavy #Instrumental #PsychedelicRock #Psychedelic #StonerRock
Deadpeach are from Rimini, Italy. Groove and psychedelic atmospheres, liquid and full guitar solos, rich bass lines and hypnotic drums. A rush into the sidereal space in a vortex of sound that moves between rock blues, and a dose of drugged/spaced psychedelia. The trip will take you over!
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on The cosmic haze and the human race?
Deadpeach: The cosmic haze and the human race had a long gestation period; our previous studio album was released 10 years ago. Therefore, it was a selection of songs that we wrote over time. Influences include psychedelia, stoner rock, and also the classic rock of the ’70s. Additionally, there’s a connected vision of man and space, to borrow from Sun Ra: ‘space is the place.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Deadpeach: More than records, a cassette by The Who, ‘Quadrophenia,’ changed my perspective on music. Then Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, The Heads, Fu Manchu, Colour Haze… Lately, my choices lean towards labels, like El Paraiso Records, Cinedelic Records, Heavy Psych Sound.”
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Deadpeach: Soon, we’ll be dedicating ourselves to promoting the new album, playing some concerts, and exploring new music because if you look well, it’s full ‘out there.
⦾ January 25, 2024
Daughter of The Vine
#GarageRock #PsychRock #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock
Daughter of The Vine, the latest mystical musical endeavor, by Boston area singer / guitarist, Margaret Garrett (formerly of Mr. Airplane Man),
guitarist / singer, Gregg Porter (The Concerns),
drummer, Kurt Davis (formerly of The Konks),
singer / keyboardist, Abigail Taylor (The Concerns),
bass, Chris Lohring.
Daughter has an ethereal, atmospheric, reverb-laden, transcendent sound.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Mystic Valley PKWY?
Margaret: Transcendentalism
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Margaret: Wooden Shjips ‘Back to Land’
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Margaret: Daughter of the vine already have a few songs we are ready to record this spring. Also..
I bought myself a Sitar (I’ve wanted to learn for years) and started taking lessons with a teacher from Pakistan who is a real master of Indian classical music. Somehow that will be part of whatever I do next including weaving it into the new DOV music.
#Jam #PsychedelicFolk #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock
:nepaal are part of the Hungarian psychedelic rock collection psychedelic source records, based in Páty, Hungary.
Krisztina Benus on keyboard
Dávid Strausz on bass
Krisztián Megyeri on drums
Marci Bíró on spacefx
Ákos Karancz on lespaul
Bence Ambrus on jazzmaster
TMODM: What are you working on now?
Bence: I’m working on home projects mostly. The new River Flows Reverse also has started, but i’d really like to create some calm psy dub stuff,
but with instruments only, i don’t like that almost all psychedelic dub music are made with only computer. The new nepaal release “protoaeolianism” comes on vinyl soon.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Bence: Hopefully more nature at springtime, meditation, inhale/ exhale watching, some ambient stuff recorded in the woods, and a lot of outdoor jam-sessions planned to this year with nepaal. The problem is, our bassist David has problem with his hands he needs a surgery before we restart the proj. But after it solved, nepaal goes back onto front of public hopefully.
TMODM: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the new year?
Bence: Optimism is the new pessimism haha, of course im totally pessimistic about the world and human being, just take a look on the satistics, we fell in love with a fake entity, all is ugly, fast, plastic and selfless, but here in my country it’s totally digsusting at all. Anyway, no problem im optimistic about my personal route. can’t wait to quit and get back to the nature to my little forest with my family, a guitar and a soundrecorder. I think this is the near end and we can survive only as hiding behind the mind and avoiding these all fake shiny-running robot bullsit.
⦾ December 21, 2023
Shit The Cow
#HardRock #Alternative #DesertRock #Fuzz #GarageRock #Punk #Stoner #StonerRock
Shit the cow makes scrapyard rock in a small cabin in northern Sweden. It´s the sound of an old rusty truck crashing in to a tree.
TMODM: What are you working on now?
Shit The Cow: We have already started working on new material for the next release. Riffs are being dropboxed back and forth and plans are being made.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Shit The Cow: We are about to release a video for Luger. It will be our first and it will hit the internet sometime next week.
#Atmospheric #Alternative #Doom #PsychedelicFolk #PsychedelicRock
Otid are from Malmö, Sweden. Otid invites you join them in a parallel universe where there are new rules. Where beauty and pain creates new colours, new sounds and new meaning. Otid are rooted firmly in the promised land of early rock n’roll but play their own unique kind of lawless, psychedelic free-form rock with great emotional depth. They have been compared to bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Black Angels and PJ Harvey.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Failure?
Otid: The band agrees that the biggest inspiration for Failure has been jamming together. Listening to one another and playing off what we hear. Creating our own room to breath. We have a very strong musical and emotional connection to each other. Apart from that we can mention some albums that have influenced Failure: To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey, Kikagaku Moyos ”House in the tall grass” and Dead Meadows Feathers.
Finding a new and deep meaning in the idea of failure comes from lived experiences of the band members as well as writing by the author Chris Kraus and Leonard Cohen. Living through failure is inevitable for us all but allowing and also inviting failure can bring a certain kind of freedom. Maybe it’s about a sort of Buddhist approach where you aim to let go of trying to separate good and bad feelings and just live your life as it is.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Otid: That is a good question. The bass player Robin Magnusson mentions Revolver by the Beatles as transforming. The Black Angels ’Phosphene Dream’ was the album that guitarist Robin Kåhlin thinks changed him the most. The drummer Amanda Ahlerup brings up Led Zeppelins album Led Zeppelin as having the biggest impact on her as a young drummer. Singer Sofia Gabinus says that Strange Days by the Doors transformed her thirteen year old mind forever. Black Rebel Motorcycle Clubs self titled album changed the guitarist Rasmus Mårdéns life, he says.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Otid: We hope to keep creating new works, new worlds and new stories to take part in. There are always new stories. The band is working with less intensity than in the past. But that should not fool anyone that there is no action. Sometimes it is in slow change that the most powerful processes take place.
#Experimental #Instrumental #Jam #Krautrock #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock
Since 2020, Berlin-based Schiguli has captivated audiences with a heavy psych-post rock soundscape, echoing the pulsating krautrock of yesteryear. Unrestricted by genres, live performances are fueled by instant composition, erupting into dynamic, free-spirited experiences.
Battist Rábay – Guitar
Marcel Damme – Guitar
Martin Haugen – Drums
Ben Haeringer – Bass
TMODM: What has had the strongest influence on your music?
Martin (drums): 60s psychedelia (The Doors; 13th floor elevators) for the open-mindedness; 90s desert rock (Kyuss) for power and DIY attitude; and the modern local psych rock scene (Colour Haze in Germany; Motorpsycho/Spidergawd from Norway) 60s psychedelia (The Doors; 13th floor elevators) for the open-mindedness; 90s desert rock (Kyuss) for power and DIY attitude; and the modern local psych rock scene (Colour Haze in Germany; Motorpsycho/Spidergawd from Norway)
Marcel (guitar): 60s/70s classic psychedelic rock (The Doors, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Can…), Stoner Rock (Kyuss, Colour Haze, All them Witches), Post Rock/Metal (Isis, Pelican, Mogwai) 60s/70s classic psychedelic rock (The Doors, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Can…), Stoner Rock (Kyuss, Colour Haze, All them Witches), Post Rock/Metal (Isis, Pelican, Mogwai)
Ben (bass): From 90s stuff to modern, like Sleep, Mastodon, King Buffalo, Motorpsycho From 90s stuff to modern, like Sleep, Mastodon, King Buffalo, Motorpsycho
Battist (guitar): Surf-Music (Dick Dale), 90’s US alternative (Dinosaur jr., Sonic Youth, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Kyuss, Earth, Melvins) Surf-Music (Dick Dale), 90’s US alternative (Dinosaur jr., Sonic Youth, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Kyuss, Earth, Melvins)
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Martin (drums): Probably Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley. The sheer heaviness and the quality of the riff mixed with blues was insane. Felt like something fell into place when I heard it. As if it was the answers to some deep open questions, ha! Probably Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley. The sheer heaviness and the quality of the riff mixed with blues was insane. Felt like something fell into place when I heard it. As if it was the answers to some deep open questions, ha!
Marcel (guitar): Pink Floyd – Wish you were here Pink Floyd – Wish you were here
Ben (bass): AC/DC – Powerage AC/DC – Powerage
Battist (guitar): Nirvana – In Utero Nirvana – In Utero
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Schiguli: We’re enjoying the quiet buzz the release has given us, you know. Incredibly grateful for some of the nice feedback we’ve gotten and the listens and the purchases. We plan to release Lichtecho on vinyl as soon as we get them pressed up, and then we also go full digital too. Fuck it. Whatever gets us to play gigs, basically. So far we play Hamburg with Mos Isley Spaceship (bandcamp) on April 26th, then Dresden @ Zentralwerk on June 2nd. Open to more bookings!
To finish off, we’re both pleasantly surprised and amazed that the things we’ve collectively enjoyed in the rehearsal space seems to resonate with our little corner of the music world. But main thing for us is really getting together at least once a week, talk some bs, fiddle out some crazy jams, and just enjoy making music, that’s it.
#Fuzz #GaragePunk #GarageRock #Psych #Punk
Wax Head are from Manchester, UK. A visceral gang of youth rolling around in a sweaty pit of garage-psych riffage.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Salt Fat Acid Heat?
Lewis: Coach whips fuckers vs bangers inspired the ep.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Lewis: he record that changed my life was lust for life by iggy pop.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Lewis: Our next move is to make more psych driven music that is more experimental and ambitious. We’re releasing new songs in 2024 and have a few shows planned throughout the year. We’re just happy to keep writing and progress as much as possible as songwriters and musicians.
⦾ November 3, 2023
Ndox Electrique
#Devotional #Electrique #Vodou
Ndox Electrique results from the collaboration between François R. Cambuzat, Gianna Greco (also known for their work with Ifriqiyya Electrique), and the n’doëp community in Senegal. The project originated from the duo’s quest to trace the origins of North African rituals, which led them to the Lebu community in Cap-Vert, an isolated region at Africa’s westernmost point.
The album seamlessly blends the duo’s electronically-infused avant-rock with the intense, ritualistic vocal chants and rhythmic percussion of the n’doëp ceremony. It serves as a captivating bridge between these two musical worlds, capturing the essence of this cross-cultural collaboration.
The text also highlights the challenges of merging Western rock and experimental influences with the sensibilities of their Senegalese collaborators, ultimately resulting in a unique and powerful musical experience. “Ndox Electrique” transcends cultural boundaries, immersing listeners in the enchanting sounds and mystical narratives of Western Africa.
Rokhaya “Madame” Diène : lead vocal
Adjaratou “Oumou” Diène : choir
Mar Faye : mbëng-mbëng drums
Ndiaga Mboup : tunguné & tama drums
Abdou Seck : thiol & talmbath drums
Gianna Greco : bass, choir, computer & videos
François R. Cambuzat : guitars, choir, computer & videos
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Tëdd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang?
François: The strongest influence on “Tëdd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang”: a) spiritually the female genius Coumba Mbang, quite harsh and scary – but she helped us a lot somehow. b) musically…….apart obviously the savagery of the sabars (percussions) during the n’döep, maybe the album “Marquee Moon”, strange enough, then some parts of Slint’s “Spiderland”.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
François: One of the albums that changed my life: “Kolengke” from the ethno/industrial band IZ (Inner Kazhakstan & Xinjiang, China, https://oldheavenbooks.bandcamp.com/album/kolengke) (then their “Jangqerek”).
TMODM: What’s next for you?
François: Next for our Ndox Electrique: a long tour in the West starting this Summer & recording more in Ndar. Next wishing for myself: trying to finish a research on the falak music around Khorog, Tajikistan (https://youtu.be/6gryCcJujKI?si=578IppeMkKAuZWJz).