Podcast 2024.23 Another Time

November 19, 2024

Bad Liquor Pond

#Alternative #GarageRock #PsychedelicPop #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock

Bad Liquor Pond formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2006. With founding members Dave Gibson and T. Martin being consistent members joined by a varied cast of other musicians throughout their run. They released 3 albums, and one 7″ by the end of 2012. Bad Liquor Pond began writing and recording new music again in 2020, with the ’22 release of “American Medicine” and the 2024’s Gallo’s Blues EP.

August 5, 2024

The Royal Family

#Alternative #Experimental #Exploitation #FolkRock #GarageRock #Psych #PsychedelicRock

A seven piece French/English baroque psychedelic outfit from Toronto, Ontario consisting of members of Possum, Roy, Hieronymus Harry, The John 111denver Airport Conspiracy and Wine Lips
TMODM: What has had the strongest influence on your music?
The Royal Family: A lifetime of exposure to commercial radio has eroded our brains. At our current rate of unconscious consumption I can’t say with any certainty what influences our music.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
The Royal Family: The Mothers of Invention “We’re Only In It For The Money”
TMODM: What’s next for you?
The Royal Family: nspiration is taking us in many directions. At the moment we’ve got two new records in the works following the variety of musical interests that have infiltrated the group.

February 7, 2025

Skloss

#Drone #Noise #Post-rock #Post-rock #PsychedelicRock

Austin / Glasgow space gaze duo.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on The Pattern Speaks (the album)?
Skloss: Human connection and living next to the woods had a profound influence on the record as we formed and wrote it during Covid at our house.
TMODM: Are you going to play many live shows?
Skloss: Skloss plays a fair bit of shows around central Texas and we’re heading to Europe to play in the spring/summer.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Skloss: Next for skloss is two more singles and music videos ahead of our album dropping on Fuzz Club records UK/EU on March 7th. Levitation will also be doing a special edition in the US.

October 25, 2024

Los Mundos

#Doom #Electronica #ModularSynthesider #Prog #PsychedelicRock #Shoegaze #SpaceRock #Stoner #StonerRock

Psych/Doom duo band from Monterrey, México consisting of Luis Angel Martinez and Alejandro Elizondo. Los Mundos slithers out of Monterrey, Mexico, undulating along riff-heavy guitar lines and fuzzed-out bass. Los Mundos is the vanguard for those old ones, bringing a lost sense of longing and doom back to the hallowed halls of psychedelic rock. Layering driving guitar solos over hypnotic rhythms.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Máquinas En Movimiento?
Los Mundos: The book from Mickey Hart “Drumming at the Edge of Magic”, Albert Camus “The Stranger”, life in general and its also a reflection of living in Monterrey Mexico, an industrial city full of factories and daily routines.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Los Mundos: Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
Aphex Twim – Richard D. James
Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Dead Meadow – Old Growth
Blood Incantation – Hidden History of the Human Race
Cornelius – Fantasma
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Brian Eno – Music for Airports
Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
A Place To Bury Strangers – Transfixiation
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Los Mundos: Right now we’re touring USA west coast. And in feb / march we’re planning a tour in Mexico.

October 15, 2024

Lomma

#GaragePop #GarageRock #Grunge #HorrorPunk #Lo-Fi #Psychedelic #Surf

Nicotine Submarine are based in southern California
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Pt. II?
Lomma: Pt. II was written at the same time as Torrey Pines, so the themes are a continuation of adolescence and growing up in SoCal which had the biggest influence on these albums.
TMODM: Do you plan on playing many live shows?
Lomma: As of right now I do not have a live band to back me, but I would like to start figuring out a solo set to play live and eventually get a live band together.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Lomma: I plan on taking a break from writing albums, and focus on releasing singles as a break and to try out new styles to incorporate into my music. There will be a new single out every month for the rest of the year and hope to put out consistent singles in 2025.

November 1, 2024

Eye Make The Horizon

#Experimental #AvantRock #Improvisation #InstantComposition #PsychedelicRock

Free Rock / Psych Jazz from Stockholm, Sweden. Mats Dimming: Double Bass Niklas Korssell: Drums Gustav Nygren: Guitar, Saxophone Mikael Tuominen: Guitar I corresponded with Mikael.
TMODM: What has had the strongest influence on your music?
Eye Make The Horizon: I would say classic free jazz like John Coltrane and Albert Ayler and the European free improvisation scene spanning from Peter Brötzmann to Mats Gustafsson in combination with Sonic Youth and other experimental high energy rock music.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Eye Make The Horizon: I can’t speak for the others, but for me – when I was 18 and came from hard rock and jazz fusion and suddenly heard “Expression” by John Coltrane it was like a lightning bolt. I just couldn’t believe that jazz could be that energetic and extreme.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Eye Make The Horizon: Our new album “Heat & Flash” is released today (November 1) and this weekend we are going to London and Bristol for a couple of gigs. Then we are playing at The Psychedelic Network Festival in Würzburg, Germany on November 29.

August 27, 2024

En Fer

#CosmicRock #Freakout #Noise #Psych #Psychedelic #Noise #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock

Montreal’s finest purveyors of loud sonic monolith rock thunder… Gros Rock
TMODM: What has had the strongest influence on La Collision?
En Fer: Martin from En Fer here… We are a quintet from Montréal playing a free and noisy form of psychedelic rock. La Collision is our new EP that we co-released with two great French DIY labels Dégelite and Micro Label Do It Youssef!
Regarding the influences on La Collision… It is very difficult to point to specific influences for a specific release since our sound is very organic, we come to our sessions and we let our sound go, we never specifically say that we should do this and that or sound like this. That said, I felt that only answering this would be lame and boring… So, I went to ask the other dudes (Alex, Charly, Michel and Reüel) within our band’s Messenger group what their influences might be regarding the band and it ended up with this list… Get ready for a good old namedrop session…
Well, first, we may have our usual old school psych and (proto-)prog suspects as influences, you know, early Pink Floyd, Zappa, Hawkwind, Gong as well as classic German stuff… Michel mentioned King Crimson in the discussion, can’t go against this, this is a deep influence for most of us, no debate on this. I guess we have to mention Van Der Graaf Generator too… We had a collective listening of Pawn Hearts last week while drinking beer after a session, a big team bonding activity. I think Michel’s guitar sound is very influenced by these bands. In the old school prog/psych world, I might add some personal influences, mostly for synth, like Hungary’s legends Omega, Czesław Niemen, Atila, Alusa Fallax, Lard Free, Moving Gelatine Plates and Quebec’s Pollen, Aut’ Chose and Eclipse…
Other usual suspects as influences are of course 80s noise rock in the likes of The Melvins, Dead C, The Birthday Party, The Butthole Surfers and Sonic Youth. Michel is a big Surfers fan, he saw them multiples times over the years and he transmitted us his religious devotions. Needless to say that his guitar technique is obviously very inspired by Paul Leary. Personally, I lived that noise “rock” frenzy of the 00s a lot and I rediscovered more bands like No-Neck Blues Band, Comets on Fire, Mouthus and Sightings recently as their LPs are currently sold for dimes. Listening to this stuff years later, in my 40s, had a significant impact on me in recent years.
Most of us are also deeply into old school punk and metal, so it may have influences at some point, though probably more in terms of attitude than musically… In the discussion, Reüel mentioned GBH and Morbid Tales-era Celtic Frost, can’t go wrong with that. Morbid Tales is so far my idea of a perfect metal album. I went to see Triptykon with Charly some years ago and they played tons of Frost classics… That was great… I think my best metal show experience with a member of the band was catching UK’s metal gods Satan with Reüel in 2016, I think we were like 13 in the room and they played like they were in a packed arena… Epic gig and we have the poster of this show in our studio… Also… VOÏVOD!
I personally met up with all the guys in the band mostly because we have been active in the local Montréal noise scene for decades, so we have plenty of noise influences. Reüel, who is the band’s veteran noise artist as he started Maggot Breeder in 1984, mentioned Throbbing Gristle and Montréal’s Fat as noise influences. Personally, in the context of En Fer, as a collective noise unit, acts like Hair Police, Nihilist Spasm Band, Smegma, Wolf Eyes and Hijokaidan are direct and deep influences for me. Fun fact, we asked Michel to join the band while drinking at the bar of Casa del Popolo here in Montréal after a Wolf Eyes gig… We also learned yesterday that Don Miller from Borbetomagus died, a huge influence too. One of the best noise acts I’ve seen live and Michel and Alex both were very influenced by his special ways to play guitar… (RIP Don…)
Japanese heavy psych on the PSF label, notably stuff by Keiji Heino/Fushitsusha, High Rise as well as the mighty Acid Mothers Temple also appear as huge influence for most of us, I think particularly for Alex who seems very influenced by these bands for the in his aggressive guitar sound and ways to experiment. I may also add The Gerogerigegege, one of my all-time fave noise acts. I think their eponymous track from the 2016 Moenai Hai album is the best noisy psych track ever…
We’re also obviously big on jazz. Michel mentioned Albert Ayler, the list may be too big… I think one of the biggest honors our band had was to share a bill with Québec’s great jazz drummer Guy Thouin. That person is a great inspiration, not only with his music, notably of the Quatuor du Jazz Libre du Québec, but he is always a nice person to chat with. I think we also have a deep Sun Ra influence at some point. Alex talked about being deeply into Sun Ra recently. Big influence for me too… We saw the Sun Ra Arkestra last year here in Montreal and it was a mystical experience…
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives?
En Fer: Alex mentioned that Nirvana’s In Utero was a game changer for him because it was his first exposure to feedback and to atonal sounds. Fun fact, Alex is younger than the rest of the band, so you can feel the generation gap in influences… But this generation gap I think contributes to the dynamic of the band since we share a lot of similar interests, like lots of the same bands but we never developed these interests at the same period, for the same reasons and in the same manner.
To illustrate that age gap, Reüel mentioned Black Flag as a game changer, mentioning that seeing them live a couple of times in 84-85 changed his life… If I’m not wrong, one of these shows was also with Discharge… I mean, my life would have changed too… Michel mentioned Sonic Youth’s Confusion is Sex as a game changer. Brutal album, totally unique…
Charly mentioned Magma as a huge influence, might be an insane influence for drumming… He’s a big Magma fan, sometimes I come to the studio and he’s alone blasting some Magma out loud in the PA, I’m not the one to tell him to cut this. We saw them some years ago here in Montréal, it was great. They played two nights in a row and apparently they played two different sets. We apparently went to the heavier one…
Personally, I think, in the psych rock world, the thing that had the most impact on me was buying Jimi Hendrix’ Smash Hit tape when I was like 11. I then wanted to hear bands with only the zony and noisy sound that you can hear in some tracks, you know, like the end of Purple Haze… I finally found it when I was in my early 20s with Acid Mothers Temple’s Electric Heavyland. Still a scary all over the place release that has a special place in my heart… I heard there is an extra track from the sessions of this album featuring Masonna… So, someone, please reissue this one with this extra track…
TMODM: What’s next for you?
En Fer: We just self-released a new split tape with our friend Tétano-Cutané, still red hot, check this out on our Bandcamp page.
We might also end up releasing the Code 118 – Live in Chicoutimi release soon. It was supposed to be released last May but we had to delay it… We are very psyched with this release since it will be our first proper live release. Strange for an improv rock band that we waited that long for a live release…
We also started working on a new release revolving again around the theme of refuted astronomical hypotheses with an apocalyptic undertone that might be out in 2025 on a label that we really do appreciate… But we are too early in the process to say more…

January 10, 2025

Wyatt E.

#Doom #Doom #Drone #HeavyPsych #PsychedelicRock #Sludge #Stoner

Wyatt E. writes the soundtrack of a Pilgrimage to Neo-Babylonian Empire. A travel in the past which leads to ancient Gods, forgotten cities and lost civilisations.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1?
Wyatt E.: Fazil Say’s Mesopotamia symphony played a major role in the writing process for this record. It’s something we’d had in mind for some time. Then, successive meetings with Tomer Damsky (singer on Im Lelya) and Nina Saeidi (singer on the forthcoming single) also played a key role in the way we approached this album.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Wyatt E.: Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem One
Dead Can Dance – The Serpent’s Egg
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Wyatt E.: We’re going to release a second single at the end of November then the album on January the 10th, this and the following tours will keep us busy for quite a long time I suppose

November 22, 2024

Magick Brother & Mystic Sister

#CanterburySound #ProgRock #CosmicRock #FolkPsychedelic #PsychedelicRock #Soundtrack #SpaceJazz #SpaceRock

Magick Brother & Mystic Sister are from Barcelona, Spain
TMODM: What do you see as the connection between Tarot Part I and Tarot Part II? And how do they differ?
Magick brother & Mystic Sister: This Tarot album follows the same line. Is a concept album, that revolves around the 22 major arcana that make up the Tarot.
In order to be able to insert all the songs into a vinyl LP, we thought of doing it in 2 parts and that together they would close the circle forming a board in which to consult the cards
Tarot part I goes from zero – (The Fool) to number 10 (The Wheel of Fortune)
Tarot part II goes from number 11 (Strength) to number 21 The World
So they are totally related, we can see it as a psychedelic journey that The Fool begins towards the totality that is The World
The symbolism and characteristics of each card determine each song… Maybe Tarot part II is more lunar, more cosmic…?
TMODM: Are you planning on doing any live shows?
Magick brother & Mystic Sister: We’ve been pretty busy in the studio lately
we’re more prolific there, and we haven’t thought about this yet.
We’re a bit of a mysterious band and we’d rather do one special show than many concerts without magick!
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Magick brother & Mystic Sister: Right now we’ll be releasing the album on November 22nd and at the same time we’re composing new songs,
we have to follow the inspiration and we’ll try to live in the present and maybe soon we’ll also do some concerts.

May 8, 2024

Tamesis

#WiccanRock #Alternative #DruidRock #Krautrock #MysticFolk #Neopsychedelia #PsychedelicFolk #PsychedelicFolk #PsychedelicRock

Witch psychedelia from SE London / Brighton Maisie Ashford – vocals, acoustic guitar, singing bowl (on “Cambridge Drive”) Joseph Jones – electric guitar, acoustic guitar (on “Raindance” and “Magic”), mandolin (on “Magna Mater”) Jacob Price – drums, percussion, Irish tin whistle (on “Cambridge Drive”) Gerda Lucy Rankka – bass, vocals (on “Cambridge Drive”) I corresponded with Maisie.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Magna Mater?
Tamesis: Magna Mater (meaning ‘Great Mother’) explores themes of nature’s cycles, environmentalism, deep ecology, spirituality and magic, contrasted with the alienation and cognitive dissonance of existing within a capitalist industrialised society. Musically, our collective influences include psychedelic artists like Kikagaku Moyo, Don Cherry and Wax Machine.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Tamesis: A record which changed my life personally is ‘Ys’ by Joanna Newsom – this is such an incredibly immersive and densely packed album – each song is like a novel. Her lyricism had a strong influence on me.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Tamesis: We hope to record a full-length album soon, and collaborate with more musicians, visual artists and videographers.