Each week, COSMIC TONES offers an examination of movements in Psychedelia and
all sorts of eclectic music from around the world.
Then to Now, it's all here.

Monday, January 16, 2012

50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain


Setlist for Friday The 13th, 2012




(Bharatanatyam) > Kobwebs* - Gonjasufi (*If the intro to this song doesn't frighten you, please see a psychologist)
2010, San Diego
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Apothecaries' Weight - Kyuss
1992, Palm Desert
Snow Goddess - Sleepy Sun
2009, San Francisco
Lonely - Jake Holmes
1967, San Fran
Atomized - Alexander Tucker
2011, Kent, England
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The Fourth Dimension - The Ventures
1964, Tacoma, WA
Crying At The Aquarium - The Octopus Project
2002, Austin, TX
Druganaut - Black Mountain
2005, Vancouver
Read A Book - Cerebrum
1969/70, SPAIN
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
What Does Your Soul Look Like>
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50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain - Ten Years After
1970, Nottingham, England

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I also forgot to mention that this was my 50th show.
Thanks for being there.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

MMXI



So, since I've already put the work in for people like this and this, I figured why not post this blogony (*coined* you heard it here first) in with your favorite soup of sights and sounds that is Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy.

[Oh and by the way, I kinda write for The Denver Post now. Guess we'll see where that goes...]


More hyping of this past expanse of time that no one is really sure what to call...

Favorite songs

∆//////////////////A guide to 2011’s Best Psychedelic Albums://////////////////∆

|Transmalinnia| – Lumerians (Knitting Factory)

|Sun and Shade| – Woods (Woodsist)

|Is Growing Faith| – White Fence (Woodsist)

|Through The Donkey Jaw| – Amen Dunes, (Sacred Bones)

|Hazed Dream| – Psychic Ills (Sacred Bones)

|In Love With Oblivion| – Crystal Stilts (Slumberland)

|Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP| – Thee Oh Sees (In The Red)

|The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz| – Radio Moscow (Alive)

|Diaper Island| - Chad Vangaalen (Sub Pop)

|Getting Paid| – Zechs Marquise (Sargent House)

|936| – Peaking Lights (Not Not Fun)

|Lifeboats and Follies| – Tommy Guerrero (Galaxia)

|S/T| – Quilt (Mexican Summer)

|Country Stash| – MV & EE (Three Lobed Recordings)

|Beyond The 4th Door| – Eternal Tapestry (Thrill Jockey)

|Pewt’r Sessions Vol. 1| – Causa Sui (El Paraiso)

|Stundum| – Papir (El Paraiso)

|I Wash My Soul In The Stream of Infinity| – My Brother The Wind (Transubstans)

|Analog| – The Re-Stoned (R.I.A.G.)

|Master Sleeps| – Hills (Transubstans)

|Neverendless| – CAVE (Drag City)

∆\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Assorted other releases that kick ass:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ∆

|Some Cold Rock Stuf| – J.Rocc (Stones Throw)

|Odd Seasons| – Oddisee (Mello Music Group)

|Classic| – MED (Stones Throw)

|Do Whatever You Want All The Time| – Ponytail

|Tassili| – Tinariwen (Wedge)

|Gloss Drop| – Battles (Warp)

|Maria Kapel| – Six Organs of Admittance (Pavillion)

|D| – White Denim (Downtown Records)

|S/T| – Gardens and Villa (Secretly Canadian)

|Innings| – NODZZZ (Woodsist)

|Apacalypse| – Bill Callahan (Drag City)

|Take Care, Take Care, Take Care| – Explosions In The Sky (Temporary Residence)

|VDSQ Solo Acoustic Guitar, Vols. 4, 5, 6| (Vin Du Select Qualitite)

|Of The Days| – Grey Reverend (Motion Audio)

|Arabia Mountain| – The Black Lips (Vice Music Inc)

|The Mistress| - Yellow Ostrich (Barsuk)

|Shadow Sessions| – The Webelos (Self-released)

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The repetitiveness of social media is ruining me.


Saturday, January 7, 2012

First episode of Cosmic Tones // Backward Glasses Finale









---The name has changed, but the song remains the same.---


Setlist for 1/6/12


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Fire! Fire!! (13:08) > Pagan Moonbeam (3:47) - My Brother The Wind
Åmål, Sweden
Dream of Vodyanoy - The Re-Stoned
Moscow, Russia
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Sunday #1 - Papir
a blizzard, Denmark
Kleiner Knaller - Electric Moon
Germany
Calalini Rises - Lumerians
Oakland, CA
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The Vessel - Hills
Gothenburg, Sweden



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[And I wouldn't say this if it weren't true; but these past three "Year-End" shows are some of the best on the archive. highly recommended.]

If you are interested in finding more great music of this ilk, these are basically the best labels to check out.
•Nasoni



Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Backward Glasses // The Year In Review, Pt. II




Setlist for 12.23.11

Let Her Rest - Fucked Up
Toronto
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No Time - Radio Moscow
Iowa
Mind Daze - Psychic Ills
NYC
Do What I Can - Bad Dreams
Long Beach, CA
Body Cold - White Fence
LA / SF, CA
Woman - Timbre Timber
Light Flares - Thievery Corporation
Washington DC
On The West - Tommy Guerrero
SF
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Guajira - Zechs Marquise
El Paso, TX
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Vesta - Asteroid No. 4
Philly
Razor's Edge - Ducktails
New Jeysey
Cowboys In The Void - Quilt
Boston
Contraption / Soul Desert - Thee Oh Sees
SF
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Christmas Time - AM and Shawn Lee

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Backward Glasses // The Year In Review...




--SETLIST FOR 12.16.11--


Africastle - Battles
NYC
Tush - Ponytail
Baltimore
Lost and Found - Amon Tobin
Montreal
1985 > Not A Slave - Amen Dunes
NYC
Imidiwan Ma Tennam - Tinariwen
Tessalit, Mali
Tulip - Here We Go Magic
NYC
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PK Dick - Matt Valentine
Vermont
Zeppo Epp - Sic Alps
San Francisco
Brasserie Du Boco Triple Monk - Thurston Moore
California (byway of NYC byway of Connecticut byway of Florida)
Terra Inocua - Moön
Spain
Do Not Fear - Chad Vangaalin
Calgary
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Ancient Echoes - Eternal Tapestry
Portland

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Ring it in...



Monday, December 12, 2011

Electric Eccentric




^^ Kasai Allstars' electrified likembes ^^



Setlist for 12.9.11

Uzun Ince Bir Yoldayim - Ozdemir Erdogan Ve Orkestrasi
??, Turkey
I Can't Wait - The Mops
1968, Japan
Dance, California - Wooden Shjips
2007, San Francisco
Tudor Moon - Moccasin
2006, Denver, CO
The Pulse - Holy Fuck
2007, Toronto, Canada
Koyile / Nyeka Nyeka - Kasai Allstars
2005, Democratic Republic of The Congo
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Off - Electric Orange
2001, Germany
Ausgesetzt - Giant Brain
2007, Detroit, MI
Crushed - Brian Jonestown Massacre
2003, San Francisco
So Much (Music) - Madlib
2009, L.A.
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Brown Rice - Don Cherry
1975* New York

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PS, last week's program has been mastered
and uploaded, and is now available for aural
consumption of the highest order.


Monday, December 5, 2011

Mynd Transferral.. .. ..


setlist for 12:2:11

Intro: Negrito
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Slip Inside This House - 13th Floor Elevators
1967, Austin, TX
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Mind Transferral - Davie Allan & The Arrows
1967, SoCal
Chasing Shadows - Deep Purple
1969, U.K.
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Cream Puff War (long version) - Grateful Dead
1967, San Francisco
Ed Is A Portal - Akron/Family
2007, Brooklyn
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Fixing A Hole - The Beatles
1967, U.K.
And You Tried So Hard - Gong
1971, France
I Don't Care What People Say - Silver Apples
recorded 1969 - not released until 1998, New York
Psychedelic Man - De Frank & His Professionals
unknown, Ghana
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Aggression - Gila
1971, Germany


No audio this week. When you place too much stock into this series of silicon semiconductors and copper circuits, the odds are simply against you.
Technical difficulties have to rear their heads sometimes, but luckily,
the 45th edition of NOW WHERE just may surface in the future.
Stay tuned.

(( UPDATE ))

archive now available:



Be Swell, ya'll.