Alber Jupiter - We Are Just Floating In Space (New Full Album) Jonathan Sonney and Nicolas Terroitin, are Alber Jupiter, a French duet from Rennes. Influenced by German krautrock and psychedelic rock. We Are Just Floating In Space is their debut album, released in May, 2019. A bass and drums, with many delays, reverbs and loops, the duo is released from any gender restriction and weaves atmospheres sometimes dark, often spatial, always psychedelic.
1. Intro 2. Flying Turtles 3. Uber en Colère 4. Martine à la Plage 5. Fangs 6. We Are Just Floating in Space
Aura Blaze - The Sparkling Black (New Full Album) Lush vocal harmonies, glowing guitars, soaring organs, flowery landscapes of orchestral flourishes... All of this and more describe Lebanon Township, New Jersey epic psychedelic rock act Aura Blaze, fronted by vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Rhode Rachel. Infusing the timeless vibes of the '60s and '70s in a catchy and memorably colorful cocktail of psych rock, Aura Blaze teleports one back to the high times of The Doors and Pink Floyd, swirling euphorically through a tunnel of light and passion with a symphonic sophistication akin to Electric Light Orchestra, tripping headlong into the hallucinogenic atmosphere shared by modern psychedelic revival bands such as Tame Impala, The Black Angels, and Holy Wave.
With the notion of “contrast” at the forefront, Rhode endeavors to evoke the unspeakable emotion that blossoms forth as terror couples with beauty, pulling the listener through the veil of conventional thought, into what the great writer Aldous Huxley has termed “the mind’s antipodes,” or the farthest sphere of human consciousness. The music of Aura Blaze is celestial yet tellurian, catchy yet haunting, spiritually ineffable yet nostalgically tangible. The Sparkling Black is his latest offering.
1. Overture: Solar Emerge 2. Good While It Lasted 3. Eyes of the Rising Sun 4. Manipulation 5. Keep On Believing 6. No Soul That Couldn't Be Sold in Hollywood 7. Hope It All Works Out 8. The Sparkling Black 9. Reprise: Lunar Dissolve
Devil Flower Mantis - Devil Flower Mantis (2019) (New Full EP)
Devil Flower Mantis - Devil Flower Mantis (New Full EP) Devil Flower Mantis is a heavy psych group from Athens, Greece. Raunch and groove are two things that define the sound of the Greek underground rock scene and Devil Flower Mantis have both commodities in abundance, as well as more than a fair amount of lysergic texturing and metallic bluster. First track "Beyond Borders" demonstrates these qualities perfectly, its crunching guitars, growling bass and punchy solid percussion are offset by the songs occasional forays into eastern tinted territories the quintet utilising subtle middle eastern themes and Arabian scales to take things to the next level. Add to this heady mix of swagger and mysticism clean, clear vocals that tell sci-fi inspired tales of "beams that rush inside my blood like streams" and having "stardust in my core".
One track does not make an EP however and so its good to know that the following tracks in no way drop beneath the high level set by their predecessor. "The Voidwalker" has a heavy prog-metallish vibe and tells a tale of a "half human, half android" forced to explore "solar storms and black holes" while "Back On The Hunt" hits a more heavy stoner groove with thunderous drums and growling bass the foundation on which raucous riffs and screaming solo's are traded, the vocalist telling us amid this musical mayhem that there is "NO TIME FOR GAMES". "Devil Flower Mantis" closes with "Black Fever" a raunch drenched opus decorated in grainy clean vocals that revisits the eastern themes and motifs touched on in the EP's opening track, this time however the band using those motifs and themes to drive and inform the songs groove rather than just decorate it.
"Devil Flower Mantis" is exactly what you would expect from a band plying its trade within the Greek underground rock scene, a delightfully addictive EP chock-a-block full of raucous refrains, groovalicious rhythms and ear catching melodies, an EP full of songs that manage to hit the inner ears sweet spot with unerring accuracy time after time.
1. Beyond Borders - 0:00 2. The Voidwalker - 5:46 3. Back on the Hunt - 12:10 4. Black Fever - 16:40
The Ivory Elephant - Stoneface (New Full Album) The Ivory Elephant have been pedaling their Blues inflected brand of Psych in the dark corners of Melbourne since 2012. Not subservient to the trends of modern music, the band follow their own inter-stellar trajectory of fuzz laden rock and extended psychedelic trips. TIE's most recent release Stoneface (2019) is a follow up to their first album Number 1 Pop Hit (2017) and two earlier Eps; Time Here Is Up (2015) and Self-titled (2013). Stretching the boundaries of modern Psych, Stoneface is best listened to whilst having an out-of-body experience fanging through time and space.
Being able to lose yourself in an album as it proceeds to bend the very fabric of reality is a pleasure like very few others, and to say that The Ivory Elephant accomplished that euphoria with this album would be to not give it nearly enough credit. From the intoxicating beginning to rewarding end, there isn’t a single thing about “Stoneface” that doesn’t bring absolute glory to the realm of psychedelic rock and its contemporaries. It’s with the ten gripping tracks that The Ivory Elephants provides us with here that bring an absolutely beautiful sound that brings together the very closely related worlds of psych rock and heavy blues to produce an ethereal texture that feels as though you’re floating through space dust while simultaneously having crunchy fuzz-filled riffs that are no less than satisfying from the first note.
That allows “Stoneface” to immediately become a meditative record that eventually becomes quite organic and diverse as one track proceeds to the next with The Ivory Elephant expertly dodging the unfortunate circumstance of their sound becoming stale through repetition. It all flows like a pristine river coming down the mountain with its own branches that lead beautifully to more cascading rivulets through colorful woods or roaring waterfalls down high cliffs, and The Ivory Elephant couldn’t have encapsulated such a concept any more perfect than they did with “Stoneface” in all of its astonishing aural beauty.
1. Storm - 0:00 2. Maybe I’m Evil - 5:39 3. Wars - 9:45 4. Roll On - 16:35 5. Jazzhead pt I - 19:45 6. Low Expectation - 21:57 7. Stoneface Jamboree - 25:35 8. Stoneface - 29:25 9. Hard Case - 37:10 10. Jazzhead pt II - 40:27
Flowers (2019) https://childrenofthesunofficial.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Childrenofthesuun/ In 1969 Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin and many others played the legendary Woodstock Festival. No one since has managed to reincarnate the feeling of nature, soul and rock music, that was on that magical field north of New York, since. Until now. Children of the Sün look like hippies, sound like hippies and they bring a wooden sun on stage. The sunshine comes by itself. Children of the Sün Arvika, Sweden
