I was putting the show together the other day — like everything else in the last two weeks, I had to push off doing so owing to family stuff — and when I was picking tracks, it just kind of occurred to me that I might as well do a whole show of Heavy Psych Sounds stuff. It was like, “Oh, I’ll play Bongzilla and those new Hippie Death Cult and Acid’s Trip tracks,” and then it was “Well I haven’t played any of the new Sonic Flower yet and that’s Tatsu from Church of Misery so that’s cool,” and then from there filling out an entire two hours’ worth of Heavy Psych Sounds stuff was shockingly easy.

New 16, 1782, Cosmic Reaper, Acid Mammoth, on and on, and some other awesome stuff that’s come out in the last couple years, and two hours later, it still only barely scratches the surface of what the Italian label has done. To wit, the catalog reissues from Doze and Nebula and Brant Bjork go unrepresented here. As does the last Yawning Man or the upcoming Yawning Sons, both of which I’ve played recently on the show. But yeah, there’s so much stuff to go through, I simply didn’t have room for it all, especially knowing that I wanted to end with the 19-minute track from Orgöne because that record is so weird and out there even in comparison to other stuff the label does.

I talk a bit here, mostly just to be like, “Duh that was awesome” about one song or another. Despite my verbal bumbling and constant “uh”-ness, I hope you enjoy the show.

Thanks for listening and/or reading.

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The Obelisk Show – 03.19.21

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This one gets heavy, and mean. A lot of both. The opening is kind of spaced out and rocking, and the end is all the way gone, but there’s that middle part where it’s just fucking nasty. Vile Creature through Bismarck — one after the other after the other. I was trying to make it abrasive, and then I snuck in Gral Brothers to let anyone listening catch their breath before Come to Grief just impales the eardrums.

So yeah, it was kind of a rough week, though honestly, things kind of turned around after I put this together. Catharsis? Probably not, but it’s a nifty idea. Either way, it was all hunky-dory by the time I went and recorded the voice tracks for the show, this time in the car while taking The Pecan to go look at construction equipment. Little dude is hitting the truck phase with everything he’s got. If you listen, you’ll hear him talk about dump trucks. Maybe excavators? I can’t remember. Something. Always something.

But you know, thanks for listening if you do.

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Those seeking a preview of the kosmiche shenanigans to which French outfit Orgöne get up on their upcoming Heavy Psych Sounds label debut would do well to check out their 2018 live release, Anubis Rising (Live at Ubu Club 5/5/2018). It’s my first time hearing the band, and they sound like total noised-out freaks — or is that freaked-out noise? — so issuing the forthcoming Mos/Fet 2LP and bringing a bit of the weird to Heavy Psych Sounds makes sense. The PR wire lists it as their first record, but on their social media, the band notes one in 2016 called Hällo Späce Tertön and Anubis Rising (Live at Ubu Club 5/5/2018) both as “albums,” so I don’t really know what’s counting as what here. Sometimes when things get all spaced and avant-this-and-that, it happens on multiple levels and facets of existence. Dimensional planes, you know. There are a few of those around.

Album’s up for preorder and will be out on May 29. To the PR wire:

ORGÖNE – MOS/FET

Oh La La!! “MOS/FET” … what an album … 80 minutes of pure craziness: you can feel the flow of many different genres. The geniality and the genuineness of this band pop up really soon after the beginning of the first notes and riffs. There’s a background path made of prog-rock mixed with space-rock, avant garde and heavy psych. Everything is melted together with the wonderful vocals of the lead singer Olga. The french based band released four massive suites of 20 minutes each, made of different movements, this is absolutely a non-conventional debut album… that’s why HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS RECORDS was so astonished to release this incredible project. Heavy organs, synthesizers, hypnotic bass lines, gurgling, Arabian melodic lines… and much much more to discover inside this MONSTERPIECE!

2015 saw the meeting of Nick Le Cave (bass) and Marlen Stahl (guitar), veterans of numerous Indie-Rock, Free Rock and Rock In Opposition/Avant-Garde french bands. Together with Mat La Rossa on drums, they decided to create a « back to basics » rock band, in their hometown of Rennes (Brittany). This led to the birth of Orgöne in 2016, with the arrival of the wild French-Polish Olga Rostropovitch on lead voice.

Orgöne began to experiment and to explore many territories, mixing stoogian rock, noise-rock, krautrock « motorik » tracks, long impros… Those experiments led to a specific sound tainted more and more with psychedelic textures, space rock and noise elements, with progish hints.

Then in 2018, the departure of Mat La Rossa, who disagreed with the idea of long, epic tracks led to a radical but natural change : with the arrival of Allan Barbarian on drums and Tom Angelo on keyboards (both are also playing with the stoner band Djiin, who shared the stage with Orgöne), the band went almost back to zero and was then able to focus on long « Suites », with movements, in a prog-rock way, allowing the band to mix elements of tribal, arabic sounds, motorik rythms, organic space rock wall of sound and much more, in a very specific way. “MOS/FET”, their first double album, reflects all those experiments, in 80 epic minutes.

ALBUM PRESALE:
https://www.heavypsychsounds.com/shop.htm#HPS132

TRACKLIST:
LP
Side A : Erstes Ritual
Side B : Soviet Suit
a/ Requiem For A Dead Cosmonaut
b/ Soviet Hot Dog (Le Tombeau de Laïka)
c/ East Song
Side C : Anubis Rising
a/ Ägyptology
b/ Mothership Egypt
c/ Rhyme Of The Ancient Astronaut
Side D : Astral Fancy

DIGIPAK
1/ Erstes Ritual
2/ Soviet Suit
a/ Requiem For A Dead Cosmonaut
b/ Soviet Hot Dog (Le Tombeau de Laïka)
c/ East Song
3/ Anubis Rising
a/ Ägyptology
b/ Mothership Egypt
c/ Rhyme Of The Ancient Astronaut
4/ Astral Fancy

ORGÖNE is:
Allan Barbarian: drums & percussions, backing vocals
Nick Le Cave: bass, backing vocals
Tom Angelo: electric organ, synths, pianet t, mandolin, clarinet, recorder
Marlen Stahl: guitar, cello, violin, backing vocals
Olga Rostropovitch: lead voice

https://www.facebook.com/orgone.band/
https://orgone23.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HEAVYPSYCHSOUNDS/
http://www.heavypsychsounds.com/
https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/

Orgöne, Anubis Rising (Live at Ubu Club 5/5/2018) (2018)