Psychedelic Source Records Releases Psychedelic Riffage From Under the Ground of Budapest Vol. 3
It’d be real easy to get spoiled with Psychedelic Source Records dropping weekly jams like the Hungarian collective have been these last couple weeks with the four-part series, Psychedelic Riffage From Under the Ground of Budapest. As the Vol. 3 in the title indicates, this is part three — part one here, part two here; both also below because I’m not here for money and don’t actually care about or even track clicks — and it comes from the second of two nights the PSR collective took stage at Riff Budapest to support Great Rift and Black Flamingo playing improv jams.
Getting one live record out of one set is pretty solid. Getting two out of two sets, doubly impressive. With Psychedelic Source Records, since it’s all made up on the spot, unless something breaks — and if it does, there’s always a bit of clever editing — the point is exploration, so anytime these folks are somewhere with a tape running, they can potentially get something out of it. Four releases out of two sets? Well that’s just unmatched psychedelic efficiency, my friends.
On Psychedelic Riffage From Under the Ground of Budapest Vol. III, once again the format and cover art are consistent — killer hippo and three jams of varying length. In this case, the spirit is a little mellower as noted below, but with the bit of dub divergence in “Flowers and Baguettes,” and the soothing breadth of the entirety, given jazzy fluidity through slow pulls of trupmet, effects and so on. As regards methodology, it’s standard practice for Psychedelic Source Records to show up and do this kind of thing, but the results across these last couple weeks have been something special. I look forward to another chapter next week as the series wraps.
Here’s the info and such from Bandcamp, plus all the streams:
Psychedelic Riffage From Under the Ground of Budapest Vol. 3
Happened on 21 and 22 February: Parahobo organized a double gig for Great Rift and Black Flamingo at Riff Budapest, one of the last bastions of the real underground in Hungary.
Asked us to jam instead of a simple support band. So we set the gear up, played and recorded 4 sets in this 2 days. All sessions turned out nice, so we decided to release all of them.
This was the first session on the second day, one of the best for sure. The mellow psych rock, Máté sit behind the drums (appears in Slight Layers and a lot of sessions) Microdosemike’s Miki on trumpet and keyboard.
1. Laudanum Drops 15:18
2. Flowers and Baguettes 13:12
3. El Campo 08:09
released March 28, 2025
Bass – David Strausz
Drums – Mate Varga
Guitars – Akos Karancz and Gergely Szabo
Trumpet and keys – Miklos Kerner
Art – Parahobo
https://psychedelicsourcerecords.bandcamp.com/
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