psychedelic
aardvarchaeology | March 7, 2007 Gruff Rhys, front man of trippy Welsh popsters The Super Furry Animals, released his second solo album back in January, Candylion. (Here's the promo site.) Its mellow quirky tunes will appeal to fans of the Furries. I particularly like the title track, "Beacon in the Darkness" and the hummable "The Court of King Arthur".
I keep an eye open for pop lyrics having to do with archaeology. Here and here, for example, are two songs about bog bodies. And on Candylion we find the following fine example, indicating that Mr Rhys has been watching Time Team:
The Court of King Arthur
By Gruff Rhys…
aardvarchaeology | February 26, 2007
Sex sells, so here's a pic of my new psychedelic undies. Stuff them in your mouth, Dear Reader, and they will take you on a long, strange trip.
aardvarchaeology | February 12, 2007Saw three art exhibitions Sunday with the ladies of my family.
The Culture House, Kulturhuset, in central Stockholm shows US photographer Sally Mann's work, mainly selected from three collections: 1980s pictures of her kids (very controversial in the US back then because of child nudity, an issue few Swedes are able to get worked up about), 1990s landscapes from the southern US, and huge recent portraits of her grown-up kids where any documentary ambition is completely abandoned for out-of-focus fogginess. Absolutely wonderful stuff, and no photoshoppery, only analog chemical photography,…
aardvarchaeology | February 9, 2007A new Swedish study on rats suggests that there is a physiological reality behind the idea that relatively innocuous cannabis may act like a gateway drug, leading on to heavier drugs.
Soon-to-be-graduating doctoral candidate Maria Ellgren of Karolinska Institutitet has documented a significantly greater interest in self-administered heroin among adult rats that were dosed with cannabis in the womb or during adolescence. Their brains exhibited changes in parts linked to pleasure and rewards. However, they were not more interested than non-stoner rats in central stimulants such as amphetamine.…
aardvarchaeology | February 8, 2007
Robert Schneider, one of my favourite neopsychedelic musicians, has a new album out, this time with his main band again, The Apples in Stereo. His previous album Expo was issued in 2005 with The Marbles and is an excellent synth-driven yet lo-fi effort. Before that he did two non-psych albums in 2005 (with Ulysses) and 2002 (with the Apples) which didn't do much for me, so the last time the Apples released anything good was in 2000 with the radiant Discovery of a World Inside the Moone.
The new disc, New Magnetic Wonder, consists of no less than 24 songs recorded from late 2005 to late 2006…
aardvarchaeology | January 21, 2007
I am an admirer of all things psychedelic in art and music. My wife recently bought a second-hand copy of Disney's animated feature film Dumbo -- dubbed in Finnish of all languages. But we're a multilingual family and the kids are used to someone always gabbling incomprehensibly, so they didn't mind.
I just passed by the TV, hearing a men's choir singing in Finnish -- and then I caught a glimpse of the accompanying images. Bad trip man, baaad trip. Psychedelic multicolour elephants! Morphing in and out of shape, forming incandescent moiré patterns, sliding across the field of vision and into…