2015

For those that want the latest Psychic Sounds updates available via facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/psychicsoundsrecords?fref=ts
or look for "Psychic Sounds Research & Records" 

August 29 - 
FEEDBACK MUSIC FESTIVAL 
w/ White Gourd / Taboo / Russian Tsarlag / E Manuscript and many more!
Belfast, ME @ American Legion Hall
EVENT PAGE and more info HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1690941464468593/

CAMERA EYE: A Cinema Salon 
Sunday, August 30
featuring films by: Emily Shinada
Grant Corum: www.planesofcorum.com
Maralie Armstrong: http://www.maralie.com/videos.html
Jamie Mohr: https://vimeo.com/user1959229
Carlos Gonzales: www.facebook.com/RussianTsarlag
Natalie Purkey
Stefan Christoph
Crissy Puccire
Bonnie Cavanagh

@Augury Arcade - 11 Market St. 
Belfast, ME 
Starts at Dusk 

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TWO NEW ALBUMS and a PRINT by CORUM - 
AVAILABLE FOR PRE -ORDER:


BLACK or WHITE ORPHEUS 2:
PLACE OF THE HIDDEN SUN  

tape cassette
on Lost Discoveries
to be released September 1st 
PRE-ORDER AT PSYCHIC SOUNDS
  

“Place of the Hidden Sun is a minimal abstract mystery of human beatbox style hyper rhythmic arrangements weaved with strange fields of glimmering melody to create lo-fi spiraling pop ambience.  Hailing from Milan, Italy,  Adele H. uses looping repetitive flowing vocals worked into beautiful circular figures adding pulses of breath, claps and hand percussion paced on repeated short spoken pieces.  There's so much going on, and the vocals are more like another instrument, like a more psychedelic, more augmented textual brilliance.  Corum plays soft focus prismatic choral shimmers underpinned by woozy high end melodies molded into new warped shapes of sound.  The result is is strangely hypnotic, not just the words, but the percussive elements of recorded female vocals that are transformed into beats sprinkled amorphous shards of choral synthesizer, creating weirdly meditative trancelike expanses.  It's so easy to get totally lost, letting the words and sounds, the pulse and throb transport you to some strange world where sound and speech, music and words, blur into something wholly other.”   - Chris Webb, for psychicsoundsrecordings.blogspot


Running Time: 40 min
-Professionally dubbed in stereo to Chrome tape cassette /  Dolby B
-Includes extensive writing sheet 

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BEGUILING ISLES: 
TALES FROM THE VISION PIT
 tape cassette
on Lost Discoveries  
to be released September 1st
PRE-ORDER AT PSYCHIC SOUNDS
"A much anticipated follow-up to the earlier Effigy Mounds LP, Tales From The Vision Pit takes up where the Mounds left-off creating an atmosphere that is heady and devotional, with a dark, dramatic aspect that is profoundly effective.  It could also be described as ‘musical surrealism’.  Like the album’s interior artwork of drawings, the music creates hallucinatory effects as soundscapes by mixing sampled and heavily synthesized sounds with acoustic arrangements for a variety of instruments sounding like alien percussion, washes of chanting and dark constellations of bowed non-identifiable instrumentation building into amazingly euphoric moments.  Corum’s approach draws upon diverse forms, including acoustic, drone music, sound collage, folk, and progressive rock joining the dots between primitive drums, outer space improvisation and travelogue field recordings that sustains the atmosphere across both sides while nodding to your favorite experimental albums throughout.  Pretty much everything you could want from one his records is in here, and that final triumphal trumpet call-and-response by the end is one of the signature moments of his entire back catalogue.  All copies come with a fold-out cover of drawings.  Highly Recommended!"  
- Sarah Thompson, for psychicsoundsrecordings

 - Running Time: 62 Minutes 
- Professionally dubbed in stereo to Chrome tape cassette /  Dolby B
- Cover fold out with drawings by Corum



MULTIPLEX 
#3
 a magazine with contributions from:
Guy Rombouts, Joris De Rycke, Heta Bilaletdin, 
Eva Marie Rødbro, Dennis Tyfus, Roope Eronen, 
Tina Schott, Grant Corum, Jeff Hartford, Lauren Pakradooni, Pat Maher, Zeloot, Bramok, Ronnie Oliveras, Dieter Durinck, Elia Buletti, Francesco Cavaliere, Ronan Riou, Amy Faust, Lieven Martens Moana, Rufus Michielsen, Ernesto González, Jonas Frederiksen, Mima Schwahn, Jens Fleischer, Wietske van Gils, Ada van Hoorebeke, Jo Caimo, Carlos Antonio Mattos, Eva van Deuren, Spencer Clark, Floris Vanhoof

32 stencil printed pages, screen printed cover, 
post card and a patch. comes in a printed envelope 

presentation on Sunday July 19th, 4pm
F44, Bleekhofstraat 44, 2140 Antwerpen
+ DJ Snoid, grill blazing in the mini garden

ORDER HERE 


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6 / 1 / 15
Corum in front of the new Psychic Sounds Showspace
 & Recording Facility now located in Belfast, Maine
(photo by Dalton Carter 2015)


MILLION BRAZILIANS 
have now launched their new bandcamp site that they'll be contributing to monthly and uploading many long out-of-print albums, bonus downloads and previously unreleased material over the next year. Meanwhile, two Psychic Sounds classic releases, Hideous Visions and Cult Music of Ajitz, can now be streamed, or available for purchase, for the first time!!

Psychic Sounds presents: 


SATURDAY, JUNE 20

CAETHUA 
BEYOND HUMAN SCALE (Lazy Magnet)
MSHR 
SYKO FRIEND (Tips for Twat)

Opening Ritual at 6pm by WHITE GOURD

Wild World Cuts by DJ Bizango Leaks 
(CORUM of Million Brazilians)

Projections by VHS&M (members of Taboo)

12 Mill Lane
Belfast, ME

EVENT PAGE HERE:
www.facebook.com/events/946184835448955/

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 UNHEARD INDONESIA: 
'Pancak Silat Situbondo'
East Java

Arrington de Dionyso and Lima Jari Sakti Rasyit

  12" LP 




 "The latest in the ever expanding Psychic Sounds collection of sonic treasures is from around the world in East Java, Indonesia documented by artist and musician Arrington de Dionyso (Malaikat dan Singa / Old Time Relijun) during his travels.  It focuses on music that accompanied a festival of Pancak Silat, which is a form of kung fu that is part combat form and part dance performance practiced in Java for many centuries with an element of trance that is reinforced by the fast paced repetitive music.  This raw recording features a gloriously vibrant din of fiery double-reeded wind instruments, fierce cries, jubilant flutes, and an explosive bass clarinet which all whirl endlessly atop a bed of a dense and dizzyingly assemblage of bells, cymbals, gongs that truly stirs up a visceral and wild concoction of traditional folk music and mutated free jazz.  It's all acoustic, but it sounds so loud and incredibly intense.  The root sounds of the percussion will definitely sound familiar to listeners of Gamelan music but this is somehow even more manic and spirited.  This may be the first ever recording of a bass clarinet crossing frequencies with this particular style of kung-fu music and it's experimental nature succeeds in creating a wild and gorgeous wonderland of exciting images that makes you want to dance, and trance out simultaneously; powerful and exhilarating!  Certainly recommended for fans of the raw street recordings of Sublime Frequencies, Nonesuch Explorer series, Ethnic Lyrichord,  Indonesian Folkways, or perhaps newer east-meets-free jazz.  Like all Psychic Sounds releases, the artwork is as breathtaking as the music, gorgeously packaged in a full color sleeve, screenprinted by artist Corum, and includes a fold out insert with inspired drawings and liner notes by Dionyso as well.  Utterly fantastic!"

- Karen for psychicsoundrecordingsblogspot.com

ORDER HERE


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UPCOMING RELEASES for 2015:

MILLION BRAZILIANS: 
PODEROSO MONICATO 
12" LP

*ESTIMATED RELEASE DATE IS SEPTEMBER 15*


ABOUT MILLION BRAZILIANS:
"Beautiful and scarred in a way that only those who have glimpsed the face of the old gods can know." - 20 Jazz Funk Greats 

"...lending a post-jazz frequency to the madness herein." - Byron Coley, Wire 

"Ritualistic performances of Sun Ra-inspired psychedelic jazz rumblings provide a kind of psychic cleansing that can only come from dancing wildly to pounding percussion and basslines that gently thrum your spinal column." - Robert Ham, The Portland Mercury

"Exotica avante guarde mystical music that is impossible to classify." - Eric Isaacson, Mississippi Records  

 "PODEROSO MONICATO MUSIC IS MADE FOR 'THE LOST TO APPEAR' 
or a 'RITUAL FOR RETURN'
CALLING ON THE POWERS OF THE MIGHTY SPIRIT OF MONICATO!"

   Recorded at Dub Narcotic & Psychic Sound's Leisure Hive 
 with special guests Arrington de Dionyso, 
Idaho Joe Windslow, Angelo Spencer and China Star!!

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SOLO MUSIC OF GUINEA 
12" LP 

Obscure field recording of hypnotic griot solo music recorded in the early 60s in Guinea.  
Angelic morning music.

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 Corum's
BEGUILING ISLES:
FANTASM COSMOGONIA

Much-anticipated follow-up to last year's Effigy Mounds LP, once more released on Psychic Sounds imprint and new release for bay area label Moon Glyph.  From the 2 new featured teaser tracks, Fantasm Cosmogonia takes up where the Beguiling Isles left us off as a triumphal explosion of magisterial organ and alien percussion piece that leads into a kind of heavy tribal serpentine groove of feverish worship. The new atmosphere is heady and devotional, with a dark, dramatic aspect that is profoundly effective "inspired by a lucid vison of another dimension and appearing threshold creatures within it" revealed and translated to sound by Corum.
 
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NEW COLLABORATION FROM
MILLION BRAZILIANS with
The TENSES (SMEGMA) and MSHR !!!
12" LP
We've only heard a small amount of this massive amount of recordings made by this power trio of strangeness, but what we have heard we're really, really excited about; featuring a unique mesh of horns, electronic biofeedback, flutes, EVP voices (?),  and an assortment of unique percussion all organically flowing in and out of a sci-fi landscape of swampy terrain! Much anticipated!!

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EXPERIMENTAL INDIA 
presents: 
MUMMY DUST TRIPPERS 
 Winslow & Corum: 
 12" LP

Experimental India's Mummy Dust Trippers aim to demonstrate the improvisational way of life through its use of transmitted sound inventions and trance devotions using such exotic instruments as electronic tabla, nagaswaram, shehnai, ecktar, sarangi, drones, and traditional scales.  Bardic songs of hallucinations, synesthesia, 'tides of time' and spider infested temples riddle this lysergic  plane of music.  Corum & Windslow began with 'private station performances'  and curated live presentations for each city as a link between their "Inner Frequencies" to the audiences.  They later adopted 'Experimental India Radio' as the on-air name for the original broadcast of a featured live radio session and interview that gave way to these new zoned out sessions.

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Saturday, March 21

 The High Water Mark Lounge 
VERY SPECIAL EQUINOX SHOW: 
MILLION BRAZILIANS "Farewell to Arms" Last West Coast show! 
 w/ The TENSES (SMEGMA) / 
Birch Cooper of MSHR /   
Geist & the Sacred Ensemble
DJ by Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies ) /
Projections by Colin Manning !
more details to come.... 
EVENT PAGE HERE

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March 19 @ Hollywood Theatre 7:30 pm $8
Mississippi Records film series presents a night of live music to some of the most bizarre film footage out there!

CHURCH OF FILM GREATEST HITS COLLAGE
featuring live musical scores from:

MICHAEL HURLEY
MARISSA ANDERSON
DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER
MILLION BRAZILIANS
JASON BOKOROS

A film collage prepared by the curatorial team at the Church of film with live soundtrack by some of Mississippi Records favorite musicians! The film is a winding piece of madness - weaving together scenes from all kinds of films on themes like nature, death and sex, war and much more. Not for the faint of heart or spirit.  The films will be accompanied by live score work from the following individuals, each musician chiming in separately throughout the program -
 
There will also be two short films. An evening of psychedelic entertainment not to be missed!
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE INFO HERE.

 AMAZING NEW TAPES JUST IN LIMITED QUANTITIES!: 
AT THE PSR SHOP: www.psychicsounds.com

  
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tape cassette

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VOLCANIC GREMLIN MAGNET



"Wonderfully weird collaboration, between avant free jazz tribalists Million Brazilians and legendary improvised pianist Thollem McDonas creating a combo of yet another freaky transmission from whatever otherworldly outpost these mysterious Portland free jazz & drone outsiders call home, and lordy, is it chaotic, throbbing and beautiful. Eerie wavering electric insect buzz delicately unfurl near the start, quiet and pretty... that gives way to a ceremonial gong call churning into a rhythmic jam of deep bass and cyclic hand drum groove, super fuzzed-out organ, angular guitar thwack, flute coloration, and wailing sax sometimes in perfect harmony, other times exploding into an eruption of turbulent jazz freak out truly sounding like a primordial opening of volcanic cavern. Within those various sounds, MB & Thollem, intentionally twist everything up, adding all kinds of evocative noises, woozy marimbas, mysterious rumbles, swirling jungle drums, sonic detritus of bells, shakers and ghostly calls that seem to unfold and flower and splinter into all sorts of different shapes and sounds as the set progresses forming some sort of scene like a Central American ritualistic exorcism into ecstatic celebration ending with a gorgeous distant flute calling. The Million Brazilian's sound have managed to be dangerously distinct and totally prolific, but completely enigmatic and underground at the same time. With Thollem's range between spastic gritty textures to enthralling minimalist pulsations of a well tempered synthesizer, "Volcanic Gremlin Magnet" creates a lush, expressive, and alien strain of jazz. It's a fantastic 54 minutes, all right! Highly Recommended!"
-AJ, psychicsoundrecordings.blogspot.com


-Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Mike Erwin
and professionally dubbed onto Cobalt tape
(MB photo by Jason Edmonds 2014)


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