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Say Psych: Album Review: 10 000 Russos – Superinertia
Portuguese experimental trio 10 000 Russos released their fifth album Superinertia last week via Fuzz Club Records. Following on from 2019’s Kompromat and tour-dates around the UK, Europe and Mexico in support, the Porto-based band describe ‘Superinertia’ as a record addressing the “state of inertia that humans live in the West nowadays. It isn’t a …
Say Psych: Track Review: 10 000 Russos – Super Inertia
Portuguese trio 10 000 Russos are back with their new single and video ‘Super Inertia’ – the eponymous first track to be lifted from their new album Superinertia, due out 10 September via the London based Fuzz Club Records. Following on from 2019’s Kompromat LP and tour-dates around the UK, Europe and Mexico in support, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Tren Go! Soundsystem & Ornamental – Assessment
Tren Go! Sound System is a guitar, loop and fx driven one-man-band psychedelia. The steel driving man behind this locomotive is Pedro Pestana (10 000 Russos and Talea Jacta) who started this journey on train tracks back in 2006. Ornamental is the alter ego of Sidney Jaffe is producing and performing music since 2013. The …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Dreamweapon – Moongazer
Cardinal Fuzz and Little Cloud Records are releasing dreamweapon’s Rites Of Lunacy on vinyl after its digital release last year; our review can be read here. BSM is proud to bring you the video premiere of ‘Moongazer’. Hailing from Porto and naming themselves after the masters of the eternal drone (La Monte Young and Spacemen …
Say Psych: Album Review: Dreamweapon – Rites of Lunacy
Porto’s dreamweapon take their name from the 1990 Spacemen 3 live album ‘Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music’, who themselves took inspiration from the work of minimalist drone – or ‘Dream Music’ – visionary La Monte Young and a 1965 multimedia piece titled ‘Rites of The Dreamweapon’ by original The Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise. Following …
Say Psych: Album Review: dreamweapon – Maelstrom X
Porto’s dreamweapon take their name from the 1990 Spacemen 3 live album ‘Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music’, who themselves took inspiration from the work of minimalist drone – or ‘Dream Music’ – visionary La Monte Young and a 1965 multimedia piece titled ‘Rites of The Dreamweapon’ by original The Velvet Underground drummer Angus …
Say Psych: Album Review: Sunflowers – Endless Voyage
Sunflowers return with their third LP Endless Voyage; a conceptual sci-fi record about the end of the world, the rise of the machine, doubt about one’s individuality and the acceptance of chaos. It has been recently released on Stolen Body Records, the second to be released with them after 2018’s Castle Spell. This is a …
Say Psych: Premiere: 10000 Russos – Kompromat
Portuguese trio 10000 Russos are an incendiary, galvanising presence in the European Psych underworld; something that’s impossible to shake after you first catch their notoriously all-consuming live show or drop the needle on that LP for the first time. Seven years on from their inception and the Porto-based outfit now release their third full-length, Kompromat, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Dreamweapon – SOL
Rating: 8/10 Portugal’s Dreamweapon take their name from the 1990 Spacemen 3 live album Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music, who themselves took inspiration from the work of minimalist drone – or ‘Dream Music’ – visionary La Monte Young and a 1965 multimedia piece titled ‘Rites of The Dreamweapon’ by original The Velvet Underground drummer …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Dreamweapon – Monte da Virgem
Portugal’s Dreamweapon today announce that they will be releasing their new LP SOL on Fuzz Club Records on 16th February, to go with the announcement they have released the track ‘Monte da Virgem’ and BSM is honoured to provide you with the premiere of the video which accompanies the track. The band’s name comes from …