Moon Duo Are Groovy

Oh my, I am obsessed with these neo-psychedelic tracks from "Stars Are The Light," the newest release by Moon Duo. Float--or groove--away as Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada perform "Flying," "Lost Heads," and "Eye 2 Eye."

https://moonduo.org/

"We Never Had A Chance" by The Brian Jonestown Massacre

I am spacing out to this incredible psychedelic dream of a song, "We Never Had A Chance" by Anton Newcombe's band The Brian Jonestown Massacre. From the eponymous album released this year, 2019. I love this sound.

http://www.brianjonestownmassacre.com/

BEAUTY: Photography--Terri Loewenthal

The photography of Northern California artist Terri Loewnethal reminds me of the classic 70s film "Zabriskie Point" by Antonioni (previously here)--the different views of California landscapes superimposed on top of one another, all drenched in acid Kool-Aid colors. Indeed, she has titled this series "Psychscapes." "I was referring to these images as psychedelic even before I made them," she says. "To have a psychedelic experience is to free your mind from its normal constraints. When I had the idea for these images, I was able to shift the colors of the natural world in my mind."

Top to bottom: Psychscape 09 (Buck Creek, CA); Psychscape 18 (Banner Ridge, CA); Psychscape 26 (Rock Garden, CA); Psychscape 41 (Lundy Canyon, CA); Psychscape 48 (Lookout Mountain, CA); Psychscape 61 (Yosemite); Psychscape78 (Obsidina Dome, CA)

http://www.terriloewenthal.com/

BEAUTY: Digital Collage--Luis Toledo

Luis Toledo. Graphic artist. Maximalism.

"Death, spirituality, necessity, beginning and end.
Death is just one more step in which we abandon the skin to continue our existence with another form. The liberating end. Another aspect of life, so vital and necessary as life itself.
The mirror that our eye escapes from, but nevertheless, charges against without remedy in these images.
The other side becomes visible, evident, melted with the reality from which was never separated.
Skulls, skeletons, insects, fungus, bodies with no face and solitaries expressions, abstract and geometric forms, all in an unmaterialized arsenal.
The reality ( material ) is obvious, monotonous and predictable. It is easy than to understand the fascination of the author for the none-material and spiritual part of life and how they are related and represented.

Time, past, present and future and eternity.
The definitive illusion follows its path in a clock-time rhythm.
We run desperate after each second trying to stop it, trap it, take it, use it. “ Time is gold” they say, but in reality is only a measure like weight or height. Your life is not the time that has been until the moment, of course not. It is necessary that we are conscious of the present moment, taste it, enjoy it.
This is an idea that is developed in each work with fraction complexity inviting the spectator to stop and appreciate with care each detail.
An attention call for the consumer society, and even more, for the constant images designed to use ans throw. Something that the author calls out : “ hurry kills”.
The brief instant becomes the key of eternity.
The use if images and aesthetics picked up from the past, mixed with abstract and contemporary forms, transport us into a un-timed territory; and in here, present, past and future mix in a symbolic reality."

Top to bottom: Offering Ritual; Portrait; Thangka; The Secret; Logic of a Dream; The Mushroom Garden

http://laprisamata.es/

Currently listening to...

...The Chemical Brothers and their neo-psychedelic sounds of "Dissolve."

http://www.thechemicalbrothers.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--Armando Mariño

Armando Mariño's wildly colorful, psychedelic scenes seem like something from the 60s, but they are recent works. Kaleidoscopic hues and twinkling lights abound. His subject matter even has a kind of hippie vibe with pieces like Flower Man and Shaman.

Top to bottom: The Lonely Girl; Belfast;Crying Girl; Flower Man; I'm Free; Revolution in the House of the Colors; Shaman; Two Trees House

http://armandomarino.com/

"Silver Timothy" by Damien Jurado

WONDERFUL neo-psychedelia by Damian Jurado!

http://damienjurado.com/