Los Massieras – 8 Tracks To Trip To

Music

Earlier in September Los Massieras told us exactly what we don't need, and now, taking another tack, they've kindly sent us a selection of stuff that they absolutely do. Joining the dots between soulful, psychedelic brain exercises and saucer-eyed, electronic-cosmos introspection, take a look through the binoculars of the finest Jamaican-French-Spanish meeting of borders since the Pyranees and see what stuff they're made of.

Los Massieras' released 'We Don't Need' through WYN&M Records ealier this month, have a look at our review here and find out more about their movements here.

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Pharoah Sanders - Astral Travelling

This track is pure cosmic outer-planetary bliss, opening up with the washed-out chorused Fender Rhodes chords played by Lonnie Liston Smith. Gliding over a fat acoustic bass line played by Cecil McBee anchoring it to a constellation of sub-solar plexus stuff. The drums shuffle and ride with Clifford Jarvis at the helm. And the Griot Pharoah wails Karnatic Kongolese passages on melted soprano sax, and it’s the perfect ticket to attain enlightenment to, as you float on kaleidoscopic astral bliss.

Pharoah Sanders - Astral Travelling

This track is pure cosmic outer-planetary bliss, opening up with the washed-out chorused Fender Rhodes chords played by Lonnie Liston Smith. Gliding over a fat acoustic bass line played by Cecil McBee anchoring it to a constellation of sub-solar plexus stuff. The drums shuffle and ride with Clifford Jarvis at the helm. And the Griot Pharoah wails Karnatic Kongolese passages on melted soprano sax, and it’s the perfect ticket to attain enlightenment to, as you float on kaleidoscopic astral bliss.
Herbie Hancock - Water Torture

Feel like flying thru Dogon constellations in a Kabuki scenario, whilst traversing the desert on a camel train? Well dive into this 1972 chapter of abstract tripping from Herbie Hancock on Rhodes and Mellotron. Early analog pioneer Patrick Gleason is programming Moog all over this track, bells and flexatones shimmer in it, whilst Jabali Billy Harts flanged hi-hat holds the Water Torture together, whilst allowing it to float. Eerie Bass Clarinet and Trumpet lines from Mwilie Bennie Maupin and Swahile Eddie Henderson paint us into twilight zones From whispers to screams you dynamically get catapulted out there I mean way WAY over yonder into other galaxies.
Jimi Hendrix - 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)

The Echoplexed aquatic guitar motif beckons us in on this sublime Hendrixian Venusian love hymn, which dips and dives into Neptunian depths to space ship crescendos, hold on, it’s a wide galactic trajectory we’re travelling here. I am so enraptured every time I hear this track, it’s a multi-orgasmic, symphonic excursion; reincarnation is the theme while Jimi simultaneously comments on war and the ecological set backs we have laid on our planet but he hastens to add, fear not ‘coz a psychedelic utopia is straight ahead.
Mimi Majick - Mimi's Majick Utilities One

One of my favourite tracks ever. It opens with sort of cosmic bells… Very peaceful… Then this low bass heals you… It caresses your brain and makes you feel good… It is a very good trip provided by one the greatest UK label ever: Irdial.
Psychictv/Ptv3 - Alien Lightning Meat Machine

If I would decide to follow one Guru it would be Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. This is a very long piece of music. It is super dense. Pure musical LSD… Like the hipsters are saying: epic! It ends on the vinyl with a locked loop so you can continue listen to it until the effects totally vanished…
Colin Potter - Gas

Visionaire. Sonic Explorer. Experimental wounds cannot be nursed. A trip is a trip is a trip…
C.P.I. - El Túnel

Better than Chris and Cosey on ketamine.
Coil - Time Machines

I mean… try not to.