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Golden Chanterelle (Silica Gel)

Summer’s currency whorled in the peat moss. Turmeric dancers. The type species, the golden standard. Both yolks and yokes are rooted in the bestial. There’s a certain wild joy in the washes where water goes to rest, and the crow flies over the white oak tree. Here, the blades are mere wrinkles; here, time slows and smells of apricot.  

Latin: Cantharellus cibarius, roughly meaning culinary chalice.

Properties: The chanterelle is a cosmopolitan mushroom that occurs nearly worldwide; known as the pfifferling in Germany, the girolle in France and the gallinacci in Italy, it is beloved everywhere it occurs. It’s becoming clearer to science that there are many cryptic cibaroid species hiding within the “golden chanterelle” species complex. Golden chanterelles are one of the few mushrooms that have had no changes to their original latin binomial since it was assigned in the 1800’s. Like their illuminating star, Cantharellus sp. provide high amounts of Vitamin D and quicken the vision with carotenoids. 

Companions: Chanterelles are ectomycorrhizal with numerous hardwoods and coniferous trees; in these alliances, the chanterelles and trees exchange nutrients that they can’t synthesize on their own. In the eastern United States, chanterelles associate heavily with Quercus species, but they also find kinship with the dark, witchy hemlock forests of New England. Other companions include: beech, birch, eastern white pine, balsam fir and sphagnum mosses. Care should be taken to avoid poison ivy, as they’re often in cohabitation. 

Recipe: https://foragerchef.com/yellowfoot-chanterelle-vodka

Silica Gel ~ July (Chanterelle)

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

This episode of PTR finds us experiencing in full Part 1 of William Basinki’s monumental and historical Disintegration Loops. These 4 albums are comprised of tape loop recordings played for extended time, with noise and cracks increasing as the tape deteriorated. Basinski discovered the effect while attempting to transfer his earlier recordings to digital format.

The completion of the recording coincided with the 9/11 attacks, which Basinski witnessed from his rooftop in Brooklyn; the cover art features his own video still of the New York City skyline in the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s collapse. He dedicated the music to the victims of the attacks. 

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Yotam The Unholy - Antenna Radio
Day Job - Post Collapse 
Ghost Food + Lauren Jones - Beaver Moon 
Dor - War of the Worlds 
Orua - Forca Contra a Favor 
STUFF - Slug 
frown lines - note57 
Being Dead - Boxes On the Ground
Broadcast - Message From Home
Tom Waits - Missing My Son 
Tracey Ullman - They Don’t Know 
Negativland - Over The Hiccups 
Strange Nursery - To Whom The Unit Is Attached 
Belbury Poly - Widdershins 

HOUR 2 : feature - The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski

William Basinski - dlp 1.1.

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 268 : The Disintegration Loops by William Basinksi

Alas And Alack, Why Do You Wrench Me So

“Autumn Rites”, Side B of New Psycho Actives Vol.2 is available now. We know it doesn’t fully feel like Autumn in a lot of places just yet, so play this one outside to try and bring on the crisp.

Autumn Rites - New Psycho Actives

Songs:
Earth, Wind, & Fire - September
Run The Jewels - Panther Like A Panther

September Like A September

A friend asked me if I could make a version of "Jolly Sailor Bold" based on the one from a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I thought of a ghost ship floating over R'lyeh. I don't think it was the sailor he was looking for, but there may be treats for some. Headphones recommended.

episode 268 : The Disintegration Loops by William Basinksi

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