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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!!!

On this episode of PTR, we’ll be experiencing the radio premiere of Birmingham’s own Sugarplums’ excellent debut (self-titled) album and they’ll be in the studio to talk all about it and play some songs that inspired the record! 

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Hazel Cline - cyclix
The Ventures - Fly Me To The Moon
Wax Fur - Bleach Dust 
Stellatone - Escape To Planet X 
Nowhere Squares - Dare I be Optimistic 
Noah Deemer - Modern Ruins 
Butthole Surfers - Waiting For Jimmy To Kick
David Bowie - Girl Loves Me
Jacquie Cotillard - Cut Concentrate (Burroughs/Einstein/Russell Cut-Up) 
Pregnant - Pastel
Joe McPhee & Jon Synder - Red Giant (excerpt)
Sunik Kim - The Truth (excerpt)
Junior Mint Prince - Peeling
Jarvis Cocker - You Can’t Wake Up If You Don’t Fall Asleep 
Ramblin’ Ricky Tate - The Witch
Clentt Gant - Storms End 

HOUR 2 : feature - radio premiere : Sugar Plums’ debut album (in-studio guests)

Superdrag - Destination Ursa Major
Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Walls (Circus)
Grandaddy - A.M. 180

Sugar Plums -

Something Sweet
Hummingbird Water
Perfect Strangers
Lake Sound
Bad Lovers 
Wooden Sundial

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

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episode 246 : radio premiere - Sugarplums’ debut album (in-studio guests)

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“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 246 : radio premiere - Sugarplums’ debut album (in-studio guests)

Psychic Tuesday Radio

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