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San Francisco-based producer Al Lover has spent the last several years evolving an approach to psychedelic reworks of rock ‘n roll in its various inflections. Though they share some common structures, his solo LP debut Sacred Drugs is a thick distillation compared to older remixes or the heady mixtapes he’s curated for Austin Psych Fest, each its own primer on garage and psych in the corresponding year. Sacred Drugs stands out in Al’s discography, though some of its character and more transcendant qualities are hinted at in his collaborations, with GOAT, and particularly on the single “Snake Hands” recorded with White Fence. The elaborate treatments on his 2011 digital album Distorted Reverberations (of Reverberating Distortion): Psychedelic Reinterpretations of Contemporary Rock ‘n Roll offer the most obvious antecedant for Sacred Drugs, but clearly as a collection it lacks the same scope. 

Listening to Sacred Drugs is as transformative an experience as Al’s own style of composition. Songs are a deliberate associative enterprise, paralleling both the contextualization that takes place as part of any conscious “hearing” and the abstract notion of self-development. Texture and tone combine to lead the listener inward, with hypnogogic beats that evoke the sense of ritual awakening when it was still a communal undertaking. In that way Sacred Drugs offers a measured take on reality, a tool for perceiving the outlines of your own interconnectedness… like the eponymous entheogens, Sacred Drugs is intended as a companion for self-discovery.

Al Lover - A Shaman's Hand Is Infinite

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Arranged, performed and produced by New Candys. Music and words by Fernando Nuti. Recorded and mixed by Andrea Volpato at Fox Studio (Venezia), drums recorded by Pierluigi Ballarin at Alpha Dept. Studios (Bologna). Mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà Mastering (Forlì-Cesena). Artwork by Fernando Nuti.

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L’air est frais, il est sombre et romantique. Sur la plage, un frémissement puis tout à coup, à l’horizon, la vague se forme, c’est un tsunami qui va s’abattre et tout ravager, emportant avec toute la puissance et l’énergie qu’on lui connait : les vestiges d’un monde déjà dévasté, les notes post-punk de la fin des années 70 de Manchester. On pense à Le Corbusier ou Perret. Il s'agit d'une reconstruction percussive au rythme quasi militaire, un bombardement sonore venu d'Amiens. Architecture et Cataclysme, voici Structures.

Sorry, I Know It's Late But…

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