Originally released as a cassette on 20 February 2021.

Mixed by @SKYRAGER

GMT28

GMT28 Skyrager - Rhizosphere (Side A)

Side A taken from Gi Gi's "Wonderwhirl" mixtape released last year 🙏 @gigigigigigigi

Gi Gi - Wonderwhirl Mixtape (Side A)

In the words of David Roth on the third track of Van Halen 2..: “Somebody get me a Doctor”. Honestly, I think I’ve lost it. Or maybe I’ve found it. Transcendent new age cosmic jazz set to heavily filtered images of Avebury. It doesn’t get more out there than this. Zen to fuck. I don’t really know what to say, it just happened. 13 minutes of escalating insanity or perhaps salvation. It sure felt good whilst I was making it! And I seem to have accidentally made a full-length video to accompany it having found some abandoned footage of a trip to Avebury. So here goes with the first minute. It’s gonna be quite a trip I warn you. I can’t decide what to call it yet. The working title is “He Should Have Worm a Fucking Cape”. You can leave at any time it’s getting a bit much. No judgement. We return to Middle Earth to begin settling before our journey through the stones to the Holy Mountain. These trees were the inspiration for JR Tolkien’s Ents. Which means that we’re in the right place to get our chops going for mad hippy wig-outs. Phew! You can’t see it here but one of them is known as the wishing tree. Folks if you wanna make a wish make sure you’re ribbon is biodegradable. Check out the @cleanerclootiecampaign so your dreams come true for you and for nature. Synths settle into a drone as Tibetan Bowls chime and a Wah Wah Wurlitzer begins...

To The Stones (Avebury Part 1)

Mother Nature is pregnant for the third time. We all have knocked her up. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended. For I knew I had to rise above it all. Or drown in my own shit. Yeah you guessed it. I’m trying to get to that elusive guitar solo vibe that you can only find on maggot brain. No chance. George Clinton isn’t telling me to play like my mother died. But there’s an intention there. To play like I just found Holy Temple or at least letting go coz I’m making some crazy new age psych track. Shoot for the stars and you might make it to the moon. Or Silbury. I’m here now. Earth Mother. This is where it starts to get really intense. Church bells chime a solemn out of tuneness. A wedding gone bad. And for some reason a manic lead guitar solos for England. I think I was trying to summon up that end end in Prince’s Purple Rain where intensity has reached its peak, where sweat abounds and transcendence or death are our options. Only there’s more to come. This stone, otherwise known as the “Devil’s Chair” got its name from a naturally formed seat. According to legend, if you run around the stone anti-clockwise, you will summon the Devil. I’ve summoned something. So here we go through the stones. Continuing my epic psychedelic journey towards Silbury whilst attempting some sort of new age synth odyssey only made possible by leaning into the feeling of Ashra’s “New Age of Earth” Steve Hillage’s “Rainbow Dome Musick” Don Slepian’s “Sea of Bliss” or Iasos’ “Interdimensional Music”. Obviously I’ll never achieve anything like that so I cheat and only use the black notes as I try to climb the holy mountain. I’m a guitar player you see. I’ve had lots of pedals and an oversized pedal board or two. But I’ve never had a synth rack. So I finally bought a mega stand so I could pretend to be Rick Wakeman and play all my keyboards at once and indulging myself. Just set the dials for the heart of the sun. Do not watch if you have anything other than a fully expanded mind. I’ve actually got a massive headache from editing this today. But here we are. The Holy Mountain. Silbury Hill. Our Ancient Temple of Transcendent Glory. Bridget. Ur. And a guitar solo that does it best to channel Purple Rain: We’re nearly at the end of the journey folks! Thank fuck for that. It’s been intense. Next week’s instalment will be of a windmill on the south downs with a bit of gentle piano to accompany it. I can’t keep up the pace. And anyway I’ve gone to the other side. Like those folks from the future in Bill and Ted. Rufus! And so good people of Earth we come to the end of our journey. We are beyond our worldly experiences. In fact we’ve become a character from a video that my son made for Daft Punk’s “One More Time” for his A Level Media Studies project. Thanks for letting me use it Son! Glow in the dark tape stuck on the fretboard of a 1976 Telecaster Deluxe that was once owned by fake Jimmy Page from fake impersonator band Letz Zeppelin and illuminated by a UV light in a garden on a Dark Night, his little brother forced to play the part of a Rock Star. Nothing is real. We rest for a while in the cosmos. New life will continue without us. But through our expression we might remain. Or something like that anyway. It’s been fun going full bonkers. I’d quit whilst I’m ahead but I’m about to hit 1000 followers so I suppose I’ll carry on. And anyway I promised myself I’d release a track a week in 2024. On target. Onwards. Upwards. 

The Holy Mountain (Avebury Part 2)

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