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Non-electronic psychedelic music

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This has a very old school 60's psychedelic/pulp fiction vibe to it aswell, it has a bit of electric piano, but apart from that its guitars & drums.

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Please give this video of Queen back in the day a watch. This was in 1977 and was entire pre-digital. No synthesizers, no digital effects, it's purely analogue and one of the trippiest things I've ever heard. Yes, I know Freddie is dressed pretty....strangely....please don't let that influence your experience of the music. I beg you to watch the entire video, but the real trippy part starts at around 6'20".


Also if you're looking for some folk music, give Tommy Emmanuel a try.


Here's a trippy one from him too. Entirely acoustic guitar with delay and lots of feedback.


But really listen to that Queen. You wouldn't believe what you'd be missing by not watching it in its entirety.
 
so here is everything that comes to mind

grateful dead (above alll), yonder mountain string band, garaj mahal, the string cheese incident, honkey tonk homeslice, phish, moe, widespread panic, ooooooold sound tribe sector 9 (kindof electric), umphreys mcgee, keller williams, railroad earth, tea leaf green, zilla (also kind of electronic but really tribal:d )

anyone have similar tastes?

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not sure if it has been mentioned already but, Gojira has a psychedelic sense to me, atleast their Way of All Flesh -album. Anyway, if you enjoy metal and havent heard of them yet, I recommend you to check em out :)
 
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The great symphonies are amazing of course, but I am finding myself really into Chamber music and can not recommend Franz Shubert's "Quintet in C, D 956" highly enough. His chamber music is like a mini symphony. I haven't found a great recording on You tube really. I have 3 different versions personally. My first and probably Still favorite is the Emerson String quartet with Rostapovich on the 2nd Cello. I'm simply amazed at this stuff.
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Yeah, Schubert's chamber music is great. I think he really paved the way for many modern chamber works.

If you want classical music a little more blatant in regards to psychedelia, Alexander Scriabin is the way to go:

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And don't forget Stravinsky. The Rite of Spring incited a riot in 1913:

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Strawinsky and skriabin are extremely psychedelic.
But there are more 'classical' composers that are.
Richard strauss, ottorino respighi and maurice ravel for instance. But also claude debussy.
Debussy already wrote rite of spring-like pieces a little less than a century before strawinsky. The symphonic piece images is a good example of that.
 
Junip has quickly earned a spot in my heart. I was already a fan of Jose Gonzales then bam here comes Junip!

This song definitely gives me the psychedelic chills :D
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In one of his letters to Humphrey Osmond, Aldous Huxley suggested listening to J.S.Bach´s "The Musical Offering" (also known as BWV 1079) while on Mescaline or LSD. Huxley stated that his experience "was very strong".


I did that once on Mushrooms and... it was a truly remarkable experience :shock: It actually turned my attention to classical music...
 
I'm down with jazz when tripping as well - and never thought the two would click like they do for me. My fave... latin stuff... specifically Ry Cooder's "Buena Vista Social Club" album.
 
Although I have posted a lot of electronic music on the Nexus I am also a huge acoustic music fan. My favorite stuff is Newgrass/New Acoustic music like David Grisman, Strength in Numbers, Mike Marshall and Daryl Anger, etc. The technical precision of these guys is amazing, but I think it is the sense of being right on top of the moment that you get from a truly great group of improvising musicians that makes it work so well as psychedelia. Seeing folks like Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck etc. jamming it is like watching telepathy.

I also listen to a lot of Bluegrass, Jazz, Blues, Folk, and World Music. I listen to everything from Gypsy Jazz like Django to Romanian folk music, African drumming, Tuvan throat singing, and on and on... really anything where I think the person is playing from their heart is probably going to appeal to me.

One of my SWIMer's nicer spice journeys was accompanied by a mix of Duke Elliington, Miles Davis, J S Bach, Bethoven and a handful of guitar fingerpickers, all on shuffle. Was very nice. :)



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Michal_R said:
In one of his letters to Humphrey Osmond, Aldous Huxley suggested listening to J.S.Bach´s "The Musical Offering" (also known as BWV 1079) while on Mescaline or LSD. Huxley stated that his experience "was very strong".


I did that once on Mushrooms and... it was a truly remarkable experience :shock: It actually turned my attention to classical music...
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I'm listening to that piece now, it makes for a pretty complicated listening, very beautiful, even now when sober :)
Do you know the book 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' ?

I'd like to suggest dutch composer Simeon ten Holt (he died recently).
His work is very repetitive and trance-inducing, and way less complex than Bach's.
But I wonder how this record would be, while tripping:

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Jazz-wise, I've recently discovered Pharoah Sanders, dreamy, trippy jazz. Although during my latest mushroom session I had to turn it off as I couldn´t bear any music at all.
 
Anything Hope Sandoval. I don't know if it can be labeled as psychedelic per se, but her voice has a hypnotic quality to it.

 
Some of my favorite Celtic and Celtic influenced musicians:

Dervish - I LOVE Cathy Jordan's voice. Clear like a bell in the high registers and this wonderfu growl in the lower that would make any jazz singer proud. Just so sweet!
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Solas - especially Seamus Egan, John Doyle, Winifred Horan. Modern Irish music doesn't get any better than this.
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Liz Carol with John Doyle - Chicago's finest fiddler
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Natalie MacMaster - celtic fiddler from St Johns Island Newfoundland
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Eileen Ivers - she also plays some fantastic electric fiddle. Like if Jimi Hendrix had played Irish fiddle :thumb_up:
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Tim O'Brien - He doesn't get quite the recognition of Grisman or Bush, but he is one of my favorite mandolin players. Love his use of open strings, his mando just rings like a bell.
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Something really magic happened in music when the Scotch Irish met up with black Africans and from there we get Blues, Ragtime, Stride, Swing, Bebop, Cool, Jump, RnB, Country and Western, Rock N Roll, Funk, Hip Hop and so much more (going full circle, American country music has even influenced a lot of modern African music), including Bluegrass. Not too many decades ago Peter Rowan was a youngster in Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. Later on he met up with some cat named Jerry Garcia. Now Peter is one of Bluegrass musics elders. Here's why:
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Stefano Barone- He's one guy with an acoustic guitar and lots of delay it works REALLY well with psychs

Explosions in the Sky- 2 guitars 2 basses one drummer LOTS OF EMOTION they really know how to bring the listener on a journey

Modest Mouse- Huge acidhead jamband with absurdist lyrics that make alot of sense when on a journey
 
My most recent DMT trip included some Tibetan Singing Bowls Meditation music (very fitting for the "other-worldly" feeling I often get).

Those tracks let me to the artist's full site. Brian Green

It's experimental sound. Very hallow, mellow, eerie sound. But in the emptiness that the sound created, I found it perfect for filling it with thoughts and mental musings. This finding really revolutionized my experience. Hope you find a similar experience :)
 
Anyone here familiar with Loop Guru? Ambient/trance stuff, built entirely from samples of non-electronic sources. Nice East-meets-west vibe. The albums Catalog Of Desires and Fountains Of Paradise are my favorites.

I also want to echo jBark's mention of Georgy Ligeti- four tracks in particular:
Atmospheres
Lontano
Lux Aeterna
Requiem, introitus (the body of the requiem is very hard to listen to)

This is stuff that I've listened to on large doses of LSD... Very powerful, and it explores places only possible with orchestral arrangements. Even at its most extreme moments, you can feel the physicality of the sound's origin, the limits of physics and how they affect acoustics. Electronic instruments bypass this limitation, but not without some cost. I love electronic music, but at least a third of my playlist is classical- probably because of sentiments that echo those of the OP.
 
andreas vollenweider
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also tool goes without saying.
but i have also been finding some primus songs to be psychedelic.
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