Psycultures: Theorizing the Globalization of Goatrance
In this interview, Graham St. John discusses his groundbreaking
study on the global electronic dance music movement, a culture of personal transformation celebrated in a collective fashion.
Pop Singer Ben Lee Comes out of The Ayahuasca Closet
In this interview, the ever-shape-shifting pop singer Ben Lee discusses his ambitious new album, "Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work," the spirituality of Fugazi shows, how chi gong practices changed his live performances, and why aya is “the perfect medicine for this time.”
Aligning Minds: My Heart is Love
Aligning Minds’s newest album, My Heart Is Love, has been
described as an ethereal future city. Listening to the album, I feel myself floating in a
dream; swimming through a Miyazaki film or a Philip K. Dick
novel — underwater undulating breaths, heartbeats, android love songs,
dripping tunnels, cathedral hollows, hypnogogic blips and clicks, and
siren arias.
Beat of the Shaman: An Interview with Musician Byron Metcalf
Byron Metcalf is a musician in touch with this resonance and rhythm
of mysteries in the unseen realms of the shamanic experience. I sat down to talk with Byron about his work and his interest in shamanic states of consciousness.
Cry Before Your Lord – Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke on Ancestral Spirits & Communion with the Dead?
Killing Joke has seen three decades of critical
engagement with contemporary culture, bringing ancient traditions forward and embracing a reality unbounded by arbitrary laws. With this interview, I wanted to understand how the death of bassist Paul Raven and extending friendship beyond temporal limitations affected Coleman's life.
Mindrolling: Politics and Spirituality
For hosts David Silver and Raghu Markus, the Mindrolling podcast is about becoming unstuck. It's a rock and rolling conversation remembering the 60s, digesting the 70s, paralleling then and now, right now, in the growing 10s of the 21st century. Including a talk by Ram Dass from 1979 and David's recounting of his encounter with Richard Nixon.
“We’re All Still Here”
RS catches up with Laurell Eden, a recording artist and spiritual teacher whose latest single, "We're All Still Here," is a "joyous post-Dec. 21 anthem."
Ayahuasca, Wolves and Music: A Conversation with John Sheldon
John
Sheldon was
Van Morrison's lead guitarist at age 17. He has an uncanny gift for conjuring the wild
spirit, so when he told me he'd written a song for the famous alpha
female Wolf 06 shot and killed just out of Yellowstone, I wanted to share it with others who, like me, are mourning for all of the hundreds of wolves who are murdered for sport.
Myth, Ritual, and Revelry: A Talk with Damian Lazarus
Damian Lazarus, head of the influential Crosstown Rebels record label, is transforming the clichéd image of house music. In this interview, Lazarus talks about Burning Man and Day Zero, his upcoming 24-hour dance party synchronized to the end of the Mayan Calendar.
Visionary Soundscapes: A Talk with Mystical Sun
Mystical Sun has been making verdant listening-room electronica for almost two decades. The recently-released 26000 is his first album in four years, a testament to the time-intensive work and, poetically, also a concept album about deep time and epochal cycles.
