About this episode
Lay Llamas celebrates the release of their new album 'Time, Islands and Thresholds' with a mesmerizing mix that explores themes of psychedelia and existential imagery.
A longstanding, driving force within the Italian underground and the wider world of contemporary psychedelic music, Lay Llamas celebrates the release of the project's new album 'Time, Islands and Thresholds' with a mesmerizing mix for our main series. Nicola Giunta has been leading the psych brigade under the Lay Llamas banner for well over a decade. Formed in 2012, the project has since released an entrancing, ever-evolving body of work across indispensable labels including Rocket Recordings and Black Sweat Records, collaborating with the likes of Goat, Clinic, Damo Suzuki (Can), and Mark Stewart (The Pop Group) along the way. With new album ‘Time, Islands and Thresholds‘, Lay Llamas heads out on a spellbinding, synapse-fried voyage that evokes hallucinatory visions in mysterious, exotic lands. Across ten tracks, hypnagogic psychedelia is masterfully laced with cosmic dub, space rock, and the kind of music you might hear on records by Eden Ahbez and Martin Denny. Describing the imagery and existential trajectory that underpins the record, Giunta references “surfers on acid, mysterious rites on deserted islands, worshippers of solar deities, night flights, animal skins…
Topics covered
- psychedelic music
- album release
- Italian underground
- music collaboration
- cosmic dub
Keywords
- Time, Islands and Thresholds
- Nicola Giunta
- hypnagogic psychedelia
- cosmic dub
- space rock
- surfers on acid
- mysterious rites
- solar deities
- psychic inner journeys
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Lay Llamas, Time, Islands and Thresholds', Time, Islands and Thresholds, Spacemen 3, Peaking Lights, Sun Araw, I Was Blind (Now It’s Over)
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