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Posted on May 28, 2007 - by dionysus

Creators Entheocentria

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originally by anrei.

Alex and Allison Grey painting at the Entheocentric Salon.

Posted on May 22, 2007 - by dionysus

Triptik – a video mix

Psychedelic VJ Guillaume Clave released a 13 minute video mix accompanied by downtempo breaks and psychill.

Posted on May 21, 2007 - by alchemism

Videos from the Ayahuasca Monologues

In February 2007, we first reported on the Ayahuasca Monologues, a panel presentation hosted by the counterculture webzine souldish in NYC. Here are the uplinked videos of the Monologues for our consumption.

They range in content from the absurd to mystical; all are recommended.

Johnathan Phillips

Bill Kennedy

Jayme Waxman

Nat Bletter

Daniel Pinchbeck

Posted on May 19, 2007 - by dionysus

NYC Dance Parade

In 1926, at the height of Prohibition, the City of New York passed the cabaret laws in order to stop interracial dancing and “public lewdness.” To this end, the City established a cabaret law that limited dancing by more than three people to specifically licensed venues. These antiquated laws are still on the books and enforced, preventing New Yorkers from dancing to their favorite tunes, whether rocking out to their favorite live band or waltzing in an elegant ballroom to Strauss.

While he was mayor, Rudy Giuliani implemented his quality of life campaign which presumably was meant to make NYC a prettier, happier place to live. “Giuliani Time” caused a lot of bars and clubs to be fined or closed down. By 2002, of the 4,811 city venues with liquor licenses, only 276 were licensed cabarets where people were allowed to dance.

-J. Alexander Nixon

When NY organizers announced plans for a Dance Parade to rally against the needless and archaic City cabaret laws, the combined CoSM-28thday dance community was second to respond. With happy and hopeful comparison to Berlin’s famous Love Parade being thrown about, they figured it was a perfect time to demonstrate the maturity and professionalism of their productions with an elaborate entheocentric float, DJ, and psychedelic trance (“Ecstatic”) dancers.

At 10am the dancers will gather at CoSM for preparation. From there they will proceed to the parade starting line.

Starting at 1pm, the parade will start at 32nd Street and Broadway and proceed down to Union Square. It will then swing west to 5th Avenue, and conclude under the Memorial Arch in Washington Square Park.

4pm to 8pm, will see Washington Park turned into a polyphonic dance party on four stages.

Finally, from 8pm until 5am, the trance dancers move back to CoSM for May’s Entheocentric Salon.

NYC Dance Parade

Dance Parade is New York’s first ever parade and festival of such scope and scale. We are celebrating everything from Break dance to Ballet with Burning Man Spirit and Love Parade Energy. On Saturday May 19th 2007 we will join colorful floats, live bands and dj’s to dance in the streets to Salsa, Contra, Disco, Clogging, Ballroom, Irish Step, Hip Hop, Swing, Tango, Ballet, Break dance, Japanese, Sufi, Samba and more – over 49 forms demonstrating that Dance is a vibrant, expressive form of art.
Dancing in the Streets to Highlight NY City Laws – metro
a Deluge of Parades – villagevoice
Metropolis In Motion – dance activists

UPDATE 5/27/07:
Here is 28thday photo and video footage from the Dance Parade:

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Posted on May 17, 2007 - by dionysus

Arahat at 28thday's Brooklyn Nights

The 28thday party on May 12th featured Arahat, heard here:

Posted on May 14, 2007 - by dionysus

psychedelic art @ Witney Museum, summer 2007

Xenia writes:

just thought some of you might be interested in knowing that the Whitney is having a summer exhibit of psychedelic art from the 60′s.

A number of the artists featured (some of whom are really fascinating individuals i’ve had a number of enlightening conversations with) have over 40 years of wisdom & experience with the psychedelic experience. They are still out there painting and sculpting psychedelic inspired works that i think blow their older stuff out of the water– no new york galleries are currently showing any of these mind-blowing paintings, and it would be great if you could see them without having to go all the way up to woodstock.

Summer of Love

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era

on view May 24, 2007-September 16, 2007

Summer 2007 revisits the unprecedented explosion of contemporary art and popular culture brought about by the civil unrest and pervasive social change of the 1960s and early ’70s, when a new psychedelic aesthetic emerged in art, music, film, architecture, graphic design, and fashion.

The exhibition includes paintings, photographs and sculptures by Isaac Abrams, Richard Avedon, Lynda Benglis, Richard Hamilton, Elliott Landy, Jimi Hendrix (his only known watercolor), Robert Indiana, Yayoi Kusama, Richard Lindner, and John McCracken, among others, as well as a rich selection of important posters, album covers and underground magazines. A special emphasis is placed on environments as well as on film, video and multimedia installations, including works by Jordan Belson, USCO, Stan VanDerBeek, James Whitney, and Lamonte Young and Marian Zazeela.

The exhibition includes films of performances and light shows, and spotlights places such as the UFO nightclub in London and the Human Be-In in San Francisco, featuring Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. Organized by Tate Liverpool and originally presented there.

Posted on May 12, 2007 - by dionysus

28thday Fundraiser for AUM festival artists

On the date of this posting, Saturday May 12th 2007, 28thday is hosting an AUM Festival fundraiser in Brooklyn. This also marks the production launch of Anomalistic Records. Chuck Looper, its founder, announced that every paying guest will receive a release copy of the CD, in hopes of securing a sizeable travel stipend for local psy artists going to AUM.

It will be a night of fast syncopated frequencies, a departure from the lower-BPM progressive typically heard in a 28thday. Here is the lineup as it stands now:

Arahat
FaceHead
Eg~Bot

This marks the event as a uniquely uncommercial proposition; no-profit, daring musical variation, a free cd, national scene-building, and artist support.

Attending a merely ‘free’ party is almost parasitic in comparison!

Event info – psyny calendar

Posted on May 9, 2007 - by dionysus

[mix] arahat – soul of the peaceful warrior – nightmusic

Now we look ahead to the fundraiser on Saturday May 12th and its headliner Arahat. His flavor is dark psy (or psy stomp–depending on who you ask) meaning it is night music “…primarily inspired from the countless events performed under full-moons and new-moons in the Mojave desert and Mountains of the Sierra/Nevada range.”

This will mark an interesting splash of variety for the typically prog-centric 28thday crowd. But as Soul of the Peaceful Warrior demonstrates, Arahat’s production values are highly distinctive.

Disc One
Disc Two

Tom Hidro started mixing goa vinyl back in 1995 and has grown through the ages of electronica and finally settled on his passion, Psychedelic Nighttime trance. A producer since 2005 he has released 4 tunes globally with a handful more coming soon on Dark Prisma, Anomolistic, D-A-R-K, and the first comp coming from PsyCircle/Darkstar called Liquid Vision. Other studio projects include Arabali (with Mubali) and Monks of Madness (with Bodhisattva 13:20).

many more Arahat / Hidroponik mixes

Posted on May 4, 2007 - by dionysus

[mix] yidam – forest frequencies – psychill

To mark a calm weekend, the first after the revelries of beltaine, a psychill set from Yidam. Rachel of 6362Metaforce layers the tracks with her flute.

Download the Forest Frequencies Psychill Mix

source via Yidam

Posted on May 1, 2007 - by dionysus