Tumbling psychic joy.
Who doesn’t need some of that! No, really, who doesn’t need some tumbling psychic joy, now?
From the liner notes:
Thus Holy Tongue recorded a collection of raw material in the studio and sent it to Shackleton. The result is far more than the sum of its parts. A psychedelic, ritualistic, dub trip, oscillating between the maximal and the minimal, the internal and the external, the micro and the macro, ecstasy and agony, all the tumbling psychic joy of now.
Reminds me of that scene in Apocalypse Now where Brando is reading TS Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”—Shape without form, shade without color—only without the tumbling psychic joy (but with Dennis Hopper):
Boomkat describes this record as being “for fans of Creation Rebel’s hypnotic ‘Starship Africa’ or Don Cherry’s head-mangling ‘Eternal Rhythm'” and I’d agree on Don Cherry, another album that’s worth seeking out for some serious joyousness in sound(s).
What’s more, The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now positively leaps out from the hifi in glorious stereo sound!