Sacred Drugs, by Al Lover

Sacred Drugs

by Al Lover

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Sacred Drugs vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

12" black vinyl. Available on October 1st 2015.

14 tracks.

A1) How Are Things On Planet Earth?
A2) The Orange Dot
A3) A Shaman's Hand is Infinite
A4) Jupiter Birth
A5) Sun From The Jungle
A6) A Process of Growth Towards Light
A7) The Shadow Self Shake
B1) Breath As Metaphor
B2) Super Strength (Power Plants) Featuring Morgan Delt
B3) Nature's Tuning
B4) 7 Senses of Cosmic Understanding
B5) Alchemical Heart
B6) Up Is Down And All Around Is Within
B7) A View of Earth From Outer Space (While Falling Towards It)

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	1.	How Are Things On Planet Earth? 03:03
	2.	The Orange Dot 03:26
	3.	A Shaman's Hand Is Infinite 03:06
	4.	Jupiter Birth 02:31
	5.	Sun From The Jungle 02:01
	6.	A Process of Growth Toward Light 03:41
	7.	The Shadow Self Shake 02:48
	8.	Breath As Metaphor 02:35
	9.	Super Strength (Power Plants) feat. Morgan Delt 03:03
	10.	Nature's Tuning 02:14
	11.	7 Senses Of Cosmic Understanding 03:34
	12.	Alchemical Heart 02:07
	13.	Up Is Down And All Around Is WIthin 03:03
	14.	A View Of The Earth From Space 04:28

about

San Francisco-based producer Al Lover has spent the last several years evolving an approach to psychedelic reworks of rock ‘n roll in its various inflections. Though they share some common structures, his solo LP debut Sacred Drugs is a thick distillation compared to older remixes or the heady mixtapes he’s curated for Austin Psych Fest, each its own primer on garage and psych in the corresponding year. Sacred Drugs stands out in Al’s discography, though some of its character and more transcendant qualities are hinted at in his collaborations, with GOAT, and particularly on the single “Snake Hands” recorded with White Fence. The elaborate treatments on his 2011 digital album Distorted Reverberations (of Reverberating Distortion): Psychedelic Reinterpretations of Contemporary Rock ‘n Roll offer the most obvious antecedant for Sacred Drugs, but clearly as a collection it lacks the same scope.

Listening to Sacred Drugs is as transformative an experience as Al’s own style of composition. Songs are a deliberate associative enterprise, paralleling both the contextualization that takes place as part of any conscious “hearing” and the abstract notion of self-development. Texture and tone combine to lead the listener inward, with hypnogogic beats that evoke the sense of ritual awakening when it was still a communal undertaking. In that way Sacred Drugs offers a measured take on reality, a tool for perceiving the outlines of your own interconnectedness… like the eponymous entheogens, Sacred Drugs is intended as a companion for self-discovery.

credits

released October 9, 2014

Al Lover - Samples, Drum Programming, Percussion, Dub Effects, and Digital Synthesis. Harvey Leisure - Keys, 12 String, Tape Delay, and Analog Synthesiz. All songs recorded at Elevated Platforms Studios in San Francisco, CA and Black Out Effectors Warehouse in Asheville, NC in August 2013 to December 2013. Mastered by Bruce Leighton at Data Stream Studios in San Francisco, CA

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The Revenge

Sep 2016
Rex Virginem

May 2016
Tomb II

Mar 2016
Tomb

Mar 2016
Waking Astronomer

Feb 2016
Nuclear Mysticism

Jan 2016
Sacred Drugs

Oct 2014
The N.E.C. / Nest Egg split 7"

Jul 2014
Transientualism

Nov 2013

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