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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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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.

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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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