Forge Your Own Chains – Compilation

Psychedelia is an impossibly slow language to the soberer audience. It’s from the other side, communicating after reaching the brink of aphasia. In the translational effort of this often distorted language, Forge You Own Chains is the final presentation of an international dig for 15 psychedelic escape-artists once left behind, welcomed back neatly and preserved in vinyl reverie. Their wise jives from 1968-1974 are intimate signals that were saved from blaring acoustic towers of the psychedelic heyday. With beats too heavy to let wayward guitars wander in the clouds, these Ballads and Dirges revere the good Earth from its every corner, honing their trip rather than inflating it.

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This entry was written by Kent Szlauderbach, posted on November 2, 2009 at 10:23 pm, filed under New Music and tagged Forge Your Own Chains, Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974, Now-Again Records, Stones Throw. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.