Today’s Psychedelic Music Interlude

Today’s psychedelic music interlude comes from Serpentina Satelite, a Peruvian-based (self-described) religious/experimental/psychedelic rock outfit who are frequently featured on the Psychedelic Velveeta Podcast.

Your Monkey recently reconnected with this podcast after some downloading issues with the iTunes store were apparently fixed. It’s a great show and well worth a listen. Here is a link to the show’s MySpace page.

Anyway, the Serpentina Satelite myspace page describes their sound as an oscillating mix of violence, calmness, and ecstasy. Your Monkey would say that the band offers an intriguing blend of spacey psychedelia and dark, droning, ominous soundscapes that make the bottom of your brain stem tingle.

Here is a mind blowing live clip that definitely trends towards the darker and heavier side.

A Heatwave Hangover at Monkey Station

The following incidents took place at Monkey Central during the past 48 hours.

1. Wake up early Friday morning with new sense of purpose after watching Celtics handily beat Bulls in playoff game #3 the night before. Listen to fraud radio show hosts completely change their tune about Celtics from one of “they’ll be lucky to get out of this series with a win” to “they’ll have it wrapped up in five games.”
2. Spend day at work thrilling to the discovery of several new podcasts. One called “Psychedelic Velveeta” has live concerts from two of the Monkey’s favorite bands, the Black Angels and Dead Meadow. Black Angels podcast is an excellent performance, though the mix is a little bit too vocal heavy and doesn’t quite do justice to the energy of the band.
3. Leave work approximate 6 mins early in an attempt to get to Fenway Park in time for Red Sox game. Fail miserably, as traffic is backed up all over the place due to series of minor fender benders. Monkey suspects that many accidents are due to drivers gawking at girls dressed for unseasonably warm weather.
4. While stuck in traffic, watch as man in silver Jeep with New Hampshire plates (you know who you are) unceremoniously dumps trash out the window of his car on to the road. A single monkey tear drops from eye as your Monkey realizes that even after all the environmental awareness campaigns of the past 10 years, there are still plenty of jerky a-holes who simply don’t care.
5. Make it to Red Sox game in time for bottom of the first inning. End up spending far too much of the limited Monkey funds on overpriced draft beer. Picture Sox ownership lighting cigars with the Monkey’s $20 bills and laughing deliriously.
6. Stumble home after game with warm happy feeling following come-from-behind win.
7. Wake up next morning with cold sickly feeling as hangover kicks in. Find that sickening state of hangover leads to unprecedented mental clarity. Wonder if antidepressant medication is slowly poisoning body. Or maybe is just the alcohol talking.
8. Hangover mercifully eases around 12 pm, but a walk in the woods during beautiful spring day leads to discovery of more trash (rusted mattressed, burned out armchairs, gatorade bottles) and more monkey tears.
9. Day winds down without hangover ever really going away. Settle into uneasy sleep in roasting hot room. Vow to wake up early to put screens in windows.
10. Wake up late with impression of monkey body etched in sweat on the sheets. Wonder where the morning went.