In the lair of White Hills

Here I am in beautiful downtown manhattan, at the highly chaotic laboratories of space rock band White Hills who have recruited me for singular percussive and spiritual support on their latest venture into the UK and European continent. I am excited and also apprehensive as travelling with this brainy psychedelic duo has always proved to be lysergic at best and sonically crippling - as well as deeply disturbing. I caught the Aquarius Records instore show on the 24th of Sept and it was moving and ethereal, especially with the addition of Josh Pollock on mutated aural samplings. The next night at the Retox Lounge proved to be the other shoe - everyone in attendance needed to proverbally wash their ears out with soap after the pummeling induced by the White Pee/ White Hills collaboration. Literally 90 minutes of solid "new age musiks of the highest order" and it gave me a deeper appreciation of how music can not only be used to savage and torture but to soothe and innundate the listener with experiences and feelings not quite from the inner space.

Apparently my ability to absorb this kind of sustained sonic abuse, and the fact that I could only communicate in monosyllabic grunts after the shows; convinced them I should pile on to the madness and pick up the percussive duties that their NYC drummer Kid Millions could not commit to. We shoved off for the shows in Big Sur and Los Angeles, accompanied by the most capable Gypsy's Purple Potion riding shotgun and providing mobile accomidations. The shows; both of which turned out to be epic and classic in their scope; where one was in the idyllic setting of the forest and coast of the Big Sur and part of a 3 day festival of amazing artists; and the other show in LA was at an art gallery called 'show cave' where the police needed to inform all of their ultimate authority when the musics from the white hills began to tear the fabric of the SIlverlake district asunder.

Now I wait and wonder what the next part of the excursion will bring.

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