Results for "psychedelic rock"

The Seven Ups

Australian instrumental combo The Seven Ups exist between groove and atmosphere. Expansive guitar and warm synth layers stretch outward, grounded by bass and percussion, with horns shifting between restraint and impact.

Led by multi-instrumentalist Trent Sterling, the group has carved out its own space across five studio albums, developing a sound that balances locked-in rhythm with immersive texture and long-form explorations. Their latest release, Fight Night (2024), leans further into analogue synth territory, layering lush pads and rolling arpeggiators over the band’s signature brass and driving rhythm section.

Dan Webb

Born: August 13, 1989

Dan Webb is a psychedelic fusionist, blending jazz, rock, and electronic music into kaleidoscopic, ever-shifting sonic journeys. Since 2008, he's moved from progressive keyboard-driven rock to experimental post-punk, electro-jazz, and audacious genre-bending sounds. His 2023 release, Sunshine​/​Dialogue, received universal critical acclaim and a nomination for Self-Producing Artist of the Year at the 2024 Music Producer & Engineers' Guild of Australia Awards. Now entering his most ambitious era, marked by high-calibre collaborations and bold new directions, Webb continues to refine a sound that follows no trends and answers only to curiosity

Gary Van Miert

Born: July 27, 1954

"I saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show when I was five years old.  My love for music actually goes back further…my mother told me that when I was a small child, I took 45 rpm records to bed with me instead of a teddy bear. 

After embracing the Beatles, I started tracing the music backwards.  I noticed that the Beatles recorded three Carl Perkins tunes, so I figured this guy must be good if the Beatles covered so many of his songs.  After becoming a Carl Perkins fan, I learned that he was influenced by Hank Williams, so I started listening to Hank.  The Rolling Stones named their band after a Muddy Water’s song, so I knew I should check him out as well. And on and on….

Lyft Trio

Jazz, psychedelic rock and dark ambient. Always balancing between consonance and dissonance, clear melodies and spherical noises, simplicity and complexity. The Swiss based Lyft Trio around Mario Castelberg (g) brings their own version of modern jazz in a dynamic and radical way to the stage.

Mario Castelberg (git, comp), Joel Banz (b), Janic Haller (dr)

Genre: Psychedelic Jazz

Anna Iachino

Born: January 22, 1961

Anna Iachino from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of Italian descent is the songwriter, vocalist, rapper, spoken word artist, poet, electronic music composer, dancer, and storyteller with a comical bent.  Arnold Ludvig from the Faroe Islands is the composer, arranger, and award-winning virtuoso bass player.  Together, they are a dynamic husband and wife team and the creators of MonkeyRat founded in 2006, in the Faroe Islands.  MonkeyRat delivers multi-genre music rooted mainly in Funk. The band was formed in Copenhagen, Denmark with award winning guitarist, Alain Apaloo from Togo, Africa and superb Danish drummer Jens Stoklund.  

Jonatan Piña Duluc

Born: January 20, 1976

Born in 1976 Jonatan Piña Duluc is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from the Dominican Republic. He has won the country`s most important composition competition the Premio Nacional de Música on six occasions on three different categories: Symphonic/Choral, Chamber music and Latin Dance music. Apart from these he has interests in Jazz, Rock, Latin Troubadour, Dominican folklore and everything eclectic. Influences go from Frank Zappa to Giorgy Ligueti, John Zorn, Luis Dias, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Living Colour, John Coltrane, Slayer, Juan Luis Guerra and many artists that you wouldn`t find in the same shelf of a record store

Special Purpose

Combining vintage keyboards and lead guitar, Special Purpose blends psychedelic sounds with earthy elements of funk and jazz. The band has been playing shows in the Portland, Oregon area since 2016 with some of the best musicians in the city. Their debut instrumental album Password, written by guitarist Lance Vallis, was released in 2019 and features Paul Paresa on keyboards (Sweet n’ Juicy, Cloud 6), Hunter Parmentier on bass (Stephen Marley), and Forest Carter on drums (Far Out West, Giraffe Dodgers).

Vince Tampio

Born: January 14

“Basically he’s the go-to cross-genre horn-blowing utility man of the Philly scene” (John Vettese, WXPN’s The Key). Vince Tampio is a professional musician, arranger, composer, producer, engineer, and teacher based in Philadelphia, PA. Although firmly rooted in jazz, he is comfortable with a wide variety of genres including rock, soul, funk, folk, classical, and electronic. Vince’s original music has been described as “a contemporary instance of fusion done right,” and whose “nontraditional instrumentation maintains a spacious environment that proves ideal for a set brimming with imaginative, drawn-out improvisation” (Matthew Aquilin, All About Jazz)

Jake Shulman-Ment

Born: March 6, 1984

Born in New York City, Jake Shulman-Ment is among the most highly regarded klezmer musicians performing today. He tours and records internationally as a soloist, and with Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, Di Naye Kapelye, The Brothers Nazaroff, Pete Rushefsky, Frank London, Sanda Weigl, Joey Weisenberg, Adrian Receanu, Duncan Sheik, and many more. Jake first began playing violin at the age of 3, and went on to study classical technique with renowned violin pedagogues Gerald Beal and Joey Corpus. Beginning studies in klezmer from age 12, he was initially a protégé of Alicia Svigals