Classic psychedelic animation set to music by Belgian group Fuzzy Phases.
Tag Archives: 70’s psychedelia
Star Slinger – Mornin’
24 Feb
This video for Star Slinger’s song Mornin’ has a warm 70’s-psychedelia look and sound to it. I wish every morning looked like this.
Toshio Matsumoto – White Hole (1979)
22 AprToshio Matsumoto (Born 1932) is a Japanese film director best known for his film “Funeral Parade of Roses” which influenced Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”.
“While Hole” has an extremely similar aesthetic style to that of the final scenes of Kubrick’s “2001, a space oddessey“, that came out in the exact same year (1969), and with which so many hippies were tripping at the time.
Matsumoto has created some other pretty psychedelic experimental films over the years. His “White Hole” from 1979 has pretty some amazing visuals, even without taking into consideration that it was done more than 30 years ago. The film has a beautiful flow which makes for a benign trip, whereas Matsumoto’s “Phantom” contains what seems to be the most psychedelic yoga lesson ever as well as other beautiful and bizzare visuals.
(Link: Stefan Demey. Thanks!)
Roger Glover And The Butterfly Ball – Love is All
15 Apr“Everybody’s got to live together. All the people got to understand. So love your neighbor like you love your brother. Come on and join the band. Well, all you need is love and understanding, ring the bell and let the people know. We’re so happy and we’re celebrating, come on and let your feelings show.” sang the frog, and how right he was.
“The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast” is a hippie concept album and from 1974 based on a children’s book of the same title.
This was the most ecstatic, charismatic frog I ever saw, and I think you will all agree with me, that we need more frogs like that one!
(Link: Tom Orgad. Thanks!)
Tangerine Dream – Live At Coventry Cathedral 1975
11 DecA cathedral is a multimedia work of art. It addresses all of one’s sences: the smell of incense, the coldness of it’s stone, the magnificent colored light shining from the stained glass window and the liturgical chanting help transform the believer’s conciessness into a spiritual experience.
200 Motels
4 OctFrank Zappa’s 1971 feature film (93 minutes, directed with Tony Palmer) is not for the week at heart: it’s super intensive, slapstick psychedelia with a hardly noticeable plot line to follow – something about a band on an endless crazy tour. Zappa fans love it, to judge from imdb message boards, while the rest render it “unwatchable”; still no one claims to understand it.
200 motels features The Mothers Of Invention (Zappa himself plays a side role as a musician in the band), animation by Charles Swenson, Kieth Moon in drag as a Nun, and Ringo Star as Larry The Dwarf, who pretends to be Frank Zappa.
Space Is The Place
6 SepSome kind soul uploaded the complete feature film of the radical jazz musician Sun Ra. It mixes intelligent alien life with ancient Egyptian art, black pride, God, the Devil and ho so wonderful music.
Attack of The Killer Ants
17 JulIt sounds tacky: an unexplained cosmic event causes ants to increase their intelligence and try to take over the world. But the movie “Phase IV”, 1974, By Saul Bass (who is best known for his opening titles and posters for Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and many others) is a slow, poetic and extremely beautiful film. I loved the way he films actual living ants and 1960’s futuristic technology: from squeaking gigantic computers to geodesic domes. will the end of life as we know it will come from these little creatures? or is their technocratic, authoritarian society only a symbol of our own?
Alexander Jodrowsky’s Holy Mountain
11 JunAlexander Jodrowsky is a genius. Both as a film maker as well as an esoteric thinker and writer. His 1973 Holy Mountain is nothing short of a masterpiece. Highly psychedelic, highly bizarre and and highly revelatory. Check it out.
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