Hash Jar Tempo is a collaborative musical project between the members of Philadelphia-based psychedelic band Bardo Pond and experimental guitarist and composer Roy Montgomery. The band was founded in March 1995 and have released two albums, Well Oiled and Under Glass, and have never toured. Hash Jar Tempo doesn't punish and haunt so much as it does engagingly trip out, with the right head-nodding pace and echoing chimes that will attract both older stoners and younger shoegaze freaks. There are certainly some pretty intense moments.
Psychedelia has always meant something pretty serious in South America. Brazil's tropicalia movement helped to subvert and protest against a military junta, and this tradition has spread across the continent. Has A Shadow are picking up this baton in the 21st century, with the duo's heavy duty psychotropic excursions gradually earning an international cult audience.
The Black Ryder are an alternative band that originates from Sydney, Australia. This is music to soothe your soul with songs of loneliness, compassion, despair, transcendence and ascension. They are unfucking the world!
