so here is everything that comes to mind

grateful dead (above alll), yonder mountain string band, garaj mahal, the string cheese incident, honkey tonk homeslice, phish, moe, widespread panic, ooooooold sound tribe sector 9 (kindof electric), umphreys mcgee, keller williams, railroad earth, tea leaf green, zilla (also kind of electronic but really tribal )

anyone have similar tastes?

alladins

Sure, have to confess a lifelong fondness for bluegrass

not sure if it has been mentioned already but, Gojira has a psychedelic sense to me, atleast their Way of All Flesh -album. Anyway, if you enjoy metal and havent heard of them yet, I recommend you to check em out

Strawinsky and skriabin are extremely psychedelic.
But there are more 'classical' composers that are.
Richard strauss, ottorino respighi and maurice ravel for instance. But also claude debussy.
Debussy already wrote rite of spring-like pieces a little less than a century before strawinsky. The symphonic piece images is a good example of that.

Junip has quickly earned a spot in my heart. I was already a fan of Jose Gonzales then bam here comes Junip!

This song definitely gives me the psychedelic chills

That singer is awesome Wax

In one of his letters to Humphrey Osmond, Aldous Huxley suggested listening to J.S.Bach´s "The Musical Offering" (also known as BWV 1079) while on Mescaline or LSD. Huxley stated that his experience "was very strong".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-o5lkoI6vE

I did that once on Mushrooms and... it was a truly remarkable experience It actually turned my attention to classical music...

I'm down with jazz when tripping as well - and never thought the two would click like they do for me. My fave... latin stuff... specifically Ry Cooder's "Buena Vista Social Club" album.

Although I have posted a lot of electronic music on the Nexus I am also a huge acoustic music fan. My favorite stuff is Newgrass/New Acoustic music like David Grisman, Strength in Numbers, Mike Marshall and Daryl Anger, etc. The technical precision of these guys is amazing, but I think it is the sense of being right on top of the moment that you get from a truly great group of improvising musicians that makes it work so well as psychedelia. Seeing folks like Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck etc. jamming it is like watching telepathy.

I also listen to a lot of Bluegrass, Jazz, Blues, Folk, and World Music. I listen to everything from Gypsy Jazz like Django to Romanian folk music, African drumming, Tuvan throat singing, and on and on... really anything where I think the person is playing from their heart is probably going to appeal to me.

One of my SWIMer's nicer spice journeys was accompanied by a mix of Duke Elliington, Miles Davis, J S Bach, Bethoven and a handful of guitar fingerpickers, all on shuffle. Was very nice.

I'm listening to that piece now, it makes for a pretty complicated listening, very beautiful, even now when sober
Do you know the book 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' ?

I'd like to suggest dutch composer Simeon ten Holt (he died recently).
His work is very repetitive and trance-inducing, and way less complex than Bach's.
But I wonder how this record would be, while tripping:



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Jazz-wise, I've recently discovered Pharoah Sanders, dreamy, trippy jazz. Although during my latest mushroom session I had to turn it off as I couldn´t bear any music at all.

Anything Hope Sandoval. I don't know if it can be labeled as psychedelic per se, but her voice has a hypnotic quality to it.

http://www.youtube.com/w...;list=PLD5CCDB1880EBEFF6
http://www.youtube.com/w...;list=PLD5CCDB1880EBEFF6
http://www.youtube.com/w...B1880EBEFF6&index=15

Some of my favorite Celtic and Celtic influenced musicians:

Dervish - I LOVE Cathy Jordan's voice. Clear like a bell in the high registers and this wonderfu growl in the lower that would make any jazz singer proud. Just so sweet!


Solas - especially Seamus Egan, John Doyle, Winifred Horan. Modern Irish music doesn't get any better than this.


Liz Carol with John Doyle - Chicago's finest fiddler


Natalie MacMaster - celtic fiddler from St Johns Island Newfoundland


Eileen Ivers - she also plays some fantastic electric fiddle. Like if Jimi Hendrix had played Irish fiddle


Tim O'Brien - He doesn't get quite the recognition of Grisman or Bush, but he is one of my favorite mandolin players. Love his use of open strings, his mando just rings like a bell.



Something really magic happened in music when the Scotch Irish met up with black Africans and from there we get Blues, Ragtime, Stride, Swing, Bebop, Cool, Jump, RnB, Country and Western, Rock N Roll, Funk, Hip Hop and so much more (going full circle, American country music has even influenced a lot of modern African music), including Bluegrass. Not too many decades ago Peter Rowan was a youngster in Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. Later on he met up with some cat named Jerry Garcia. Now Peter is one of Bluegrass musics elders. Here's why:

How come nobody hasnt mentioned Kingston Wall yet?

Kingston Wall - Shine On Me

Enjoy!

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Also another awesome tune
Kingston Wall - Mushrooms

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Now that I got started heres
Von Hertzen Brothers - Miracle
aaaaand
The Black Angels - Young Men Dead

Stefano Barone- He's one guy with an acoustic guitar and lots of delay it works REALLY well with psychs

Explosions in the Sky- 2 guitars 2 basses one drummer LOTS OF EMOTION they really know how to bring the listener on a journey

Modest Mouse- Huge acidhead jamband with absurdist lyrics that make alot of sense when on a journey

My most recent DMT trip included some Tibetan Singing Bowls Meditation music (very fitting for the "other-worldly" feeling I often get).

Those tracks let me to the artist's full site. Brian Green

It's experimental sound. Very hallow, mellow, eerie sound. But in the emptiness that the sound created, I found it perfect for filling it with thoughts and mental musings. This finding really revolutionized my experience. Hope you find a similar experience

http://www.youtubedouble...art2=&authorName=FAV

let's start combining suggestions

Anyone here familiar with Loop Guru? Ambient/trance stuff, built entirely from samples of non-electronic sources. Nice East-meets-west vibe. The albums Catalog Of Desires and Fountains Of Paradise are my favorites.

I also want to echo jBark's mention of Georgy Ligeti- four tracks in particular:
Atmospheres
Lontano
Lux Aeterna
Requiem, introitus (the body of the requiem is very hard to listen to)

This is stuff that I've listened to on large doses of LSD... Very powerful, and it explores places only possible with orchestral arrangements. Even at its most extreme moments, you can feel the physicality of the sound's origin, the limits of physics and how they affect acoustics. Electronic instruments bypass this limitation, but not without some cost. I love electronic music, but at least a third of my playlist is classical- probably because of sentiments that echo those of the OP.

andreas vollenweider

al di meola

john frusciante

zaum


also tool goes without saying.
but i have also been finding some primus songs to be psychedelic.

A favorite of mine. The whole album "Light Chasers" is themed and brilliant

Amplifier is another fav!


Rishloo


Karnivool


Andrew Bird on TED talks


Guster This song came across Pandora during an intense breakthrough as I was just starting to come back


Love you all!!

What music isn't good with psychedelics?

Anyways, I don't think I've every listened to non-electronic music while on acid, but I would imagine that the Beatles would be stellar for tripping purposes. I mean, when you think of the '60s, what bands do you think of? Just look up a roster of bands that played at Woodstock and start from there.

EDIT: lol. I never notice when a thread is 3 years old.