While I remember (musical content)
While I'm thinking of this, let me let you know that I am almost 100 percent finished with my debut solo album, entitled "Low Tide and the Creatures Lurking Beneath the Subconscious." It's a Professor Plum disc, AKA The Salvia Detective, and it features 12 original psychedelic eletronica club anthems written, produced and recorded by yours truly, Professor Plum, AKA The Salvia Detective. I have enlisted the help of Chunk Dark blogger Shaman Yates for final musical input and his amazing photography artwork, which will be displayed on the cover of the album. For a free copy, please email me.
I will be hosting a CD release party at some point in the next few months, hopefully at the Shattuck Downlow in Berkeley. More details as they develop.
Let me explain a little about the name Professor Plum, and a few other things about the album. The term "Professor" was used extensively during the birth of jazz at the turn of the 20th century to describe the piano players who worked in the brothels of the red-light district in New Orleans, known as Storyville. A "Professor" was a piano player who played sans band; he was a self-contained act. The word "jazz" comes from the French word "jazzer," which means "to fuck," in the sexual sense. A plum is a small, rotund, quirky, psychedelic delicatessan, perfectly delicious and wonderful on the senses.
The name of my first album, "Low Tide and the Creatures Lurking Beneath the Subconscious," was influenced by a beautiful photograph that Shaman Yates took at Muir Beach. The picture shows a family of purple and orange starfish chilling against some rocks. Muir Beach, incidentally, was the site of the very first Acid Test in 1965.
Salvia Divinorum is a popular plant that has hallucinogenic properties when smoked. It has been used by shamans in Mexico for thousands of years in medicinal and spiritual rituals. A good bong-load of this stuff is enough to put you into a realm of reality so different from our own yet so convincingly real that you return to your spiritual self and forget that you were ever born. I was on the brink of turning atheist a few months ago, after years of existential despair, when I smoked salvia and became utterly convinced that neither our current consciousness nor our physical world is all there is.
I will be hosting a CD release party at some point in the next few months, hopefully at the Shattuck Downlow in Berkeley. More details as they develop.
Let me explain a little about the name Professor Plum, and a few other things about the album. The term "Professor" was used extensively during the birth of jazz at the turn of the 20th century to describe the piano players who worked in the brothels of the red-light district in New Orleans, known as Storyville. A "Professor" was a piano player who played sans band; he was a self-contained act. The word "jazz" comes from the French word "jazzer," which means "to fuck," in the sexual sense. A plum is a small, rotund, quirky, psychedelic delicatessan, perfectly delicious and wonderful on the senses.
The name of my first album, "Low Tide and the Creatures Lurking Beneath the Subconscious," was influenced by a beautiful photograph that Shaman Yates took at Muir Beach. The picture shows a family of purple and orange starfish chilling against some rocks. Muir Beach, incidentally, was the site of the very first Acid Test in 1965.
Salvia Divinorum is a popular plant that has hallucinogenic properties when smoked. It has been used by shamans in Mexico for thousands of years in medicinal and spiritual rituals. A good bong-load of this stuff is enough to put you into a realm of reality so different from our own yet so convincingly real that you return to your spiritual self and forget that you were ever born. I was on the brink of turning atheist a few months ago, after years of existential despair, when I smoked salvia and became utterly convinced that neither our current consciousness nor our physical world is all there is.
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