A few days ago O.Z.O.R.A. Festival published a very exciting Main Stage lineup update. They presented a new improvisational psy-reggae live act called NOVELTY ENGINE, one you could even rightfully call a supergroup, which is making its debut at Ozora this summer.
By JEET-KEI LEUNG—O.Z.O.R.A. is my first festival in Europe. It holds special fascination for me as, over the past two years, I have been producing a documentary film series exploring festivals like this one, which have the intention—and actually the effect—of regularly providing life-affirming and transformational experiences to participants. Experienced together, I believe they represent […]
DRAGON NEST 2014 — “Last year the Magic Garden’s Dragon Nest made a path through the psychedelic strawberry fields”, paved by amazing artists like Suns of Arqa, Konono N°1, Wild Marmalade, Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra Limited and also the masters of experimental world fusion music, Beats Antique all the way from Oakland, California. This summer, the […]
DRAGON NEST 2014 — “Last year the Magic Garden’s Dragon Nest made a path through the psychedelic strawberry fields”, paved by amazing artists like Suns of Arqa, Konono N°1 , Wild Marmalade, Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra Limited and also the masters of experimental world fusion music, Beats Antique all the way from Oakland, California. This summer, the […]
LINE UP UPDATES — The O.Z.O.R.A. Festival 2014 will be opened by the psychedelic instrumental rock legends, the OZRIC TENTACLES. Since the band is now hard at work finishing their next studio album, due for release this summer, we can be sure to hear not only old-time favourites, but also experience a new album premiere concert […]
ANNIVERSARY — The Infinity Project’s record label, TiP Records is celebrating their twentieth anniversary, with a history fused together with the history of Goa/Psy Trance. They were there from the very beginning, shaping the scene “from Acid House and Techno to Trance to Goa Trance to Psy Trance“; it wouldn’t be the same without them. The […]
FESTIVAL PREVIEW — Spring has barely just begun but we can already start preparing for what looks to be one of Europe’s busiest and longest festival seasons. In our series we hope to highlight the most promising new festivals, the veterans, the striving small ones and the no less ambitious larger ones.
There is a shiny little spot in the colourful psychedelic scene: the Psy-Boutique Festival. It budded in the summer of 2010 from an on-the-spur-of-the-moment idea, because though all of us love to get lost in the whirlwind of festivals and enjoy the windier intimacy of smaller-or even uprising gatherings, it still feels really good to […]