Zuvuya grew out of Webcore, an altogether imaginative and technically pioneering 80s UK festi band, pushing back the barriers, marrying tribal rhythms and pagan philosophy with underground culture. As Webcore Paul, Phil and Mick infused free festivals, squat gigs & early Club Dog with their psychedelic pagan punk & then drifted away rather quietly as 1988 drew to a close... Eventually the trio teamed up again, combining Paul's ambience with Phil's rhythms, and Mick's strange, poetic vocals. Initially doing it live on the Global Sweatbox Tour and then regularly at Megadog, Whirlygig and Megatripolis.
Keen experimentation with hallucinogens, Zuvuya inevitably came into contact with the now infamous Terence McKenna, who had been experimenting with the properties and effects of the most powerful of all psychedelics, D.M.T. The result was the "Dream Matrix Telemetry" & "Shamania"albums plus a session for John Peel, the compilation tracks (all of them included here except 'moose jaw'- as i don't have a copy) as with their seminal "Grabbing Nandi By The Horn" debut hardly feature Mckenna and are stronger for it in my opinion. Altogether this is a high intensity mind-bomb, and a truly psychedelic experience born out of the free festival scene. enjoy
Keen experimentation with hallucinogens, Zuvuya inevitably came into contact with the now infamous Terence McKenna, who had been experimenting with the properties and effects of the most powerful of all psychedelics, D.M.T. The result was the "Dream Matrix Telemetry" & "Shamania"albums plus a session for John Peel, the compilation tracks (all of them included here except 'moose jaw'- as i don't have a copy) as with their seminal "Grabbing Nandi By The Horn" debut hardly feature Mckenna and are stronger for it in my opinion. Altogether this is a high intensity mind-bomb, and a truly psychedelic experience born out of the free festival scene. enjoy
ZUVUYA - Contact and Switch the Other
1. Grabbing Nandi by the Horn (Remix) 2. Away the Crow Road
3. The Trance End of Dreaming
4. Turnaround
5. Driving the Monkey Insane
6.Shaman I Am (Solar Ray Mix)
7. Hang of This
8. The Goat Faced Girl
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4 comments:
Pleasantly surprised to find Zuvuya on Rhapsody. Thanks for the tip.
And for the Ingleton Falls...me likes.
a joy to behold. xx
Fantastic, had grabbing Nandi by the horn on 12' back in the day, but lost all my vinyl when my sister chucked it!! (aaarrrgghhh!!)
A nice little flashback ( so to speak!)
Fantastic to hear this collection of odd trax - Webcore were always a favourite festy/squat gig band far ahead of their time, and Zuvuya took it someplace further for an all too short space & time.
Thank you.
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