It’s hard to procure Ayahuasca. I tried to get it two years ago, when I met a girl named Jacqui at a Surfrider-sponsored hippie firepit guitar dance-off in an esoteric canyon that I’d never even heard of and can’t remember.
She sold weed chocolates and told me that she was involved with a sacred shaman-led Ayahuasca ceremony somewhere in Toganga. Her e-mail address involved the words “Goddess Revival” and she described her confectionery technique as “Swedish Chef meets organic raw naturalist…source the best herbs and superfoods ever, throw everything up into the air and fire one precise rifle shot.” She flaked on bringing me to the yage ceremony. A few weeks ago, Facebook suggested her as a friend. All of her photos involved her bellydancing.
Alchemist and Oh No (Gangrene) have a new album called Vodka and Ayahuasca. The latter is an Incan sacrament that involves intense vomiting, psychedelic visions, and re-routing of circuits. Burroughs spent months searching for it in the Andres. The former substance is the favorite drink of men named Boris and sorority girls who couldn’t score coke and thus, mix it with Red Bull.
I don’t feel the need to talk about Gangrene’s first single “Dump Truck,” because the title of the album explains it all. Drunken dirty psychedelia. Stuff so filthy that it could grow out of organic soil. Raw as fuck. Jacqui probably wouldn’t like it. She seemed more of the Devendra Banheart type. But you probably will. It drops in January. Burn bushes of kush and fill a cup. And sent your psychedelic tips to passionweiss@gmail.com.




















3 comments
Justin says:
November 22, 2011 at 1:04 pm (UTC -7)
Oh No and Al the Chemist are just a lot more fun together than you ever think they will be.
deacon says:
November 23, 2011 at 7:35 pm (UTC -7)
*than they would be.
Meh, they feel like the west coast answer to Random Ax. Both of which are above average, but nothing of the stellar variety.
Justin says:
November 24, 2011 at 3:01 pm (UTC -7)
There is no real cohesion in Random Axe’s stuff, what separates Gangrene from a “super group” like that is that they are greater than the sum of their parts.