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Howlin Magic is a psychedelic god existing in Los Angeles, California
.. $7 for the Holy Guardian Angel cdr.. $11 for the cds, .. email or paypal jrakusin@gmail.com and include your address
The self-titled album has been released into the quantum field by
Azul Discografica get it from Aquarius Records, the Volcanic Tongue, Forced Exposure, some other places or from me
"we heard music by Howlin Magic..a song called Superpower..from his brand new self-titled cd..and, Howlin' Magic is a guy from Santa Cruz, California..um,ooh..I just looked up on myspace a little while ago..because there was very little information on the cd and I like the cd a lot..as it turns out..uhm...his name is Jesse Rakoosin...and he has a lot of friends man..this guy is friends with Lightning Bolt and Plastic Crimewave Sound, and WFMU's Brian Turner, and Hunter S. Thompson..man..and..and uh,..he's a woman and he's 102 years old"_Alcapulco_Rodriguez,WFMU
"Wow... A shit storm of fuzzed out psychedelic excess....makes us think of a psychedelic wizard who has released energies almost beyond his/her control, multicolored fireballs backblasting in an outrageous sorcerous snafu. Quite the fireworks display" Aquarius Records
"Howlin' Magic go for the jugular right from the start of their self released album, that is awash with brutal guitar riffs and electronic noise, like being caught in the middle of an earthquake...Not recommended for small children or those of a nervous disposition, everyone else dive in and have some fun" Simon Lewis, the Ptolemaic Terrascope
"a kind of ferocious guitar noise that probably is equally inspired by the screeching guitar fuzz of Japanese High Rise and the Dead Cs towering feedback explorations. That being said, this is brain-melting distortion, maniacal percussion, whooshing electronics and howling magic at its very best" Mats Gustafsson, the Broken Face
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Now Available!... "The Holy Guardian Angel" a new album by Howlin' Magic , self-released cdr.... $7 or psychedelics
"Some really raw and powerful music" - Jakob Sjöholm,
Träd Gräs och Stenar
"Eleven tracks on this thirty three minute CDR release. Thickly distorted fuzzy riffs in a phased and filtered guitar and haze fueled freak out. Tweaking frequencies sputter beneath stuttering mountain ranges. Brutal thumping churns, bells, rattles, gongs and dreams are cast, heavy boots march down long metal corridors, blues gets dragged down the alley and force-fed tin foil, malfunctioning neon lights blaze with a strange intensity" George Parsons,
Dream Magazine 8
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The Dreaminglal lal lal 2008
"The Dreaming gives 12 high intesity doses of Californian Jesse Rakusin's solo psych screams. Like a Daniel Higgs who can only operate in fifth gear, Rakusin tries to channel magick and ancestral wisdom through his fuzz-saturated, thrashed out explosions of guitar melody. Many of these pieces access an unfettered politicised rage, like a primitivist take on Jimi Hendrix's version of "The Star-Spangled Banner". When Rakusin fills out the solo sound by accompanying himself, the drumming, hazy and unfocused, makes you think of a mid-breakdown Skip Spence. Yet the woozy gravity of the blues rock shapes keeps them from drifting into self-absorbed chaos."
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the wire 291 may 2008, pg.65 review by Sam Davies
a new reality NOW!ecstatic yod 2008
"Limited and great cassette-puffer from this cult bedroom-psych hero. Trippy, meandering, fleet of foot and utterly charming... These are half-songs that hover in the air and tickle the ear. Really beguiling oddness."
-altvinyl
"Another great blast of acid-damaged blues blow-outs from this American cult who match Nanjo Asahito-style pyrotechnics with greasy garage blurt. Part of Yod's new cassette-only series, hand-numbered run of 100 copies." -
volcanic tongue
Please send us some of your psych. power please. We keep losing ours every time a rainbow forms in Oakland and these Leprechauns come out of ventilation ducts and open us up like a can of Fava beans. Gettin' sucked dry is a pain. Keep it up!
hey jesse, thanks for the comment, and how unfortunate that you got too stoned in an irish prison, i assume you mean kilmainham gaol. that is not a place i'd like to whitey in! you know, *feeling* like you're in a prison is one thing, *being* in one is another.
you look kinda irish yourself btw. a lot more irish than me, ironically.
You are so cool. I love your site and everything you stand for. Thanks for posting this true statement on my site. "conscious existence is the real trip"
Here's one of my pics I got from Aaron. Check-out my videos.
How about another... I put the words on both of these.
SALUTATIONS HOWLIN MAGIC. you rocked the socks off of rocking me! where do you jam and open up portals in la? have-a-day :) thanks for the A.D. D -cecilia
