San Diego Sessions vinyl

Southern California is a fitting background for freeform musical projects to take shape. Everything about the US invokes ideas of size and endlessness, but that imagery feels particularly vivid way out west and is coupled with idea of laidback living. That striking Pacific coastline, the arid desert and snow-capped mountains are all about scale, and the idea of losing yourself or being able to avoid conformity. It's sold as a very different world, basically. Hence the state's longstanding relationship with rebellious culture, and a refusal to play by anywhere else's rules, and the impact this had on Danish musician Jonas Munk. Through his El Paraiso Records he connected with the SoCal psyche rock scene, and finally met with Brian Ellis, and members of Radio Moscow, Psicomagi, Sacri Monti, Monarch, and Ocelot. They drank beer, worked up a sweat and came out with these seven tracks that perfectly define what you might call heavy artistic rock.