Sky Sunlight Saxon and The Seeds
Information and reviews for 1960s psychedelic garage-rock pioneers The Seeds. Including Sky Saxon's numerous projects 1960-2009 and beyond.
Album of the day
A Spring Honeymoon With God & Family
Sky Saxon and Djin Aquarian, plus three of their friends, recorded some improvisational music in April 2005 which they released as King Arthur's Court on a CD-r called A Spring Honeymoon With God & Family. The physical disc is no longer available for purchase but the album can still be officially downloaded. The pieces on A Spring Honeymoon With God & Family are generally lengthy jams. They center around Djin's rhythmic acoustic guitar and Steve "Scones" Kozyk's bass, with lots of psychedelic electronic treatments and goodies washing through the album. Sounds of nature – birds and bees, rivers and thunderstorms – pop up frequently. It's mesmerizing, really. Sky Saxon actually only sings on four of the album's eight songs, including its longest piece "My Queen". This isn't the place for his growling garage rock posturing, so as on his Source Family recordings from the 1970s like Yodship and Lovers Cosmic Voyage he is gentle here. And very high. He free-associates the random bursts of his own synapses and takes his sweet time doing it. [caption id="attachment_1143" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Mr. Shasta, in the
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
A casual run-through of the Christmas classic, recorded around 1999 and released a few years later, featuring some new lyrics and a genuinely festive vibe.
The live 1977 album Heavenly Earth opens with "Sunlight's Introduction", Sunlight being Sky Saxon's recently-adopted moniker. In his relaxed and other-worldly voice
From an obscure 2008 promo CD comes "Breaking News" featuring Sky Saxon, Dana Smith, and the impressive rhythm section of Billy Cox and Buddy Miles on bass and drums respectively
It's not often that Sky Saxon's version of a song is anything less than the most insane version, but nobody could outdo The Stooges' 1969 original of "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
This wheezy and artfully psychedelic tone poem grated its listeners' ears with extreme stereo separation at first, while a later remix smoothed the edges.
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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