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I gotta buy shoes
Been puttin' it off cuz it feels like
A capitalist endeavor
And walkin’s for free
Got these ten toes and two feet
that god gave to me
Think I’m gonna leave
Takin’ it all with me
Just what I got
It’s not a lot
The babies need shoes
Been puttin' it off cuz they grow so quick
And it’s kind of a waste of money
And what will they wear
But the bruises of their fathers
And mothers
Think I’m gonna leave
The fields of grass behind me
Just what I got
It’s not a lot
about
From liner notes by Jason P. Woodbury:
We begin at the end.
“I’m imagining this is, like, the last two minutes of the album.”
Studio chatter litters Doggie Paddlin’ Thru The Cosmic Consciousness, the latest, and perhaps final, outing from Psychic Temple, the ever-morphing, ever-mutating constellation of players constituting Chris Schlarb’s own Planet Long Beach Rock and Roll Orchestra. Schlarb’s Southern California boy cadence carries a swaying rhythm, his speech is punctuated musically. This raw tape—behind the scenes snippets from BIG EGO and The Time Machine, a makeshift studio assembled by Chris and engineer/confidant Devin O'Brien in the Joshua Tree desert—never feels intrusive. The clips beckon and invite you in, a lifted curtain and a peek at the world revealed behind it.
Somewhere along the line, Schlarb got it into his head that perhaps his musical visions will lead him elsewhere from here on out. “9 is the end, it’s over,” Schlarb sings after the ninth song on this, his ninth album under the Psychic Temple banner. He wrote the gnomic, elliptical figure with 7-year old daughter Isabella at the kitchen table. As drummer Tabor Allen and bassist Josh Ottum dig into a swampy, two chord groove, Schlarb is joined by a choir of acoustics (drummer Ben Lumsdaine on 6- and Max Knouse on 12-string), aching pedal steel from Dave Easley, a wiry fence of electric guitars, Hammond organ and a group of sympathetic voices that includes longtime companions, collaborators, and family. If this were the end of Psychic Temple, it wouldn’t be such a bad end after all.
credits
releases May 31, 2024
Produced and Mixed by Chris Schlarb
Engineered and photographed by Devin O'Brien
Recorded at BIG EGO in Long Beach, CA. and
The Time Machine in Joshua Tree, CA.
Mastered by JJ Golden
Cover photo by Adriana Schlarb
Development by Steve Koontz at Van's Foto/Video
Layout by David J. Woodruff
All songs written by Chris Schlarb unless noted:
Published by Interstellar Music Holdings of the Psychic Temple (ASCAP)
"Hold On (It's All Rite)"
Published by Bernasconi Music (BMI)
Possibilities At Sea Songs and Music (ASCAP)
Interstellar Music Holdings of the Psychic Temple (ASCAP)
"We Ain't Got Nothin'"
Published by JUNATIME Music (ASCAP)
Guma University Publishing (BMI)
Interstellar Music Holdings of the Psychic Temple (ASCAP)
supported by 12 fans who also own “Doggie Paddlin' Thru The Cosmic Consciousness”
I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough
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supported by 12 fans who also own “Doggie Paddlin' Thru The Cosmic Consciousness”
Entire album is excellent. As is the rest of the catalog. Go back to 1970...take the Dead and Floyd and roll them up. Yet completely different.
Just plain old GOOD MUSIC. Ed Fransko