The Psychic Paramount - Live 2002 The Franco-Italian Tour CD / Digital Download

The Psychic Paramount here is a power trio in the traditional rock format (guitar, bass, drums) recorded live at performances in Paris, Lyon, Perpignan, and Napoli in Nov./Dec. of 2002. The group, going on tour less than one week after their first meeting, is captured at birth in raw immediate form. Predicating experiments with the authority of sound and primitive revival upon a rock 'n' roll platform, the music seeks to evoke a sense of urgency and a release from the banal. A document of turbulent emergency music grinding its entrance. All tracks originally recorded to cassette live using one stereo microphone.

"As many people as possible should experience his single-mindedly self-willed experimental-ambient sounds." - laut.de (Germany)

"They sound like a heavy metal This Heat! Some tracks are just full on blasts of NOISE, wild and dense, thick swirls of psychedelic sound, freaked out and chaotic, but even at its most noisy it's still so musical. Loud, weird, repetitive, hypnotic, mesmerizing, so so so good!" -Aquarius Records

"The Psychic Paramount initially discharge thick streams of blown out, ultra chaotic psychedelic rock, sometimes with guitars so pretty and dreamy they border on shoegaze, but run through a thousand distortion and delay pedals, bombarded with splattered backwards drumming... then move on to hypnotic space rock freakouts, snarling sludgy psychedelic hypno rock squall, beautiful and messy and catchy, the levels pushed into the red, a hyperdistorted cosmic storm that sweeps you into it's eye. Awesome.  Crucial monolithic free rock." -Crucialblast.net

"An improv-noise rock trio that transmutes and inverts cock rock braggadocio, relies both on chance and dexterity, and above all isn’t nearly as tangential as most typical improvised music. Within each discordant movement lies a molten rhythmic core, a groove per se, however obscure, that only gains clarity through propulsion thus we’ve to invest ourselves body and soul to glean the prize." -The Big Takeover

"Energetic noise working like an oil pump for your adrenaline." -Vital Weekly

"The music is dense and flowing and teaches us the lesson that apparent cacaphony can wield truth and yield forth fruits of musicality only the enlightened can appreciate." -Fishcom Collective

"Intense and powerful, unpredictable and genuine." -Chain D.L.K.

1. Lyon
2. Paris pt. one (MP3)
3. Paris pt. two
4. Napoli / Perpignan pt. two
5. Perpignan pt. one
6. Ex-Visitations

*Enhanced w/ Super 8 film by Aran Tharp (stills below)

Drew St. Ivany - Guitar
Ben Armstrong - Bass
Tatsuya Nakatani - Drums

Release Date: February 28, 2006

Artwork: Bewilderment & Illumination

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