This site has limited support for your browser. We recommend switching to Edge, Chrome, Safari, or Firefox.

Cart 0

No more products available for purchase

Products
Free shipping in Aotearoa! You are $0 away from free shipping.
Leave an order note or gift card message
Add Gift Wrap & Card
PO Box or Rural Delivery?
Pair with
Subtotal Free
View cart
Shipping, taxes, and discount codes are calculated at checkout

Your Cart is Empty

This Is It

$30.00 Regular price $40.00
Variant

Psychedelic music all began with the tiniest possible bang: a minuscule pressing of a self-produced LP by Zen Buddhist scholar Alan Watts. In one cosmic flash of inspiration and group improvisation, the next two decades of musical innovation was pre-supposed: psychedelic rock, spiritual jazz, and even new age. As this micro pressing barely made it out of the ashram, it was his writings that actually spread his ideas, usually through osmosis: he was profoundly influential on the beat poets and the subsequent counter-culture. He became the forebear of '60s counter-culture's spirituality, much as William Burroughs was the forebear of its hedonism. Released in 1962, This Is It is an imaginative cacophony of percussion, non-verbal chanting, and free-flowing expression, punctuated occasionally by leisurely passes at a terrestrial piano, marimba, or french horn. It is at once, experimental, intellectual, and experiential. Three years before Ken Kesey's inaugural Acid Test, This Is It! constitutes the first transmission for a tuned-in counterculture of hippies, beats, and psychedelic revolutionaries of all stripes.

LP

1 140g LP
1 tip-on single LP jacket
1 download coupon

Tracklist
  1. Love You
  2. Onion Chant
  3. Gagaku-Ku
  4. Fingernail Poem
  5. Umdagumsubudu
  6. Metamatic Ritual
  7. The End

[{"variant_id":"22461589636" , "metafield_value":""}]