Psychic Meditation Music
First released in 1974, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is private press eccentric Master Wilburn Burchette's first DIY synth LP, and works as a precursor to later to later astral underground excursions sides that buoyed the New Weird America movement decades later.
Burchette's most direct record, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is pretty self explanatory, a soundtrack to Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course" - a seven-part guide to listening that the Cali-born "mail order mystic" advertised in the back pages of paranormal magazines like Fate and Gnostica News. Before this, Burchette had been releasing guitar albums - like 1973's blazing outsider psych milestone 'Guitar Grimoire' - but he was fascinated by the potential of synthesizers to provoke deep listening and induce meditative states. Jamming without restraint, he sounds as if he's in a trance, layering echoed baroque fanfares with a rudimentary analog synth. Nowhere near as hippy-dippy as the West Coast new age gear that'd arrive shortly later, Burchette's jams are peculiarly in tune with the wave of trippers who emerged in the late '00s - Emeralds and their contemporaries. So it's hardly surprising to find out that the album was first re-issued by Plus Tapes back in 2009. It's a missing piece of the puzzle, trust us on this one.
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First released in 1974, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is private press eccentric Master Wilburn Burchette's first DIY synth LP, and works as a precursor to later to later astral underground excursions sides that buoyed the New Weird America movement decades later.
Burchette's most direct record, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is pretty self explanatory, a soundtrack to Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course" - a seven-part guide to listening that the Cali-born "mail order mystic" advertised in the back pages of paranormal magazines like Fate and Gnostica News. Before this, Burchette had been releasing guitar albums - like 1973's blazing outsider psych milestone 'Guitar Grimoire' - but he was fascinated by the potential of synthesizers to provoke deep listening and induce meditative states. Jamming without restraint, he sounds as if he's in a trance, layering echoed baroque fanfares with a rudimentary analog synth. Nowhere near as hippy-dippy as the West Coast new age gear that'd arrive shortly later, Burchette's jams are peculiarly in tune with the wave of trippers who emerged in the late '00s - Emeralds and their contemporaries. So it's hardly surprising to find out that the album was first re-issued by Plus Tapes back in 2009. It's a missing piece of the puzzle, trust us on this one.
First released in 1974, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is private press eccentric Master Wilburn Burchette's first DIY synth LP, and works as a precursor to later to later astral underground excursions sides that buoyed the New Weird America movement decades later.
Burchette's most direct record, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is pretty self explanatory, a soundtrack to Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course" - a seven-part guide to listening that the Cali-born "mail order mystic" advertised in the back pages of paranormal magazines like Fate and Gnostica News. Before this, Burchette had been releasing guitar albums - like 1973's blazing outsider psych milestone 'Guitar Grimoire' - but he was fascinated by the potential of synthesizers to provoke deep listening and induce meditative states. Jamming without restraint, he sounds as if he's in a trance, layering echoed baroque fanfares with a rudimentary analog synth. Nowhere near as hippy-dippy as the West Coast new age gear that'd arrive shortly later, Burchette's jams are peculiarly in tune with the wave of trippers who emerged in the late '00s - Emeralds and their contemporaries. So it's hardly surprising to find out that the album was first re-issued by Plus Tapes back in 2009. It's a missing piece of the puzzle, trust us on this one.
First released in 1974, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is private press eccentric Master Wilburn Burchette's first DIY synth LP, and works as a precursor to later to later astral underground excursions sides that buoyed the New Weird America movement decades later.
Burchette's most direct record, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is pretty self explanatory, a soundtrack to Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course" - a seven-part guide to listening that the Cali-born "mail order mystic" advertised in the back pages of paranormal magazines like Fate and Gnostica News. Before this, Burchette had been releasing guitar albums - like 1973's blazing outsider psych milestone 'Guitar Grimoire' - but he was fascinated by the potential of synthesizers to provoke deep listening and induce meditative states. Jamming without restraint, he sounds as if he's in a trance, layering echoed baroque fanfares with a rudimentary analog synth. Nowhere near as hippy-dippy as the West Coast new age gear that'd arrive shortly later, Burchette's jams are peculiarly in tune with the wave of trippers who emerged in the late '00s - Emeralds and their contemporaries. So it's hardly surprising to find out that the album was first re-issued by Plus Tapes back in 2009. It's a missing piece of the puzzle, trust us on this one.
Opaque white vinyl edition.
Estimated Release Date: 13 June 2025
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
First released in 1974, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is private press eccentric Master Wilburn Burchette's first DIY synth LP, and works as a precursor to later to later astral underground excursions sides that buoyed the New Weird America movement decades later.
Burchette's most direct record, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is pretty self explanatory, a soundtrack to Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course" - a seven-part guide to listening that the Cali-born "mail order mystic" advertised in the back pages of paranormal magazines like Fate and Gnostica News. Before this, Burchette had been releasing guitar albums - like 1973's blazing outsider psych milestone 'Guitar Grimoire' - but he was fascinated by the potential of synthesizers to provoke deep listening and induce meditative states. Jamming without restraint, he sounds as if he's in a trance, layering echoed baroque fanfares with a rudimentary analog synth. Nowhere near as hippy-dippy as the West Coast new age gear that'd arrive shortly later, Burchette's jams are peculiarly in tune with the wave of trippers who emerged in the late '00s - Emeralds and their contemporaries. So it's hardly surprising to find out that the album was first re-issued by Plus Tapes back in 2009. It's a missing piece of the puzzle, trust us on this one.
Estimated Release Date: 13 June 2025
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
First released in 1974, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is private press eccentric Master Wilburn Burchette's first DIY synth LP, and works as a precursor to later to later astral underground excursions sides that buoyed the New Weird America movement decades later.
Burchette's most direct record, 'Psychic Meditation Music' is pretty self explanatory, a soundtrack to Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course" - a seven-part guide to listening that the Cali-born "mail order mystic" advertised in the back pages of paranormal magazines like Fate and Gnostica News. Before this, Burchette had been releasing guitar albums - like 1973's blazing outsider psych milestone 'Guitar Grimoire' - but he was fascinated by the potential of synthesizers to provoke deep listening and induce meditative states. Jamming without restraint, he sounds as if he's in a trance, layering echoed baroque fanfares with a rudimentary analog synth. Nowhere near as hippy-dippy as the West Coast new age gear that'd arrive shortly later, Burchette's jams are peculiarly in tune with the wave of trippers who emerged in the late '00s - Emeralds and their contemporaries. So it's hardly surprising to find out that the album was first re-issued by Plus Tapes back in 2009. It's a missing piece of the puzzle, trust us on this one.