Andy Reilly chats to JP of Scottish psychedelic band Helicon and Al Lover. Al Lover if you don’t know is an experimental producer from Los Angeles, who specialises in a synthesis of trip hop, krautrock, boom bap, and dub. Two very different worlds. They have collaborated on what JP calls their most accessible record yet, Arise.

They talk about them both working across the two very different cultures and approaches to style.

Pushing outside your own natural boundaries to find fresh territory.

Making a vastly broad sounding album cohesive.

They also get into the thorny issue of just what is psychedelic music?

They get into the nuts and bolts of making the record, so there’s a good bit of chatting about the ins and outs of how they work in the studio and build their tracks, as well as working with Chris Geddes of Belle & Sebastian.

They also chat about playing King Tut’s, potentially winning over Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s fans at their appearance at Kendal Calling later this year, and much more.

Listen to Helicon x Al Lover, Arise: https://heliconglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/arise

Helicon online: https://www.heliconglasgow.com/bio

Helicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heliconglasgow1/

AL LOVER online: https://www.al-lover.com/

AL LOVER Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/al_lover/

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