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Herbcraft formed in late-2009 after the dissolution of Matt Lajoie’s Cursillistas project. Taking inspiration from late-60s and early-70s psychedelic rock, acid folk, prog/space-rock, and German kosmische, Lajoie wrote and recorded the debut Herbcraft album “Discovers The Bitter Water Of Agartha” in a single day on borrowed equipment. The album was released in June 2010 on Hello Sunshine, sister-label of Woodsist Records. Lajoie put together a live band for tours to support the album, and released the mostly-live “Papers” cassette on Fuck-It Tapes in October 2010. This was followed in June 2011 by “Ashram to the Stars”, a second solo-recorded LP on Hello Sunshine that is much more heavy, dark, and abstract than the debut LP, with Japanese psych, minimalist composition, and cosmic jazz influences. The “Flowering” cassette—a mix of more psych-pop-leaning songs and instrumental improvisations recorded in Spring & Summer 2011—was an addendum to the “Ashram” LP, and released on Julia Dream Recordings in July 2012.

Herbcraft’s 2011-2012 live incarnation (Lajoie with Dawn Aquarius, Nicholas Barker, and Corinna Marshall) recorded its third full-length album, “The Astral Body Electric”, in December 2011 with members of the band Mmoss. The LP was recorded mostly live in the studio on a Tascam 388 with minimal overdubs, and was mastered in Spectrasound by Matt “MV” Valentine.
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  • iconan

    Herbcraft - Ashram To The Stars 2011 - There is music of drugs and then there's the music you drugs. "Fleet Guru" is an opening to a dark disk rather dark, but it does not sound to take us to a place depressing. Ashram to the Stars takes the implicit feeling of the area psychedelic that the title album suggests, pretty well from the beginning, through the ghosts of Six Organs of Admittance and Flying Saucer Attack. The main architect of the Herbcraft is Matt Lajoie. -.-.-.-. om hari om ..... ॐะ

    28 Nov 2012 Reply

  • majo334

    Fleet Guru is mindblowing

    28 Jul 2012 Reply

  • iconan

    Combining influences from worldwide underground psychedelia (German, Japanese, Brazilian, Turkish, African) as well as traditional devotional music and American rock & roll, Portland, Maine’s Herbcraft utilizes a philosophy of improvisation and repetition in an attempt to attain higher and heavier musical vibrations. -.-.-.-. om hari om .....

    10 Apr 2012 Reply

  • mandararama

    fabulous music, way out! <8

    25 Feb 2012 Reply

  • crownanchor

    Cool outfit:)

    24 Jan 2012 Reply

  • lo-fi-robots

    go to wax for that hazy seventh inning sesh

    4 Oct 2011 Reply

  • triangleomer

    should i like this?

    3 Aug 2011 Reply

  • ru_galochkin

    Many!

    30 Jun 2011 Reply

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