BIO

The Lodestones bring you songs from the land of darkness and astral twilight, from the deepest corner of the American nightmare, and from the altars along the road to love and eternity. Steeped in the deep tea of DIY punk, noise, and experimental sound, The Lodestones emerge as something direct, definite, and intentional, while drawing from various folk musics of America and the world. Songwriter, poet, film maker, audio engineer Jeffrey Rocketmild met artist Dena Goldsmith-Stanley while performing solo as 3 Moons in Portland Oregon in 2011. The pair soon began a collaboration and moved into a battered RV, touring and traveling extensively, writing and performing plays, psychedelic improvisational sound, and songs, before settling in the Bay Area in 2013. In addition to performing as the Lodestones, the two joined the Santa Cruz based freak folk institution Village of Spaces, and are currently touring internationally as members of Jackie O Motherfucker.

THE BOOK OF SENSES by Jeffrey Rocketmild Jefferson

 


"A tour de force of original poetic weirdness from the quill of Jeffrey Rocketmild Jefferson.  Alchemy and escape.  A mountain mystic's disgust of the lower worlds.  Thanatos and rebirth.  Lost keys from a Cairo hotel room inexplicably turning up on your house key ring.  The conjuring of lightning by the hand of 1,000 faces.  A personal zohar evaporating as it's read.  One of Saturn's moons lodged in your fifth eye."  -Brian Lucas

The Book of Senses: A Cryptolecticon (Poems and Other Texts)

Elegance Beyond! Elation Beyond! Exultation Beyond!

The Book of Senses is available now at PSYOP RECORDINGS bandcamp,

as well as from bookshop.org and other major retailers.  You can get it a little cheaper and a little faster if you order from the above bandcamp link.

140 Pages of poetics, drawings, collages, and a few photographs.   


"Cosmically demented and achingly beautiful" - Kinko Malada

"True vines of poetic transmission emerge through cracks in a plastic bible-screen" - Daniel Higgs




"Modesto"

@ THE GOLDEN BULL

"Lightning Song" (PSYOP mix)

"Mental Control"

"Earthrise"

KASIDAH : DANIEL HIGGS, JEFFREY ROCKETMILD, BUCK CURRAN, SIR RICHARD BURTON