Anoth­er excel­lent show on Thurs­day, you can even make it after Fly­ing Nun at City Gallery Welling­ton.

SUN ARAW is the sound of the late-night par­ty deep­en­ing to cos­mic lev­els as you turn up the bass and fog up the place. Mantras emerge from volu­mi­nous reverb. Old-school Jamaican grooves roll deep with Afro-funk gui­tar. Shud­der­ing per­cus­sive delays stretch out to the event hori­zon. It’s like tak­ing a jour­ney from Kingston via Nige­ria en route to the heart of the sun.

Hail­ing from Long Beach, LA, Cameron Stal­lones is the man behind this musi­cal solar storm. A mem­ber of heavy rockin’ psych-revival­ists MAGIC LANTERN as well as record­ing with the likes of POCAHAUNTED and VIBES, Stal­lones infus­es his lyser­gic blues with a hefty dose of trop­i­cal sun­shine in some places, and deep-as-space Kraut-drone else­where. Moments on his lat­est dou­ble LP ON PATROL (Not Not Fun Records) sound a lit­tle like Lee Per­ry going crazy in the Black Ark Stu­dio with mem­bers of the Sun Ra Arkestra, with an appro­pri­ate­ly cin­e­mat­ic feel as the dif­fer­ent son­ic dimen­sions shift in and out of focus.

The SUN ARAW live expe­ri­ence sees Stal­lones tak­ing the record­ed mate­r­i­al even fur­ther into realms of dubbed-out bliss, util­is­ing gui­tar, Farfisa organ, vocals and a whole lot of delay to entrance the crowd in his colos­sal hyp­no-grooves. If astral pro­jec­tion had a sound­track, this would be it.