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.