The Mirrors- A Green Dream

Recorded when Greg Ashley (singer and now Gris Gris main man) was still using a fake ID to get the latest and greatest mind-twisting gonzo to come through Texas. For fans of Pink Floyd (Syd Barret-era) and the Electric Prunes.

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Track listing
  1. Ecks Em Eye
  2. Peregrine Downstream
  3. Cuerpos Haran Amor Extrano
  4. Down with Jesus
  5. Big Engine Nazi Kid Daydream
  6. Year Zero
  7. The Nonstop Tape
  8. Medication #4
  9. Skin Mass Cat
  10. Pickup Your Raygun
  11. Mademoiselle of the Morning
  12. For the Season

For the Season CD/LP • Out Now

For the Season is the second album from The Gris Gris, the sorcerous San Francisco outfit assembled by psychedelic shaman Greg Ashley. For the Season is the definition of modern psychedelia while providing the vehicle for Ashley's catchy songwriting and complex arrangements.

SIDE ONE

For the Season: The first side (or half, if you belong only in the digital age) is one Suite of many interconnected songs and streams. To be found here: “Cuerpos Haran Amor Extrano” with its slow, hypnotizing Cramps-esque tremellowed-out guitar riffs, and “Down With Jesus,” a bouncy number with hand claps and all, ending with full-on guitar jam-tastic mayhem. The suite finale “Year Zero” has been a show-stopping favorite for over a year now and on record leads the listener through an epic jam towards a goose-bump inducing conclusion: The first half's triumphant end.

SIDE TWO

The second side, more traditional in that it is composed of 6 distinct tracks, houses a waltz (with drunken, god-fuzz guitar lead), “Medication #4"; the molasses dripping Acid of “Skin Mass Cat”; and the single, “Pick Up Your Raygun,” with an Ennio Moriconne flavored spaghetti entrance leading to a driving, throbbing rock and roll nugget. The title track, “For The Season,” an orchestrated, almost fragile (between the noise grooves), eastern psychedelic Zen arcade, provides an epic finale for the record.