Sun City Girls - Space Prophet Dogon

[@Ramentastic]

This is the greatest song I've ever heard ever. No hyperbole.

[@petertaylorarts]

agreed

[@starpimp42]

Yes it is ! When they played it live, i would just melt & piss my pants! Damn i miss them. RIP Charlie G!

[@matteo7059]

I feel like I can go everywhere with this song playing

[@saturatedneowax]

I'm gong to space

[@lLIBER4TORl]

They have such an intresting discography to discover

[@audreypathkiller297]

Feel like I jumped through a rabbit hole of new funky music.

[@drewlowell9337]

a handful of cashews once asked me what led to my father choking on an unripe tomato right before the ball dropped. really i just think they were trying to intimidate me so that i wouldn't confront them when they went to gang stalk me.

[@flyingcomputer624]

Where did you find the lyrics?

[@tonysigsby870]

I'm at a loss for words

[@Oliver-ty7xu]

Amazing, thank you Sonic

[@trash_bender420]

Sonic off tha goop

[@medotata5356]

Such a beautiful and delightfull voice.

[@666msw1]

don't think it is, If you don't believe this is a good voice then perhaps you should also know that It's just a belief which is varied from one person to another.

[@aproposnothing4428]

Righteous use of the public megosphere to seed our souls with the great beauty that is art.

[@mikekroll177]

Tldr cool post

[@aaronbelakhoua5497]

Bruh, this is basically North African music with a different setting. I like how all the stuff they published on their label seeped into their music

[@kellyalves756]

Found this song via one of Claire Dane's early shorts-- "The Suitor" . This song was used to enhance the intro, which was a bottom to top panning shot of some spectacular East Coast autumn trees. Best paring of image to song I have seen yet.

[@andrewsnarr6474]

Is there anything online or could you provide a link to that?

[@emknight72]

That was a great short film. It also featured the song “The Shining Path” from SCG during the closing credits.

[@disruptiobrevis4935]

where can i find it?

[@jwmeirose]

yep me too. That is also a great short film

[@hurlydobbins8982]

tastes like life & death. feels like escape. SSG, you are legacy.

[@ComradeCrusty]

few bands have spoken to me as deeply over the years

[@PoetryHound]

Great music to have playing in the O.R. as you fade into subconsciousness.

[@michaelouz]

Thank you Barrett and CONTAIN podcast for turning me onto this

[@anevershiftingsun]

its always a joy to turn on some sun city girls and jam out! peace and love to everyone

[@TelepathicStudios]

I remember a concert in Tempe where they played this song. They kept splashing the audience with (grain alcohol?) some idiot jumped on stage and wanted to fight the band and he was taken down. They had a bunch of stage props that they gave away after the concert.

[@kellyalves756]

TelepathicStudios ... ... ... Why the HELL were they splashing people with grain alcohol? (Just curious.)

[@simillarian]

TelepathicStudios I miss Sun City Girls shows soooo much

[@DogbadTV]

Just guessing here, apparently they were manifesting their Purity Of Essence: someone in the audience was crying out for Peace On Earth. Just guessing, mind you.

[@scalefish]

transcendent beauty, summoned by a band of the greatest character. There will never be another, because they played from their own personalities. Rich and rare.

[@jameswhyte970]

magical song

[@grilinhocricri]

I want this played at my funeral

[@danielmateos2377]

Me too

[@thedelta72]

Great song on a great album by a very cool band. Still hard to put my finger on the feeling of the music. I know when it was made but in which time does it exist? It also seems so authentic, even though it’s not in the way we usually think of the term. Which language it is sung in? is it a real language? Which culture is it from? On the same album (next track I think) they record a version of a Latin American folk song, giving the impression that they’re world music dabblers, but again the feeling of the music totally refutes that. We know they have a background in the AZ punk scene (JFA) making it possible they’re “taking the piss” but again, listen for a couple of bars and you realize that irony or satire are besides the point. I guess psychedelic in a deep sense (which could be further unpacked ad nauseum) is the best I can come up with. That and the sense that listening to this music makes me feel like other ways of being are within reach. Saw them twice in Vancouver. First time I was blown away watching the drummer, who seemed old and very cool, a bit like ginger baker playing a kit cobbled together from weird shit. Second time was with then Seattle-based Avant Garde violinist Eyvvind Kang. Both were singular performances and are lodged in my mind.

[@MichaelDelbeecke]

yes

[@rohitchaoji]

"Psychedelic in a deep sense" always made sense to me with regards to Sun City Girls' music, especially in cases where they're not using real words in lyrics and going into "world music" territories.

[@tuasucks]

According to an interview with Rick Bishop, he said this was inspired by a "field" recording Alan Bishop recorded of a harp song from Mali that he heard on the radio on a trip to Africa. The way I think about SCG is they're unparalleled at making music that sounds lost. Lost as in you wake up in some ancient, faraway land where you don't speak the language and the world is full of strange sounds, smells, colors, songs, voices, flavors, festivals, and rituals that you've never experienced before. But rather than panicking, you just try to take it all in, in complete awe.

[@Saltedcoil]

One of my favorite songs to play on guitar.

[@saturatedneowax]

so good

[@ld4067]

same. it's really relaxing to play and pretty simple if you tune to open D or E 🦔

[@MatthewRutter-kj3bf]

Sir Richard bishop no longer smokes he quite met him at South street

[@xxpeeblesxx]

My God, this is wonderful.

[@sammywarren3070]

Sounds like a velvet underground tuning he’s using . Amazing

[@MrGuilen]

love that this exists

[@Owlute]

great song about a great myth (Sirius star and the Dogon people)

[@oldmetalhippyoldmetalhippy1971]

I'd love to see lyrics / translation of Space Prophet Dogon. Anyone know?

[@robbyslaw]

Gonna have to agree with this fine gentleman.

[@sonictrasher]

BEST BAND

[@AsPrecesDoVigario]

Amazing!!!!

[@xdistortxjapanx]

Grails do a great instrumental cover of this

[@Searchinmano]

so is this one the original version?

[@grilinhocricri]

@@Searchinmano yes

[@rohitchaoji]

I do think a part of the magic is lost without Alan Bishop doing his signature croons.

[@doctorrivas]

De vez en cuando alguien te sorprende

[@marceolius1]

My song ! thanks

[@wl1059]

great

[@ARCTERYXSWEATSHOP]

1 person extinguished their mystical torch.

[@opiamzen]

SUN CITY GIRLS the fucking best! AWESOME!

[@Kispalkovich]

sooo fuuuckiiin goooood

[@Thisisslammin]

Awesome.

[@bwlamorte93]

saw Sir Richard Bishop play with Michael Gira last night. the only thing that would have completed the amazingness would have been if The Sun City Girls rose from the dead and played "The Shining Path". Sigh. O well.

[@ROSSKRISTIAN]

Yes yes yes

[@kosmiktrigger23]

"Forest of Bliss" by Robert Gardner...just watch it.

[@patcharisma]

O my God - shall you ever forgive me all my drug-sins... together with this Pre-Goa-Thang... xD (Pat, Switzerland)

[@transhumanisttv1771]

You could not have created this song without experiencing a desert monsoon

[@ARCTERYXSWEATSHOP]

Majestic

[@FatherRikhi]

this is rad.

[@egpipkin]

spun city 4 life

[@natasja123456]

@Swindlersfist Im into that kind of knowledge only if its creator wants that.I mean,when nietzsche says ''not everyone should read my book,not everyone should know how to read in general'' i agree and im pissed when everyone is using him for small talk at the beach. But,music is sth completely different and i haven't heard alan richard or charles saying we want our music to be exlusive.

[@nilzardo]

I agree. Well err, have a nice life, man.

[@wulfgreyhame6857]

Found this mob far too late.

[@kowalityjesus]

sick

[@starpimp42]

hell yeah

[@natasja123456]

@Swindlersfist By doing what exactly?Blowing sir Richard and narrating how clever you are and how big is your musical experience?

[@MichaelDelbeecke]

bram bram demunter, bram demunter bram!

[@starpimp42]

UNCLE JIM

[@transhumanisttv1771]

This song is dusty laundromats in the late twentieth century deserts of urban Tempe and Phoenix for me-their seed ground. This so specifically feels so Tempe and Phoenix to me from that era when they (and I) lived there. I knew a brilliant underground musician who knew them as well then. something very mystical that resonates in this song with desert winds and desolation and mystical visions.

[@franciscoochoa8317]

It´s pretty wierd to me hear this song when I've only heard Dante's Disneyland Inferno from them, even if dante's is wierder than this.

[@knicks9899]

I always hear a little Tina Turner in the vocals...

[@chucklopresti7262]

1 comment after 108. Bliss

[@obzenful]

Bishop is da shit. Anyone know what language is this song?

[@boatstrips]

Hamza Cynic It's scat singing. Just vocal improvisation.

[@avefiggy2128]

😍

[@Adrianovaz2007]

Animal Collective brought me here

[@ValseInstrumentalist]

What did Animal Collective do that brought you to this song? I have to hear it :)

[@Adrianovaz2007]

ValseMusic They mentioned Sun City Girls among other bands as their inspiration on an interview about CHz.

[@ValseInstrumentalist]

Oh. I was hoping for an Animal Collective Sun City Girls cover.

[@Adrianovaz2007]

ValseMusic That woould be great, oh well now I'm sad we don't have that.

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

***** I love it when two of your favourite bands acknowledge each other, I find comfort in that

[@theworldlooksred]

Fucking righteous!

[@ARCTERYXSWEATSHOP]

Thumbs up if you're using youtube.

[@johnrusso4087]

Decent

[@nilzardo]

Did you learn a new word?

[@epizootics]

Hipster is a term colored

[@jamesralcoon]

fellas

[@nilzardo]

"no u"

[@natasja123456]

@cityhermitus The Intellectual Potheads Beach. And there is something called metaphorical speech. Google it.

[@nilzardo]

:)

[@JasonQuackenbushonGoogle]

glossolalia

[@natasja123456]

@Swindlersfist .........I agree,not everyone can be touched fron this song,ok,but whats wrong with hearing it?It wont make any difference to him. Last,do you actually have this record?Cause it costs 70 euros or more now.I'm sorry,but giving 70 euros for ''the right to listen to it'' doesn't work for me.

[@444damn]

what language are the lyrics in?

[@ColeWheeler4Lyfe]

He’s speaking in tongues.

[@joaoquintela2183]

So... you're one of those guys that scrolls videos with less than 50k views and yells about hipsters? Tell me more about your [probably] wonderful life. :)

[@VacuumBoots81]

How pretentious and cliche of you.

[@venusinfurs76]

hell yeah