English
The genre of Psychedelia moves in different fields and latitudes, different styles, genres and subgenres. MAybe what characterizes it the most is the wish of experimentation, the intention of making of music a deep and prolonged voyage, that seduces both the interior voyage with the voyage itself through recreational substances. If you think that psychedelia is ´Yellow Submarine´ of The Beatles and also ´In A Gadda Da Vida´ of Iron Butterfly, then you´re very wrong. Psychedelia established itself before any of those songs and in different forms when referring to experimental sound. It did so musically and with drugs to create new shapes and sensations, new aims for Rock n Roll.
Shazzula is probable the most renown DJ today in that genre. Her constant trips around Europe have made her receive thousands of fans and people interested in her hypnotic sessions of Heavy-Space-Psych. Originally from Brussels. Shazzula began her career being a garage and fuzz rock DJ among other 60s genres. She also organized the short-lived but forever remembered Suicide Twist Festival, where the French band Aqua Nebula Oscillator, an acid Paris band of strident sounds, with maximum fuzz and plenty of attitude became known. With them, Shazzula recorded probably the best album of these French guys until today: ´Under the Moon of Aqua Nebula Oscillator”, an album that explores both the dirtiest of Rock n Roll with strong influences of The Stooges and Blue CHeer with the long lysergic sounds and synth effects. Shazzula brought to this recording her torn and wild voice, as well as different effects and the spoken word.
As well as having participated various years with Aqua Nebula Oscillator, Shazzula currently presents herself with some of the best Space Rock bands of today: White Hills, The Entrance Band and Farflung to only name a few. In them, Shazzula takes over a theremyn and oscillators to create layers of hypnotic effects that elevate the sound of these bands to an even more overwhelming sonic experience. She´s also collaborated with the experimental project Mater Suspiria Vision in the making of videos, art and sounds. Currently she´s working on an experimental film of a psychedelic-pagan-ritualistic type called ´Black Mass Rising´, which presents magical rituals induced by the experimentation of drugs and sound.
Shazzula will once again be in the classic White Trash bar in Berlin on August 6th, where the best of international rock and roll has been and will be presented. Shazzula´s sets go from the darkest of the 60s up to the newest Space Rock and Heavy Psych. For more information visit Shazzula´s Facebook page which is always updated, as well as the White Trash in Berlin website: http://www.whitetrashfastfood.com/
Alexa Ray
Nothing better than getting apartments in Berlin and experimenting the vibrant underground scene that still lives on in this changing city.
Translated by: aleixgwilliam
