There’s Gonna Be Some Downs

Yahowa 13 “Untitled #1” – This is taken from I’m Gonna Take You Home, an LP created in 1974 by a cultish collective of hippies led by a bearded, middle-aged health food restaurant owner who believed that he was God and renamed himself Father Yod. His followers were called The Source, and were instructed to eat only raw fruits and vegetables, wear only white cotton clothing, and to engage only in sex without orgasm. The music sounds almost exactly as how one might imagine the recordings of a hippie cult – intense psychedelic guitars, manic vocals from Father Yod, and a consistent vibe of mysticism and Apocalyptic dread. Yod went on to change his name again to Yahowha and move The Source to Hawaii, where he eventually died after being wounded in a hang gliding accident. Apparently, most of the master tapes of the collective’s music were burned following his death, but this has not stopped the Captain Trip and Swordfish labels (from Japan and the UK, respectively) from reissuing the old records on cd in limited editions. (Click here to buy it from Forced Exposure.)