The most wondrous psychedelic trips available in electro-acoustic music today are owed to the British producer James Holden. The trained pianist began his career at the end of the 90s as a techno DJ; in the recent decade he has been composing music for old modular synthesizers and alternating jazz and improv line-ups. With his current ensemble The Animal Spirits he pursues playing styles from the spiritual jazz of the 1970s to the Moroccan Gnawa tradition: music for spiritual journeys – and for the endless now one experiences when the eyes and ears drift within.

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