The Session - Experimental Jetset

Regarding the LSD theme: it’s interesting that we actually don’t use drugs at all (apart from very modest amounts of nicotine and alcohol). In fact, Danny, being completely straight edge, doesn’t even smoke or drink, and never has. But despite being drugs-free, all three of us are quite obsessed with the aesthetic language of Sixties psychedelia. In a lot of our work we try to situate the psychedelic experience in a modernist context, an attempt that some might see as paradoxical, but we think it is far from that. It all boils down to this Marxist notion of ‘the liberation of senses’ (or, in Marx’ exact words, “the complete emancipation of all human senses and qualities”). It is there where psychedelia and modernism meet.

Interesting. (Continuing on with our Beatles theme.)