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Acid Rock Superground Mica's Time Machine hits top spot on Album Chart
Kaliburg adds its mark to the prevalent sound of Kalistani Music
Kalibug, Ananto
October 5208


Acid rock stars Mica's Time Machine brings psychedelic sound to Kaliburg

As Acid Rock sweeps the venues of Suldanor and Ananto, the first major acid rock band from Kaliburg, the supergroup Mica's Time Machine have hit the top of the Radio 1 Album charts. "Selected for the first time in the poll's history as the most popular record in Popular music, Mica's Time Machine's "Death in the Theater" announces Acid Rock's dominance in the markets," said spokesman Frank Xavier.

Formed of the remnants of several hard blues and rock bands in the Capital area, MTM (as they are also known) represent the collaboration of Ananto's best rock musicians. Featuring band leader Greg Buzz Trist (previously of the Willy Furious Blues Band) on Bass, the band also features Tommy Howard of Orange Lemmon on Lead, Blackie Smith from the now defunct acid jam band Glassbottom and Phillip Tomas of Creature performing rhythm and percussion duties (with Tomas also doubling as keyboardist), Britt Druthers Carruthers, who still plays with Green Haze on drums and new comer Antonia Tiegland on vocals.

"We have a solid blues background," said Trist. "But I think it was Blackie who suggested that we all get together an build this band, which was as much blues rock as it was psychedelic. We wanted a different sound than some of the other things we were doing, and the other bands were more or less all guys. So We were jamming one day, trying to work out some songs I think at Tommy's place and his girlfriend at the time had this friend who was Toni, and we thought maybe she could sing a little so we told her to come in, and she just blew our minds. She's got a lot of soul."

Tiegland, who is only 19 has never been in a band before MTM, but her songs are viewed are some of the best on the record. "She's got this voice, especially when she is singing with Tommy," said Xavier. "Their voices go really well together. She'll sing and he'll answer. They have a lot of chemistry on stage, and she was what the band needed to take them into superstar status."

The new Mica's Time Machine album "Death in the Theater", which is a concept record about what goes through the minds of people a moment before they burn to death in a theater fire, contains a lot of darkness, and regret, and some songs are really a bummer, but indeed, there is also a lot of forgiveness, exaltation, and love found on the record too. It's fairly light in social commentary, but it does contain a few protest songs. "We wanted to more or less represent protest against futility," said Tiegland. "Like, instead of saying protest is futile, we wanted to protest futility: the human will to survive even against insurmountable odds. All these people die in the end, but surely there is at least one person who will rage against that til the end. That guy makes me kinda proud."

Despite their roots in blues, MTM's music is almost pure psychedelia. "We take the blues, and we find that playing the blues, as jazz musicians, with different scales and modality and all that, it sounds really trippy," said Trist. "A lot of times, I will get into a riff, and the rhythm and drums will build on that, and then the lead will you know, do its thing, you know, like doing this thing that he calls comet stuff, and Toni will often write the lyrics on the spot." Trist admits there is a lot of LSD that goes into the music. "We have to be frying, both when we're writing and when we're playing. A 2 track tape recorder is a must, but unfortunately a lot of tape is wasted because, you know, after a while, we sort of lose the thread. But we'll listen to a lot of these explorations and they'll become the basis for our songs."

"Death in the Theater" the Number 1 Album in Radio 1's weekly poll, is now available at all record stores and on all streaming services. Mica's Time Machine advises listeners to take a lot of drugs before listening, preferably Acid or Mushrooms, and settle into the trip before starting the record. It will certainly influence the listening of the album.