Trabants Mantra / Surfers On Acid

The result of a years-long process to distill the ultimate hybrid of instrumental surf and psychedelic bliss, Mantra and Surfers On Acid was conceived as the definitive psych-surf single and timeless summer soundtrack. Mantra picks up where Trabants’ 2015 album on Lolipop Records, Freakout, left off, inspired by the psychedelic sounds of the ‘60s while chasing and embracing the era’s righteously primitive fuzz effects. An aural ride through the tumultuous, exotic waves of an alien terrain, Surfers On Acid is an idea brought to fruition via vintage sounds and methods, fusing surf and psychedelia into one symbiotic piece of music. Rhythmic, reverb-drenched and brimming with layers of (forwards and) backwards guitar, these mind-and-body focused songs are also a response to the enigmatic mention of surf music in the lyrics of Jimi Hendrix’s 'Third Stone From The Sun,' which Hendrix apparently was transmitting to fellow left-handed guitar hero and surf music legend Dick Dale, as he said: And you’ll never hear surf music again (that sounds like a lie to me).