Decolonize Your Mind Society
“NYC’s 75 Dollar Bill is a useful reference for Balint Szabo’s guitar groove, but the ensemble playing fills out the picture over a wide horizon … [their music] travels far on a pulse of Can, spiritual jazz and resonant folkloric melodies.”
John Robinson, Uncut
Inspired by non-European traditional music, non-standard tuning systems, psychedelic ritual performances, and the legendary Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music, Budapest-based Decolonize Your Mind Society was founded by Nicolas Jaar’s label Other People and Opal Tapes affiliate Bálint Szabó Gosheven as a natural continuation of his creative focus and work. The band has an absolutely unique sound thanks to the special instruments they use, like the award-winning glissotar wind instrument designed by Dániel Váczi, or the refretted just intonation guitar and fretless guitars, not to mention the retunable analogue synthesizer that further expands their mind-blowing musical planet. They float in a hazy no man’s land between psychedelic microtonal jazz, rock, avant-garde, and experimental music.