This evening on In a Mellow Tone, host Natalie McGrath and Heavy Ben present a curated session of psychedelic jazz—where traditional forms dissolve into texture, repetition, and atmosphere.
Expect electric sounds, spiritual moods, and boundary-pushing improvisation from artists who blurred the lines between jazz, rock, funk, and the avant-garde.
We've got music from the original psychedelic era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a billow of contemporary sounds taking us to 2025.
Challenge your notion of time and space. Tune in for a session that’s as expansive as it is immersive.
| High Tide, Storm Rising Skinshape - Nostalgia - Lewis Recordings - 2022 |
| Only The Lonely Woman Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, SuperBlue - SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree - Edition Records - 2023 |
| Astral Traveling Pharoah Sanders - Thembi - Impulse! - 1971 |
| Silver Dollar Jim Will Van Horn - San Luis Pass - Crystal Beach - 2023 |
| Bubbles Herbie Hancock - Man-Child - Columbia - 1975 |
| Projections The Natural Yogurt Band & The Oracle - Nebulous - BMM - 2025 
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| Ittiolalia Laura Agnusdei - Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica - Maple Death Records - 2025
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| Vapeurs Cinephonic - Refuge - Marlow - 2025 
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| Halo / Onkelma Pascal & Baya Rays (Race) - Sonic Joy - Ultraääni - 2024 |
| Rugged Tranquility Yesterdays New Quintet (Madlib) - Angles Without Edges - Stones Throw - 2001 |
| Singularity Astrocolor - Moonlighting - AstroJazz, Vol. 1 - Softone under Amelia Recordings - 2023 |
| Fata Sonata Keshavara - III - Papercup Records - 2023 |
| All News Is Good News Surprise Chef - All News Is Good News - College Of Knowledge Records, Mr. Bongo - 2019 |
| Midnight Morning Menahan Street Band - The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band - Daptone Records - 2021 |
| Alien Love Call Turnstile, BADBADNOTGOOD, Blood Orange - New Heart Designs - Roadrunner Records - 2023
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| Dust Brandee Younger, Meshell Ndegeocello - Brand New Life - Verve - 2023 |
| Blue Nile Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Joe Henderson - Ptah, The El Daoud - Impulse! - 1970 |
| Three King Fishers Gabor Szabo [orig. Donovan] - Bacchanal - Skye - 1968 |
| The Star Gazers Sun Ra - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Volume 1 - Shandar - 1971 |
| For Some We Loved Dorothy Ashby - The Rubáiyát Of Dorothy Ashby - Cadet - 1970 |
| Great Wall Of China Sunship Ensemble - Pacific Rim - Radio Canada International - 1976
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| Rahma KADEF (Kadef Abgi) - Kadef (Diva Of Deva Loka) - RR GEMS - 2023 (orig. 2022)
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| The Local Police Arc De Soleil - The Local Police - Epidemic Sound - 2019 |
| Leaves Robohands - Shapes - KingUnderground - 2020 |
| Underwater Boi Turnstile, BADBADNOTGOOD - New Heart Designs - Roadrunner Records - 2023
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| Lost My Mind Will Van Horn - Pedal Steel Guitar - Crystal Beach - 2018 |
| Walk Slow Giovanni Tommaso - Indefinitive Atmosphere - SR Records - 1970 |
| Ené Alantchi Alnorem Mulatu Astatke - Ethio Jazz - Amha - 1974 |
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your pic shows it all....acid trip. It originally meant music that was good on acid or produced an acid liike mind....( in Toronto, early 60s)
9:08 PM, April 30th, 2025