Photo by Rick Mendoza

‘Ceremony’ gives aural substance to Jon DeRosa’s shamanic immersion, in the devotional rites of Ayahuasca and Huachuma.

I felt a certain sense of exhilaration, when Roberto at Fnord Tapes contacted me regarding this latest release, under Jon’s guise as Aarktica.

Just last year, I read one of the most profound, life affirming books I have ever encountered, ‘Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, a Modern Way of Life’ by Patrick Lundborg.

It’s a book I had intended to buy, on reading a review in 2013, by Killing Joke bassist Youth. For whatever reason, it fell from my radar, resurfacing again in 2015 – sadly, in the meantime the author Patrick Lundborg, had passed away in 2014.