Decolonize Your Mind Society

Inspired by non-European traditional musics, non-standard tuning systems, psychedelic ritual performances and Fourth World music, Budapest based Decolonize Your Mind Society was founded by Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label and Opal Tapes affiliate Bálint Szabó Gosheven as a natural continuation of his creative focus and work. The band has an absolutely unique sounding 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 analog synthesizer that further expands their mindblowing musical planet. They float in a hazy no man’s land between microtonal psychedelic rock, avant-garde, jazz and experimental music. Just intonation music needs new approaches, new instruments and their effort on their debut record seems quite extraordinary. On “Anabatic Prism” they tried to celebrate life through the sheer joy of playing together and they wanted to present these extremely colourful tunes to the public as a reminder that there is always a bright side of this amazing magical universe. With their second album released in March 2023, the band has created a similarly unique sound world this time using tempered tunings derived from equal divisions of the octave, odd rhythms and playing more instruments with flexible pitches. https://decolonizeyourmind.net/