When Guy Blakeslee regained consciousness in a Los Angeles hospital on March 14 2020 he awakened into a world much changed. The night before, he had been struck by a car as he walked across the street. While he was unconscious the world had gone into lockdown. When he sat at the piano a few days later he found that his brain had changed too.
This began a journey of healing through music and a whole new sonic approach for the veteran underground musician. Best known as “Entrance,” the guitar wielding frontman of Los Angeles psych legends The Entrance Band, and as a wild-eyed troubadour on solo records like 2021’s “Postcards From The Edge,” Blakeslee has spent the past three years immersed in making cassette recordings of wordless compositions and improvisations and has recently self-released a vast library of this impressionistic work, a double-cassette box entitled “EXTRAVISION” – which is due for commercial reissue in 2024 as a double LP courtesy of LA’s Leaving Records.
Healing music, New Age tape music, ambient soundscapes, Satie on acid, music for psychedelic therapy, extraterrestrial film scores … call it what you will; Blakeslee considers it “channeled material” sent through him from other, parallel dimensions.