The Chapel: The Third Mind, Rain Parade

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The Third Mind Featuring Dave Alvin, Victor Krummenacher, Mark Karan, Michael Jerome, Jesse Sykes

“I had a crazy idea and was looking for musicians who perhaps didn’t think it was so insane”. – Dave Alvin

Starting four years ago as a wishful music fantasy, this California based supergroup, The Third Mind, has now become a powerful and thrilling sonic reality. The brainchild of Grammy winning songwriter/guitarist Dave Alvin and veteran alternative music bassist Victor Krummenacher, (Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom, Eyelids), The Third Mind’s recordings also feature guitarist David Immerglück, (Counting Crows, Monks of Doom, Camper Van Beethoven), drummer Michael Jerome, (Richard Thompson, Better Than Ezra, John Cale) and vocalist Jesse Sykes from her critically acclaimed group, Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter.

Featured in festival previews as a must-see from the San Francisco Chronicle to CBS News, The Third Mind made their live debut performance at the 2023 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s legendary Golden Gate Park. Combining folk-rock, blues, jazz, post-punk, and freeform psychedelia with dark, moody yet hopeful and beautiful sonic landscapes, the “neo-psychedelic” (Press Democrat) band used their decades of experience as bandleaders and side-persons, playing both traditional and non-traditional music to mesmerize a crowd estimated at 4,000.
Rain Parade announce reunion tour featuring Matt Piucci, Steven Roback and John Thoman with their new album: Last Rays Of A Dying Sun

The Rain Parade debut album, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip came out in 1983 and was internationally recognized as a unique psychedelic album – Seven of the ten songs on that debut were sung by Matt Piucci and Steven Roback, The bands second record, Explosions In The Glass Palace, garnered the same high praise as the debut with their reputation increasing ever since as one of the leaders of the Paisley Underground.

Last Rays Of A Dying Sun which manages to sound both like a lost classic and the groundbreaking work of unknown new artist, emerging from their secret lair with a record ready to change the world. As MOJO puts it, “there’s little rain on their new parade.”
Wrapping sweet nuggets of pop confection in swirling clouds of interstellar psychedelia, Last Rays Of A Dying Sun is a record at once eminently engaging and delightfully ornate. Everything old is new again, and it’s very easy to see the line that runs from the Summer of Love and the chiming tones of Jangle Pop to mid-eighties SoCal Paisley Underground of which Rain Parade was a pivotal component, through to the late-’90s Elephant 6 Collective, straight to neo-psych indie rock of today.