Various Artists - Harbinger Orchestra (2023)

Acid-soaked psychedelic folk legend and onetime cult hymnist Dave Bixby assembles an international commune of artists to form Dave Bixby’s Harbinger Orchestra, simultaneously the culmination of 50 years of Dave Bixby’s cult influence on psychedelic and folk music as well as the genesis of a new era in his legacy that expands beyond the mythos of the man and embraces the sonic and thematic lineage of his music. While his early work is undoubtedly folk, it is rooted in his mortality-altering experience with LSD which seeps into his music as beautiful, lonely, and occasionally optimistic psychedelia. The Harbinger Orchestra compilation is a distillation of his early work with artists such as The Sonic Dawn approaching their interpretation with purist psychedelia while Dave refines themes explored in his early work with earned wisdom on 4 new tracks. The album is a meditation on legacy, rebirth, and the cyclical nature of influence. Dave has said that he doesn’t feel ownership over the songs he wrote on those first two albums because he has led so many lives since then and the person he was is so far away from who he is now, effectively making Dave Bixby’s Harbinger Orchestra a passing of the torch.

Dave Bixby's Harbinger Orchestra is composed of covers of songs from Bixby’s first and second albums, Ode to Quetzalcoatl (1969) and Harbinger Second Coming (1970), as well as 4 new Dave Bixby originals, marking the first official Dave Bixby release in over 50 years. The covers on the album have been recorded by an international collective of musicians known as the Harbinger Orchestra.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Tonya Ferris - Transform Dreams Into Reality (3:44)
1.02 - Jürgen De Blonde - Open Doors (3:35)
1.03 - Karen y Los Remedios - Morning Sun (4:27)
1.04 - THE SONIC DAWN - 666 (3:46)
1.05 - The Strawberry Jam - Time To Clear Your Mind (4:15)
1.06 - Ezra Lesser - Cosmic Energy (4:12)
1.07 - Mad Gleams - Waiting For The Rains (2:38)
1.08 - Wio - Drug Song (4:28)
1.09 - Derrick Hart - Free Indeed (3:12)
1.10 - Dave Bixby - Sarta Joy (3:51)