![]() ![]() ![]() “I heard on the radio the day after we recorded it that some archeologist discovered the ancient fossil remains of a previously unknown feathered dinosaur… !!! Weird.”ĭescribed by Rolling Stone as a “trippy troubadour” and a “musical polymath who combines an indie DIY aesthetic with a questing hippie spirit and a relentless work ethic,“ Particle Kid is a constantly absorbing and evolving musician who has both musical DNA and professional experience backing Neil Young (along with his brother Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real), collaborating with John Doe, Tinariwen, and the Flaming Lips and working on his own projects like the psych-punk orchestra Insects vs. Sean (Ono Lennon)’s brilliant sonic painting and Mickey (Raphael)’s dinosaur screams on harmonica really fleshed out the world of the story. Steve Chadie the engineer always gets such great sounds (especially his drums sounds!!). I feel like it captures the flawed and tattered spirit of our lead character, the velociraptor. I believe the version on the record is our second or third take ever, just running through it trying different arrangements live in the studio. There was no melody or music until a day or so before we recorded it. It was as if I lived his life story in my mind as I wrote the lyrics down frantically. I started thinking about what he must have felt during his own extinction event and how surreal and psychedelic it must have been…like a prehistoric rapture/apocalypse. His whole family thinks he’s losing his mind and maybe he is. The story of this velociraptor became like an epic personal journey in which is forced to face those fears and doubts and psychological delusions (or maybe they are real?). I started thinking about dinosaurs, but as if they had very human egos, complete with fears and doubts and dreams and culture. He is misunderstood by his parents and friends and becomes an outcast in his community and is exiled. Sometime around 3am lying awake in bed this whole story just flashed in my brain about a lonely velociraptor…. I was up all night and couldn’t sleep because there were all these weird movies playing in my head. Micah expands on the track, “One night I ate a weed edible and got really really high. “Micah Nelson and Sean Ono Lennon speak the same language: psychedelic, experimental, exploratory, and just a little unhinged,” said Rolling Stone. Micah Nelson’s self-described “experimental future-folk solo project” is currently on tour with The Flaming Lips and he and Sean Ono Lennon spoke to Rolling Stone about the new single. ![]() Artist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Particle Kid has released “Velocirapture (The Serpent Flew)”. ![]()
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