Psyché
Aliases: Psyche
Psyché
Drop a needle on Psyché's debut double-sider and you'll see visions, or rather Mediterranean visions, be they of waves of heat shimmering above dunes of sand, or of women dancing around a bonfire on a rocky plain, or of bushy cliffs overlooking emerald-green and turquoise sea. The name Psyché is of course ancient Greek for 'soul' or 'mind', signifying the band's love of psychedelic funk, but also the wide range of Mediterranean influences – from Southern Europe to the Balkan Peninsula, and from …
Re-Membering Dwayne
At the end of 1981, brothers Darrin and Stephen Huss and schoolmate Dwayne Goettel performed for the first time as Psyche in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their live show was a combination of horror and electronics that was completely unprecedented in Western Canada. Although Goettel and the Huss brothers parted ways before Psyche was to release any material, the masters containing Dwayne Goettel's performances were preserved in the band's vaults. Now, 19 years after Goettel's untimely passing in 1…
Insomnia Theatre 83-86
The complete early works of one of Canada's most uncompromising electronic acts, finally assembled in one definitive package. Psyche was formed at the dawn of the 1980s by brothers Darrin and Stephen Huss in Edmonton, Alberta - the first and only synthesizer-based act in their entire region of Western Canada. They were soon joined by Dwayne Goettel, who would later achieve fame as a member of Skinny Puppy, and together they forged a sound that merged horror imagery with primitive electronics in …