Music for Mushrooms (2024)

You beat me to it! I was sitting on my copy, until the weekend. But a fellow ConCen collaborator and I might have helped get this one released, because I just got a PTP member to get it, and now it's trickling down. I love it when that happens!

Here's my torrent description I was going to post:

Musician East Forest embarks on a mission pairing music with psychedelics to bring about transformative healing to a world in crisis.

Music for Mushrooms is a narrative documentary highlighting the personal journey of shamanistic musician and filmmaker East Forest (Krishna-Trevor Oswalt) – a collaborator of the late Ram Dass – whose bold experiments pair music with guided psychedelic experiences to create spaces of healing for a fractured world.

The film captures East Forest as he discovers a practice of guided ceremonial concerts that offer participants an immersive environment to confront their pain and fears, fostering hope, and moving them to re-engage with their own true north.

Having personally grappled with the profound sense of chaos and despair that permeates the modern world, Oswalt documents an exploration of the synergistic power of music paired with psychedelics.

Containing intimate emotional encounters with individuals whose lives are changed through experiences with music, spirituality, nature and psychedelics, Music for Mushrooms is a highly resonant ode to the transformative potential of art and introspection in a world aching for healing, enlightenment, and togetherness.

Directors: East Forest
Writers: East Forest, Rachel Clara Reed
Producers: Maria Betania Fernandez, Lewis Kofsky, Nicole Pritchett, Christopher Seward, Tyler Wakstein
Composers: East Forest
Cinematographers: John Dahlgren, East Forest, Mark Grochowski
Runtime: 1h 22mn
Country: USA
Language: English

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