Three albums. Thirty-six poems turned into songs. One hero’s journey, walked three times, all of it pulled from lucid dreams and plant medicine ceremonies: Eternal Present.
Each album is a realm named for a word in ancient Greek. Each one walks all twelve steps of the hero’s journey, one step per track, then ends with an Elixir: a dream sequence from Loud Zoo’s own journal of lucid dreams and plant medicine ceremonies. Each album builds on the one before, so listen in order.
It starts on a cold night, looking for a way out. It ends in front of a mirror, remembering what was always there.
A drone called Nobody, a sea of obsidian, and the sword that has to be blunted. The truth finds its voice.
From Enter the Dao to Just: a mother’s love, a rose-gold heart, and wanting nothing but to be near you.
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The book the songs came from. It’s hieroglyphic free verse across three hero’s journeys, and every poem sits beside a minimal icon inspired by Rorschach’s inkblots. The icons suggest; your subconscious fills in the rest. Each book builds on the last, with an Elixir between each journey, and it’s meant to be read in order.
There’s nothing out there. It’s inside. Close your eyes. From “The Upper Room” · Book I, step 9
Each poem is one step of the twelve-part hero’s journey. After each completed journey comes an Elixir, and it’s what you need to begin the next one. The saga ends with the third Elixir.
“Travel inward to find your way out of the darkness.”
Every poem started in a dream journal. The most powerful door of all was sober lucid dreaming. As Robert Moss writes in Dreamgates, asleep or awake, the experience is still valid, and you can learn from it.
Ceremonies with ayahuasca, psilocybin, wachuma and bufo showed Loud Zoo self-love in a way nothing else could: love as a choice you make every day. These medicines deserve respect, moderation and a team you trust, in a ceremonial setting.
Short films and visual albums set in the same world. They premiere here first.
Premieres here first.
Premieres here first.
Premieres here first.
The trilogy ends with a gong and one word, shouted until the world bends: NOTHING. The next Loud Zoo record starts from there. The wanderer sits sealed in a sphere of smoke, smiling at the void.
In the worksA pale rōnin from Shintō myth, a masterless warrior who meditates in midair while ink runs from his face. He is the being Loud Zoo met in a bufo ceremony, and Loud Zoo believes he is his higher self. He appears on every release.