Elephant Stone Groove with a Sitar in New Track ‘child of Nature (om Namah Shivaya)’ [stream]

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We’re staunchly of the opinion that rock music could always use a little more sitar. The Montreal rockers in Elephant Stone apparently have the same opinion, as they demonstrate with their newest track, “Child of Nature (Om Namah Shivaya)”. With a perfect mix of rolling psych rock and hazy mysticism, the track stays within that razors edge between intriguingly creative and wide-eyed silliness, never veering off course. The band wrote the track while trying to put music to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as The Beatles had done before them, leading us to believe that The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a seriously groovy philosophical and religious text. Check out the track above, and be sure to look out for Elephant Stone’s new record, The Three Poisons, out August 25th.