Space Hymn by Lothar and the Hand People (music video)

"On zero you go twice as deep."

Part guided meditation, part techno-rock anthem, Lothar and the Hand Peoples' underground classic Space Hymn (Capitol Records, 1969) conflates the political and the psychedelic. The first band to perform and record with the theremin and Moog synthesizer, Lothar released two albums with Capitol Records before breaking up in the early 1970s. Their gig list includes venues with Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Byrds, Lovin Spoonful, Canned Heat, and others. Recent collaborators include the Chemical Brothers who sampled a Lothar track on their platinum-selling album Dig Your Own Hole. The music video incorporates found footage from the 1930s & 40s including 16mm family movies and Castle Film newsreel clips of World War II. Official selection at the ION International Animation, Games, and Short Film Festival, Los Angeles, and the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Directed/Produced by Hoag Holmgren. 2004. Thanks to John Emelin and the rest of Lothar and the Hand People for permission to make this video.

"The song Space Hymn is the greatest. During one of the many times I took acid (30 years ago) we listened to it over and over without bumming out." -Robert j Rowe from Hackettstown, NJ on Amazon.com.

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Music

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• psychedelic rock
• psychedelic pop
• space rock
• psychedelic
• psychedelia
• 1960s
• theremin
• Moog
• Experimental
• Moog Music
• Rock Music
• Electronic
• Electronica
• new
• classic rock
• Lothar
• Lothar and the Hand People
• music video

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Thanks for the comment, phaedra240. Glad this is still generating views & glad you liked it!

[worldofwonders22]

i remember listening to this while i watched Neil Armstrong touch the moon with his boot

[LinkChiTu]

I rememberer listening to this while i was high! XD

Amazing.

[clarkewi]

Great stuff. I remember seeing pictures of "Lothar" when I was a kid in the 60's but I never checked out their product before. Thanks!

[48azreal]

I remember Hawaii high like way high 4 of us hipnotizing ourselves it took me 20 years to find this again at 63 it is still the most relaxing music I have ever heard. Many night until the tape was no more

[william3231954]

Alison Steele,, used to play this late at nite on WNEW-FM in late 60's early 70's ,, can't count the nites this calmed me down after chemical hazes

[phaedra240]

Amazing old skool medition.

Never heard of this guys, great drumkit on the end!

[JephraimToe]

A fascinating early space rock experience ..

[RONJAN2]

they started in 1964 in denver. my brother used to see them at the family dog

[trozzer1]

its old than ten years- I used this to meditae to you have got to try it