News: Father Yod's Children of the Sixth Root Race deliver new old material

Father Yod is many things to many people, but his days of communal leader have been overshadowed by his mystique as a godfather to modern folk psychedelia. Children of the Sixth Root Race, better known to collectors and fans as YaHoWa13, have graced the recorded world with a dearth of releases, but no Drag City is bringing us a 'never-shown-to-the-world' release come June 17th.

June 17th 2008 is the auspicious date when Drag City will release a never-before-shown-to-the-world recording - Children of the Sixth Root Race Songs from the Source. Twelve amazing songs recorded live in the Father House garage as a rehearsal for a live date that Spirit of '76 (aka YaHoWa 13, also now known as Children of the Sixth Root Race, Father Yod's "house band") had at the Whisky in the summer of 1973. It’s still a mystery how a 1/4" tape copy of the recording was found in Chicago in 2006. Djin Aquarian, guitarist of Children of the Sixth Root Race and composer of all but one of the songs on the album, recalls being sent on a mission to Chicago later in 1973, where he may have left the tape with an old friend. Though this rehearsal was not initially meant to be an album and isn't a part of the Yahowha collection of albums, there are no other remaining recordings of this band doing these songs in existence. There’s something different in the energy of the Drag City release, with an R'n'B-infused vibe different than most of the other Yahowa albums.

The Source family came into existence in the 1970s, the era of the cult commune. The community lived in two spheres. During the day they moved among the Los Angeles elite, serving organic food to celebrities at their acclaimed Source restaurant. But back home in their Hollywood Hills mansion, the family explored the metaphysical world by following their charismatic leader, Father Yod. Father Yod was also the front man for the family’s transcendent psychedelic group.

Track Listing

1) How Long in Time
2) Godmen
3) Get Into the Music
4) Beggar
5) Do Me
6) The Great Woe
7) Lost Dead and Hoping
8) A Lady
9) Sea Like Me
10) Catastrophy
11) Go with the Flow
12) We Are The Dinosaurs