💚✨Repost from @wmnf.sotd • The WMNF Song of the Day for April 16, 2026 is “Spellbinder!” by The Third Mind. (Tchard Blake Mix) The collective @thethirdmind is: Dave Alvin: Guitar, Vocals; David Immerglück: Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals; Michael Jerome: Drums, Percussion; and Victor Krummenacher: Bass, Vocals and featuring Jesse Sykes: Guitar, Vocals. recently released Spellbinder!, a companion to last year’s critically praised Right Now!. The album returns the band to the free-flowing improvisational spirit at the heart of the concept that first brought its members together: spontaneous musical conversation. the hypnotic instrumental title track “Spellbinder” (Tchad Blake Mix) inspired by the Hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo, whose work has long influenced guitarist David Immerglück. “I’ve been a huge fan of Gabor Szabo my whole life,” Immerglück says. “When the idea came up to record “Spellbinder,” it felt like a no-brainer.” For Dave Alvin, the track captures the essence of what The Third Mind set out to be. “It was not so much about covering Gabor Szabo, but doing an improvised piece of music – that was always The Third Mind concept. If anything, this recording is as close as we’ve gotten to the original concept of the group.”

“Victor Krummenacher has got the goods. But, we’ve always known that. Here, he creates a sound that shapeshifts from sunny technicolor to melancholy monochrome. At once grandly cinematic and deeply intimate, Block Out The Sun is a moodily elegant effort.” —Coachella Valley Weekly reviews Victor’s new solo release 🌟

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Remembering Claudia on her birthday 🌹 “I wondered if I could assemble an abstract film, where ‘Once Upon A Time’-era Claudia Cardinale suddenly enters as the muse and takes us off on a journey back through time in California. Dave Alvin and I are both Southern California natives who’ve seen a lot of change in our home state, so I tried to play with both the nostalgia of youth, that particular sexual longing that goes with youth, and also an existential flight back through time into the last 100 years or so of California; another kind of nostalgia. Hopefully we do our job as musicians, and we take you off on a trip through time, emotion, place and space.” — @krummenacher on creating and directing the video for “Claudia Cardinale”, from the debut album The Third Mind. . #claudiacardinale #thethirdmind #onceuponatimeinthewest #californianostalgia #instrumentalmusic

“Spellbinder! serves up a smorgasbord of sounds. Once again, the band conjures up a free-form alchemy of ‘60s Blues, Folk-Rock, Jazz and Country. They honor the improvisational genius of Miles and ‘Trane (just to name a couple), and filter it through a 21st century prism. To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, for The Third Mind, it’s the journey, not the destination that sustains these seekers.” —Eleni P. Austin, @cvweekly Read, listen and get via links in bio! @davealvinoriginal • @krummenacher • Jesse Sykes • @mmjerome • @alchemikalartz • @wilmuse • @yeproc . #thethirdmind #spellbinder #improvisational #psychedelicbluesrock #newmusic

Repost @audio_toxicity 💜 Song of the Day: “Reap What You Sow” by The Third Mind. Link in bio to listen and read the full review! #music #newmusic #blues #songoftheday #thethirdmind

“The Third Mind is packing a massive, solid punch, connecting the dots between Acid Test Grateful Dead, Texas bred 13th Floor Elevators, and Sonic Youth, as the anything-goes concoction of sound administered by a trusty guitar guide who knows where the path has come from as well ss someone you’ll trust to get you wherever this Psychedelic bus of an album is going.” —Bryant Liggett, The Alternate Root Magazine

“Noteworthy 💫 The Third Mind, a psychedelia-infused outfit that has one foot in the 1960s, is turning out to be as prolific as it is excellent.” - Spellbinder! reviewed by Jeff Burger in @theaquarianweekly

“The free-form instrumental opener and title track is an eight-minute-plus jam inspired by Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo. It transforms the jazz standard original into a prog-rock/Santana crossover, superbly delivered.” —- @lonesomehighwaymag reviews Spellbinder! Out now on vinyl, cd and digital 💫

Repost from @gujral1152 • Flew to San Diego to see The Third Mind perform. 2nd time seeing them. They are an amazing band and the Belly Up Tavern is a great venue. Very friendly people and good sound. Here’s a full video. https://youtu.be/rvJOKvDlCjg?si=IrUpLxgxziOaStp5 . #TheThirdMind