Elephant Stone, OHS & Bad Weapon, Continental Drifft

At the center of Montreals Elephant Stone is Rishi Dhir, a songwriter and sitarist who has spent twenty years blurring the lines between Western psych-pop and Indian classical tradition. What began in 2006 as a quest for transcendental sound has evolved into a singular, self-contained vision. Operating out of his Montreal home studio, Sacred Sound, Dhir has emerged as a true studio auteurproducing, engineering, and mixing the bands increasingly complex and cinematic output.While the bands reputation was built on airtight pop craftsmanship and spiritual exploration, their recent workanchored by longtime members Miles Dupire, Robbie MacArthur, and Jason Kentpossesses a new, raw intensity. It is a sound forged through Dhirs deep collaborative history with icons like The Black Angels, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Beck, as well as his role in the psych-supergroup MIEN.With a discography spanning 10 acclaimed releases, Elephant Stone remains at the forefront of the modern movement, constantly deconstructing the past to find something visceral, haunting, and undeniably human in the present.