“We started each day by doing yoga and breathing exercises. Then we took mushrooms and it got a little too psychedelic!” The prog duo who lost their label for being too weird, and decided to get even weirder

Crown Lands.

When Crown Lands found themselves without a label, they immersed themselves in total creative freedom, magic mushrooms and 80s King Crimson. The result is a widescreen three-album arc, starting with two psychedelic meditation records, Ritual I and Ritual II. Prog catches up with the duo to find out more about their epic prog dreams and the final part of their trilogy.

Crown Lands were granted something of a resurrection when InsideOutMusic signed the Canadian multi-instrumentalist duo. The move came after their two albums with Universal Music Canada/Spinefarm – in their own words – rejected the sound that got them signed to explore far more progressive universes.