WELCOME to

THIRD EYE MEMORIES

(((& the work of guitarist/composer/ producer/sound therapist/psycho-spiritual guitar teacher/recording artist Guy Blakeslee )))
contact me: thirdeyememories@gmail.com

((PERSONALIZED SONIC TALISMANS)) :

In this age of corporate filler “healing music” and robotic/algorithmic deception, I’m offering an antidote- a customized, hand-made, one of a kind recording based on the client’s intentions, aspirations and needs ...
((currently discounted to $108))
for a 30 minute consultaton call and a 23 minute recording (which you will own in perpetuity and noone else will ever hear) ~

this personalized 23 minute recording is for-your-ears-only, inspired by our one-on-one consultation ~ a sound-world built to amplify your stated intentions and create new neural pathways ~ ideal for relaxation, meditation, re-programming, psychedelic journeying, creative work, imagination etc

I would love to assist your journey of
transformation with targeted
sonic medicine ~

We'll get into it more during the call and explore your specific goals together, but I always suggest beforehand to tune into your intentions for the TALISMAN ...

is there an energetic state that you wish to have more reliable access to?

is there a change you're trying to make that could be supported by this personalized sound?

how do you hope to use the SONIC TALISMAN? is there a particular time of day that you set aside for reflection and meditation?

to book/schedule, click here :

(((booking/scheduling)))

“Psycho-spiritual guitar lessons”

I've been playing guitar since I started teaching myself around the age of 9 (so for close to 35 years) and have taught myself every step of the way. I started teaching on and off about 12 years ago and am feeling inspired to start up again and incorporate the many things I've been learning about sound and music from a healing/therapeutic perspective. The sessions are tailored to each client’s unique needs and desires, but always end up being more expansive and philosophical than a typical “guitar lesson” (not that I’ve ever experienced one). When I first started offering “lessons,” I was surprised by the way they quite often turned into what felt more like counseling or therapy sessions as we engaged in deep conversations about life and creativity, addressing energetic blocks and psychological perspectives relating to the act of making music, playing an instrument and being a creative person in this increasingly over saturated and distracting world. My years of experience with mindfulness meditation and the fact that I began teaching myself the guitar in a pre-internet age have helped me define the HOW as well as the WHY? of my approach to sharing guitar wisdom~ I believe my earliest adventures with the guitar were an organic form of meditation and that the purpose (for me at least ) of practicing the guitar is to self-regulate, self-soothe, self-hypnotize ~ to explore consciousness and seek liberation, expand the mind and develop what I like to call “vibrational discipline.”

Because each of us is so different, the first session starts with an exploration of where you currently are in your journey with the guitar, music and life in general , so we can sync up some common language and reference points. I have found that the things I learned/unlocked through teaching myself completely by ear can be helpful for beginners AND for those who already have a relationship with the guitar. I'd say that my specialty is helping people who already play to have breakthroughs and shifts of perspective ... but my curriculum explores technical and theoretical details as well ~ my approach to these matters is more “cosmic” than conventional, and I love to think of the guitar as an “anarchist” instrument, free from the rules and restrictions of classical music and portable enough to take with you anywhere you go on this Earth. The ease with which you can change the tuning of a guitar and the many ways it can be used as a noise-making device are added benefits on the path of experimentation and discovery.

One relevant detail about me and my sessions is that I am left-handed but play a right-handed guitar , so my strings are “upside-down” (the skinniest string on the top) compared to how most people play. For lessons I have found that it’s not usually an obstacle and that the mirror-like symmetry of my guitar in relation to yours can actually be helpful.

I'm currently charging $88 for an hour/ $111 for 90 minutes, or $300 for a package of three 90 minute sessions (for the package, do not book online but please email me to arrange & schedule)

I have recently left Los Angeles to live in rural Virginia between tours, so I can work with anyone in the world through the miracle of remote video communication !!

You can book/schedule at these links:

ONE HOUR SESSION

90 MINUTE SESSION

I'd love to know more about you and your current relationship with the guitar, music, art , consciousness and life in general!!

Feel free to reach out via email if you have questions that are not answered here: thirdeyememories@gmail.com

“EXTRAVISION” on tour :

SEPTEMBER:

Thu 25 - Toronto, ON - Wavelength at St Anne’s

Sat 27- Providence, RI - AS220

Sun 28- New York, NY - Night Club 101

NOVEMBER:

Mon 3 - Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern

Tue 4 - Portland , OR - White Eagle

Thu 6 - San Francisco, CA - 4 Star Theater

Fri 7 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place

Sun 9 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room

all dates in support of Lael Neale
tickets and more info at LaelNeale.com/shows

“EXTRAVISION”

my double LP of worldess tape recordings is out now! Stream for free anywhere and purchase HERE or listen & watch below w/ cymatic visuals

EXTRAVISION is a deeply therapeutic analog offering from experimental guitarist Guy Blakeslee. Healing music, New Age tape music, ambient soundscape, Satie on acid, music for psychedelic therapy, an extraterrestrial film score … call it what you will; Blakeslee considers it “channeled material” sent through him from other, parallel dimensions.

“His allegiance isn’t to genre but to the pursuit of artistic liberation through psychedelia” - the New Yorker

After a limited self-release in 2022, Extravision, the deeply therapeutic musico-psychonautic offering from experimental guitarist Guy Blakeslee has received the Leaving Records “all genre” re-release treatment, with the understanding that more listeners should hear with this vulnerable and graceful document. The record is, in a word, a balm. Like a window flung open on a sweltering day, Extravision occasions the sudden awareness of space, of calm, of context, of possibility. The record also catalogs a musician’s search for meaning and healing in the wake of catastrophe.

Since its initial run, Blakeslee has been bracingly open about Extravision’s genesis. On March 13th, 2020, while walking across the street, Blakeslee was struck by a car. Upon regaining consciousness the following day, the hospitalized Blakeslee found both the outer world and his inner world suddenly transformed. As lockdowns took effect, it was immediately clear that the brain injuries Blakeslee sustained had not only affected his vision but altered his very consciousness and would inevitably affect his music-making.

From Los Angeles, to Virginia, to Baltimore, he pursued physical and spiritual recovery with music as his primary medicine. Sitting for hours at the piano, the man for whom guitar had always been the primary instrument now intuited the riddles and patterns laid out neatly before him in black and white.

Armed with beginner’s mind and a cassette 4-track, Blakeslee began to experiment with wordless, impressionistic songcraft. Extravision is the transcendent result, an hour-plus compendium of humble and fiery dalliances with the musical and psychical unknown—a record from a lifelong musician rediscovering the joys and vexations of learning.

Throughout Extravision, the guitar exists as both specter and reference. A majority of the album’s tracks notably do not feature any discernible guitar—the songs functioning as emotive, drone-based exercises in texture and duration. And yet, one never doubts the extent to which Blakeslee’s practice has been (and continues to be) informed by a uniquely American folk guitar idiom. We are, with Blakeslee as our guide, gladly charting the vast and newest horizons of so-called “American Primitive” music, now often referred to as “Cosmic American.”

And when Blakeslee’s interdimensional guitar does eventually emerge — see the album’s fittingly final title track, “Extravision”— the sweetness, not untinged by loss, is palpable. Blakeslee has stated that his goal, with Extravision, is to induce in the listener a trance-like state, to inaugurate the conditions under which time might function “differently.” To be sure, the drones and gentle recurrent phrases that comprise much of Extravision are a welcome antidote to the now commonly felt acceleration of time. But it is the experience that Blakeslee is transmitting with and through and beyond these musical gestures—the experience of non-linear time, of total time-loss, of starting again, of retracing one’s steps and rerouting one’s journey—that challenges and rewards us.

polaroid by Lael Neale

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