Ozric Tentacles/Broccoli Samurai

With more than two dozen albums under their belts from the past 30-plus years, England’s Ozric Tentacles have become one with the psychedelic jam scene. The band’s latest, Technicians of the Sacred, is as fresh and inspired as anything they’ve dropped during their career. Album opener “The High Pass” swirls with natural sounds — birds, wind, flanged-doped Doppler shifts — the sorts of aural accents that might accompany an hallucinogenic hike through, like, the Peruvian interior. Layered on top of the electronic buzz are raging guitar solos, pulsing bass lines, defibrillating drum fills, etc. Even though but one founding member remains, the band shows off a sense of cohesion in the studio that foreshadows great things for tonight’s live show. (Eric Sandy)