Spirals is a show devoted to contemplating a question: what is “psychedelic music”? Rather than taking for granted that this term primarily refers to a subgenre of rock music that emerged in Europe and America in the 1960s, the guiding assumption here will be that music has served to expand and alter consciousness for most of human history all around the globe. Tune in to take a trip through a disorienting whirl of sound and song, crossing multiple genres and eras.