Sunflower [ plays a melodically throbbing bass], Octavius [on traps, tympani, gong, Tibetan bowls, and bells] and Djin [on various electric and acoustic guitars played with feathers, bones, and bows] were the Source Family’s three main in house” musician/magicians forming the rhythm section of the various evolving collaborations of the community’s talent including, Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76, Savage Sons of YaHoWha, Fire Water Air, and YaHoWa13 with Father Yod/Yahowha vocalizing, whistling or playing gong and tympani. Always spontaneous and innovative, YaHoWha 13 explores the roots of tribal psychedelic mayhem, ecstatic trance-fusion, rock and roll revival, and transformative experimental rock about as “far out of the cultural box” of modern musical expression as it gets. They’re unpredictable, lost, but always going somewhere absorbing all in its path, leaving ethereal fingerprints in space. An old family saying the band plays by, “live in the now” forms the basis of its musical philosophy, a philosophy revealed to them by Father Yod/Yahowha who left this world in 1975, but whose spirit remains in the band.

The band members separated in1977, when the commune dispersed, but their original LPs had a life of their own. By the late 1990’s these albums had become so collectable, that due to the efforts of Source members Sky Saxon, lead singer for the Seeds, and Damian Paul, head of the family’s HigherKey record label, a 13 cd box set called “The Yahowha Collection” was released on Captain Trip Records in Japan and re-mastered and re-released on Swordfish Records UK. Since then the band’s international underground popularity has been steadily growing and once fans, most of whom had not been born when the band was originally formed, having discovered that Sunflower Aquarian, Octavius Aquarian and Djin Aquarian, were still around, wanted to hear and see these superheroes play and rekindle the old sonic alchemy for the first time in 33 years. After they were featured on the cover of “LA Weekly” on Memorial Day of 2007 a reunion gathering happened that November when a mini West Coast tour was arranged for the band. The houses were packed and the trio soared…. Sky Saxon came on stage and sang with the band and it was like the old days at Pandora’s Box, or the Whisky A Go Go on Sunset Strip…..a real psychedelic treat. Billy Corgan, of Smashing Pumpkins and Mark Tulin of the Electric Prunes have been known to jump in to jam with Djin, Sky and the 13 behind the scenes as well. In April of 2008, the band played at the Knitting Factory in NY to a full house of diehard psych fans and it then became apparent that the band was back. A three day “NPR” feature about the Source Family also appeared in April of 08 and you can find YaHoWa13 recently in a special feature in “Paper Magazine”.

An album of YaHoWa 13 called “Feather of Wisdom” [Live at Café Du Nord] was released this year on Soundatone Records and a rare recording of The Spirit of 76, one of the incarnations of the band featuring three of the Source sisters vocalizing on 11 of Djin’s rockin’ psych-gospel songs called, “Children of the 6th Root Race”, was released on the indie world’s premier label, Dragcity Records. A live in studio recording is coming out later this year on indie’s Prophase Records called, “Sonic Portation” heralding their regrouping.

Being a trio leaves a lot of open space to be filled, or not, but you never know who they might transport on stage at any given show to jam with them, maybe you. They are rhythmic, tribal, light, melodic, ancient, modern, and revolving explorers of sound getting the whole place moving or meditating and by the end of the set…“all are one”. These ground breaking bros of the psychedelic genre don’t hide the fact that they’ve been around for a while….but they can still pilot their ship and deliver their cargo with class. If you want to take a trip to the stars, transport back to the 60’s or to future destinations, “to be announced at concert”, where none have gone before, YaHoWha13 can take you there. Here’s what Devendra Banhart has said about the music, "The Source Family has the best album covers hands down! Creation at its purest, just being, present as can be, letting the unknown unfold, raw as the Stooges wasted on Ataraxia, free as the Santa Ana Winds, and rare as an astral encounter with the powers of creation, from Kohoutek to Operetta, the wild saga ever endlessly flows!" 
This band of shamans doesn’t just play music; they channel for their audiences just like they did for the family, cosmic and divine energies for heart-head and soul. Sometimes primitive, sometimes contemporary, sometimes without time, but when it comes to where YaHoWha13 is willing to go….there are no limits. Get ready to go on a never before played cosmic journey through the elemental kingdoms of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth on to the celestial star gates of the surrounding galaxy and beyond, into the infinite within…………….