Sacred Bones have today announced that they are to publish a 200-page book on the legendary Los Angeles cult The Source Family and their wildly influential psychedelic rock band Ya Ho Wa 13.
The book features copious amounts of unpublished material and captions by the family historian Isis Aquarian and is accompanied by the trailer that contains a sneak peek of its interior. Read more about the book below:
Pre-orders are being taken via Kickstarter which includes reward tiers such as limited edition t-shirts, tote bags, tea towels, aprons, and art prints. Sacred Bones will be offering limited space at a very special Zoom presentation with Isis Aquarian and editors Jodi Wille and Charlie Kitchings and 8 very special invitations to an authentic Source restaurant recipe dinner party in LA with Isis herself.
Notes on the release:
FAMILY: THE SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK provides an immersive view into the public and private world of the Southern California occult commune The Brotherhood of the Source. This lavishly illustrated book reproduces 200 original scrapbook pages assembled by family historian Isis Aquarian from 1972-1977, documenting the group’s dramatic rise and fall, from their time living together in the Hollywood Hills operating their wildly popular Source vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip to their exodus to Hawaii and San Francisco as the group began to unravel.
Copious unpublished photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, manifestos, album art and flyers, augmented by descriptive captions by Isis Aquarian, reveal the Source Family’s astonishing trajectory, from controversial leader Father Yod’s spiritual awakening to the group’s wild musical and social experimentations, to the provocations that led to the group’s paradise lost. These pages provide a revelatory, firsthand view into the widely misunderstood phenomenon of new religious movements and cults of the 1960s and 70s.
