orgone

Armed with their ultra-groovy sophomore album, “Silver,” the Brooklyn-based, KEXP-boosted band rides into a sold-out Seattle show backed by members of L.A. funk vets Orgone.

Most controversially, he conceived of the orgone energy accumulator, a human-sized box, which was banned by the FDA.

Rumors of orgone boxes have swirled in alternative L.A. communities for years, but they remain impossibly rare.

A disciple of Freud and a Weimar-era radical and reformer, Reich is known now mostly as the inventor of the orgone accumulator: a wooden cell, slightly larger than a phone booth, in which one sits to heal by taking in universal energies.

The Food and Drug Administration questioned his claims about the orgone accumulator and believed that the device was a cover for more illicit activities.