Be/Non is a band out of time. Disciples of Zappa, the Beatles, Bowie and Waters (Roger, not Ethel), the four men of Be/Non forge a sound that refracts classic prog through a perception-warping prism of futuristic electronic psych and hard-charging space rock.

Unless your weekend routine typically includes munching shrooms while playing Metroid 2: Return of Samus, parsing metaphysics with the ghost of Arthur Lee, then unwinding to late-60s Canterbury Scene LPs, you've probably never experienced anything like Be/Non.

Be/Non was founded 15 years ago by Brodie Rush, then an epically inspired midwestern teenager who would grow up to become possibly the most simultaneously in-demand and enigmatic figure in the Kansas City/Lawrence music scene. Rock experimenter, burlesque performer, karaoke host and musical theater actor – nothing is out of Rush's range.

With Rush at the helm (on guitar, keyboards, percussion and lead vocals), Be/Non is rounded out by veteran musicians Jeremiah James (guitar, trumpet, keys, percussion, vocals), Ben Ruth (bass, keys, vocals, sousaphone) and Ryan Shank (drums, vocals, iPod).

Be/Non's latest album, A Mountain of Yeses, was released in May 2009, and the band is still finishing up the homemade, feature-length film that tells the story of the album in a combination of real footage and bizarre animations.

Musically, Mountain is Be/Non's boldest, most conceptually ambitious work to date – and the most cohesive. For a band that's been known to jab daggers of free-jazz experimentation into the flanks of riff-centric pop-rock while singing about mystic unicorns and human suffering in the same breath, that's saying something.

Those who summit A Mountain of Yeses do not return unchanged.

As Be/Non works to wrap the Mountain of Yeses movie for a late-2010 release, the group is also frequently in the studio recording tracks for the follow-up. Planned as a double injection of trans-dimensional rock, the next Be/Non record will likely be released on vinyl as a 12-inch, song-oriented vinyl LP packaged with a 10-inch EP of "atmospheric noise," according to Rush.

Until then, the formula remains: A band. A plan. A mountain. Be/Non.

Sounds like Blonde Redhead meets recent Sonic Youth meets Archers of Loaf.