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Monday, 31 August 2009
The never resting Brian Andrew Marek sent us two new great albums. Thank you Brian!
Here are B.A.M.'s description:
Hello Lost in Tymers! You might remember me from my albums with Rocket Park that were posted here some time ago, and I thought I'd share a couple of albums I made more recently.
The Vertigo Swirl - The Vertigo Swirl (2009)

The Vertigo Swirl is my new psychedelic project and this is its first album. Five tracks recorded quickly and spontaneously in December of 2008 and January of 2009 including the epic titular improvisation.
"The three tracks in song format presented here are nice explorations in psych pop, but the real treat are the two instrumental tracks: 'Baited Breath' is a very far out soundscape psych song complete with backward guitars and sitar-like sounds that could easily come from a 1967 album...the title song 'The Vertigo Swirl' is another, more krauty, psychedelic masterpiece...(at) 22.47 minutes not one second too long! GREAT!" - The Homemade Lofi Psych Blog
"You're not going ... Read more »
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Monday, 15 June 2009

Kevin Scott of the Canadian acid-folk band, Mr. Pine, sent their recent album in Lost In Tyme, as a free download.
It's like we have been transfered to England, back in 1971 and amongst the great folk groups of the era, like Mellow Candle, Amazing Blondel, or Steeley Span, we have discovered a lost gem, full of beautiful melodies, in the old traditional style, yet performed with the psychedelic spirit we all love.
Mr. Pine is a band of accomplished musicians, with deep knowledge in the folk scene of the 70s, but this is not sufficient to make a good record. What makes "Rewilding" a recommended album is their high-level songwriting and their honest approach. In fact, I'm sure that most of these songs would fit perfectly in a mixed CD (or tape) with selections of Brit acid-folk of the 70s.
Mr. Pine are Matt McLennan/Kevin Scott/Leslie Oldham/Richard Caners/Jason Peters/Ken ... Read more »
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009
The Further Adventures of Vietnam Veterans as the Gitanes - 2009 - Strange Girl
The Gitanes are : Mark Enbatta : vocals, guitars Lucas Trouble : bass, keyboards, vocals James Kibut : guitars Eric Lenoir : drums
If you are a regular visitor of Lost-In-Tyme you'll know our love for this great band. New album from probably the best psychedelic band of the 80's ! The Vietnam Veterans are back with 17 great songs.
Here is a sort introduction to new Vets album Strange Girl !
We ask Mark Enbatta to ... Read more »
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Saturday, 07 February 2009
 Steeplejack (Italy) - 1987 - Serena Maboose Electric Eye Records - EES 16
Tracks : A1 Hot Summer Again A2 Fallin' Leaves and Autumn's Thrills A3 I Was Born in a Jungle
B1 If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day B2 Nobody Around You B3 The Sky Is Full of Shadows
Steeplejack was formed in 1986 by Maurizio Curadi, after playing guitar singing and writing songs in seminal acid rock italian bands such as Useless Boys and Birdmen of Alkatraz. Steeplejack
has always been a strange anomaly in the Italian scene: visionary
rather than psychedelic in the usual sense, the band has always
fo... Read more »
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009
 V.A. - All Cops in Delirium ( a.k.a. Good Roots) Release date :1980 (Private Pressing)
Side 1 1. The Sweetarts - A Picture Of Me 2. The Mojos - What She's Done To Me 3. David Santo - Rising Of Scorpio 4. Sonostar - Save Wild Basin 5. The Chocolate Tunnel - Ostrich People 6. The Free - (A Day Of Decision) For Lost Soul Blue 7. The Bad Boys - Love 8. The Blackbirds - Space
Side 2 1. The Clue - Bad Times 2. Kit & The Outlaws - Don't Tread On Me 3. H.M. Subjects - Don't Bring Me Down 4. The Tidal Waves - She Left Me All Alone 5. The New Breed - Green Eye'd Woman 6. Scorpion - I'm Only Human 7. Skip & The Creations - I'm Calling You Baby 8. Neil Norman - Phaser Laser
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Monday, 27 October 2008
In the summer of 1965, in a corner of Hampton Grammar School, Bill Richards (who had been a fleeting, early member of 1984 before it acquired its futuristic name), and his colleagues Jenny Hill (nee Rusbridge), Henry Deval and Terry Goulds, formed a folk-rock band called the Left-Handed Marriage, named after an archaic form of marrying beneath oneself. By January 1967, the quartet had progressed to the point where they had issued their own privately-pressed album, "On The Right Side Of The Left Handed Marriage", which ran to just fifty copies (and, incidentally, has since acquired cult status among collectors, with a £600 price tag t... Read more »
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Dylan Ewing, based in Brooklyn, NY, recorded "Forever Brother" early 2008, in Oakland, CA. It is produced by Greg Ashley of Gris Gris (who also plays various instruments). Avant-country, psycho-americana, reminding Greg Ashley's and Dylan Ewing's previous efforts (Medicine Fuck Dream and 4192 respectively), and rather different than them at the same time, "Forever Brother" rides quietly through the valleys of dream-time cowboy tales.
A concept not far away from the pre-Western of Caroliner (although musically not related at all with them), this album is a collection of haunted sounds, sometimes in the form of instrumental soundscapes, sometimes in more conventional song forms, but always searching under the surface of things.
Strangely, in the more g... Read more »
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008
 LONDON - Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65.
Pink Floyd's spokesman Doug Wright (who is not related to the artist), said Wright died after a battle with
cancer at his home in Britain. He says the band member's family did not
want to give more details about his death.

Nothing more to say at this time. It is one of the cases that music speaks louder than words. And R.Wright made a lot of music...
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Saturday, 13 September 2008
THE SUN BLINDNESS formed in late 2004 when singer/guitarist Tor Larsen
met guitarist Duncan Eastey. Sharing a love and appreciation of
psychedelic music and culture, they began to get together to play
together and write songs informed primarily by the droning spacerock of
1980’s underground heroes Spacemen 3 a secret enthusiasm for The Doors,
and a treasure trove of strange psychedelic compilations spanning from
the 1960’s to the 1980’s.
What resulted was ‘
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Friday, 12 September 2008
Born in Athens, Greece, in 1940, Katerina Gogou expressed her existence through acting in greek films, writing dark poems of sincere dirt, a true declaration of her disavowal of the dominant submissive lifestyle of that age. Outside any kind of circles and public relations, she embodies an aspect of greek underground. Some of her already published poems are heard in her ex-husband’s movie “Paraggelia” [based on the true story of Nikos Koemtzis], which were released later under the title “Sto Dromo” [which means in the street / on the road or something like that]. In 1993 she killed herself with pills at the age of 53. I don’t know if these poems will mean anything to those non-speaking greek, however I think the music and her voice themselves are an encounter that’s worth a try – she gives me the chills.
Tracklist 1. I zoi mas ine sougiades 2. Thelo na kouventiaso 3. Monaksia 4. Kanis de tha glitosi 5. Pai auto itan ... Read more »
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Little is known about the British traditional folk quartet Vulcan's Hammer, other than that they were based in Kent and put out one album, True Hearts and Sound Bottoms, as a privately pressed release limited to 250 copies. Though it's pretty typical of the English traditional vocal folk group genre without bearing special hallmarks of distinction, it's accomplished within its style, with strong solid male-female vocal harmonies. The material is likewise traditional in nature, mixing a cappella passages with arrangements based around acoustic guitar and fiddle. [allmusic guide] "The Two Magicians" is compilation album of their unreleased studio session (1973) and live (1975).MusiciansPhil: vocals, Morris bells, tambour, spoons, Morris dance; Kay: vocals, tambour, tambourine; Graham: vocals, 12-string guitar, Anglo concertina; Eddy: voc... Read more »
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008

The Mystreated are one of the most regarded and well-traveled of the small wave of garage bands who were prevalent in England throughout the '80s and '90s. Beginning with what can best be described as a style that sounded like an inept Monkees, they soon progressed into snotty '60s punk with a strong Music Machine influence before mellowing their tone and embracing the folk-rock sounds of Love and the Byrds. During their final years, they maintained a distinctive feel of their own that had firm roots in the '60s but avoided overt plagiarism. Formed in the small Southeastern English seaport of Folkestone in 1989 from the remains of the Sheds (who featured future Kula Shaker member Jay Darlington), the newly named Mystreated were intent on turning their backs on the acid house and indie rock of the mainstream. Martin Ratcliffe (guitar/vocals), Huw Walters (bass/backing voc... Read more »
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008
  
A world where windshield wipers fall in love and some people making a business out of licking lampshades may sound like something Ken Nordine imagined, but his 1967 album Twink was actually Nordine reading a little-known Beat Generation classic somebody else wrote. Robert Shure wrote the strange little poems, first published in 1957 by City Lights Books, the San Francisco publishing company operated by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It was a tiny little book, three or four inches across, illustrated with whimsical black and white drawings by Ray Zimmerman. Nordine, whose own cult classic, Word Jazz, was also first released in 1957, stumbled across the tiny gem years later, but instantly recognized a kindred spirit.
Two voices, one head, he said. I knew it was going to be perfect. He recorded the dialogue, talking to himself from opposite sides of the stereo spectrum, one voice recorded dry, the other drenched in echo. The ... Read more »
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Saturday, 30 August 2008

Dane Sturgeon, in California, in the year 1967, made a record of
totally american dementia, proudly ignoring almost everything that was
made after 1962 - one of the bizarre artifacts that this era seems to
have produced more often than we imagine (but we are slowly
discovering).
A hybrid of Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley after the army and Byrds if
they were from Texas, "Wild'n'Tender" is an absolutely unique album, in
the private press bizarre records that have been discovered lately,
like Y. Bhekhirst, Jerry Rayson or Mark Melanson - although not so
extreme musically as those. Nothing is unheard here, in fact several
of the melodies are reminding something familiar.
Take a good look of the cover - this well-shaved man with the private investigator's coat and the cowboy hat and this look in his eyes and you'll know a lot about this record: Dane Sturgeon is trying to give us the impression of the title (and the record) - he's trying to be w... Read more »
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