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Saturday, 23 August 2008
An obscure rocking funk combo from the early 70s -- one of a few, like Sweet Apple or High Voltage, who seemed to crop up on Columbia after the success of Sly & The Family Stone. Like those groups, and Sly, Mother Night's got a guitar-driven groove that was probably easy funk for the crossover crowd -- but like Sweet Apple, they're a bit hard-driven, with a heavy sound that really takes them over the top with a wild energy that probably kept them off of radio, and stuck in the underground. Lots of nice jamming, though, and these guys really know how to lay some jazzy chords into the mix to keep things fresh! Titles include "Julie Nixon", "Utopia", "Scuffle", "Warm Spot", "Groupie", "Guitar Man", and "Fools Are You" (from Dusty Groove America)
You can read the liner notes for more (click on the image to view it full size)
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Friday, 22 August 2008
Six vinyls on Pokora's Record Collector Dreams, no entry in Fuzz, Acid & Flowers, this is surely pretty rare (even the Shadoks reissue was in just 450 copies and long OOP).
August was a trio (maybe from NJ), that poses with a giant sunflower on the cover and their sole record contains some of the best flower pop (with nice touches of psyche), you've never heard. Not unlike Soapwith Camel's LP or Dovers mLP, August created a teenage garage-pop sound, based strongly on the British beat, but there's also some Buddy Holy hidden beneath the beats and the boyish vocals.
It was released rather late for this style, and it may lacks the song that would stick into our ears, like "Hello, hello", "Frantic Desolation" or "She's Gone", but as a whole, it's approaching the two records mentioned above. Listen to it from start to end and you'll be in 1966, without getting off your chair.
Outstanding tracks: "You Say Love Dear", a mix of Kinks and garage, the speedy, pulsating "In Time You Know" and the great cover of "Eleanor Rigby" (although it was treated like a beat track, it retains its melancholi... |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008
This 40-years old record
seems to have passed the test of time: not that it sounds "modern"
today, but it has this 'classic' touch that we see in music made with
honesty, love and joy.
"House of Glass" is the impressive
opening track, full of tension and convincing vocals over a 13 Floor
Elevators style music, "Born In the USA" is an almost straight R'n'B
track, complete with harmonica (but it sounds a little phony and out of
place), "Once Again" and "Sometimes You Wander" are nice soft-pop tunes
(California style), "The Means" is an excellent hallucinogenic flying
into the Beatles territory, "Do You Remember" is not far from Pearls
Before Swine. "I Want To See My Baby" is a much more successful attempt
on the psyche/blues style than "Born in the USA", with a nice fuzz
guitar, reminding "Death Sound Blues" of Country Joe & The
Fish, "Lady Blue" is basically a straight rock song, besides the
psychedelic arrangement. Then we have the organ-based "Passage #17",
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Kenny Wayne & The Kamotions - 1970 - In Motion
(Candy Records) Tracks :
A1 Vehicle
A2 How Should I Feel
A3 I Got You : Out Of Sight
A4 Stormy Monday Blues
A5 Child Bride
A6 They B1 A Better Days A Comin'
B2 Are You Ready
B3 The Day When The Sun Goes Down
B4 All Right Now
B5 Green Eyed Lady
B6 Time Seems To Fly Late 60's psych/garage with a feel of blues, soul and early 70's rock. 
Rare late '60s / early '70s US psych / garage / rock album with the
K...
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Monday, 18 August 2008
Locomotive were a somewhat legendary band that came out of Birmingham
in the late sixties. As an aside an early line up of the band featured
Traffic's Chris Wood and Black Sabbaths first manager Jim Simpson. Sax
player Dick Heckstall Smith also guests on this the bands only album.
The album opens up with the track Overture which leads into the single
Mr Armageddon. Despite being of its time this album still has something
special about it and perhaps it is the mixture of jazz, psychedelia and
progressive rock that lends it an air of something special. Certainly
there was nothing like this blend around at the time with most bands
tending to go with one of the aforementioned genres rather than the
eclectic mix Locomotive employed. Other tracks of note are
There's Got To Be A Way and A Day In Shining Armour. The record company
have also decided to include a number of bonus tracks such as the
original mono mix of the single Mr. Armageddon and You Must Be Joking
neither of which have ever been released on CD before nor obvio... |
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Sunday, 17 August 2008
Fourth volume of the Maidens series and the concept has slightly changed: I've expanded the time range from the 60s until today, because the more I'm listening to these songs the more amazed I become from the fact that there are literally no great differences between the classic voices of the past and the promising voices of today, and the feeling of the music remains the same, in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s or 00s.
01 Penelope Houston - Harry Dean (Birdboys, 1989) The best possible
opening track, "Harry Dean" is from Birdboys, a record that should be
considered among the classics, along with Balaklava, Goodbye &
Hello or Sunshine Superman. Unfortunately it is not, but if you decide
to search for an album out of this series (including past or future
volumes) try this. I thought that it was out of print, but Penelope is selliing
it. Absolute, perfect beauty.02 ... |
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Saturday, 16 August 2008
Maffitt & Davies - 1968 - The Rise and Fall of Honesty
(Capitol ST2999)
Tracks :
1 Just Like A Woman 5:04
2 Landscape Grown Cold 4:06
3 Big Time Man 2:30
4 Kingswood Manor 3:52
5 Time Of Towns 3:53
6 Forest Lawn 3:14
7 Tom Thumb's Blues 5:25
8 City Sidewalks 3:18
9 You'll Never Know 3:57
10 Lungi Dal Caro Beni 2:37
This is a case of an album that is better than the Common People and in
a much better sleeve, but one where "Subtle" and "delicate" are the
words to sum it up and not the heavy freak out you'd expect from the
insane cover art of the duo amidst armageddon and a haunted house. With
nearly all the songs cover versions including two by Dylan, but most
old country standards you are instantly surprised when you hear what is
done to the songs. The music on this record is very soft and extremely
ancient sounding folk-psych with slight countr... |
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Friday, 15 August 2008
Australian supergroup of the early 70s, don't pay attention to the horrible cover, this album has some great, rockin' songs and Bobbi Marchini was a powerfull singer, following the Janis Joplin tradition.
In early '72 several Hunger members hooked up with producer-singer-songwriter G.Wayne Thomas, who had recently made his name with production and songs for the hugely successful MORNING OF THE EARTH soundtrack. Bobbi Marchini, John Robinson and Steve Webb became the core a new "supergroup" called Duck, with the lineup completed renowned jazzer and session pianist Bobby Gebert (who worked with many well-known rock bands including Tully), bassist Teddy Toi (ex-Aztecs, Fanny Adams, Wild Cherries and percussionist Larry Duryea (ex Tamam Shud.
Thomas originally intended Duck as a 'studio-only' project, featuring only cover versions of songs by major overseas acts. No doubt this was to maximise his own earnings on the album (and presumably the group were only paid session rates). They recorded 16 tracks at Melbourne's TCS Studios, although only 12 were eventually released. Singer Jon English (ex-Sebasti... |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Although he only issued one single ("Never Mind"/"I'll Be Looking out for You" [EMI, 1967]), which sold poorly due to "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever" being released on the same day, Elli continued to record demos throughout the rest of the '60s. His plaintive, slightly accented voice and gentle arrangements that sat somewhere between the Beatles and the Zombies have gained a wealth of admiration since Dig the Fuzz records released a mini-album consisting of his single and acetate recordings in 1999.
Elli Meyer was born in Calcutta, India, in 1946, and moved to England during the swinging '60s to start work as a painter and decorator. As early as 1962, he was involving himself in the burgeoning music scene and began to sing in the local London group the Eagles, who went on to record for Pye. He then formed the Nutrons, but walked out to join the Madhatters (who had ... |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008
In their native
Canada, Allan Fraser and Daisy Debolt are revered in the folk world by
those lucky enough to have seen them perform. They influenced other
musicians mostly from their live performances, not their recordings,
and if it's true that they were even better live than on this LP, I'll
gladly trade the entire "F" section of my collection for a video.
(Aaron Milenski, Lama
Reviews)
Yes, Fraser & Debolt are
a part of the folk history, although they were never famous, not even in the
underground or folk circles. They released two LPs, on titled "Fraser
& Debolt with Ian Gunther" in 1971 and "With Pleasure" two
years later. It's very difficult to find another duo based on lead and
harmony vocals, singing with more joy, so full of the life, the love
and the music they were making.
You can find a lot of reviews
if you search a little, but all of them are about their first LP (you
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008
I'll be away for vacations for the next 3 weeks....
During this time we will continue our usual posting, but l 'll think very seriously if I want to continue with this blog/site...
In the past months we did some hard work that seems none (or at least most) of you don't appreciate.
I'm talking about comments....
We have made 400 posts (new & re-posts) since the day that we open the new LiT...but the number of comments is smaller than the posts!
There is about 1000 visitors per day...new post have about 50-100 views
the first day...I can understand that maybe you don't find the posts
interesting, but I cannot understand those who read the posts and download the music and just sneak out without a trace.
Recently we discovered that not only you don't bother to leave a comment here, but some of you, right after you download and listen some rare and long lost record from Lost In Tyme, (i.e. made available for the first time in this blog), you go a put a rating or even a review in Rateyoumusic entry for this record!- you can check how the rating and reviews are multiplying after the date of post of this record in LiT. (add to this that sometimes even our scans of...
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Monday, 11 August 2008
A well constructed heavy-psych album from a Chicago trio, with meaty guitar riffs and full organ sounds. This kind of music was done to death in the early 70s, but "Bangor Flying Circus" was made in 1969 and it's still fresh and innovative. The extended use of organ does not make this "prog" and the guitar solos have been kept to acceptable legth. Last but not least, the vocals are human and "physical" and not the 'masculine' groan of the later attempts. It's a very well balanced album and worths a few listens at least.
Formed by an ex-H.P.Lovecraft member, there are elements of Lovecraft's music here. You can find a little Vanilla Fudge, a little Lothar & The Hand People, a little jazz and plenty of perfect communication between the three musicians.
Tracklisting:
A1 Violent Man
A2 Come on People
A3 Ode to Sadeness
A4 Concerto for Clouds
B1 A Change in Our Lives
B2 Someday I'll Find
B3 Mama Don't You Know (That Your Daughter's Acting Mighty Strange)
B4 In the Woods
B5 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
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Saturday, 09 August 2008
 Blow Pops - I know Nancy/Stop (Get Hip GH-126, 1990)
Two sides of anglophile psychedelia, delivered by John Francovic of Plasticland (who was the producer of this single). Blow Pops were the band of Mike Jarvis and Tim Buckley (real name?) from Milwaukee (I bet gomonkeygo knew them in person ;-)) and "I Know Nancy" deserves a place in any compilation of vibrating-multicolored-ornamented psychedelic songs from any era.
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Friday, 08 August 2008
 Ed Flowers has already gained a place in the (underground) rock mythology: from his early Gizmos days, to the current long-time-running Crawlspace, he delivered the most tripped-out wild rock music while he was influenced by the free jazz gods, like Sun-Ra and Ornette Coleman, and the most outer-space travelling, while he had his feet firmly on his MC5/Stooges roots.
For an Eddie-written bio go here, for a complete discography here, where you can buy the band's recent stuff and uch more!
What follows are excerpts from the three most respectable sites when it comes to the 80s (it's also a proof that Eddie Flowers and Crawlspace are a part of the secret rock history).
Ind... |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008
Lafayette Afro Rock Band - 1973 - Soul Makossa
First lp from the band in 71 French musidisc records !
With some killer jazz afro funk dope cuts...
Tracks :
1 Soul Makossa (4:55)
2 Azeta (6:26)
3 M.F. Grayson (4:33)
4 Oglenon Mono (8:32)
5 Hihache (6:59)
6 Voodounon (5:06)
7 Right Foot (4:49)
8 Nicky "First One" (6:01)
Biography :
Though little known in their native U.S., the Parisian-based Lafayette Afro Rock Band was among the premier funk outfits of the 1970s, later becoming a seemingly endless source of samples and breaks for artists from Public Enemy to Janet Jackson. The group was formed on Long Island, NY as the |
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