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Friday, 01 August 2008
Madrigal - 1971 - Madrigal
(private press US psych)
Tracks :
1 Excursion 2:20
2 Stoned Freakout 12:56
3 The Ballad 2:56
4 Places
3:41
5 Tambula
8:42
6 Fallen Tree
4:15
7 Where You Going
3:20
8 B.B's Finale 2:48
Personnel:
WILLIAM BONKOSKI bs
WILLIAM HORN gtr, theremin, oscillator
(JOHN ACKERMAN)
ALBUM:
1(A) MADRIGAL (No label ARA/B 136) c1971 R4
Early seventies private press from New Jersey.
Experimental rock music with electronic drums (an early drum machine - the Maestro).
A very primitive affair; sounds like it was recorded live in a basement.
The record is dominated by an "anything goes" attitude, epitomised
by the 14'00" Stoned Freakout featuring druggy chatt... Read more » |
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Monday, 28 July 2008
Shin Jung Hyun & the Donkeys - feat. Lee Jung Hwa (Korea 1969)
Donkeys
Members are :
Bass: Lee Tae Hyun
Lead Guitar: Shin Jung-Hyun
Rhythm
guitar: On Duk Gi
Keyboard: Kim Min Rang
drums: Kim Ho Sik
with female singer Lee Jung-Hwa
Great Korean psyche jam!
Korean
guitar god and his band the Donkeys. Superb, little-known psychedelic
music. Superb exploratory tracks packed
with organ and fuzz.
This group leader is Shin Jung Hyun who was a Korean rock godfather!! He played guitar at American 8 army show for long time before he organized this group. And he was influenced by Psychedelic music of Jimi hendrix, Jim Morrison etc.
Here Shin Jung Hyun & Donkeys were backing band for a basically mainstream... Read more »
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Friday, 25 July 2008
Mick Wills - 1988 - Fern Hill
Tracks :
1 Fern Hill (1:18)
2 The Storm (4:26)
3 Put Down (4:18)
4 Jam #3 - Extracted Decibelia (3:19)
5 Waterbird (3:13)
6 <... Read more » |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
 Tiny Lights Prayer for the Halcyon Fear (1985)
Hazel's Wreath (1988)
Hot Chocolate Massage (1990) Three albums by New Jersey's almost completely forgotten wonder-band - Tiny Lights. From Wikipedia: Tiny Lights was a music group formed by John Hamilton and Donna Croughn in 1985. Original members include Dave Dreiwitz, Jane Scarpantoni and Andy Demos. Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, the group released a total of seven albums, two of which were later released on Psychic TV's Temple Records. From 1988 to 1994 Tiny Lights toured the United States extensively. Other members include Stuart Hake (cello), John Mastro (drums), Catherine Bent (cello), Andy Burton (piano, organ), and Ron Howden (drums--formerly the drummer for Nectar). The group's members employed a rich array of instrumentation, including cello, electric violin, s... Read more » |
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Monday, 21 July 2008
As Camera Obscura noted : "A sampler of the biggest hits off our first 10 releases, plus five previously unreleased tracks for the collectors out there...Sleeves are laser-printed on parchment-style paper folded with the disc
and probably in a poly bag with a handful in jewel cases. Art by
Timothy Renner of Mourning Cloak/Stone Breath and Terrastock I and II
poster and t-shirt fame."
I must add that this came out in 1998, in 500 numbered copies and is now a collector's item.
As for Camera Obscura, ten years later is the most established and active label in this genre.
You can visit Camera Obscura's great site, listen more songs from their catalog and buy Serotonin Ronin II (while still in print!)
There's no need to tell you much about the music - what you get is some of the best modern-day psychedelia that will make you say "How wrong I was to believe that they don't make it like they used to"
Track listing:
1 Alchemysts "Forget About It"
2 Salamander... Read more » |
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008
....an exorcism of the Garage demons; "Havin' a Grunge-Fest with the Not Quite"
(the word "grunge" hadn't yet become the property of the city of
Seattle), a full LP's worth of straight-up garage rock. It's a
blistered classic, and a damned shame that it never got released. (from Dark Lord Rob's page for Not Quite)
A loud, fuzzed-out album, better played and recorded than their first (posted here), which was superb anyway...
As you can read in the lengthy interview from Freakbeat #7 (1990) which can be found here, this was recorded for Resonanse label, but never came out, because it was too "garagey". Well, it's never too late to enjoy it!
It contains Not Quite's originals, as well great covers of "Astronomy Domine", Clear Light's "She's Ready to be Free", and "Nobody Loves the Hulk" !
For more on Not Quite and the recent adventures of Dark Lord Rob (including... Read more » |
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Friday, 11 July 2008
 Here's a happy summer cross-post courtesy of the kind and all-seeing -Valis from Trip Inside This House. -Valis asked for and did verily receive from nearly a score of bands a brand new song each celebrating summer, the solstice and his own great blog! Yes - 18 brand new psych psongs for psummer! For full track info and artwork, go here. (Scroll to the bottom of the post for the artwork links). Here's what -Valis says about the comp and how it came together:  Happy Solstice!!! It's Summer! (Here, in the Northern Hemisphere. To all of our beloved Southern Hemisphere readers, well.., you'll have to bide your time.) Summer conjures up a massive well-spring of emotions for me and every summer needs ... Read more » |
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Thursday, 10 July 2008
Gale Garnett and the Gentle Reign - 1968 - Sausalito Heliport
Gale Garnett Guitar, Kazoo, Producer
Rob Fisher Synthesizer, Keyboards
The Gentle Reign Synthesizer, Vocals
Tony Hill Guitar, Percussion, Noise
Bruce Horiuchi Organ, Piano
Paul Robinson Percussion, Producer
Dick Rosmini Guitar
On her pair of obscure late-'60s Columbia LPs, Gale Garnett had changed from the fairly middle-of-the-road pop-folk singer of the mid-'60s to one far more aligned with the pop/rock and psychedelia of the times. On the second of these, Sausalito Heliport, she was backed (as she had been on the first) by the Gentle Reign. Unfortunately, the general facelessness and purposeless eclecticism of the material and arrangements remained, leaving one to wonder just what Garnett might have accomplished had she been in a band with truly good songwriters. For the songs here aren't much to rave about, sometimes seeming like awkward attempts to get in on the California psychedelic rock action, with occasional downright embarrassing improvised-sounding lyrics on some of the more ambitiou... Read more » |
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008
'We’re Late For Class' Jams With Jim Morrison
Via a medium, stoner college jam band We’re Late For Class performed a 14 minute improvisational space jam along with the disembodied voice of Jim Morrison, the late singer of The Doors.
“Why not!?,” said a We’re Late For Class spokesman. “It's cheaper than a living singer, what with classified ads, lodging and alcohol... and besides, you know how lead singers are to deal with.”
It’s entitled The Jim Morrison Seance Tapes and is their 30th. It’s available for free at the band’s blog, http://werelateforclass.blogspot.com
“So you don't think this is just something we slapped together with old recordings and ProTools... (you can hear) the engineer ask Jim for the ‘post-death stuff... the stuff without copyrights,’” the spokesman persisted. “In the end,” he said, ”it went smoother than our Screamin' Jay Hawkins seance.”
The free download also includes a 14 minute instrumental version for those that don’t ... Read more »
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008
With the first notes you're in Height-Asbury in a hot noon of the summer of 1968, listening to an acid jam. Then, your curiosity makes you look at the back cover for info and you realize that the jam is not from '68, but from '98 and the band is not from San Francisco, but from Germany!
This Essen trio released and EP in 1987 and 3 albums from 1993 to 1998, all in very limited quantities (Improvise released in 300 vinyl copies) and gained the title of "West Coasters of Ruhr".
Most of you may recall the name from the Delerium label compilations from the 90s (CK were in two of them).
Cosmic Kangaroos were Mechy, Kermit and Groucho Kangaroo, and in their first release, a 4-track EP from 1987, they started their trip in West Coast acid/psych, although there were still traces of garage sounds. 10 years later we find them in this LP, with two side-long tracks, to fly in acid heaven, trying to reach Jerry Garcia and John Cippolina. Their music in Improvise is, as the title states, long instrum... Read more » |
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Monday, 07 July 2008
A raw punk outfit from Fort Worth who were a popular local attraction in their day. Sometimes known as The Jades Of Fort Worth, their second 45 and later pressings of the third one were released under that name, Their third 45 was originally credited to Jades Of Stone. They specialised in cover versions, which they delivered in their own fiery style. On I'm Alright Gary Carpenter set a Rolling Stones song to new lyrics and the formula worked - they enjoyed a local hit. Next up was a Small Faces song and for their third and final effort they choose a Van Morrison composition. They finally called it a day in 1969 by which time only Carpenter and McCool remained from their original line-up. For the first half of the seventies Carpenter played for a showband called Colossus and later he recorded an album which he decided not to release. After a spell as a DJ in Fort Worth he was last heard of managing the Sound Idea stereo store on Camp Bowie. The ... Read more » |
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Sunday, 06 July 2008
Ju Ju Hand (Domingo Samudio) (2:05)
Magic Touch (Evans-Livingston) (2:53)
'Cause I Love You (Samudio-Chalmers) (1:57)
Medicine Man (Reynolds-Addington) (2:15)
That Old Black Magic (Arlen-Mercer) (1:44)
I've Got A Voodoo Doll (Gibson) (2:32)
I've Got My Mojo Working (M. Morganfield) (3:05)
The Gypsy (R.W. Reid) (2:06)
Witchcraft (Leight-Cy Coleman) (2:27)
Love Potion #9 (Leiber-Stoller) (2:09)
Magic Man (Davidson) (2:00)
I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man (Dixon) (2:40)
Liner Notes;
This is the second album Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs have made for MGM Records. The set includes their hit Ju Ju Hand-and the whole idea behind the LP is one of mystery and magic with a beat.
In this LP, Sam and the group make the rhythm pot boil with a wild assortment of tunes that carry the Pharaohs trade mark-that great Memphis beat. This album is a powerful follow-up to Sa... Read more » |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008
Irresistably charming album from this NY folkie, who apparently had listened to a lot of Donovan's and Byrds songs (and some Dylan).
The album starts with two great folk-psych tunes, the sad waltz of "Organ Grinder's Dream" and the more known "Rising of Scorpio" that's been on many compilations. Note the excellent guitar work of Artie Traum and Dave Bromberg, faintly reminding Lee Underwood's guitar for Tim Buckley's early albums. I would say that Santo's voice is somewhere between a (very) quiet Buckley and Donovan (not witty thought). In other songs (Jingle Down A Hill) the echo of Donovan is more clear. Silver Currents' songs are mainly folk - imagine an acoustic Byrds record (without the 12-string of McGuinn), occasionaly coloured with the sounds of organ, piano and jews harp and some nice ballads with Santo's voice accompanied with his guitar.
The following two reviews are from Lysergia.com:
Santo’s best known for “Rising Of Scorpio,” a cool tune that appeared on many psychedelic compilations, despite musicall... Read more » |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008
V.A. - New Mexico Punk From the Sixties
(1985 - Eva 12047)
Side 1
1 The Kreeg - How Can I
2 The Kreeg - Impressin'
3 Era Of Sound - Girl In The Mini Skirt
4 The Burgundy Runn - Stop!
5 The Plague - Go Away
6 The Movin' Morfomen - Run Girl Run
7 Lincoln St. Exit - Sunny Sunday Dream
8 Lincoln St. Exit - The Bummer
Side 2
1 The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2 - I Wanna Come Back (From The World Of LSD)
2 The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2 - Double Crossin' Girl
3 The Grass - I'm Getting Tired
4 The Outer Limits - Don't Need You No More
5 Nobody's Children - St. James Infirmary
6 Axis Brotherhood - Signed D.C.... Read more » |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008
 The Romulans, one of several bands going by the same name, was a psychedelic rock band based in Madison, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band members all used the surname, Romulan, on their first two releases. Guitarist and vocalist Kevin Hagen founded the band in 1989 with bassist Michelle Waterman. The Romulans drew their influences from 1960's US garage and psychedelia, and from 1960's UK mod and psychedelic bands as well as Milwaukee's Plasticland. Kevin Hagen and guitarist Dave Junker penned most of the songs. Drummer Tom Hamer was with the band for 2 years and played on the band's early recorded work. He was replaced by Steve Laux, who stayed with the band until its demise in 1994. The Romulans released three 7" singles and one full length CD. They performed live in Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Iowa City numerous times. The band toured as fa... Read more »
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