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Tuesday, 29 July 2008
 "I've found my musical Holy Grail. I may never need to hear anything but Devils Wielding Scimitars. The divine intervention kicks in via synchronized drums and guitar before the velvety, elastic, breathy cooings of Suzy Callahan appear to tell her revamped tale...The musicianship is top-notch, but we are dealing with a voice that has the power to haunt. To heal. The power to shoot between your brain and your heart straight towards the heavens." - The Seattle Rocket
The main selling point of the album is Suzy Callahan's ethereal, innocence-with-an-edge voice. "All Music Guide"
Suzy Callahan's voice is a wondrous thing, somehow managing to sound wholesome and deranged at the same time." - Rhythm, UK"
.. Suzy Callahan is a joy. In ... 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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Sunday, 27 July 2008
 No
introduction needed. Nick Drake is, IMO, the greatest and most soulful
of all folk guitarists/songwriters. What's more, the words of his songs
are not merely lyrics: they are POETRY, great, introspective, fragile
poetry. His music has been my company for more than ten years; yet,
every time I listen to his songs, I feel like it's the first time.
There isn't even a single song by Nick Drake that I don't like. All of
them are perfect...
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Saturday, 26 July 2008
Zulema - 1974 - Zulema (RCA)
Tracks :
A1 Standing In The Back Row Of Your Heart (3:44)
A2 A Whiter Shade Of Pale (5:27)
A3 Wanna Be Where You Are (3:33)
A4 People (4:05)
B1 Hail, Hail America (3:53)
B2 Love To Last Forever (4:38)
B3 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (3:44)
B4 No Time Next Time (5:21)
B5 It's All Right With Me (4:35)
Credits:
Vocals, Piano, Piano [Electric] - Zulema
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Saturday, 26 July 2008
 Scott Warren Miller, as he appears in Painted Windows, is an outstanding figure in San Francisco/Davis underground/obscure/alternative scene for almost 30 years. He started with Lobster Quadrille (there are no releases by them - but there are existing recordings) and Alternate Learning who released two recordings: ALRN (7"EP, 1979) and Painted Windows (LP, 1981). The line-up was Scott Miller, Joe Becker (later in Thin White Rope, Game Theory and Loud Family), Kern Scott Gallawa, Carolyn O'Rourke, Byl Miller and Eric Landers.Despite the continuus demand from the fans, Scott Miller refuses to let the Alternative Learning records re-released (Scott as most artists wants the audience to focus on his recent work), and, as these were pressed in 1000 copies, they're v... 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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Saturday, 19 July 2008
Early Swell Maps blues sessions? The Fall playing Kinks' songs but they don't
know the lyrics?
There's no other album in the entire New
Zealand music so chaotic, so
brilliantly cacophonous and so totally denying any label, music style or genre, like this double album from the Axemen, released by Flying
Nun, in this great label's absolute peak, in
1986.
Flying Nun was so great because, for several
years, would release music
by any, and I mean any, band that Roger Shepherd, Chris Knox and Doug
Hood thought that had something interesting, no matter what musical
style it had. This concept produced some
of the best music of the 80s, not only because the three mentioned
above have an excellent taste, but also because, 20 years before that... Read more » |
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Friday, 18 July 2008
Back in the 80s there was a scene
that blossomed in the Arizona desert. Green
on Red were one the first
and more well-known bands, but they soon left for L.A. Giant Sand,
Naked Prey, Rainer, Woodcocks, Sidewinders, Al Perry & the
Cattle, Black Sun Ensemble, River Roses and many more were
labeled by
the music press as the "desert sound", although there are only three
records that you can actually smell the desert: Meat Puppets'
"Up On
The Sun", Black Sun Ensemble's "Lambent Flame" and
Al Perry and the
Cattle's "Cattle Crossing" - and all three of them have
nothing in
common musically.
The Arizona bands
(mainly from
Tucson) were playing good, old rock'n'roll music, with loud guitars,
high tension and lots of energy. By this I don't mean that the Arizona
scene was just generic rock; on the contrary: around... Read more » |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008
This is the record which introduced the Japanese avant-garde scene to the Western audiences. Fred Frith (the creator and producer of this compilation) was among the very first musicians who visited Japan and had many collaborations with the local artists that today are well-known worldwide: Keiji Haino, Tenko, Chie Mukai, Haco, After Dinner, Mizutama Shobodan.  Fred Frith did almost everything in this record: he discovered the music, he gathered the artists, he recorded them, he mixed the recordings and did the production, he took the cover photo, he even made one of the tracks from the remains of the recordings! (the opening "Fake").
As Frith said in the liner notes "A lot of new rock exists in Japan. It may be slavishly imitat... 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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Monday, 14 July 2008
Colwell-Winfield Blues Band - 1971 - Live Bust
Progressive bluesrock recorded live at the Phoenix Coffee House.
The band had an earlier major label LP in the same style ("Cold Wind
Blues", Verve Forecast, 1968).
Tracks :
A1 Cursin Blues
A2 Have A Taste
A3 Help Me
A4 How Blue Can You Get
B1 Eyesight To The Blind
B2 Sombrero Sam
B3 Don't Start Me Talkin'
B4 Stop Breakin Down
I was happy to see the Colwell-Winfield Blues Band included on a Bosstown Sound sampler because I thought they were forgotten and maybe would not be invited to the party because they were not playing rock. They were definately part of the scene. A lot of us rockers were finding the blues during this period. One of my most thrilling musical experiences was seeing BB King at the Boston Tea Party. I vaguely knew Clapton drew from him. BB's quitar playing opened up a whole new world to me and that night the audience reacted to every bend and trill.
I always thoug... Read more » |
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Monday, 14 July 2008
Tar Babies  Tar Babies - No Contest (1988)
Tar Babies - Honey Bubble (1989)
Tar Babies - Death Trip (1992) One of the lesser-known bands on the legendary SST roster, the Tar Babies emerged from Madison, WI, with a distinctive brand of punk-funk that often drew comparisons to their labelmates the Minutemen, as well as the Texas-based Big Boys. Colored with bits of psychedelia, jazz, and avant-noise skronk, their music quickly progressed beyond their roots in hardcore and evolved into a scratchy but danceable, groove-centered hybrid complete with horns and George Clinton-style jamming. The Tar Babies were formed out of the ashes of Madison hardcore punkers Mecht Mensch, who disbanded in 1982. Guitarist/vocalist Bucky Pope, bassist Robin Davies, and drummer Dan Bitney debuted with the 1982 EP Face the Music, issued on local indie Bone Air. By the time of their second release, 1985's Respect Your Nightmares, their funk influence had begun to come into focus, whic... Read more »
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Sunday, 13 July 2008
The Isley Brothers - 1971 - Givin' It Back
Tracks :
1 Ohio/Machine Gun
2 Fire and Rain
3 Lay Lady Lay
4 Spill the Wine
5 Nothing to Do but Today
6 Cold Bologna
7 Love the One You're With
Givin' It Back is as much a time capsule as an album. Not that it
can't be enjoyed on its own absolute musical terms by someone just off
a boat who wasn't even around in 1971, but to really appreciate how
daring it was and how delightful it is, that side of its history should
be known. Those who are old enough should recall the time whence it
came, an era in which hatred and disunity over the Vietnam War, civil
rights, school desegregation, the environment, and a multitude of other
issues were threatening what seemed, potentially, like the beginning of
a new civil war, this one not between states but between factions and
ethnic and racial groups in 1,000 individual neighborhoods. The opening
cut of Givin' It Back, "Ohio/Machine Gun," is a slap-in-your-face
reminder of just how angry the times and the people were. The track
evokes instant memori... Read more » |
Note : We are slowly rebuilding our posts. We decided to use the original dates for the entries initially posted on the old Lost-In-Tyme, so, if you have our RSS enabled, you will not see everything appearing in the blog's main page. In this case you can search for it (at the right column) or you can visit our archives pages (the reposted entries have active links)
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