This is certainly the best of the current crop of Italian bands that I've heard thus far; there's twelve minutes of exciting psycho-drama spread thickly over three tracks. For a three piece band they create a very full sound with Curadi's vibrant guitar buzzing, stinging and generally pervading every inch of precious vinyl. Whilst this record could easily be mistaken for the out-pourings of some time-shrouded acid crazed combo of the late 60's there is a bizarre Mediterranean tinge to, particularly, "Dreamin' Demon" which brings some sense of originality yet the track itself sounds like a heady mixyture of a Sergio Leone western film score and the Yardbirds' "Heart Full Of Soul." Fascinatin
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Rio Grande - 1971 - Rio Grande (rca victor sf8208)
Side 1 1 Idle Idabelle 2 Me And My Wife 3 End Of The Battle 4 Sue Ann 5 So Good To Be Free
Side 2 1 Wish I Could See You Again 2 What Do You Do When Love Flies Out Your Window 3 Before My Time 4 Nice And Easy 5 Dog Song
Personnel: Ronny Weiss (vocal, guitar, lyrics) David Stanley (bass, guitar, vocals) Tom Russell (guitar, bass) Bobby Tuttle (pedal steel) Ken Murray (percussion)
Related acts :
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If ever there was an example of a rock band that was in the wrong place at the right time, it's Absolute Grey. In the mid-'80s, Absolute Grey was playing intelligent, tuneful folk-rock with intriguing melodies, subtle but effective hooks, and a psychedelic undertow that would have allowed them to fit right in with the paisley underground bands blossoming on the West Coast or the jangle pop armies gathering in Athens, GA. But some trick of geography placed Absolute Grey in Rochester, NY, where they were pretty much on their own and, while they managed to attract a devoted hometown following, significant nationwide recognition escaped them. Then again, it's hard to say if Absolute Grey would have been an ideal fit anywhere else, either; their approach was a bit less trippy and significantly less retro than such paisley underground stalwarts as the Rain Parade or The Long Ryders, while the band's tone was notably cooler and more hard-edged than what R.e.m. or Pylon brought
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Mike Gunn, Dunlavy, Linus Pauling Quartet,
Grimm Experience - the Houston heavy psych scene of the 90s.
You can call Linus Pauling Quartet's music endless acid
jamming, spaced-out improvisation, stoner rock, heavy psyche or
whatever you like. But every time you listen to it, you can feel the
heavy, buzzing guitar riffs, the trippy electric sound of the American
heavy/psychedelic/we're-drinkin'-and-jammin' tradition.
Here is their 2nd LP - released in 550 copies
In
band's own words: Ramon Medina: I think we
write what we do
because we grew up near NASA, playing D&D, reading Tolkein, and
smoking a lot of fucking dope! (from Nicholas L. Hall’s interview with
the Linus Pauling Quartet at Houstoned
Rocks)
When Michael Demmler and
Eva Koehler of September Gurls listened to the live tracks that were
intended as a
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Tracks : 1 Club Aquarium 2 Gemini 3 The Twilight Bong 4 Irsi 5 Interstellar Rainbow Lung 6 Scultress Sublime
Review From Aural Innovations #16 (June 2001)
Founded in Portugal late 1996 by multi-instrumentalist Luis Simoes,
Saturnia are a fresh and inspiring duo who offer spacey organic
drenched atmospherics, mixed with sitar induced ambience and ethnic
drum and bass rhythms. They edge slightly towards the strange
dancetrance than they do towards spacerock, but don't let that put you
off because they offer their own brand of space on here that is
reminiscent of early Pompeii Pink Floyd meets Portishead meets Anubian
Lights meets Ravi Shanker. Certainly a new one on me.
On this, their first release, we have an interesting combination of
Luis Simoes: Guitar- Sitar-Lapsteel Guitar-Vocals-Theremin-Gong and
Loopings, and old time friend Eduardo Vasconcelos aka M.Strange:
Organ-Synthesizer-Theremin-Gong and Loopings. The first offe
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Four hippies go to India in the 1960's, stay for two years & then
return to the San Francisco Bay area & this would be the outcome.
Tracks: A1 Whole Earth Rhythm 3:25 A2 Dhun 4:23 A3 Babu Shoda 8:30 A4 Ha Ha Modi 6:08
B1 People Brittle 4:38 B2 I Give You Johnee The Truth 5:53 B3 Dabi Das' Song 12:39
Personnel : Michael Bell : Sador, Acoustic Guitar Josh Collins : Tabla, Percussion Peter Van Gendler : Sitar, Guruji Kenny Wilson : Esraj, Bamboo Flute
With Peter Van Gelder (ex-Great Society) after the long trip to India. Cosmic sitar folk and psych, trippy female & male vocals, chanting in English and Hindu, lots of ethnic instruments. An early example of a genre that would become common during the 1970's.
Tracks : 1 Hall Of Hours 2 New Day Holyday 3 Freedom Song 4 Pleasont Song 5 Reach For The Sky 6 New Beginning 7 8th Day In Heaven 8 Smile For The Sun 9 And I Know What Love Is 10 Shady Tree 11 Honey Bee 12 William 13 Kama Kazie Woman
The Organgrinders
Personnel:
Frank Eventoff woodwind, flute, sax, ld vcls A
Nisan Eventoffpiano, organ, accordion, synth, keyb'd-bs, ld vcls A
Paul Eventoffdrms, vcls A
Henry Melcher gtr, bs, vcls A
James Rock bs, vcls A
As I promised in the recently re-upped post of Lord John's "Six Days of Sound", I posted the songs that the Narc Twins had on mp3.com about 8 years ago. As it was proved by the stuff that Opa-Loka discovered and immediately shared with us, these tracks were a selection from their tapes, released from Acid Tapes, under the titles Life with the Lemons (1990) LMNOE (1991). After this I updated the post including these two tapes. Anyone enjoyed the tracks of the initial post, definitely need these.
Narc Twins were Tom Gibson and Ray (Normandy) Fracalossy, singer and guitar player respectively of Lord John. They have a myspace page where I took the following (which, as you can understand, describes their story and music way better than I could ever do)
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Here's
a link to Circuit Ryder. It's a great lost loner country/psych LP. Very few LP's
like this one out there that's for sure. It's just off a cassette I had with no art or
info. Hopefully it will inspire someone to post a better copy with
information.
A Richmond, VA quartet (for this record, at least), one of the "curiocities" of SST label. I mean that this is a pure psychedelic record, released from a label known for its punk/hardcore/hard rock bands like the Minutemen, Black Flag, Meat Puppets, SWA etc.
'Black Pyramid' is an ode to the late 60s/early 70s psychedelia and American Beauty-era Grateful Dead. Those of you familiar with the oldies, may think of Mountain Bus or Bent Wind, while listening to this record. With titles like "Freedom Flight" and "Spacin' Out" you know what to expect. There's a strong folk feeling in this essentialy acid record: the use of unusual instruments like kalimba, shakuhachi, xylophone, panpipes, as well as the banjo on "Pan's Lament", beautifuly played by Bruce Blizzard emphasizes this. The above refers mainly to the a-side with relatively short tracks, with rather tight structures and rock song format. The b-side is dominated by the 15-minute Soweto/Half the Time, wher
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Band Members :
- Mike Love -- drums, percussion (1963-71)
- Ray Mills -- lead guitar (1963-71)
- Bobby Sims -- rhythm guitar (1963-68)
- Bobby Stampley -- bass (1963-71)
- Joe Stampley -- vocals, keyboards (1963-71)
- Ronnie Weiss - guitar
- Jim Woodfield -- guitar (replaced Bobby Sims) (1968-71)
Related acts :
- Mouse and the Traps (Ronnie Weiss)
- Rio Grande (Ronnie Weiss)
- Joe Stampley (solo efforts)
Bio :
Years before Joe Stampley began his ascent to country stardom, he
fronted a Louisiana rock band, the Uniques, who were quite popular in
the South, although national attention eluded them. The group were
ironically named in light of their failure to establish a truly
distinctive style. They were adept at blue-eyed soul, covering William
Bell's "You Don't Miss Your Water" and Art Neville's "All These
Things," landing a huge regional hit with the latter tune. They were
also capable of waxing good, original, Southern-flavored pop-rock,
especially on "Not Too Long Ago," another big Southern hit. And, oddly
enough, they also did an all-out, raunchy, R&B-hued garage-b
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An album many loved but so few heard? Or is it the other way around? I dunno, but everyone I ever played this for loved it. And I'm posting it by special request here, transferring it from my old site, so I guess the love-in continues.
From AMG, about the band:
A San Francisco supergroup of underground musicians, the Cat Heads formed in 1985. Singer and guitarist Mark Zanandrea was from the Leaches and Love Circus, guitarist Sam Babbit from the Ophelias, drummer Melanie Clarin played with just about everyone in town, and bassist Alan Korn hailed from X-Tal. The band traded vocal and songwriting chores to create a chaotic mix of folk-rock, indie-rock, joke-rock and country. Its 1987 debut, Hubba, was produced by the
Rain Parade's Matt Piucci, and its follow-up, 1988's Submarine, was produced by Camper Van Beethoven's David Lowery. With so much insider support, it's a small wonder that the Cat Heads didn't survive the late-eighties post-R.E.M. groundswell of alternative bands, but instead disbanded after touring
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Quartet from Italy featuring two ex-members of Effervescent Elephants.Their music is a blend of blues rock, acoustic psychedelia and garage psych.These guys will take you on a magic carpet ride to oblivion.All phased vocals, reverb and fuzz a-plenty.
Side A:1 Jerry Are Sleepin' 2 Waiting For A Western B-movie 3 ... And Now I'm Like A Man4 It Was A Beatiful Monday 5 I'm A Man Side B: 1 A Flower With Your Name 2 A Yellow Dawn 3 Wight Blues 4 You Don't Love Me 5 Cats In Love
Astral Weeks was founded in 1996 and released a bizarre CD for Mellow Records their music has been defined an original blending of psycho
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