26-11-06 - 03-12-06

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Many Bright Things - 2005 - Many Bright Friends

01 Many Bright Friends
02 East West
03. the silver witch
04 Minor Parade For 18 Strings
05 I Am Not A Collector Potato
06 There Will Be A Slight Delay


"The idea of the 'Supersession' album dates back to 1968 with Al Kooper's LP with Michael Bloomfield and Steve Stills. Fast forward thirty-seven years to the new album by Many Bright Things. It opens with the twenty-second title track, followed by the twenty-minute centerpiece: The Paul Butterfield Band's John Coltrane/Ravi Shankar-inspired masterpiece, 'East West.' Across its twenty minutes and forty-four seconds no fewer that FIVE guitarists step into the center ring with solos that begin with Larry Demyer (Windopane) and include back-to-back fiery electric sermons by Nick Saloman (Bevis Frond) and Al Simones. 'The Silver Witch' is written and performed by Alisha Sufit (Magic Carpet) accompanied by Frank DeFina on a beautiful Stephen Gilchrist F-5 mandolin. We think this song opens the second side of the vinyl as nicely as 'Within You Without You' opened side two of Sgt. Pepper. Alisha's voice reminds us of our dreams of angels. A tamboura drone and tabla accompaniment (by Paul Tescher) are the foundation for 'Minor Parade for 18 Strings' and a duet between Stan Denski's acoustic 12-string Guild guitar and Paul Major's lead electric. Stan Denski & Larry Demyer play guitars, David 'Tufty' Clough (Zero Boys) adds bass and Lon Paul (Marmoset) adds percussion, all of which form the ground upon which Jello Biafra (The Dead Kennedys) improvises observations on 'rare psychedelic music' on 'I Am Not a Collector Potato!' We guarantee you've never heard anything quite like this. The CD adds the ambient bonus track 'There Will Be a Slight Delay.'"

Psych fan Stan Denski, in cooperation with Michael Piper, both long time collectorstended to make from Many Bright Things a kind of Supergroup. In reality it is a assemblage of recordings Stan Denski collected over a period of three years with some of his favourite musicians. Never the less he succeeded ino making collector’s items from the two earlier limited edition releases by the collective project, involving all those for who all participated.
The longest track is “East West”, based upon John Coltrane’s idea of fusion, bringing the Indian raga into a western bluesrock context. (This I guess refered to the The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and their album "East West" where possibly one of the first times some electric raga guitar idea appeared into a rock band). This is in fact a bluesrock jam, with various solo’s, starting with Larry Demver (Windopane) who’s solo sounds like a cross between Santana and early Hendrix, followed by a very different personality guitar style, by Nick Saloman (Bevis Front). The next and shorter track, “The Silver Witch” is sung by Alisha Sufit (from former sitar psychfolkrock group Magic Carpet, which had a collector’s item made in 1974). This is especially nice thanks to the mandolin performance of Frank DeFina, making Alisha sound solo at her best (-and much better compared to her latest album effort in a songfolk style-). Also “Minor Parade For 18 Strings” has again an Indian association, provided by the effect of the electric tambura and tabla combined with quick pickings on 12-string by Stan Denski, combined with the lead guitar by Paul Major. “I am not a collector potato” is a somewhat disturbing-the psychhead-let-go an effect, which was almost created there on the album anyway. Jello Biafra narrates his thoughts with some frustration, with a droning voice -unlike his effective earlier voice, full of fire, in the time from his intellectual punk band Dead Kennedy’s-. Even when the track remains in a bluesy psychedelic sphere, it is disturbing hearing him confront blind lovers of psychedelia and money-urging collectors, especially when his thought isn’t really hitting the true essences of things, it surely is less to the point within the context of this musical concept. It then sounds like it's coming from someone who is almost expected to have some comments at hand, and who also acts according to these expectations, even when he isn’t hitting the real essence with his urge. Last moody track is a kind of additional audio bonus gift by Stan Denski, which is a guitarspin in CGCGCF, associating guitarists like Richard Bishop, with some additional e-bow guitar and some delay as experimental effect.

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Reboelje - Skepper Fan De Skepper

Here my first tribute to the blog,
I start with a local band called Reboelje, with I am a great fan of
They started in 1987 and stopped in 2004, their music style is a kind of Folk-Rock and their lyrics are almost poetic, but I don’t think you’ll understand a bit of it course all their lyrics are in the Frisian language…
Let me introduce you their first album from 1989; Skepper fan de Skepper [free translated it means; Creator of the Creator]
Best track of the album is in my opinion track 9, specially because I sing loudly along with it the lines; moarn wur ik wekker as in winner [tomorrow I awake like a winner]
Reboelje has their own label called Marista

Tracklist;
01 – Ingelân [Angelland]
02 – Frjemdeling [Stranger]
03 - Eilân yn de see {Island in the sea]
04 – Marista
05 – Lemming
06 - Ferflein fers [Blown away/lost/gone song]
07 - Skepper fan de skepper [Creator of the creator]
08 - Dokter fan Bartlehiem [Doctor of Bartlehiem (Bartlehiem = village)]
09 - Ik haw wûn [I have won]

Line-up; Durk Hogendorp – acoustic guitar, vocals
Rommert Reitsma – drums
Marius de Boer – lead vocals, keyboard, guitar
Tjerk Bootsma – bass, harmonica, vocals
Tiede Lanting – electric guitar

More information can be found in the tag-files [like the lyrics]

Let me know what you think about this album, greetings; Frisian

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The Real Yeti Band - Yeti

The Real Yeti Band - Yeti

01 Poem For The Whistling Cowboy 07:17
02 In The Garden Of Unborn Sensations Part 65 08:33
03 Changes 07:26
04 Red-Haired Butterfly 09:18
05 Broken Dreams 10:14

THE REAL YETI BAND
(with a little help from some percussion animals)

SWARA SAMRAT vocals, guitar, moog, organ, sax
CAPTAIN ILOR leadguitars, vocals, synthie
HERMAN THE GERMAN bass, piano, background vocals

This limited vinyl-only edition on audiophile 180-gram virgin vinyl comes in a handlettered and autographed laminated cover plus a fantastic insert that explains
how you can get a real yeti picture - namely by buying this record!
An acidrock masterpiece in the Düül vein including 5 tracks of which each is generating atmospheres that remind of names like Peter Hammill, The Doors,
Neil Young or Jimi Hendrix.

Belgian fanzine “CROHINGA WELL”
in issue # 14
A label like Coloured Rain is a good indicator for measuring the rise of a new krautrock scene in Germany: This exclusive vinyl label is the musical dada of 2 record collectors and fans of 70s krautrock and psychedelic music as a whole. They recorded a nice batch of outstanding psychedelic LPs so far, under their pseudonyms Captain Ilor and Swara Samrat: “The Truth About Suzanne”, “Blue Sunshine”, “Mindfuck”, “The Lottery Of Memories” and “Megatrip”.
Their newest studio concoction is called Yeti, a trio formed by Swara Samrat (vocals, moog, guitar, organ, sax), Captain Ilor (lead guitar, vocals, synths) and Herman the German (bass, piano, vocals). They recorded 5 pieces of really zonked krautrock, comparable to the best moments of Amon Düül II, Gila and Eiliff combines into an ever-varying mass of howling Hendrix guitars and roaring keyboards with Swara Samrat even singing in a Peter Hammill stylee on “Red Haired Butterfly”.
We are used to the very high quality standards of Coloured Rain music but this time they really surpassed themselves and made their best one yet: a super-stoned krautrock album, one of the best of 1997.

Very recommended LP...

Kath (USA) - 1975 - Kath

Kath (USA) - 1975 - Kath

TRACKS:
01 Love Me Down
02 I Want To Love You
03 Lonely Again
04 Goodbye Sunshine
05 Tell Laura I Love Her
06 As I Looked
07 It Doesn't Mean
08 Candleman
09 Norwegian Wood
10 Mother Dear
11 BLPSVC
12 Just Like You
13 Say What You Feel
14 She's The Girl I Love

MUSICIANS:
Val Rogolino
Cheese Sollers
Bruce Lapier
Brent Buckley
and Bob.

From Freakemporium :
Originally released in a limited edition of 60 hand made copies, this LP has gone virtually unknown for 30 years and has only been whispered about by the heaviest of collectors. The band evolved from the local Maryland 60s band "Badge" and is heavily influenced by The Beatles. This is a real DIY effort recorded in the home of the bands leader and dedicated to his pet monkey!!!! No, we're not making it up. . . This release has most of the original LP cuts and a couple of unreleased songs for good measure.
Metallic silver and blue paste over cover is a duplication of the original artwork and the inserts contain band photos and story. One of the few folks who have heard this LP, the Psychedelic High Lama, had this to say about Kath..... "Obscure and impressive melodic basement garage/psych excursion with a lo-fi atmosphere that would have most purveyors flip out" "Not unlike the best tracks on Rockadrome" " At times the vibe is almost like Mystery Meat or Index, and that's not something you run across every day." "Good fuzz throughout, charming amateur vocals".
Only a few hundred made and on ROCKADELIC!

"Kath" 1975 (no label) [60p; gatefold]
"Kath" 2005 (Rockadelic 51) [+bonus tracks; no gatefold; 500p]

From Acid Archives :
Obscure and quite impressive melodic basement garage/psych excursion with a lo-fi atmosphere that would have most purveyors flip out, hits the Ampex two-track echo & tinny drum sound dead on. The sound is a bit "Canadian" to me, with a few French language snips and a typical Maple Leaf sound with lots of keyboard and reverbed vocals, not unlike the best tracks on Rockadrome. As it turns out the band was actually from Maryland, though leader Val Rogolino was part-French. In any event, it's mostly originals with a few covers including a fuzzed-out cough syrup take on "Norwegian Wood" that could be the best version ever. The selfpenned material is good, with a 60s teenbeat sensibility rather than heavy/hard rock. At times the vibe is almost like Mystery Meat or Index, and that's not something you run across every day. At the same time there are obvious hints that this dates from a later era, and it was in fact recorded over a period of several months in 1974. Good fuzz throughout, charming amateur vocals, and a late-night rehearsal space ambience. "It doesn't mean" is a highpoint for me. There are also brief snips of aural experiments for the right $15 avantgarde touch. "Kath" appears to be a reference to the main guy's girlfriend. The band also had a non-LP EP from 1978 under the name Badge, with a more polished version of "It doesn't mean", and a 45 around the same time. The Rockadelic removes one track from the original, and adds a couple new ones. [PL]

A totally outside garage/psych/private LP that feels as personally projected as alla those Michael Yonkers sides and that was recorded in Maryland in 1974. Nuts lo-fi recording quality and impossible-to-figure production values gives this a nicely zonked almost real-people vibe and I've seen listings that compare the lost, garage feel of this record to revered sides like Mystery Meat and Index. At points the sound is so dosed in lo-fi F/X that it sounds like the tapes are somehow inside out. Buncha originals, some French language, keyboards, fuzz, heap of amateur avant spirit and a cover of "Norwegian Wood" that ranks up there alongside Bill Comeau's "Eleanor Rigby" as one of the few listenable Beatles covers ever cut by teens with brains. Beautiful silver/blue paste-on sleeves and insert with the full saga and pics.

Masters Of Deceit - Hensley's Electric Jazz Band And Synthetic Symphonette - 1969

Masters of Deceit

Personnel:
STEVE BLUM gtr, bs A
GARY CAMPBELL bs, tenor sax, vcls A
STAN GAGE drms A
TOM HENSLEY keyb'ds, vcls A

ALBUM:
1(A) HENSLEY'S ELECTRIC JAZZ BAND AND SYNTHETIC SYMPHONETTE (Vanguard 6522) 1969

NB: (1) reissued on vinyl (Vanguard/Comet ).

The album may interest fans of acid psychedelia with a strong jazzy haze. The group originated from Indianapolis and was fronted by Tom Hensley, an excellent keyboard player who would become a sought-after studio musician during the seventies, working with Leonard Cohen, Hall & Oates and David Blue to name but a few.

Their sole record features some fine guitar work, particularly on Boxes and Long Hard Journey but suffers somewhat from rather weak vocals. Hensley was aware of this problem, as he mentioned in the long, rather intellectual and often funny liner notes that "I was never able to work out the trick of singing as if I were black. So I compromised. I try to sound like a Jewish singer. I haven't done too well on that one either. So we like to think of ourselves as primarily a playing group."

An acetate recorded at Ultra Sound Studios in NY with some non LP tracks has recently resurfaced.
(Vernon Joynson/Stephane Rebeschini)

ENJOY!!!

October Country - 1968

October Country
Personnel:

EDDIE BERAM drms A

CARYLE DE FRANCA vcls A

JOE DE FRANCA vcls A

MARTY EARLE gtr A

BRUCE WAYNE gtr A

BOB WIAN keyb'ds A

ALBUM:

1 OCTOBER COUNTRY (Epic BN 26381) 1968
NB: (1) reissued by Quadrant.
45s: 1 October Country/Baby What I Mean (Epic 10252) 1968 2 Just Don't Know/My Girlfriend Is A Witch (Epic 10320) 1968 3 Cowboys and Indians/I Wish I Was A Fire (Epic 10373) 1968
A Los Angeles-based six piece harmony pop group. October Country is a quite delightful piece of orchestrated harmony pop and showcased Michael Lloyd's talents as a producer and composer. Check it out on Nuggets, Vol. 3 (LP).
He also worked with the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Smoke, and as an arranger or producer (or both, often with Kim Fowley) with Fire Escape, St. John Green, American Revolution, A.B. Skhy and Grains Of Sand. He was also a member of Laughing Wind, a band who recorded for Tower and masterminded an album called Cream Songbook (GTR 10000) 1969, which was credited to The Rubber Band, as well as Cotton, Lloyd and Christian, before becoming an even more successful producer and songwriter.
ENJOY!!!!

Mary Anne Paterson - 1970 - Me

Mary Anne Paterson - 1970 - Me
(Rare UK Folk -her only album)

Scottish folksinger Mary-Anne Paterson made a nice if modest acoustic traditional-oriented album in 1970, Me. It matched her high, clear vocals, acoustic guitars, and flute with sparse echoed production and very occasional touches of acid folk and pop, though overall the LP had a haunting medieval tone. Most of the songs on the record were traditional folk tunes, though she did write a couple of them herself. Paterson fell into a recording career somewhat by accident in the late '60s, when she was a drama teacher who wrote songs for educational television on the side. A friend convinced her to go to London to make a demo in late 1969, though she did so primarily in hopes of raising money for a children's art center she hoped to set up. Me was done in one session around the beginning of 1970, Paterson backed by some buskers from a London tube station with whom she barely rehearsed, and never saw again. In fact, not many people ever saw the album itself; as she was interested in starting her arts center rather than establishing a professional career, she didn't promote it with any concerts, and no publicity was done on the LP's behalf. In subsequent decades, Paterson worked as a teacher and wrote songs for TV and radio, with Me getting reissued on CD in 2006.By Richie Unterberger

Highly Recommended

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The Last Drive

The Last Drive were a Greek garage revival rock group which formed in 1983 and broke up in 1995. They are regarded by many as the most important Greek rock group of the 80's and one of the most important and influential groups of Greek rock history.

1983-1986: The beginnings

They started playing under the name "Last Drive" in late 1983 and their first performance was at the "Rodeo club" on December 27,1983. They adopted the name "Last Drive" after noticing a cocktail by that name at a bar menu. During 1984, Yiorgos Karanikolas was added on lead guitar. The group was basically playing garage rock mixed with rockabilly and surf rock . They started playing in underground joints of that time, while some band members played with Blue light ( group) at their first live performance at Pegasus club. In 1985 they released their first record, the 7" single Midnite Hop, which now is the most sought-after record by collectors in Greece. They also participated with a song in a compilation tape by Dikaioma Diavasis records, Live at the Kyttaro club.



Their first very rare 7 inch single including 3 explosive tracks!


1986-1990: Success in Europe

In 1986 they released their full-length LP album, called Underworld Shakedown, which caused a sensation both for its content and the quality of production (by the Drive themselves) which was unusually high for the standards of the independent scene of that time. The LP contained covers of garage standards like Misirlou and Night of The Phantom, as well as their own material.

Underworld Shakedown ( 1986 )

Me 'n my wings
Valley Of Death
Poison
Misirlou
This Fire Inside
Blue Moon
Sidewalk Stroll
The Shade of Fever
Every Night
The Night of the Phantom
Repulsion


They continued to appear live in Athens and many other cities in Greece, and in the Spring of 1987 they toured abroad for the first time, in Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands. They performed alongside the Fuzztones, the Creeps, the Stomachmouths,the Dizzy Satellites and others. In 1988, having replaced Nick "Pop Mind" with Panos Kasiaris on rhythm guitar, they released Heatwave, which was produced by Peter Zaremba of the Fleshtones. That was the album that established their name in Europe, where it was re-released (with a new cover) by Music Maniac Records, a German label specializing in garage-rock releases.



Heatwave ( 1988 )

I Love Cindy
Heatwave '88
Joe Esposito's Gun
Devil Make Care
Gone Gone Gone
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Blue City Shores
Whisper Her Name
Baby It's Real

Their success brought them to Germany, where they participated in the Berlin Independence Days festival and also recorded the Time EP.
By this time the sound of the group had started to somewhat change, becoming harder and speedier and moving towards neo-psychedelia, without however burning the bridges with its garage past. The band also caught the eye of Paul Cutler, of Dream Syndicate fame, who would produce their next two records.

1990-1995:

Their LP Blood Nirvana, which was released in 1990, marked the change in their sound, a fact that let down some of their hardcore garage fans and ended their cooperation with Music Maniac. At this time they were considered a part of the "explosion" of the hard rock/indie Greek scene that took part during the early 90's. Thus, they started becoming widely popular among rock fans in Greece, and on the same year they were voted "band of the year" by the readers of the leading music magazine, Pop & Rock. They played as a support act for the Wipers,Jesus & Mary Chain,The Gun Club and toured Germany with Dead Moon. In 1992 they released the F*head Entropy album, which is their most mature work. Following a tour in Spain, the Last Drive celebrated their 10th anniversary with a live performance (pie fight included) at the "West Club" on December 23, 1993. In 1994, their contract with their long-time company, Hitch Hyke Records, ended. They signed for the multinational BMG Hellas and released Subliminal, an album in which songs followed a somewhat slower tempo than before, and also was to be their last release. In 1995, Karanikolas left the band and moved to the States. Some months later the Last Drive disbanded, after twelve years on the road, having created a dedicated following in Greece and abroad, an explosive live act, and a legend that most bands in Greece still envy.

After the Last Drive:

Yiorgos Karanikolas created Blackmail, who generally picked up from where the Drive had stopped, but with a greater emphasis on neo-psychedelia, and became quite popular at the time.
Alex Kalofolias and Thanos Amorginos created the Earthbound in 1998, a group with a completely different orientation around ethnic/Latin/desert rock. There have been rare instances in which the Earthbound were joined on stage by former Drive members. Kalofolias and Karanikolas also co-wrote the music for the Stratos Tzortzis film Sose Me (Save me). Amorginos also writes music for theatrical plays, while Kalofolias's main profession is now literature translation.
Chris Michalatos played for a while with The Speedballs, a rockabilly act.



Members

Alexis Kalofolias (Alex K.) - ripper bass, vocals
Yiorgos Karanikolas (B.George Bop) - lead guitar, vocals
Christos Michalatos (Chris B.I.) - drums
Thanos Amorginos (T.H. Lime) - guitar
Panos Kasiaris (P.PEP) - guitar
Nick "Pop Mind" - guitar



Discography

In Greece

Singles/EPs

Midnite Hop (Art Nouveau 7", 1985)
I Was A Teenage Zombie (with the Flashtones as "The Pleasure Hustlers") (Time Bomb: The Flashtones present the Big Bang Theory, Hitch Hyke 1989)
Time (Hitch Hyke EP 1989)
Overloaded (Hitch Hyke single sided promo 1991)

LPs

Underworld Shakedown (Hitch Hyke 1986)
Heatwave (Hitch Hyke 1988)
Blood Nirvana (Hitch Hyke 1990)
F*Head Entropy (Hitch Hyke 1992)
Subliminal (BMG 1994)

Contribs

Live sto Kyttaro (Dikaioma Diavasis 1985)
May This Bullet (The Thing Magazine Compilation CD Volume 1)
Rock Fm - Rodon Live (Music Box 1991)
Jailbird/Outlaw (Local Heroes '95 Comp., Pop & Rock mag.)

Abroad

Singles/EPs

Blue Moon / Every Night / Sidewalk Stroll (Voxx 7, 1987)

LPs

Their Story So Far (Double CD, Music Maniac 1989)
Blood Nirvana (Romilar D 1991)
Blood Nirvana (Music Maniac 1991)
Blood Nirvana (Restless CD 1992, bonus "Time Has Come Today" alternative mix)

Contribs

Every Night (Battle of the Garages Vol. 4, Voxx 1986)
Valley of Death (The sounds of now, Dionysus 1986)
I love Cindy (The secret team, Voxx 1988)
Hell to pay (Music Maniac Gimmick Comp., 1989)
Black Limo (The monster dance hall favorites vol. 3, Munster 1990)
Overloaded (It's a Restless World, Restless 1991)
The End Inc. (Larsen/Zine Comp. 1993)
Outlaw (Enclosed Please Find... Your Invitation To Suicide: A Tribute to the Songs of Martin Rev & Alan Vega Double LP, Munster 1994)

Resourses: wikipedia


Highly Recommended For All Garage Maniacs Out There !

Download Links:

http://rapidshare.com/files/2138825/Midnight_Hop_7_1985.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/5630946/underworldshakedown.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/5622689/heatwave.rar

Underworld Shakedown & Heatwave posted by innocent76

Midnite Hop posted by 16Forever

Various Artists - 1990 - Viva Los Angeles II (2LPs)

2LPs with a 20 pages large (almost LP size) booklet (VIVA 12, 1990 - English edition), which covers the best part of the L.A. scene. Also released as CD in a LP sleeve and booklet.

Drowning Pool - The Italian Pop Song
Afterimage - Out of Breath
Gothic Hut - Rio
Marnie - Songs Hurt Me
Red Temple Spirits - Rollercoaster
17 Pygmies - Under the Freeway
Kommunity FK - Is It Your Face
Partly Cloudy - Jihad
Trotsky Icepick - This Car Is Not Blue
Shiva Burlesque - Arabesque
Scott Fraser - The Cool Shades
Radwaste - War of the Roses
The Rub - A Thousand Days
Soul Brothers - Du Bist Käse
Savage Republic - Valetta
Mark Nine - Sun and Shadows
Fourwaycross - Let It Come Down
In the Distance - Migration 


This out-of-print compilation, along with volume I (1986), catches the Californian -mainly L.A.- underground scene of the time (1986-1989). Here you'll find 18 tracks by 18 bands, recorded mainly 1988-89, varying from alternative to New Wave/Goth, and from synth-pop (only one track!) to experimental.
You will find the distant thunder of Drowning Pool, Savage Republic in their "calm" phase (Ceremonial), Marnie again, the Eastern electronics of Partly Cloudy, the bright melancholy of 17 Pygmies, sound collages with found radio sounds from Soul Brothers, the always ashtonishing Fourwaycross and a lot more to keep your mind and ears busy.
Excluding Savage Republic, 17 Pygmies and Shiva Burlesque, all the rest remained in the shade and vanished (well, some of the artists are active until today, but...)
Well, you may like many of the 18 tracks here, and you may not. But this is a strong compilation, succesfully capturing the underground music of the era. The chosen tracks represent well each band and I believe its worth a listen (and mayby more!).

disk 1
disk 2

P.S. As I don't get any comments to my posts (except Paniolo), I don't know if there's anybody interested. Maybe these bands are out of place for this blog? I want to post more of this scene but does anybody want more of them? I would like to know.

posted by Rainy Day Sponge

Friday, December 01, 2006

The Pretty Things - BBC Sessions 1964-1975

The Pretty Things - BBC Sessions 1964-1975

This collection of work from the B.B.C. Sessions gives you an overall view of the 'Pretties' career from 1964 to 1976. All the early singles are here. (The Pretty Things had a surge of popularity stateside when David Bowie covered their first two singles 'Rosalyn' and 'Don't Bring Me Down' on his album Pin Ups. To many Americans this was the first time they ever heard of the 'Pretty Things'.)

It all goes a bit pear shaped in their psychedelic era, but then it did for a lot of people (remember the Stones? Or Their Satanic Majesties Request?), but on their return to hard edged rock 'n' roll, like on the Radio One 'In Concert' show to promote 'Freeway Madness', the band is so hot, it is incendiary. Nobody can throw caution to the wind with such abandon and still nail a song down like the 'Pretties' like 'Onion Soup' and especially 'Route 66'. The live sessions for the following two albums are a little more controlled, but equally as exciting.

This album is not only a good overview of the Pretty Things' career, but also a good overview of British rock in this era. If you are not familiar with the Pretty Things, this album would be an excellent way to find out. ~Mott the Dog

Album Tracks
01. Big Boss Man
02. Don't Bring Me Down
03. Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
04. Roadrunner
05. Big City
06. Midnight to Six Man
07. Sitting All Alone
08. Midnight to Six Man
09. Buzz the Jerk
10. L.S.D.
11. Defecting Grey
12. Turn My Head
13. Walking Through My Dreams
14. Balloon Burning
15. S.F. Sorrow Is Born
16. She Says Good Morning
17. Send You With Loving
18. Spring
19. Sickle Clowns
20. She's a Lover
21. Cries from the Midnight Circus
22. Stone-Hearted Mama
23. Cold Stone
24. Summer Time
25. Rosalyn
26. Allnight Sailor
27. Religion's Dead
28. Havana Bound
29. Love Is Good
30. Route 66
31. Onion Soup/Another Bowl
32. Route 66
33. Peter/Rip Off Train
34. Atlanta
35. Bridge of God
36. Singapore Silk Torpedo
37. Come Home Momma
38. Dream/Joey
39. Not Only But Also
40. Big City
41. Belfast Cowboys/Bruise in the Sky

Part I
Part II
Part III

Glass Harp - 1970 - Glass Harp

Sometimes to give details and information about a group is necessary. But sometimes i think is not so important. It doesn't matter who they are or where are they coming from.

Most important for all of us is the MUSIC.

That is what unites us.

The magic of the MUSIC.

You can call it rock or folk or prog or psych. it doesn't make any difference.

Tonight i feel it is one of these magic moments.

Downloand this blessed album and let your spirit and soul free........

glass_harp_-1970_-_glass_harp.rar

CAN YOU SEE ME
Can you see me brother,
Walking down the lonely road?
Can you see me sister,
Help me find where I must go.
Look for the signs in the stars,
To help us find what must be ours.
For those behind the lonely bars,
We'll help to see.
Can you see me brother,
Here I stand I'm all alone,
Can you see me sister,
I hear the cries among my own.
There are too many people
Saying what it's all about.
Should be praying to find
Themselves and not an out.

For information junkies :

http://www.glassharp.net/index.html

Marnie - 1990 - Songs Hurt Me

Marnie - 1990 - Songs Hurt Me

Marnie Webber is an LA performer, collage artist, musician, active from the 80s 'till today. She was the bass player of the great Party Boys, and after their demise continued as solo artist. Amazingly enough her first two LPs came out from the Greek label Penguin, in 1990 and 1994, and they're long out of print. You can find more at her site.

Discography
1990 Songs Hurt Me, Penguin Ltd. Athens, Greece
1994 Woman with Bass, Penguin Ltd. Athens, Greece
1996 Cry for Happy, Ecstatic Peace! / The End is Here
2005 Songs Forgotten, The Best of Marnie , The End is Here


Be careful; I am my song

Songs Hurt Me, Marnie's first solo LP recorded in 1988, produced by Philip Drucker (aka Jackson Del Rey) of the Savage Republic & 17 Pygmies fame and came out in 1990. It was a Marnie-Drucker duo, as all songs except one were written by both them, and they played all the instruments (Marnie wrote all lyrics and had the musical and visual direction).
This record is the naked emotion of Marnie captured to vinyl by the extraordinary Jackson Del Rey. There is the West Coast and there is Far East here. In fact I believe this is Marnie's vision of China. Nothing in this record is useless, nothing is fake or pretendius, nothing is too much or too little: the voices, the guitars, the keybords, the minimal orchestration, everything drives you in the heart of mystical world of Marnie. That means that you'll hear the confessions, faint memories, dreams and fears of Marnie augmented with the recording and artistic experience of Philip Drucker. These are handcrafted songs by two unique artists of LA.

P.S. If someone has the second Greek LP of Marnie (Woman with Bass), please post it. Thanks.

posted by Rainy Day Sponge

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Leadbelly - Good Morning Blues

About Leadbelly:

Huddie William Ledbetter (January 23, 1888 - December 6, 1949) was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich songbook of folk standards he introduced. He is best known as Leadbelly or Lead Belly.

Although his most commonly-played instrument was the twelve string, he could also play the piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, concertina, and accordion. In some of his recordings, such as in one of his versions of the folk ballad "John Hardy", he performs on the accordion instead of the guitar.

The topics of Lead Belly's music covered a wide range of subjects, including gospel songs, blues songs about women, liquor, racism, folk songs about cowboys, prison, work, sailors, cattle herding, dancing, and songs concerning the newsmakers of the day, such as President Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, the Scottsboro Boys, and multi-millionaire Howard Hughes.

About This Recording :

Compilation of previously unissued recordings from 1935-1940.Narrated by Woody Guthrie!

Enjoy

the Cardinals - s/t

Track List :

1. all I wanna do
2. I need her so
3. I saw the sun
4. you never told me goodbye
5. where the pain can't reach
6. I can cry for yesterday
7. she's my girl
8. could it be that i was wrong
9. never loved you true
10. she's not coming home
11. blond girl
12. let me live my life


Amazing garage band . Their first 7" was the reason that the greek Action Records (which printed Purple Overdose and Frantic V among others ) was formed.
Their first LP was produced only in vinyl in 750 copies and soon became sold-out. This record is a must have for all greek collectors nowadays.

Highly Recommended !!!

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3 Soundtracks From The Past

Three vinyl rips of very rare soundtracks from late 60's early 70's.

Revolution

Original Motion Picture Score
Release date:1968
Record label / catalog #: UA UAS 5185
Country: USA Format: 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM
Release type: Regular release

Featuring: Quicksilver Messenger Service Steve Miller Band "Their first recordings!!!" Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth

Tracks
Steve Miller Band: 1. Superbyrd 2. Your Old Lady 3. Mercury Blues

Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth: 1. Revolution 2. Without Love 3. Stranger In My Own Home Town
Quicksilver Messenger Service 1. Codine 2. Baby I'm Gonna Leave You

The Steve Miller Band were formed in San Francisco in 1966. The original line-up, Steve Miller, Tim Davis, Lonnie Turner and Curley Cooke first recorded for the soundtrack of the movie Revolution. The group performed at Monterey and were offered a recording contract by Capitol. Before recording for Capitol the line-up changed, Cooke leaving and Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman joining.

Tracy Nelson moved to San Francisco and, in the midst of the era's psychedelic explosion, formed Mother Earth, a group that was named after the fatalistic Memphis Slim song of that title. (The song is included in her first solo album " Live From Cell Block D".) Mother Earths second recordings came on the soundtrack of "Revolution. Mother Earth, the group, true to its origin, was more grounded than freaky but, nonetheless, was a major attraction at The Fillmore where they encountered the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Burdon who, as legend has it, was once bitten by Tracy's dog. In 1968 Mother Earth recorded its first album, which included her own composition "Down So Low." It became her signature song and was later to be covered by Etta James, Linda Rondstadt and Maria Muldaur with Tracy's own stirring latest version included on Live From Cell Block D.

Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of San Francisco's original psychedelic bands of the late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, their early albums and live shows contributed to some of the best instrumental jams of the period. They were popular around the Bay Area but did not reach the national popularity achieved by their San Francisco contemporaries, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and others.

Strawberry Statement

Original Release Date: 1970
Tracklisting:
A1 Buffy Sainte-Marie The Circle Game (2:50)
A2 Ian Freebairn-Smith Market Basket (1:53)
A3 Neil Young Down By The River (9:12)
B1 Crosby, Stills & Nash Long Time Gone (4:17)
B2 Ian Freebairn-Smith Cyclatron (3:16)
B3 Thunderclap Newman Something In The Air (3:54)
C1 Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra (1:37)
Conductor - Karl Böhm
Orchestra - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
C2 Neil Young The Loner (3:55)
C3 Ian Freebairn-Smith Coit Tower (3:21)
C4 Red Mountain Jug Band, The Fishin' Blues (1:53)
D1 Alessandro Marcello Concerto In D Minor (5:10)
Conductor - Ian Freebairn-Smith
D2 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Helpless (3:30)
D3 Ian Freebairn-Smith Pocket Band (3:01)
D4 The Cast (performed by the cast in the film) Give Peace A Chance (1:40)

Zachariah



Track Listing
01. Zachariah - Main Title
Jimmie Haskell
02. Lagune Salada
The James Gang
03. We're The Crackers
Country Joe and the Fish
04. William Tell Overture
Arr. by Jimmie Haskell
05. All I Need
Country Joe and the Fish
06. Ballad of Job Cain
Doug Kershaw
07. Country Fever
The James Gang
08. The Loney Rider
Jimmie Haskell
09. Medley: Camino/Used Horse Salesman
Jimmie Haskell
10. Camino Waltz
Jimmie Haskell
11. Gravedigger
The New York Rock n Roll Ensemble
12. Shy Ann
White Lightnin'
13. Matthew
Jimmie Haskell
14. Zachariah - End Title
Jimmie Haskell

Notes
Rock soundtrack to the interesting early 70s counter-culture movie Zachariah ("The First Electric Western") from Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, Phil Proctor and David Ossman - otherwise known as The Firesign Theatre.

A true film of its time, Zachariah followed in the wake of such movies as Easy Rider, Zabriskie Point and The Strawberry Statement and played with the theme of the rejection of mindless violence whilst actually using rock bands in some of the starring roles.

Country Joe and the Fish played the outlaw gang "The Crackers", The James Gang played members of Job Cain's gang and The New York Rock 'n' Roll Ensemble appear as members of woman outlaw Belle Star's gang.

Along with the rock tunes - there's also some lovely incidental music from Jimmie Haskell.

This is a really solid album that contains some great music. Also worthwhile for the fact that tracks featured here don't appear anywhere else!

The Backwards - 1990 - Eerie Thoughts Collection pt. 3

Italian 80's underground...

THE BACKWARDS "Eerie Thoughts Collection pt. 3"
(Crazy Mannequin 1990)

A quite obscure title and band, which at the time was praised by Italian music journos but largely ignored by buyers. even in later years the Backwards were still highly regarded by someone (check their enthusiastic entry in Timothy Gassen's The Knights Of Fuzz), and yet unknown anywhere else.

So, here's a short history:
Born in 1988 as Chapter 24, and soon rechristened as The Backwards, their first demotape 'Real Life Permanent Dream' had excellent reviews ("The best neo-psych band in Italy nowadays" said C. Sorge), but for some reasons their leader P. Rizzo went solo under the same moniker, and in late 1989 proceeded to tape the Backwards' only LP. Rizzo played most instruments, but fellow musicians helped on various tracks (mostly mates fron The Pow and Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party).

The result was released in spring 1990 on Crazy Mannequin records: the LP sounded reasonably coherent, although a hodgepodge of older and more recent influences: part Beatles/UK psych, part US garage, part Robyn Hitchcock, part Julian Cope, part acid folk, part power pop, part new wave, and so forth... A rather colorful experience, despite the dull b/w sleeve...

of the 500 copies pressed, some were sold, some were given as a gift, and some were lost.

the Backwards went on for 3 more years, with some cassette-only releases, one of which was produced by Delerium rec. in the UK, and called it a day in 1993.

song titles:
01. Intro
02. The Backwards Are Here
03. Travellin' Knight
04. She Stared At Her Own Feet
05. Out Of Focus
06. Across Your Mind
07. My Advice For You
08. Pause
09. Your Precious Time
10. Happily Ever After
11. Upstairs
12. In Search For Yourself
13. Portrait (Of An Unbalanced Mind)
14. Evening Conversation
15. Daily Rites
16. Point Of View

ripped @ 192 kbps

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Sainte Anthony's Fyre - 1970 - Sainte Anthony's Fyre

Sainte Anthony's Fyre - 1970 - Sainte Anthony's Fyre

Tracks
01 Love Over You 4:53
02 Get Off 3:09
03 Summer Fun 3:37
04 Starlight 5:38
05 Lone Soul Road 4:45
06 With Your Beau 3:07
07 Chance of Fate 4:08
08 Wet Back

Musicians
Gregory Onushko aka Greg Ohm: Guitar, Vocals
Tomm Nardi: Bass, Vocals
Bob Sharples: Drums, Percussion

The Hundredth Monkey - 1986 - Mute Lament

The Hundredth Monkey - 1986 - Mute Lament

Hundredth Monkey formed at 1983 by Stephen Jay Morris (vocals), Tim Konspiracy (Kummerow) (drums), Pat Amodeo (bass), Tom Carpenter (keyboards), and Brad Frost (guitar). The first two came from the LA punk band Benedict Arnold & the Traitors. With this line-up released a 7' (Quicksand/ Rugged Individual, 1983, Veracious Records). Around 1985 they became a trio with Brad Frost, Tim Kummerow and Ian Montgomery (bass) and the next year released their only LP "Mute Lament", again on Veracious Records, with Frost as main songwriter. The cover was made by the famous Robert Williams. They lasted 'till 1989. After that Kummerow and Montgomery formed Pendu Femmele, a band with no vinyl or CD output (only an entire album in MP3.com in its glorious days). In the 90s Kummerow worked as a graphics artist, a painter and had the TV show Subterranean Sounds, which featured live performances and interviews with Los Angeles area underground bands, and Frost worked as an assistant animator, writer and actor in movies and television.

This LP is another lost treasure of the 80s. You could call it pop-psyche but it's a lot better than that. Short songs with strong melodies, real good production, along with studio effects, backwards tapes etc that sneak in the backround, not dominating but helping the songs unfold. This is west-coast psychedelia at its best. Too bad that they didn't get any attention.
This is a vinyl rip. Again there's nothing about it in the net, (actually Tim Kummerow on his bio doesn't mention the 100th Monkey, and I only found some facts from a Stephen Jay Morris reply) so I took a photo of the cover, which I post.

P.S. About the name - from the back cover:
The Japanese Monkey, Macaca fuscata, has been observed in the wild for more than 30 years. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were leaving sweet potatoes in the sand for the monkeys. A young monkey named Imo begun to wash off the unpleasant tasting sand. She taught her mother and playmates. They taught others. By 1958, all of the young monkeys were washing their sweet potatoes.
When a certain number of monkeys had learned to wash their potatoes, the tide had turned and all the monkeys on Koshima begun to do so. The impetus of that "Hundredth Monkey" had created an ideological breakthrough!
Then a surprising thing happened. The habit of washing sweet potatoes jumped over the sea! Monkeys on other islands and the mainland, began washing their sweet potatoes too.
Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Universe - 1977 - Universe

Universe - 1977 - Universe

01 Rock In The Sky
02 If
03 Touchdown
04 Dream
05 Oceans
06 Remember The Stars
07 Light From Above

Players:
Gary Paul Van- electric keyboards, vocals
Dennis Lee Askew- electric guitars, electronic programming, vocals
Walfredo Reyes- percussion

"Universe" 1977 (PBR International 7002)
The opening “Rock In The Sky” starts with a little acoustic guitar, then, wham! Synthesizers come in double barreled, with a loud bass-y one anchoring the song and a higher more unpredictable one soloing over it. THIS is a synthesizer song! It would only be a couple of years before digital synths would rule the world and the instrument would ruin a lot of otherwise good music, so it’s hard to remember how cool the early analogue synths could be. Here it’s as powerful and as mind expanding as any guitars. The mix of space-rock and Christian themes is unique, making this fall into the “I didn’t know Christians made music like that” category. [AM]

The Flowerpot Men - A Walk In The Sky

The Flowerpot Men - A Walk In The Sky

Ripped By @rcadium at 320kbps

01 San Francisco Parts 1& 2 (original mono version)
02 Mythological Sunday
03 Blow Away
04 Say Goodbye To Yesterday (alternate version)
05 Lets Go Back To San Francisco Parts 1&2
06 Now and Then (alternate version)
07 A Walk In The Sky
08 Cooks of Cake and Kindness (alternate version)
09 White Dove
10 Children Of Tomorrow
11 Lets Go To San Francisco Parts 1& 2 (stereo version)
13 E=MC-Musha Hada (previously unreleased)

+ Enhaced Cd Track/Film Of The Flowerpot Men On Tv In 1967 performing 'Lets Go To San Francisco'

Personnel:
TONY BURROWS vcls A
PERRY FORD vcls A
NEIL LANDON vcls A
PETER LANDON vcls A

45s:
1 Let's Go To San Francisco (Part 1)/(Part 2) (Deram DM 142) 1967 4
2 A Walk In The Sky/Am I Losing You? (Deram DM 160) 1967
3 A Man Without A Woman/You Can Never Be Wrong (Deram DM 183) 1968
4 In A Moment Of Madness/Young Birds Fly (Deram DM 248) 1969

NB: Let's Go To San Francisco (C5 526) 1988 is a good compilation of their material. There's also a later CD compilation, Let's Go To San Francisco (Repertoire REP 4344-WZ) 1993 which adds several previously unreleased cuts to C5's earlier vinyl collection. Their finer moments are also compiled on The Very Best Of The Flowerpot Men (Sounds & Media SUMCD 411) 199?.
These three session singers successfully articulated the sentiments of the flower-power movement with Let's Go To San Francisco, which climbed to No 4. The follow-up, A Walk In The Sky, also captured the feel of the flower-power era but didn't sell as well. Their later efforts were more ordinary and even a change of name to Friends late in 1968 failed to revive their fortunes. Inevitably, perhaps, this act were destined to be one-hit wonders and after their demise in 1969 Burrows went on to join Edison Lighthouse after a brief stab at a solo career, whilst Landon departed to Fat Mattress. All three had previously been involved in The Ivy League.

REVIEW
Flowerpot MenA Walk In The Sky: The Very Best Ofrpm229 In true Pokemon style these guys had morphed from Carter Lewis & The Southernaires into the Ivy League and finally The Flowerpot Men. All the while it was really Ken Lewis and John Carters ability to roll with the times changing their sound accordingly that provided the backbone to these groups. And they were successful too with a string of hits along the way.By 1967 the times demanded psychedelic flower pop so that’s what Carter & Lewis delivered though still preserving their own identity through drenching the music in wonderful harmonies. Vocally Carter and Lewis were ably assisted by the ubiquitous Tony Burrows.

The songs Lets Go To San Francisco and A Walk In The Sky were massive international hits and the group continued to record up to 1969. RPM presents a thematic collection of their recordings compiled by band leader John Carter, which fit most perfectly into a Bam Caruso styled genre Harmony Pop Sike. The recordings had strong psychedelic overtones but in a Poppy way not in a Pink Floyd way, and still included the aforementioned trademark vocal harmonies.
This compilation also serves as a Best of the groups recordings there being no other compilation on the market at the moment but also provides something for collectors in one previously unreleased track and three previously unreleased alternate versions. A key recording Lets Go Back To San Francisco is included for the first time as one track with Parts 1& 2 united.

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White Stripes - 2005 - Live At the Glastonbury Festival

The band's gig from the Glastonbury Festival that took place on 06.24.05. So for those who went to Glastonbury, you can relive your experience. For those who didn't, you can hear this amazing show for the 1st time!!

Tracklist:

1. Dead Lives on The Dirty Ground
2. Blue Orchid
3. I Think I Smell A Rat
4. Let's Shake Hands
5. The Nurse
6. Hotel Yorba
7. Jolene
8. Ball & Biscuit
9. My Doorbell
10. Cannon
11. Passive Manipulation
12. Same Boy you've always Known
13. The Hardest button To Button
14. We're Going To Be Friends
15. Little Ghost
    
16. Death Letter
17. I just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
    
18. Screwdriver
19. Seven Nation Army

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Paniolo - 1985 - City of Refuge

Paniolo - 1985 - City of Refuge

This is my first post: Paniolo - City of Refuge.

Paniolo was not a real band, it was rather a moniker for one M Rima, a figure in Marina Del Rey scene and close to 17 Pygmies and Savage Republic. This, their only record, is a 1985 release with members of 17 Pygmies and a sound like Tom Rapp-Pearls Before Swine. There's almost nothing about it in the net, so I included credits and a little information in an rtf inside the rar file.

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Swara Samrat

Swara Samrat - 1979 - Lottery of Memories

Tracks
01.Walkin' On The Beach
02. Angelina
03. Hello Goodbye
04. Samba For Lisa
05. Lottery Of Memories
06. A Kind Of Loneliness

The first issue of SWARA Samrat's debut solo album was made for the musicians only in a micro edition of ca 85 copies in a gimmix cover with pinned colour photo and is nowadays one of those sought after private krautrock rarities The most varied album on the CR label is featuring a dark and mystical 10-minute version of A Kind Of Loneliness - a Mahler-like orchestral megatrip.

SWARA SAMRAT vocals, guitar, mandolin, piano, flute, synthie
CAPTAIN ILOR guitar, vocals, moog, bass, talking drum, bouzuki, flute, percussion, acoustic bass
ORLANDO HERNANDEZ spanish guitar
FRED LÄSS bass
KARL DETER drums & percussion
GONZO SCHMIDT organ

Ingredients: 48,89 % Psychosive & 51,11 % Progredelic Music
Acid, kraut, folky Really tripy stuff from these great Germans...from coroured rain records...

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Swara Samrat - 1993 - The Truth about Suzanne LP.

Limited audiophile 180-gram edition (virgin vinyl) of 450 autographed copies - mystical progedelic krautrock with folky touch, excellent songwriting and stunning guitar solos - A-side including The Progredelic Part Of The Trip, B-side including The Psychosive Part Of The Trip - a psychedelic highlight featuring CAPTAIN ILOR on guitar outbursts, spacy sounds & freaky trippy hippie vibes - comes in great laminated deluxe cover with superb artwork by Atelier Asmodi + very funny gatefold insert (Five Steps To Your Hippylisation)!!!

Tracks are:
Side ONE:
1 Tuesday Morning Blues 5:16
2 The Deeper You Fall 6:19
3 The Truth About Suzanne 7:40
SIDE TWO:
1 Hippylisation 3:52
2 Mr. Rainbow 7:14
3 Hotchpotch 6:01

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The Bevis Frond - 1987 - Miasma

Track Listing

Garden Gate - 1:05
She's in Love with Time - 6:04
Wild Mind - 6:53
Wild Afterthought - 2:17
Splendid Isolation - 3:50

The Earl of Walthamstowe - 0:43
Newgate Wind - 5:16
Release Yourself - 0:44
Maybe - 4:18
Ride the Train of Thought - 4:09
Confusion Days - 6:24

Review by all music guide

The fact that Nick Saloman's debut record sounds as good as it does — especially given this was before the era of cheap and easy home recording equipment — is testimony to his abilities to bring an intense, determined focus to his work. Thankfully his songwriting and playing matches his technical ear, and Miasma still sounds good years after its initial emergence. So much of what would become mainstays of Bevis Frond music — Saloman's hangdog, expressive voice, his tape-melting solos, and overall focus on keeping the psychedelic freak-out spirit alive — was already perfectly in place. There are shorter diversions here and there, such as "The Earl of Walthanstowe," a brief, folky snippet which tips its hat to his earlier acoustic incarnation, and the jokey, murky singalong "Release Yourself." As a one-man band he's able to cover all bases quite well — if he was just a drummer, he'd have a considerable reputation for that alone. But it's as a guitarist that he's most well-known, and deservedly so, throwing himself into rock-god riffs and explorations that in lesser hands could easily just be wankery. Nothing sounds extraneous here, though — it's all about creating and setting the mood. "Wild Mind" demonstrates that well enough, his double-tracked work going all over the place before fading away only to return as "Wild Afterthought." There it's nothing but guitar, in this case, it's a single track piece that's flat-out amazing, worthy of comparison to Hendrix's exorcisms without sounding like it. Elsewhere there's such worthies as the full-on fuzz love of "The Newgate Wind" and the calmer, keyboard-accompanied grooviness that's "Ride the Train of Thought."

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Odetta - 1965 - SIngs Dylan

Odetta is an African -American singer and guitarist whose repertoire consists largely of American folk music,blues,jazz and spirituals .She was an important figure in the American folk music revival of the1950's and1960's and a formative influence on artists such as Bob Dylan,Joan Baez and Janis Joplin
This album was re-released on CD in 2000. "Blowin' in the Wind" (which first appeared on Odetta Sings Folk Songs,1963) and "Paths of Victory"(Odetta Sings Of Many Things) were added as bonus tracks.

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St. Mikael - 1994 - Psychocosmic Songs

St. Mikael - 1994 - Psychocosmic Songs

01 Intro The Veil
02 1000 Dreams Of Love
03 The Psychcosmic Tree
04 Mesozoikum
05 Visions Of The Dinosaurs
06 The Eternal Spirit
07 Like A Dream
08 The Sailor
09 Fire Soul
10 Like A Dream (Reprise)
11 Finale

S.T. MIKAEL: Psychocosmic Songs
(XMLP-4 MS-4 1994)
”This album by the Swedish multi-instrumentalist ST Mikael...with a hand painted cover and a colorful booklet filled with drawings, comics and a picture story about Evolution on Earth. It’s impossible to compare him and his music with any other group or artist. On this record he plays guitars, sitars, turkish saz, drums, congas, tablas, organ, moog and does all the vocals. Some of the best tracks here is in that new, truly original style he has made his own. He will probably be one of the future-legends of the Psychedelic Music...” -Old Man Willow, Norway

”His 4th LP makes new references between the electric and acoustic instruments, which contributes to the new consciousness condensing the moments of insight!” - Rockerilla, Italy

Eric Andersen - Today Is The Highway (1965 Debut)

This was made back in the days when it was just the singer, his guitar and his harmonica. Oh yes the comparisons to Bob Dylan were endless and for good reason. Andersen was blessed with the similar talents of Dylan. Just like Dylan's early albums there are plenty of good self penned songs that are sung with the same intensity a lone folksinger would require to succeed. Unlike Dylan, Eric's songs are less political and surreal. They tend more toward romantical topics. Also Eric is a fingerpicker (pretty much pattern style) which gives a softer backdrop to his songs.

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Leopards - 1977 - Kansas City Slickers

Leopards - 1977 - Kansas City Slickers
(vinyl rip)

01 Road To Jamaica
02 Mind Of My Own
03 Dancing In The Snow
04 57 Chevy
05 Bugle Boy
06 I Wonder If I'll Ever See You Again
07 Recess
08 It Must Be Love
09 I'm On My Way
10 Raggedy Andy Raggedy Ann
11 Summer's Gone

"Kansas City Slickers" 1977 (Moon mlp-300)

The Leopards are to the "Village Green"-era Kinks what the Rutles are to the Beatles, except that they're pure tribute with no sense of mockery. This album is a blast for Kinks fans, but it's also very nice for fans of 60s pop, as there are great melodies and clever ideas sprinkled throughout. They also released a few excellent non-LP singles. They were around during the Kansas City power pop scene in the late 70s and one has to wonder if Michael Angelo was connected to them or any of the other bands in the area. Promo copies include a printed folder with press clippings. [AM]

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Monday, November 27, 2006

Duffy Power - Innovations

Description: Beautiful UK Original Recorded In Mono In 1965 And Released In 1970. A Great Session From This Lost Figure of The 60's.

Features John McLaughlin, Danny Thompson, Terry Cox, Jack Bruce And Others.

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track 04 - God bless the child

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Fit and Limo - 1995 - Feaher and Dust

Fit and Limo - 1995 - Feather and Dust
(catweezle vinyl 1995)

Tracklist :
01.Feather And Dust
02.Porridge
03.Daddy`s Stroboscope
04.Eyelet
05.I Know A Land
06.Rote Blumen
07.Dear Monster Tentacles
08.Ivan Pawle
09.Bed Peace Revisited
10.She Took A Long Cold Look (Wildwood Version)
11.She Took A Long Cold Look (΄95 Version)

Review :
“Spätestens seit Angel Gopher weiß ein jeder, dass Fit&Limo nicht der Name eines dieser albernen Wellness Center ist, sondern die bessere musikalische Hälfte des Shiny Gnomes Meisters Limo und seiner Frau Fit. Hier vertonen die beiden, gelegentlich zusammen mit Freunden an Schlagzeug und Sitar, ihre virtuellen Jam-Sessions mit englischen Acidfolkies der 70er und spielen sich und den Hörer dabei, wie etwa auf dem über 20minütigen Bed Peace Revisited, oft in eine wohlige transzendentale Trance. Bis auf ein Stück tauchte das Material dieser Platte zwar bereits auf der vor Jahren erschienenen Retrospective LP auf (die Songs entstanden zwischen ΄83 und΄89), da diese jedoch inzwischen nur noch selten auftaucht und die Songs hier zudem komplett neu (und oft sehr zum Vorteil) abgemischt wurden, sollte das niemanden stören. Zumal man diesmal auch ein hübsches Klappcover bekommt und auch eine Bonus-7΄΄ beiliegt, auf der zwei Versionen des Syd Barrett Stücks She Took A Long Cold Look zu hören sind (eine vom Beyond The Wildwood Tribut-Sampler, eine neu eingespielte und beide sehr gekonnt zu sitargetränkten, bzw. ungewohnt rockigen F&L Songs transformiert). Feather And Dust gewährt dem heutigen Hörer einen wissenden Blick auf die Evolution der beiden Nürnberger. Wie sie sich, zunächst der gewöhnlichen Rock-Elemente bedienend (Songs wie Daddy΄s Stroboscope klingen noch stark nach den guten frühen Shiny Gnomes Platten), stetig weiter in Richtung auf fernöstliche Klänge bewegten. Bongos ersetzen nach und nach das gewöhnliche Schlagzeug, Sitars und Bouzoukis kommen hinzu und die Stücke mutieren von leicht-psychedelischem Quasi-Pop zu einlullenden Orient-Jams (Eyelet), mit einer erschreckend selbstverständlichen Authentizität, die einen wie so oft bei Fit&Limo fragen lässt, weshalb man für die bescheidenen Ergüsse lächerlicher LSD-Ritter auf skrupellosen Sammlerlabels das doppelt und dreifache einer Platte wie dieser bezahlen soll, die zudem noch von einem rein musikalischen Standpunkt her wesentlich mehr zu bieten hat.“ (Hayfever)

The LP "Feather an Dust" is a bit more varied mix of early recordings (1983-1989), some of them (a 22 minute track) are more Shiny Gnomes style. "Feather and Dust" is one of my favorite songs of F&L. Gerald

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Alain Markusfeld - 1971 - Le Son Tombe Du Ciel

FRANCE 1971

French guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, very unique. His albums blend multi- layered acoustic guitars with fiery leads, piano, ethereal female voices, throbbing bass and percussion. His guitar style could be described as early Larry Coryell (acoustic) meets Randy California (electric) with a strong middle-eastern influence. Le Desert Noir is a heavier guitar album which features drums on almost every track, overall very hendrix influenced. With Platock, there is more maturity in his sound, combining delicate acoustic guitars and more piano to his trademark sound, with less reliance on drums. Contemporus attempts to continue in the same vein, but fails to reach the same energy level, except possibly on the sidelong "Contemporus" suite. Start with Platock, which most will agree is his best. First two releases are very rare.

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Various Artists - 1988 - Dimensions Of Sound

1 Miracle Workers - I Got A Right
2 Crimson Shadows - Nightmares
3 United States Of Existence - Baroque Hi Fi
4 Untold Fables - Watch Your Step Woman
5 Stomach Mouths - Almost There
6 Zebra Stripes - You Don't Love Me
7 Otherside - Haneker Row
8 Boys From Nowhere - I Don't Bother
9 Yellow Sunshine Explosion - It's Not My Fault
10 Thee Fourgiven - Love Is Fading
11 Blacklight Chameleons - Blacklight Chameleon Theme
12 The Brood - Give It To Me
13 Thanes Of Cawdor - I Am Alone
14 Not Quite - Tellin' Lies
15 Miracle Workers - Ain't No Use
16 Royal Nonesuch - You Need Love
17 Comedown - In Between Doom And Dope

''From the beautiful front cover (of Jon from the Royal Nonesuch) down, this one is a real treat,with plenty of rare tracks and great package. Definitely another one of the top garage compilations of the decade''

Timothy Gassen (writter of the Knights of Fuzz)

V.A._-_Dimensions_of_Sound.part1.rar
V.A._-_Dimensions_of_Sound.part2.rar

G.F. Fitz Gerald (UK) - 1971 - Mouseproof

G.F. Fitzgerald - Mouseproof (1971) UK

This album was recorded with help from Rod Herman (guitar), Alan Place (guitar), B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar), Rik Kenton (bass, later in Roxy Music), Ian Andrews (bass), Geoff Leigh (sax, he appears in avant-garde albums by Slap Happy, Henry Cow, Hatfield & The North, etc.), Tony Turnbull (drums).

Fitzgerald, G.F. [UK]
Mouseproof (70)

Influences of Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Bonzo Dog Band, Soft Machine, etc. In addition to Gerry Fitzgerald, album features Sam Gopal and Lemmy (of Hawkwind).
Many years ago, no doubt in the dead of night, some intrepid freak climbed fly-like up the walls of the defunct International Film Theatre in Westbourne Grove and pasted up a poster which read "Mouseproof Is Music".
Many times did I gaze fixidly from the top of a number 15 bus at the mysterious cat wearing shades, peering through the bars in the poster. And now the mystery is perceived; Mouseproof is an album by ace alchemist and cat-handler Gerry Fitzgerald, featuring some very notable little riffs by such famed performers as Lady June Campbell-Cramer on Etheopian Nose Harmonium and Cochise Brian Cole on Electric Hair slide and coal scuttle. Best track by far is one called "Factory Sample Not For Resale", obviously written to wobble the frontal lobes and tickle the medulla, it works too.
Overall effect of the album is like crashing a car into a ditch on acid and then finding that you're unhurt, except for a broken finger nail, and that needed cutting anyway.

The link
http://rapidshare.com/files/2356945/g.f.fitzgerald-mouseproof_uk_1971.rar

Enjoy

Merry Airbrakes - 1973 - Merry Airbrakes

Size: 66.8 MB Bit rate: 256mp3

Finally out on CD is this rare US album recorded in 1973 by a freaked out Vietnam veteran. Largely a concept album about that great US misadventure it's folky and "down-home" for playing whilst sitting around a fireside. Main man Bill Homans has a fine voice and also plays some mean slide guitar.
Actually the first post-Vietnam record (recorded 1973). With songs about the Vietnam's point of view. Wonder why this never made it onto a major label. Bill Homans great voice is getting you. He, his brother Peter plus 4 other musicians recorded this album for a private studio to get attention from a big label. Some songs sound like Cpt. Beefheart doing Vietnam songs, others are fragile and MOST beautiful. We love it forever."

Tracklist:
01. vigilante man
02. frog song
03. the bearded man
04. quang tri city
05. even those among us
06. draft board blues
07. three hearts
08. a happy song for hanoi
09. preacher song
10. tribute to frankie

Your download link

h**p://rapidshare.com/files/638702/1973_-_merry_airbrakes.rar

enjoy

Sunday, November 26, 2006

The Miners Of Muzu - 1989 - Make My Day

Miners Of Muzu - 1989 - Make My Day
MMLP016

1. 88 Doctors
2. Cycle Fellow Man
3. Coral
4. Deathcom
5. From S.F. To L.A.
6. Sandman
7. White Lightning
8. Rock 'n Roll Bishop
9. Suicidal Flowers
10. Born To Be . . . (Make My Day)


The Miners Of Muzu were a dutch Rock 'n Roll band active throughout the late 1980's and early 1990's. This is the LP version of their debut album, only ten tracks (+ two hidden tracks, on the end of each side), came out in 1989 on Germany's Music Maniac records. This is straight up Rock 'n Roll music with a solid beat.

Neutral Spirits - 1972 - Neutral Spirits

Neutral Spirits - 1972 - Neutral Spirits
(US psych)

In 1972, five young men ranging in ages between 14-17 traveled to Atlanta from very rural Tennessee to record a very outstanding Psychedelic album. Only 500 copies were ever pressed, and most of them were destroyed in a fire in 1975. Maximum use of the fuzz boxes on this one!!

01) Flying
02) Power City
03) Look What You Done To Me
04) Speak Freely
05) Scenic Void
06) Holding On
07) Can't Leave It This Way
08) I'm Calling Chicago

Lost in time garage band with a primitive sound and very basic songs; should appeal to fans of Cykle and New Dawn. Prominent use of fuzz bass gives an original edge, while the lead guitarist and drummer work frantically within their limited capabilities. Charming teen vocals and some atypical lyrics about Vietnam and dope legislation. Pretty cool, though mainly for fans of local early 70s amateur sounds. Very short playtime. According to the band, 350 copies were destroyed in a house fire in 1981. The Neutral Spirits also appear on a gospel LP recorded the same day in 1972 as the Regency album; "Gospel Songs Old & New" by Dot Henry (Jayla Records 1020). [PL - Acid archives]

Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing

Electronica/New Age

ISAO TOMITA - SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING - RECORDED 1973-1974

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“Pioneering Japanese composer and synthesizer expert Isao Tomita

bridged the gap between note-by-note classical/electronic LPs like

Switched-On Bach and the more futuristic,

user-friendly interfaces developed in the 1970s.

After creating one of the first personal recording studios

with an array of top synthesizer gear in the early '70s,

Tomita applied his visions for space-age synthesizer music

to his favourite modern composers - Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel

though his recordings steered a course far beyond the sterile academics

of various synthesists. Born in Tokyo in 1932,

Tomita grew up in China as well as Japan,

studying composition and music theory as well as art history at Keio University.

After graduation in 1955, Tomita began composing film,

television and theatre music.

He was awarded frequently during the 1950s and '60s,

and became perhaps the most well-known contemporary Japanese composer.”

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"Claude Debussy (France1862-1918) was among the most influential composers

of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

His mature compositions, distinctive and appealing,

combined modernism and sensuality so successfully

that their sheer beauty often obscures their technical innovation.

Debussy is considered the founder and leading exponent

of musical Impressionism (although he resisted the label),

and his adoption of non-traditional scales and tonal structures

were paradigmatic for many composers who followed."

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