28-01-07 - 04-02-07

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Laghonia

Laghonia - 1971 - Glue

Tracks :
01. Neighbor
02. The Sand Man
03. Billy Morsa
04. Trouble Child
05. My Love
06. And I Saw Her Walking
07. Glue
08. Bahia
09. Baby, Baby (bonus)
10. I Must Go (bonus)
11. Las Mil Millas Del Amor (bonus)
12. Sonrisa De Cristal (bonus)

Review

Line-up/Musicians :
- Saul Cornejo / guitar, vocals
- Manuel Cornejo / drums
- Eddy Zaraus / bass
- David Levane / guitar, vocals
- Carlos Salom / keyboards
- Alex Abad / percussion


Laghonia - 1971 - Εtcetera

Tracks :
01. Someday
02. Mary Ann
03. I'm a Nigger
04. Everybody on Monday
05. Lonely People
06. Speed Fever
07. Oh! Tell Me Julie
08. It's Marvelous Cornejo
09. World Full of Nuts (Bonus)
10. We All (Bonus)
11. No Solution (Bonus)
12. Bengal Tiger (Bonus)

Review

Line-up/Musicians
- Saúl Cornejo / guitar, piano, vocals, guitar (12 string acoustic)
- Davey Levene / guitar, vocals
- Ernesto Samamé / bass (electric)
- Carlos Salom/ organ (Hammond B2)
- Manuel Cornejo / drums
- Alex Abad / percussion
- Carlos Guerrero / vocals (background)

LAGHONIA biography (from Progarchives)

Discography:
Album 1.- Glue (1971) All material recorded since 1971
Album 2.- Etcetera (1971)
Album 3.- Unglue (2004)

V.A. - Only For Real Losers! (More,1999)

" 18 GLORIOUS WORLDWIDE 60'S GARAGE-BEAT LOSERS!"

Side 1

1 Los Yorks - Have Mercy (Peru)

2 The Brains - Graduale (Italy) *

3 The Needles - Where Can She Be (Finland)

4 Five Travellers - Midsummer Night (Czechoslovakia) *

5 Os Baobas - Bye Bye My Darling (Brazil)

6 The Streams - Share My Loneliness (Holland) *

7 The Avalons - That's All I Know (Sweden) *

8 Los Hitters - Delincuente (Mexico)

9 Guy Darrell - Evil Woman (U.K.)

Side 2

1 Motivation - Boy Meets Girl (Australia)

2 The Wizards - I Need Your Love (Norway) *

3 The Brazilian Bitles - Tema Baseado Na Coisa (Brazil) *

4 The Wild Ones - Aozora No Arukagiri (Japan)

5 Liverpool Five - Gotta Get A Move On (U.K.)

6 Tony Ronald & His Kroners - It Has Been Too Long (Holland) *

7 The Gentlemen - It Feels So Good (Switzerland)

8 Los Mustang - No Vendras (Spain) *

9 Shades Of Blue Inc. - I'm Gonna Lose You (Australia) *

* indicates that the track only appears on this compilation

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*Special thanx to my friend Aris

V.A. - Shakin' In Athens (Sound Stories,1997 CD)

"60's greek moody-garage bands"

1 The Knacks - Devil Doll
2 Zoo - Go
3 The Idols - Wanted By The Law
4 The Crowns - You're My Only Love
5 The Idols - He's The One
6 New Hopes - I Found A Love
7 The Bluebirds - Just Remember
8 The Vikings - I'm Trying
9 The Olympians - Hopeless Endless Way
10 Zoo - Six Miles From The Cage
11 The Juniors - Miss Blue Jeans
12 Phoenix - Senza amore
13 Uptight - I Love You
14 Nelli Manou - Crazy Girl
15 The Bluebirds - Sweet Polly
16 The Charms - It's My Life

http://rapidshare.com/files/14678988/va-Shakin_in_Athens_60s_greek_garage_bands.rar

Giant Sand - Valley Of Rain (1985)

Giant Sand, originally The Giant Sandworms, is an American rock band, based in Tuckson,Arizona(although Los Angeles, California was its home for many years). Overseen by singer-songwriter-guitarist-pianist Howe Gelb sideman). Guest artists -- though it is hard to tell at times where the band leaves off and the guests begin -- have included , its membership has shifted over the years -- at times with each album -- though for a long while the drum and bass duties were handled by John Convertino and Joey Burns, who went on to form Calexico. Other members have included keyboardist Chris Cacavas (of Green on Red), bassist Paula Jean Brown (a late-period Go-Go, and married to Gelb at the time) and drummer Tom Larkins (afterward a Jonathan RichmanVictoria Williams, Neko Case, Juliana Hatfield, PJ Harvey, Vic Chesnutt, Steve Wynn, Vicki Peterson, Rainer Ptacek, nearly all of Poi Dog Pondering and regular cameos from Gelb and Brown's daughter, Indiosa Patsy Jean.

http://rapidshare.com/files/14635100/Giant_Sand_-_Valley_of_rain.rar

Thee Headcoatees - 1991 - Girlsville

Thee Headcoatees - 1991 - Girlsville

1. Wild Man

2. When The Night Comes

3. Stolen Love

4. Round Every Corner

5. Run For Your Life

6. Give It To Me

7. Dirty Ole Man

8. Melvin

9. The First Plane Home

10. Meet Jacqueline

11. Boysville

12. Money

Thee Headcoatees was an all-female vocal group (originally called the Delmonas) which was associated with Billy Childish and the all-male group Thee Headcoats.
The line-up was Holly Golightly, Kyra LaRubia and Ludella Black. Bongo Debbie often performed songs with the band when they played live (she left in 1999).

Vinyl albums

Girlsville (1991)

Have Love Will Travel (1992)

Ballad Of An Insolent Pup (1994)

Bozstik Haze (1997)

Punk Girls (1997)

Taylor Meets Thee Headcoatees (1998)

Here Comes Cessation (1999)

The Sisters Of Suave (1999)

The distaff garage band Thee Headcoatees was one of the innumerable projects spawned by the one-man cottage industry Billy Childish as a vehicle for his inexhaustible catalog of songs. Originally dubbed the Delmonas, the girl group was created as a sister band for Childish's band the Milkshakes, serving similar duty as a counterpoint to his subsequent project Thee Headcoats. 1991's Girlsville was the first Thee Headcoatees LP, followed a year later by Have Love Will Travel. In 1994, they issued the first of two joint concert releases with Thee Headcoats, Wild Billy Childish and His Famous Headcoats Live! At the Wild Western Room London, Featuring Thee Headcoatees!; the second set, The Sound of the Baskervilles, appeared in 1995. In 1997, Thee Headcoatees issued the LPs Punk Girls and Bozstik Haze.

Rotary Connection - 1971 - Hey Love

Some of the trippiest soul music ever recorded -- an amazing collection of work by the legendary Rotary Connection -- early home to vocalist Minnie Riperton and arranger Charles Stepney!

Some of the most godlike soul music to be recorded on this planet, and one of the best-ever album by this amazing Chicago collective that included the late Minnie Riperton, and who were arranged and produced by the great Charles Stepney! album feature swirling complex arrangements, filled with strange time changes, chord passages, and nice jazzy bits. Inside it all, the group's cool male/female vocal sound rings out -- with Minnie singing on some cuts along, and in duet on others. Includes the band's classic "I Am The Blackgold Of The Sun"


The Band
Minnie Riperton, soprano (voice)
Kitty Haywood, soprano & alto (voice)
Shirley Wahls, contralto (voice)
Dave Scott, tenor (voice)
Charles Stepney, piano, harpsichord, organ, electric piano
Sydney Simms, bass
Donny Simmons, drums
Phil Upchurch, Pat Ferreri, guitar
Master Henry Gibson, congas
Produced by Charles Stepney

Tracks
A1 If I Sing My Song (2:53)
A2 The Sea & She (3:30)
A3 I Am The Blackgold Of The Sun (5:20)
A4 Hanging 'Round The Bee Tree (3:32)
A5 Hey, Love (4:00)

B1 Love Has Fallen On Me (4:10)
B2 Song For Everyman (5:32)
B3 Love Is (4:42)
B4 Vine Of Happiness (4:36)

The Reviews
A massively beautiful piece of work by "the new Rotary Connection" -- a version of this groundbreaking Chicago soul ensemble which featured Phil Upchurch, Henry Gibson, and Charles Stepney -- the cream of the Chicago production scene! Minnie Riperton's still in the band on vocals, and her work on the LP is similar to that on the legendary Come To My Garden LP. The album features the incredible track "I Am the Blackgold of the Sun" -- a haunting soul anthem that has been a favorite of groovers for years, and which was later made into a house track by NuYorican Soul. A great album all the way through, and filled with loads of excellent cuts! Other tracks include "If I Sing My Song", "Hey, Love", "Love Has Fallen On Me", and a cover of Terry Callier's "Song For Everyman

The Rotary Connection's final album, "Hey, Love" is, in my opinion, their very best. The light Brazilian "If I Sing My Song" will put a smile on the face of the most critical listener. Our heart strings are gently pulled by "The Sea & She" and we remember sweetly. The jazzy-funky "I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun" takes us back to a time of self realization and acknowledgment of human spirit. We are then intellectually reminded of the paradox and complexity of "Hangin Round The Bee Tree". The title track, "Hey, Love" is a bountiful and jazzy tune that is enjoyed just as much in 1999 as in 1971. "Love Has Fallen On Me" (covered by Chaka Khan in 1978) is an upbeat blues/gospel tune. And if all of this brilliance wasn't enough, Rotary Connection sweetly and lovingly covers the Dell's classic "Love Is". "Vine of Happiness" is the perfect final track as is "Hey Love" the perfect final group effort.

The Charles Stepney headed psychedelic soul band that introduced the world to the voice of Minnie Riperton.The Rotary Connection were Chess/Cadet records answer to the late sixties and early seventies flower power movement.Now this could well have been a total disaster as the label went looking to cash in on the hippy market.Well with Stepney at the helm writing,producing and arranging as well as playing keys we get a soul gem on an orchestral scale that has four singers,some incredible Stepney production and one of the greatest songs ever written namely I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun. Just wonderful music that lifts the spirit.

Download Link:
rotary_connection_-_1971_-_hey_love.rar

Friday, February 02, 2007

Brainbombs - 1996 - Obey

Brainbombs - 1996 - Obey

Kill Them All
Die You Fuck
Anal Desire
Lipstick On My Dick

Drive Around
To Hurt
Obey

Fuckmeat

Don't let the jaunty little Lawrence Welk ditty that opens Obey lull you into any sort of peaceful state, you'd best be prepared for the hateful murderous mayhem that Obey has in store for you. Then again, that's probably precisely what the Brainbombs had in mind. A gentle voice luring you into a dark alley, a shiny trinket distracting you while the burlap sack goes over your head and you're dragged kicking and screaming into the woods, a sweet piece of candy draws you just close enough so you can be knocked unconscious, tied up, and stuffed in the trunk. Those of you familiar with the brutal musical world of Brainbombs will know exactly what we're going on about. The rest of you, be very very careful. They traffic in a sludgey, jazzy garage rock scuzz stomp, repeated riffs, simple pounding drums, a lurching leering fuzzed out psychedelic dirge underpinning tales of murder and mayhem, murder and rape, death and dismemberment. This is probably their most overtly harsh record. Mostly because unlike the rest of their releases you can actually hear what these Swedes are singing about. All delivered in a sort of fey, heavily accented English. As if the song titles weren't enough,"Kill Them All", "Die You Fuck", "Anal Desire", "Lipstick On My Dick", "Fuckmeat", the lyrics are misogynistic, misanthropic and just plain messed up. The sound is like Melvins meets Whitehouse filtered through the fuzzy garage stomp of the Stooges but with a maniacally repetitive looped quality, that cranks up the tension, while the vocalist slowly unravels and gets meaner and meaner, more and more insane. And let's not forget the occasional warbly warped trumpet (!). What can we say? We love Brainbombs.

[info: aquariusrecords.org]

Thank Rob Vomit for this...

V.A. - Class Of '66 ! (Wanted,1995)

Side 1

1 The Tyrannies - She's A Queen
2 The Saints - Girl Forgive Me
3 Psychedelic Sound - Sorry Baby - Goodbye
4 Yesterday's Obsession - Complicated Mind
5 The Kids - Lovin' Everyday
6 The Young Tyrants - She Don't Got The Right
7 The Barons - I'll Never Be Happy
8 Tomorrow's Headlines - Walking In The Rain
9 The Berries - What In The World

Side 2
1 George Washington & The Cherry Stompers - The Back Shelf Of Your Mind
2 Facts Of Life - All In Good Time
3 Tony Sales & The Tigers - When The Party's Over
4 The Lost Chords - I Want To Be Her Man
5 The Impacts - Don't You Dare
6 The Wizards - I'm Blind
7 The Chancellors - Don't Tell Me
8 The Pastels - Where Is The Answer
9 The Ethics - Can't You See

"REAL TEEN INNOCENCE AT ITS FINEST!!CRUDE SOUND OF 18 MID-60'S BANDS"

NO FUZZ!

*Special thanx to my friend Aris

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V.A. - Killer Cuts (Guerssen,1998)

"14 mid 60's garage-folk punkers"

Side 1
1 The Finestuff - Big Brother
2 Denis & The Times - Just If She's There
3 The Bells Of Rhymny - She'll Be Back
4 The Wild Things - I'll Taste Your Lips
5 Hoi Polloi - Better Things
6 The Chancellors - 5 Minus 3
7 Jimmy C. & The Chelsea Five - Play With Fire

Side 2
1 Barry Ebling & The Invaders - Sunny Day Rain
2 The Escapades - I Try So Hard
3 The Missing Lynx - Hang Around
4 The Weads - Today
5 The Uncalled For - Get Out Of The Way
6 The Regents - Words
7 The Affection Collection - Time Rests Heavy On My Hands

http://rapidshare.com/files/14528023/va_-_killer_cuts_.rar

V.A. - The Return Of The Young Pennsylvanians (Bona Fide,1983)

Side 1
1 The Shaynes - You Tell Me Girl
2 The Loose Enz - Mister You're A Better Man Than I
3 The Down Children - I Can Tell
4 The Centurys - Hard Times
5 The Centurys - And I Cried
6 The Dogs - Don't Try To Help Me
7 The Flowerz - Flyte

Side 2
1 The Flowerz - Talkin' About Love
2 The Shaynes - From My Window
3 The Bounty Hunters - The Sun Went Away
4 The Bounty Hunters - Somewhere
5 The Bucaneers - I'm A Fool
6 Bright Image - People In The Town
7 Kindred Spirit - Blue Avenue

Simply beautifull sound! enjoy:)

http://rapidshare.com/files/14522662/Return_Of_The_Young_Pennsylvanians.rar

V.A. - When The Time Run Out (Reverendo Moon,1995)

Side 1

1 The Mystifying Monarchs - I'm In Misery (Fargo, ND, U.S.A.)
2 The Mystifying Monarchs - Soldier Of Fortune (Fargo, ND, U.S.A.)
3 The Shags - Louie Louie (New Ulm, MN, U.S.A.)
4 Defiants - Maggie's Farm (MN, U.S.A.) *
5 Psychotics - (I'm) Determined (Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.)
6 The Ferraris - I'm Not Talkin' (Winona, MN, U.S.A.)
7 Kinetics - I'm Blue (Houghton, MI, U.S.A.)
8 Kinetics - Feeling From My Heart (Houghton, MI, U.S.A.)
9 Bad Omens - Chimes Of Freedom (MN, U.S.A.) *

Side 2

1 The Poor Boys Pride - I'm Here (Muskegon, MI, U.S.A.) *
2 Toronados - She's Gone (MI, U.S.A.) *
3 Minutemen - Another Day With Me (Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.)
4 The Pastels - 'Cause I Love You (MI, U.S.A.)
5 The Penetrators - What Went Wrong (MI, U.S.A.)
6 Headlyters - Girl Down The Street (MI, U.S.A.)
7 The Chancellors - Dear John (Lansing, MI, U.S.A.)
8 The Satisfactions - Only Once (MI, U.S.A.) *
9 The Satisfactions - Never Be Happy (MI, U.S.A.)

* indicates that the track only appears on this compilation

Minnesota vs. Michigan obscure garage bands, very teens and raw cuts from 1965-67 .

Enjoy Cavemans!

http://rapidshare.com/files/14519065/va_-_when_the_time_run_out.rar

Nirvana (UK)

Nirvana (UK) - 1969 - Dedicated To Markos III

(a.k.a. Black Flower)

01 The World Is Cold Without You
02 Excerpt from "The Blind & The Beautiful"
03 I Talk to My Room
04 Christopher Lucifer
05 Aline Cherie
06 Tres, Tres Bien
07 It Happened Two Sundays Ago
08 Black Flower
09 Love Suite
10 Illinois

Review :
Nirvana's third and final album for Island (sometimes titled Dedicated to Markos III in discographies) was extremely rare in its first 1969 LP issue, the U.K. release limited to a few hundred promo copies. The group's cutesiness was toned down considerably for this LP, though they were still offering the kind of light orchestrated pop-rock that they had on their previous Island records, with some jazz and classical influences. It's a more mature product than their first two albums, but a little tired-sounding, and lacking in the more psychedelic ambition that produced some of their best songs, like "Rainbow Chaser" and "I Believe in Magic." In fact they sometimes sound rather like film composers or pop-jazz-vocals singer/songwriters caught in a different era, what with the rather grandiose (and certainly grandiosely arranged) Euro-romantic sweep of most of their songs. Although the orchestration, often combining strings with harpsichord, is often sumptuous (if just short of cloying) and the melodies pleasant, not much of this sticks to the bones. The somewhat more soulful, straightforward rock of "Christopher Lucifer" and "It Happened Two Sundays Ago" provides some nice relief, if only because it's different from the wistful fantasy aura that predominated in Nirvana's world. This rarity gained easy availability with its 2003 CD release on Universal/Island, which despite remastering still has some noises that sound suspiciously like tiny vinyl bumps at the beginning of "Black Flower," one of the more dramatic and better numbers. Also in the package are extensive liner notes, though these (like those on all the 2003 Universal/Island reissues of Nirvana's first three LPs) contain annoying undue repetition of the text that appears on the liners to the other Universal/Island Nirvana re-releases.
~Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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Nirvana (UK) - 1971 - Local Anaesthetic

Tracklist :
01. Modus Operandi (16:15)
02. Home (19:12)

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Biography:
Nirvana appeared in 1967, starting as a six-piece led by Patrick Campbell-Lyons from Ireland, and Alex Spyropoulos from Greece. They were quickly signed to the fledgling Island label, which had formed out of Chris Blackwell's street-level R&B and rocksteady label operations, when Blackwell recognized a need to hook into the exploding psychedelic genre of the time. The first LP to emerge was the science-fiction concept album, The Story of Simon Simopath, which yielded their second single, "Pentecost Hotel" (their first and third singles appeared on the follow-up, All of Us.)

The band's early performances yielded something of an audience, but this did not translate into explosive sales in England or America, though the band achieved some success in Europe. Winnowing down to the core duo of Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos, Nirvana continued to release singles from All of Us, with the title track going on to be selected as the theme song for The Touchables, while "Rainbow Chaser," an almost-hit, came to be considered a classic psychedelic outing.

Life at Island Records did not go so well, unfortunately, with Chris Blackwell refusing to release their third album, Black Flower, so the duo picked up and moved on to Pye Records, home of the Kinks. Black Flower was bought back from Island and worked over, finally being released as Dedicated to Markos III. The result was disastrous. The constantly beleaguered Pye (which would eventually founder) managed to shift only a few hundred units, while the U.S. label to which the album was licensed promptly went under with no more than a few promotional copies having been sent out. Dedicated to Markos III eventually received another release in 1987, restored to the original title of Black Flower, with the 1993 Edsel CD release including a re-recorded version of "Pentecost Hotel" and a newly recorded track titled "Shine."

With the release of Dedicated to Markos III, Spyropoulos quit to pursue other musical work. Nirvana had become very much Campbell-Lyons' venue by this point, and Spyropoulos had had enough of feeling constrained. Campbell-Lyons then signed to Philips' new progressive label, Vertigo, recording and releasing Local Anaesthetic, a heavily jazz-influenced album featuring only two cuts: "Modus Operandi," and the somewhat less epic "Home." The album was quick to disappear from view, as was Songs of Love and Praise, which featured several re-recorded cuts, including both "Rainbow Chaser" and "Pentecost Hotel."

Campbell-Lyons came out from behind the Nirvana name for an attempt at a solo album, Me & My Friend, which came and went swiftly in 1973. In 1980, he reunited with Spyropoulos to write a musical, Blood, which has yet to surface. The duo have sporadically performed and recorded as Nirvana, which led to Bam Caruso's 1987 reissue of Black Flower, as well as renewed interest in the group. Most of the original albums have been reissued by either Edsel or Repertoire (Songs of Love and Praise is the sole exception), a collection of demos and outtakes, entitled Secret Theatre, has been released, and a new album, Orange and Blue, featuring material previously unrecorded by the band, was issued in 1996.
~ Steven McDonald, All Music Guide

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Listening - 1968

Listening

Personnel:
ERNIE KAMANIS drms, vcls A
PETER MALICK gtr A
WALTER POWERS bs A
MICHAEL TSCHUDIN organ, keyb'ds, vcls A

ALBUM:
1(A) LISTENING (Vanguard 6504) 1968
NB: (1) reissued on CD and LP (Akarma AK 050).

45s:
1 I Can Teach You/Cuando (Vanguard 35077) 1968
2 Life Stories/Hello You (Vanguard 35094) 1968
NB: (2) both sides non-LP.

From Boston and rated highly by some, this album includes some fine guitar and organ work on cuts like Baby: Where Are You?. Still an undiscovered gem this is worth searching out. Most of the vocals were performed by drummer Ernie Kamanis, and Peter Malick who was 16 at the time the album was recorded. Walter Powers had previously been in the famed punk band The Lost. A reworked version of the album's opener, Michael Tschudin's You're Not There, appears on the highly-touted album ...Setting Forth... Improvising Against The Future by Odyssey. Michael Tschudin later played with Cynara and produced the Fort Mudge Memorial Dump album. He became a session man and producer during the seventies, notably working with Tim Curry. Peter Malick played with the James Montgomery Band and is is still active, fronting his own Peter Malick Band playing blues / R&B influenced music in/around Boston. Walter Powers teamed up with his old Lost companion Willie "Loco" Alexander in the final incarnation of The Velvet Underground. The uplifting baroque-pop of Hello You can be found on Bring Flowers To U.S. (LP), whilst one track from the album, Stoned Is has also resurfaced on Marijuana Unknowns (LP & CD). (Vernon Joynson/Max Waller/Stephane Rebeschini w/thanks to Peter Malick)

ENJOY

The Action - 1967 - Rolled Gold

1. Come Around
2. Something To Say
3. Love Is All
4. Icarus
5. Strange Roads
6. Things You Cannot See
7. Brain
8. Look At The View
9. Climbing Up The Wall
10. Really Doesn't Matter
11. I'm A Stranger
12. Little Boy
13. Follow Me
14. In My Dream
15. Bonus Track 1

http://rapidshare.com/files/14329166/The_Action-_Rolled_Gold.rar

The term "lost classic" is applied liberally and often erroneously to unreleased recordings that resurface years later in a maelstrom of hype. However, for the forgotten mod rock also-rans the Action, the term is not only justified, it is painfully bittersweet. On par with such classics of the era as The Who Sell Out or Ogden's Nut Gone Flake but more focused than either, the Action's Rolled Gold goes beyond "lost classic" — it is the influential masterpiece no one was ever allowed to hear. Despite being signed to Beatles producer George Martin's AIR label and benefiting from a strong club following, the Action never scored a chart hit. By the time they recorded these demo tracks in 1967, the band had grown weary of the musically limited mod scene, which was on its last legs. Guitarist Pete Watson had been replaced by Martin Stone, and the band had developed a more mature sound, one only hinted at on such previous cuts as "Twenty-Fourth Hour." Prefiguring the coming psychedelic movement, the songs were epic, heartfelt, melodic socks to the gut that hinged on vocalist Reggie King's sanguine blue-eyed soul voice and Alan King's slabs of guitar harmony — think The Who's Tommy meets The Byrds' Fifth Dimension. Unbelievably, EMI — AIR's distributor — was not interested, and the tracks were shelved. Subsequently, Reggie left the band to work on a solo album, and the rest of the group struggled on, eventually morphing into the short-lived hippie band Mighty Baby. Rather than bemoan what could have been though, you are left with what is. Playing like the brilliant missing link between mod and psychedelic rock, Rolled Gold is experimental without being silly or twee and emotionally mature without being pompous and boring. It is the type of album that reveals its brilliance within seconds of hearing the first track and builds momentum from there. Tracks such as "Something to Say" and especially "Brain" with Reggie pleading for immortality over a hugely anthemic chord progression are as good, if not better, than anything that charted during the late '60s and sound less dated than many of the Action's contemporaries' efforts. It's as if Paul Weller time-traveled back to 1967 and wrote the best songs of his career. Every track is a fully realized melodic and lyrical statement. While there is a roughness to the demo-quality recording, it only magnifies the raw emotions the Action were able to translate into timeless music — music that deserved much better than it got.

Mourning Reign - s/t

Mourning Reign - s/t

Evil-Hearted

YouGet Out Of My Life Woman

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Our Fate

Light Switch

Run Run Run

Tales Of Brave Ullysses

Signed D.C.

Cut Back

Light Switch (stereo version)

This San Jose band from the mid-1960s has had a cult following for quite some time based on a tiny handful of local sides that passed from one collector to another, enhancing their rep by word of mouth. This ten-song issue on Sundazed's vinyl only subsidiary label captures them raw 'n' nasty, blasting through some studio covers of Who, Cream and Yardbirds tunes and a brace of their own stuff. Lead singer Beau Maggi was one of the best garage-band Jagger soundalikes, and the band had that nether ground between British fuzztone band and coming psychedelia down pretty darn well; it's all here to enjoy.
[info: allmusic.com]

Bunalim (1970-1972) @320

First-ever CD reissue of some of the most amazing Turkish music ever recorded: wild, raw and with fuzz guitar all over. Bunalim (which means "depression" or "frustration" in Turkish), founded in 1969, was one of the most well-known underground groups on the Turkish music scene of the early '70s. Although their discography is limited to only a few singles, Bunalim is regarded as a seminal band in Turkish music history, who paved the way for its members to find fame later on in their careers (playing with Erkin Koray, Mogollar, Ter, Edip Akbayram). Bunalim released 6 singles which are incredibly rare, and never completed a whole album. They were produced and managed by legendary Turkish rock musician and instigator of the Anatolian rock movement Cem Karaca, one of the most important rock singers in Turkey during the 1970s. This release is a blend of their work from 1970-1972, and features everything from American-influenced garage to early punk experiments to fuzzed-out psychedelic heavy Eastern drone, including a cover of Iron Butterfly's "Get Out Of My Life, Woman" ("Yeter Artik Kadin") sung in Turkish. They say about the band: "God, they were crazy! Running all nude down the Istiklal Street, psychedelic light shows, crazy paintings all over the stage wall and screaming of LSD! LSD! in their live shows." As good as the best recordings from Erkin Koray, Bunalim are, even for most Turkish collectors, a well-kept secret. The LP version reissued by Shadoks sold out within a blink of the eye.

Dig those Turkish longhairs!

The Chambers Brothers - 1967 - The Time Has Come

An amazing blend of soul, Psychedelia and rock, this is an album with great power

"Time has come today" is an all time classic anthem.

Tracks :

1 All Strung Out over You (2:30)
2 People Get Ready (3:52)
3 I Can't Stand It (2:42)
4 Romeo and Juliet (4:32)
5 In the Midnight Hour (5:32)
6 So Tired (4:05)
7 Uptown (2:56)
8 Please Don't Leave Me (3:00)
9 What the World Needs Now Is Love (3:20)
10 Time Has Come Today (11:06)

The Chambers Brothers: Lester Chambers, Willie Chambers, Joe Chambers, George Chambers, Brian Keeney. Producer: David Rubinson. Recorded between 1966 and 1967. A black four-piece vocal group with a white drummer in the '60s may not have been unique, but it was still something of a revolutionary act, and this, coupled with their smash hit "Time Has Come Today," ensures the Chambers Brothers their place in rock history. The group started out as the house band at the hip Electric Circus club in New York's East Village. Besides their hit, THE TIME HAS COME revolves around the band's gospel roots, which are effectively used to sweeten and develop a variety of R&B and pop material such as Bacharach and David's "What the World Needs Now Is Love," and the gently swinging "Romeo and Juliet." Their version of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready" is perhaps the most obviously gospel-based cut here, and with hindsight it's apparent that, rather being a new direction, the band's trippy excursion was something of a detour. But the cowbell and guitar intro to "Time" still thrills today check out the sly "Little Drummer Boy" quote on the extended guitar solo, too. And in the light of later developments such as Parliament/Funkadelic, the rest of the track sounds like a prophecy.


This, the Chambers Brothers' coming-of-age record, was a well-timed and even better executed exercise in modern record-making. The brothers had recorded several excellent gospel-folk sides on a few labels (including CBS) in the mid-'60s. They were darlings of the folk set, and even sang backup on a few unreleased Bob Dylan sessions in 1965. By 1967, they were at loose ends. Having demoed a slightly demented song called "Time Has Come Today" that year, the group entered the studio with producer David Rubinson, who was fresh from some critical acclaim after recording Moby Grape. The resulting album and subsequent title-track hit were huge successes, especially on FM radio. The rest of the album shows the brothers not just embracing the psychedelic trends, but also redefining their RB leanings. Fabulous. - Matthew Greenwald, All Music Guide

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Brainbombs - 2000 - Singles Compilation [Sweden]

Brainbombs - 2000 - Singles Compilation [Sweden]

01 - Jack the Ripper Lover

02 - No End

03 - Anne Frank

04 - No Guilt

05 - No Place

06 - No Guilt

07 - Wishing a Slow Death

08 - Stacy

09 - It's a Burning Hell

10 - Second Coming

11 - Psychout Crash Kid

12 - I Detta Satans Rum

The Brainbombs are Swedish, but anyone expecting cute, natty garage rockers like the Hives or psychedelic vikings like the Soundtrack of Our Lives should immediately recalibrate their heads. Imagine early Throbbing Gristle's sociopathic obsessions with rape and murder (minus the performance-art pretensions) mixed with the willful amateurism of Half Japanese, and that's still only the half of it. The creepy thing about the Brainbombs is that unlike, say, G.G. Allin, who was clearly simply unhinged, this lot explores its seedy obsessions with a detached, almost offhand quality that makes the snuff-film fantasies of songs like "No End" that much ickier. Musically, these 12 songs are an intriguing blend of proto-punk stomp and arty explorations (think of pre-Pere Ubu art-punk weirdos like the Electric Eels), but the lyrics will be a dealbreaker for many.

[info: allmusic.com]

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

V.A. - Open Lid - EP (LSD,1991)

V.A. - Open Lid - EP
(LSD,1991)

Side 1

1 Riders Of The Mark - The Electronic Insides And Metal...

2 The Models - Bend Me, Shape Me

Side 2

1 Nobody's Children - Colours And Shapes

2 The Third Stone - True Justice

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V.A. - Tymes Gone By (Action Records,1998)

The finest selection of 14 rare US mid-60s moody diamonds! A compilation of 14 dreamy masterpieces written by teen heart-broken souls for sensitive and delicate moods
Side 1
1 The Weads - Don't Call My Name
2 The Rumbles - Fourteen Years
3 The Cobras - Goodbye
4 The Soothsayers - Please Don't Be Mad
5 Little John & The Monks - Black Winds
6 The Front Page News - You Better Behave
7 The Todds - Things I Will Change
Side 2
1 Blue Boys - Why Did You Go
2 Richie's Renegades - Don't Cry
3 Jerry Waugh & The Skeptics - I Told Her Goodbye
4 The Specktrum - I Was A Fool
5 The Maltees Four - All Of The Time
6 Brym-Stonz LTD. - Times Gone By
7 The Impacts - Don't You Dare

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V.A. - World For Us - 18 Euro-Beat Swingers 1965-1967 (Spectra Sound,1997)

Side 1

1 The Sad Sack Set - The World For Us (germany)
2 Roosters - Waiting For You Baby (sweden)
3 The Mascots - I Want To Live (sweden)
4 Group $oall - By My Side (holland)
5 The Rolling Beats - Sweeter Than You (holland)
6 Les Sauterelles - Forget It All (switzerland)
7 Les 5 Gentlemen - Si Tu Reviens Chez Moi (france)
8 Goblins - We Like The Rain (holland)
9 Het - Allen Op Het Kerkhof (holland)

Side 2

1 The Moonjacks - Come On (sweden)

2 The Moonjacks - I Remember Her Smile (sweden)

3 The Bintangs - Groovin' (holland)

4 Ragges - Make Me Love (sweden)

5 Les Problemes - Je Ne Vois Rien (france)

6 The Hound Dogs - Clarabella (germany)

7 The Matadors - Sing A Song Of Six Pence (czec)

8 The Sheiks - Running For You (holland)

9 The Humbugs - A Little Bit Time (holland)

http://rapidshare.com/files/14260261/va_-_the_world_for_us.rar

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

The Beatles - 1969 - The Complete Rooftop Concert

Previously Unreleased Soundtrack To All 16mm Film Reels Recorded On
January 30 1969
For The Beatles Rooftop Concert.
Includes Excerpts, Warmups And Alternate Song Segments
That Have Not Been Released On Any Other Bootleg CD

The Beatles - 1969 - The Complete Rooftop Concert

Disc 1
01 Get Back #1 warm-up Camera A
02 Get Back #2 Camera A
03 Get Back #3 Camera A
04 Don't Let Me Down #1 Camera A
05 I've Got A Feeling #1 Camera A
06 One After 909 Camera A
07 Dig A Pony Camera A
08 I've Got A Feeling #2 Camera A
09 Don't Let Me Down #2 Camera A
10 Get Back #4 Camera A
11 Get Back #2 Camera D
12 Get Back #3 Camera D
13 Don't Let Me Down #1 Camera D
14 I've Got A Feeling #1 Camera D
15 One After 909 Camera D
16 Dig A Pony Camera D
17 I've Got A Feeling #2 Camera D
18 Get Back #4 Camera D
19 I've Got A Feeling #2 Camera C
20 Don't Let Me Down #2 Camera C
21 Get Back #4 Camera C

Disc 2
01 Get Back #1 warm-up jam - Camera B - street
02 Get Back #2 - Camera B - street
03 I Want You - Camera B - street
04 Don't Let Me Down - Camera B - street
05 Get Back #3 - Camera B - street
06 Don't Let Me Down #1 - Camera B - street
07 I've Got A Feeing #1 - Camera B - street
08 One AFter 909 - Camera B - street
09 Dig A Pony - Camera B - street
10 God Save The Queen - Camera B - street
11 I've Got A Feeling #2 - Camera B - street
12 Don't Let Me Down #2 - Camera B - street
13 Get Back #4 - Camera B - street
14 Announcement only - Camera B - street
15 God Save The Queen - Camera B - control room
16 I've Got A Feeling #2 - Camera B - control room
17 Don't Let Me Down #2 - Camera B - control room
18 Get Back #4 - Camera B - control room
19 I've Got A Feeling - Camera B - Apple reception
20 One After 909 - Camera B - Apple reception
21 Dig A Pony - Camera B - Apple reception

Beatles-1969-Complete_Rooftop_Concert1.rar
Beatles-1969-Complete_Rooftop_Concert2.rar

The Rooftop Sessions
The Beatles were going to make a documentary film of themselves producing a TV show and writing a bunch of new songs for their next album, which was to be a return to their roots of the rocking days. This was probably inspired by the emergence of The Band, straightforward, downhome and everyone's favourite name to drop at the time.
With a working title of "Get Back" rehearsals began at Twickenham studios on January the 2nd, 1969. The project quickly ran into trouble, George Harrison walked out after eight days complaining of continual criticism from Paul McCartney. However, he returned a week later. The TV show idea had to be dumped because they couldn't find a suitable location. They thought about hiring an ocean liner, but somewhere along the line that idea was also shelved, along with a number of other exotic suggestions. But it was John Lennon's suggestion to record a selection of songs in the controlled atmosphere of a studio.
At this time, plans were made to turn the roof at No 3 Saville Row, the Apple Corps HQ, into a tranquil roof garden, and so Ringo Starr and Michael Lindsay-Hogg decided to take a look. It seemed ideal for what they had in mind.

The Beatles last ever public concert took place around mid-day
on Thursday January the 30th
and lasted a full 42 minutes, and may well have gone on longer had it not been for the complaints of the neighbour, Stanley Davis. The wool merchant next door was not a Beatles fan so it seemed. He was quoted as saying "I want this bloody noise stopped. It's an absolute disgrace". But the banker, Alan Pulverness, at the end of the street was kinder, he said "Some people just can't appreciate good music".
The film won an Oscar for best musical score and it was presented to Paul McCartney by non-other than John Wayne, Big Leggy.

But by the time it was premiered on May the 13th, 1970,
The Beatles had split. The dream was over...

V.A. - Eat My Angeldust ! Biker Soundtrack Essentials 1966-1971

Download: VA - Angeldust - Music For Movie Bikers

FUZZ!!!! This is a great comp for all the biker b-movie fanatics. This bootleg has been floating around for a while on file sharing programs, with a different and slightly more extended track listing than what can be found documented online.. But still good fun and now available to download!

Great tracks such as the timeless classic written and composed by Harley Hatcher, called Satan, off of Al Adamson's film Satan's Sadists ("I was boooorn... Meaaaaan.. By the time I was twelve, I was killing for Sataaaan!"). And the incredible psych-surf instrumental by Davie Allan & The Arrows called The Stompers & The Souls! Bust out your copy of Wild Angels and enjoy!

Edwin Starr - 1970 - War & Peace

A Classic Motown Psychedelic soul album with one of the best singles ever "War"

In 1970, Motown producer Norman Whitfield was producing The Temptations' LP " Psychedelic Shack". When the LP was released, it contained the song " War". College students all over the country began to write to Motown about releasing the song as a single. This is during the time when young college students began to protest about the war in Vietnam. Motown decided not release the song on the Temps because of other plans they had for the group at that time.
So Norman Whitfield asked Edwin Starr would he like to record the song. Edwin agreed because he hadn't recorded anything in over six months and was ready to get back into the studio. The song was released in the summer of 1970 and became an instant million seller. Edwin would go on to win a Grammy in 1971 for " War" for best R&B Male Vocal Performance.

War & Peace' is by no means a psychedelic soul album but a mixture of classic Motown uptempo songs in the same vein as his two sixties classic albums 'Soul Master' and '25 Miles'.
The music itself speaks volumes and 'War & Peace' whilst featuring the 'new' sound of Motown at the end of the sixties still managers to capture the excitement of his output during the sixties. 'War' became an anthem in 1970 and whilst many believe the song was an anti Vietnam song, Edwin is on record as saying that the song was about the war in the university campus within the USA at the time, yet that said, the follow up to that ferocious call and reply plea 'Stop The War' DID have all the ingredients of an anti Vietnam plea, yet who could argue wit the man himself.
Uptempo goodies are a plenty as he takes on the Johnny Bristol song 'I Can't Escape Your Memory' which he talks about on the aforementioned audio interview, but for many it will be his classic northern soul outing 'Time/Running Back and Forth' that many will rate as his best ever recordings and both are featured here. Cover versions of other Motown classics are included especially 'California Soul' and 'At (Last) I Found A Love' (also covered by Marvin Gaye) and his rendition of the BJ Thomas hit 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' is actually soulful and a pleasure to listen too.




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Tony Scott - 1968 - Music For Yoga Meditation And Other Joys

Tony Scott - 1968 - Music For Yoga Meditation
(And Other Joys)

01.Prahna-Life Force
02.Shiva-The Third Eye
03.Samadhi-Ultimate Bliss
04.Hare Krishna-Hail Krishna
05.Hatha-Sun And Moon
06.Kundalina-Serpent Power
07.Sahasrara-Highest Chakra
08.Triveni-Sacred Not
09.Shanti-Peace

Personnel:
Tony Scott (vocals, clarinet)
Collin Walcott (sitar)

Recorded in February 1968. Originally released on Verve (8742). This is part of Verve's By Request series. Tony Scott introduced Western audiences to the minimalist pleasure of shakuhachi flute and Japanese kora on his 1964 album MUSIC FOR ZEN MEDITATION. Four years later, the jazz clarinetist came out with this deeply meditative duet with sitarist Collin Walcott. Each track explores a different theme of yogic philosophy. The playful "Hatha/Sun and Moon" pits the clarinet's lowest tones against the sitar's highest, suggesting the dynamics of yin and yang. "Samadi/Ultimate Bliss" is a slow, droning dirge that evokes the stillness of enlightenment. "Hare Krishna" is simply a Hare Krishna/om chant with simple sitar backing. This album will enliven any hatha yoga session, and sounds astonishingly fresh decades after it's first release.

Biography:
Since leaving New York in 1959, Tony Scott (a top bebop-oriented clarinetist) has been an eager world traveler who enjoys exploring the folk music of other countries. Unfortunately, his post-1959 recordings have been few, far between, difficult-to-locate, and sometimes erratic, but Scott was an unheralded pioneer in both world music and new age.

Tony Scott attended Juilliard during 1940-1942, played at Minton's Playhouse, and then after three years in the military he became one of the few clarinetists to play bop. His cool tone (heard at its best on a 1950 Sarah Vaughan session that also includes Miles Davis) stood out from the more hard-driving playing of Buddy DeFranco. Scott worked with a wide variety of major players (including Ben Webster, Trummy Young, Earl Bostic, Charlie Ventura, Claude Thornhill, Buddy Rich, and Billie Holiday), led his own record dates (among his sidemen were Dizzy Gillespie and a young Bill Evans) which ranged from bop and cool to free improvisations (all are currently difficult to locate), and ranked with DeFranco at the top of his field.

Unfortunately the clarinet was not exactly a popular instrument in the 1950s (as opposed to during the swing era) and Tony Scott remained an obscure name outside of jazz circles. In 1959, he gave up on the U.S. and began extensive tours of the Far East. He played Eastern classical music, recorded meditation music for Verve, and, other than some brief visits to the U.S, has lived in Italy since the 1970s where he has sometimes experimented with electronics.
~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

17 Pygmies - 1983 - Hatikva

17Pygmies - Hatikva

Philip Drucker, alias Jackson Del Ray, is a curious and somewhat mysterious figure whose music is undeservedly little known. Drucker was an art student who first came to most people's notice as a founding member of Savage Republic. The band was initially musically primitive, with frequently out-of-tune instruments backed by percussion as simple as Drucker pounding on a 50-gallon oil drum, but there were hints of Greek and Middle Eastern music in their sound. As the band matured, these elements became more pronounced, but so did the rivalry between guitarist Bruce Licher and Drucker over who was in charge of the band. A close associate remembers that virtually every rehearsal ended with a bitter argument, or at least with one member of the band sulking in a corner somewhere.

Drucker quit at least twice only to rejoin the band, and in 1982 he started a side project called Seventeen Pygmies with fellow Savage Republic alumnus Robert Loveless and drummer/vocalist Debbie Spinelli. The release of the Hatikva EP in 1983 showed that the new band was vastly more sophisticated than the old and gave a strong clue regarding the source of the more interesting elements in Savage Republic's sound. The Middle Eastern stylings on Hatikva are much more pronounced, and both the songs and arrangements are much more sophisticated. Seventeen Pygmies released two more full-length records, Captured in Ice and Jedda by the Sea, which gradually moved away from the folk influences and toward a soft, distanced, and melancholy sound. ~ Richard Foss, All Music Guide

Drucker and Loveless launched a side band, 17 Pygmies, to delve into lighter, more melodic music than Savage Republic. Retaining the group's tribal percussion and Arabic feel, they added electronic keyboards for Hatikva, an EP which crosses Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "The Sheriff," a spaghetti western soundtrack and a Caribbean rhythm fest. Only a thousand copies were originally pressed, but it was reissued by an Italian label. (Trouser Press)


Hatikva was 17 Pygmies' first release. It came out on Resistance label RR-0001), in 1983, in a limited edition of 1000 copies. Later (1988) reissued on the italian label Viva (REVI-003) again in 1000 copies and in 1995 on the Lazy Dog/Meshcalina Productions in Greece in a CD including Jedda By the Sea & Hatikva.
Cover art by Robert Loveless
Hand Colored by The Pigs and Friends!!!

Line-up: Jackson Del Ray, Michael Kory, Robert Loveless, Debbie Spinelli.



SIDE 1
Lawrence of Arabia
Child Bride
Cheganca

SIDE 2
To No Avails
Vows

cover of the italian reissue

After a coincidental 17 year absence, Jackson Del Rey and Louise Bialik have revived the 17 Pygmies name, returning with a seasoned elegance, not a vengeance as might be expected from hints by both Del Rey's vigorous 2005 release I Am the Light and for a collective once noted as a reference point to a young Godspeed You Black Emperor.

In 2005 Philip Drucker released I am the Light as Del Rey & the Sun Kings, an album with some brutal in-your-face moments with rocking guitars and guttural vocals. It's the rare points of elegant beauty, however, like the instrumental "Rose Garden (for Saadi)" which are reminiscent of a song like "Kristalnacht" from Welcome, and perhaps it was the reception of a strong track like this which made him reconsider the 17 Pygmies thing. I'm glad he did. 17 Pygmies resurfaced in 2006 with a 7" single "Last Train"/"Mocha Polka." The A-side with its drum machine and synth recordings hints more to the pop aesthetics of Captured In Ice period while the instrumental B-side is a fiery accordion, clarinet, drum and string jam. 13 Blackbirds is far more subdued, graceful, and tender.

13 Blackbirds is the 17 Pygmies of Welcome, except there's no goofy interludes, Philip Drucker has reclaimed the name Jackson Del Rey and Jeff Brenneman (an original member of White Glove test) has joined Louise Bialik seemingly at the center of the group, once again joined by various other players of stringed instruments and singers. While first listens immediately demonstrate the fantastic piano, guitar, and vocal work, they also show the group's very calculated arrangement—like the organic/acoustic and unique soul mashing like Blood-era This Mortal Coil and Lovetta Pippen-era His Name Is Alive—subsequent repeat listens over time bring out the great strength in the songwriting. Songs like the simple guitar and vocal "Cras Amet" or the instrumental piano melody of "Ubi Sunt?" I can hear long after they're over while the string arrangement on "Lila Pausa" is out of this world. The vocals of the song "Lotus" are buried deep in echoes and reverb while prominent beats like some of the best Scala music from the '90s.

Packaged in a very Constellation Records-looking earthy gatefold cardboard sleeve, 13 Blackbirds is packaged with 13 Lotus, a CD of 13 remixes and reinventions of the song Lotus by various artists. It's filled with a couple beat-friendly takes, like the "Bum 'n Bass Drop" version by Freakshot and the hip-hop "Notorious P.Y.G." version from once 2Pac remixer Lea Reis. Jo Gabriel's sparse piano version is probably the most striking while Echo Wanderer give two echoey versions which are a throwback to the spacey dub/rock overlap that signalled the untimely end of shoegazing in the mid-'90s. It's a complete contrast to 13 Blackbirds but nothing is surprising me about 17 Pygmies now that they've surprised us all by their return.

I'm excited that 17 Pygmies have returned. In an effort that isn't unlike their Welcome album, 13 Blackbirds/13 Lotus is quite ambitious. The payoff here I feel is far more enjoyable, however. If anybody's wondering where Debbie Spinelli ended up, her creepy group the Spirit Girls also have a release on the Trakwerx label. I hope that with this Trakwerx label the 17 Pygmies back catalogue will become available again, but as the notes say in the sketchy looking 1995 CD of Jedda By the Sea/Hatikva, my guess is that some of those masters are long lost. Of course, you could always try digging around auction websites for this stuff but with the recently re-sparked interest in Savage Republic, the competition for this stuff will be fierce. With any luck 17 Pygmies are forming some sort of live ensemble, and in the age of myspace, they seem quite approachable and amicable, so a letter campaign to them probably can't hurt. (Written by Jon Whitney)

Links
Marnie's "Songs Hurt Me"
Paniolo's "City of Refuge" - in both Jackson Del Rey was involved
Go to Trakwerx blog to read more reviews
Go to Trakwerx Label for the above mentioned new releases
Go to MySpace.com to hear some songs from them.

Monday, January 29, 2007

The Attack - Magic In The Air

Magic In The Air / Colour Of My Mind / Mr Pinnodmy's Dilemma / Hi Ho Silver Lining / Try It / Freedom For You / Anymore Than I Do / Strange House / Neville Thumbcatch / Feel Like Flying / Lady Orange Peel / We Don't Know / Too Old / Go Your Way

The Attack (thanks to an ever growing legion of collectors dedicated to the vibrant sound of mid- to late-'60s Swinging London) have a far larger fan base now than they ever did during their existence. Indeed their unique brand of guitar-heavy, mod-rock qualifies them as one of the finest examples of (the over used term) freakbeat. Hence over the last 15 years there has been an abundance of vinyl bootlegs and inclusions on such psychedelic/freakbeat compilations as Rubble! The founders Richard Shirman (the only original member to stay with the group throughout all of the lineup changes) and Gerry Henderson were originally in a group called the Soul System, whom, for the best part of a year, had a very unstable lineup. In early 1966, the remnants of the crumbling group were joined by Bob Hodges on organ, David John (not David John of David John & the Mood, but Davy O'List under alter ego) on guitar, and Alan Whitehead (on loan from Marmalade) on drums.

They soon came to the attention of entrepreneur (gangster?) Don Arden, who then signed them to Decca and changed their name to the Attack. Their debut single released in January 1967 was an extremely anglicized cover of "Try It," an American hit for both the Standells and Ohio Express, whose versions were exemplar of the sneering garage sound. However, the Attack's powerful vocals, pop art guitar, and the underbelly of a warm Hammond created a similar atmosphere to the Small Faces (also managed by Don Arden), the Birds, and the Creation.


Shortly after the single was released, Davy O'List was handpicked by Andrew Loog Oldham to join the Nice (who were to act as the backup group for newly acquired American Soul singer P.P. Arnold) and quit the group in late February. Meanwhile, Shirman, a regular visitor to the London clubs had been keeping a watchful eye on a young guitarist he had seen jamming with Jimmy Page. Shortly thereafter John Du Cann (mainstay, and songwriter) was introduced into the group. As a follow-up to "Try It," a version of "Hi-Ho Silver Lining" was then released, but Jeff Beck got the hit first in Britain in 1967. The third 45, "Created By Clive"/"Colour of My Mind," backed a foppish sub-Kinks-style number with a fairly groovy mod-psych tune penned by DuCann. Kenny Harold (bass) and Geoff Richardson (guitar) left shortly after the disappointment of "Created By Clive," leaving John as the only guitarist. Jim Avery (who later went on to the revolutionary Third World War) was drafted in on bass, with Plug (whom later went on to Welsh acid rock outfit Man) still on drums. After yet even more disappointment surrounding the "Magic in the Air" single (Decca refused its release on the grounds of it being too heavy), Plug and Jim Avery left the ranks to be replaced by Roger Deane (bass) and Keith Hodge (drums).

The final single, released in early 1968, was "Neville Thumbcatch," a fruity mod-pop tune with spoken narration, like a lesser counterpart to Cream's "Pressed Rat and Warthog." Decca's deal with the Attack expired after that single, with a projected fifth 45, "Freedom for You"/"Feel Like Flying," remaining unreleased. Both sides of that single, as well as seven Attack demos recorded around that time, are included on Angel Air's CD reissue of the rare 1968 album by the Five Day Week Straw People, a studio-only outfit that was led by DuCann.

DuCann became the dominant creative force in the group prior to their 1968 breakup, and the likes of the unreleased "Mr. Pinnodmy's Dilemma" and "Strange House" showed the group developing a heavier rock sound, although still maintaining a sense of British mod-psych whimsy. DuCann would continue to explore a heavier direction with his subsequent group Andromeda, and joined Atomic Rooster in the '70s. ~ Jon 'Mojo' Mills, All Music Guide


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Bruthers - 1966 - Bad Way To Go

Sorry for bad 128kbps rip but is not mine.
I request all of you if you have it at higher bitrate, thank you!

Meanwhile, Play THIS stuff VERY VERY LOUD!

The Bruthers:The Bruthers were actually real brothers: Alf Delia (who wrote most of the original material they recorded, including "Bad Way to Go"), Frank Delia, Mike Delia, and Joe Delia. The Pearl River, New York quartet had started performing in the early 1960s, and by the mid-'60s hooked up with manager Sid Bernstein, who also handled the Young Rascals and the Blues Project (as well as promoting mid-'60s New York City concerts for the Beatles). The single made no commercial impact, depending upon revival from garage collectors to reach a bigger audience, starting with its inclusion in the Pebbles series, and culminating with a full CD on Sundazed in 2003 that matched both sides of the single with RCA outtakes and some demos from 1965 and 1967. After the Bruthers broke up in 1967, keyboardist Joe Delia went on to play as a sideman for numerous acts, playing and arranging David Johansen's 1987 hit "Hot Hot Hot," and scoring many feature films, documentaries, and TV series. Guitarist Frank Delia eventually directed videos for the Ramones, Wall of Voodoo, and Jefferson Starship, as well as some episodes for television series. ~ Richie U.

PLAY IT LOUD and ENJOY!

The Five Americans - The Best Of Five Americans

1 I See the Light Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:10
2 Reality Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:15
3 Western Union Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:36
4 The Losing Game Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:34
5 The Train Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 3:11
6 Good Times Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 1:56
7 No Communication Duboff, Robinson 2:16
8 I Know They Lie Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:51
9 If I Could Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:02
10 Now That It's Over Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:16
11 Zip Code Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:30
12 Sympathy Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 1:53
13 She's - A - My Own Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 1:49
14 It's a Crying Shame Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:28
15 The Outcast Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:11
16 Stop Light Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:42
17 Evol-Not Love Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:21
18 Don't Blame Me Dinsmore, Durrill, Ezell ... 2:04
19 Sound of Love Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:23
20 Show Me Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 1:58
21 You Can't Win Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:25
22 She's Too Good to Me Nichols, Williams 2:19
23 Virginia Girl Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 2:22
24 7: 30 Guided Tour Brians 2:40
25 Letters, Pictures, Melodies [#] Durrill, Ezell, Rabon 3:21

This is a straightforward, filled-to-the-gills 25-track best-of for the band remembered by most listeners only for its big hits "Western Union" and "I See the Light." Actually, they released a lot of records during the last half of the 1960s that reveal them as a versatile, polished, yet often derivative group. They were best when putting a thumping beat to accomplished harmonies, catchy pop/rock melodies, and rolling high organ playing, as exemplified by "I See the Light" and "Western Union." They never did come up with other songs as catchy as those, and the other songs on this anthology find them combining lots of influences: Midwestern frat rock, Beach Boys and Association harmonies, and British bands like the Beatles and (on "The Losing Game" in particular) the Zombies. Sometimes the derivativeness comes perilously close to imitation. The folk-rock of "Sympathy" almost duplicates the melody of the Statler Brothers' "Flowers on the Wall" in places, "I Know They Lie" is a little-known lightweight Byrds sound-alike, and "Don't Blame Me" sounds like a tough American garage take on the Dave Clark Five. Their small 1967 Top Forty hits "Sound of Love" and "Zip Code" are here, as are two previously unissued songs of minor interest, "You Can't Win" and "Letters, Pictures, Melodies." Incidentally, this is not merely an expanded version of the 20-song best-of (Western Union) issued on same label (Sundazed) in 1989, 13 years before The Best of the Five Americans. Though five songs shorter in length, Western Union has a half dozen tracks that don't show up on The Best of the Five Americans. More surprisingly, the liner notes, while comprehensive in both CD packages, might be preferable in Western Union, which goes into much more extensive detail on specific songs.


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May Blitz - 1970 - May Blitz

Here's a good one for those Cream fans out there.

tracks :
1 Smoking the Day Away
2 I Don't Know?
3 Dreaming
4 Squeet
5 Tomorrow May Come
6 Fire Queen
7 Virgin Waters

May Blitz (alongside Rory Gallagher's Taste) were among the first of the newly formed hard rock power trios to take up the challenge of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience; that is, making the biggest possible noise with the smallest available lineup, but never losing sight of melody and finesse while they did so. Certainly anyone catching their early live show was guaranteed to leave with their ears ringing but their brainbox humming, and the band's debut album was a seamless reiteration of their in-concert impact, all the way down to the extended riffing and miniature solos. May Blitz's strongest point, in terms of audience recognition, was drummer Tony Newman, and fans of the jazz-inflected style that he injected into the Jeff Beck Group certainly won't be disappointed by what they find here — indeed, with guitarist James Black beside him, it's not difficult to compare May Blitz to the Beck band's Beck-Ola, and find the better-known disc come up wanting every time. The epic "Smoking the Day Away" kicks things off in dynamic form, laying down the grinding, almost proto-metallic assault that was May Blitz's raison d'etre; later in the set, "Dreaming," "Virgin Waters," and "Squeet" all howl with a vengeance that might sound a little old-fashioned today, but was breathtakingly fresh at the time. Even better is "Fire Queen," which essentially blueprints the best parts of every metal act from Judas Priest to the Cult, except it doesn't hang around long enough to spoil the effect. Rather like May Blitz themselves, in fact.

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Voodoo Child - Acid Tales and Mermaids

Voodoo Child - Acid Tales and Mermaids (@vbr-hq)
UK AFTERMATH AFT 2 1986

Track List:
side 1
1 Voodoo Child
2 Rain
3 Free The Spirit
4 In Shadows
5 Eyes The Change
6 Fire
side 2
1 Psychedelic Dreams
2 Chains
3 Love Is Like A Knife
4 Road
5 Acid Tales

Apparently a limited edition private pressing and difficult to track down - you've probably already guessed that it may be a little bit Hendrix inspired! Well "Fire" is the only cover version on here... and it's a Jimi Hendrix number!

Enjoy!
voodoo_child_-_acid_tales_and_mermaids_80s_psych_1984_vbhq_.rar

The Seeds

The Seeds - 1967 - Future

01 Introduction (3:03)
02 March of the Flower Children (1:45)
03 Travel With Your Mind (3:00)
04 Out of the Question (3:02)
05 Painted Doll (3:20)
06 Flower Lady and Her Assistant (3:15)
07 Now a Man (3:20)
08 Thousand Shadows (2:25)
09 Two Fingers Pointing on You (3:10)
010 Where Is the Entrance Way to Play? (2:55)
11 Six Dreams (3:05)
12 Fallin' (7:40)

The "A Thousand Shadows" 45 rpm from this album, Future, came in a pink sleeve decorated by gray four-leaf clovers and a negative picture of the Seeds next to a sign that says "Wishing Well - Help Us Grow." "A Thousand Shadows" is the melody as well as the feel of their Top 40 1967 hit "Pushin' Too Hard." Breaking no new ground, the band insisted on revisiting its formula, reinventing new versions of "Pushin' Too Hard" like "Flower Lady & Her Assistant." This is a sophisticated package with a gatefold which includes lyrics over pastel sunflowers as if the band was Joni Mitchell. Three colorful pages come inside the album, including two beautiful photos of the group along with single flowers representing the songs on the disc with instructions: "Cut out paste on whatever" for grade schoolers or those so strung out on LSD they have regressed to that point. "Six Dreams" is Black Sabbath's Ozzie meeting George Harrison in some biker film soundtrack with weird sound effects and a sitar. The harp on "Fallin'" underscores Saxon's passionate garage vocal. Imagine, if you will, Brian Jones during the recording of Satanic Majesties deciding to bare all the excesses of rock stardom.

This album is a trip, not because it reflects the ideas captured in the Peter Fonda film of the same name, but because a band had the audacity to experiment with record company money and make something so noncommercial and playful. Droning organ sounds penetrate "Fallin'," the seven minute, 40 second final track. Saxon writes in the inner-sleeve essay "Originations of the Flower Generation" "...The farmer lives by the elements alone, the sun, the rain, and the earth, but the earth needs its seeds to sow the flower generation of the leaf...." It's heady stuff, and the melody and sound of "Pushin' Too Hard" permeates incessantly. Hardly a Future, as the title proclaims, this is actually the Sgt. Pepper of the flower-power set, a reinvention of past efforts, but no "Strawberry Fields" or "Day in the Life" to bring it out of its cult niche.

Very listenable, highly entertaining, and totally not for the mass audience. GNP stands for Gene Norman Presents, and the label should be commended for allowing such creativity which inspired Iggy Pop and the Lyres' Mono Mann. Saxon played his game to the hilt, and that followers like Mono Mann and Jeff Connelly would get stuck in his groove is only testament to how original and enthralling these sounds are. Tunes like "Now a Man" are low-key Ventures riffs with naïve guitar and Saxon being as indulgent as humanly possible. Fans should also seek out a 45 on Expression records, "Beautiful Stars" by Sky Sunlight and Thee New Seeds featuring Rainbow. Despite its musical limitations, Future holds up quite well to repeated plays by sitting firmly in the past. ~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide


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by innocent76

The Seeds - 1968 - Raw & Alive The Seeds In Concert
-Merlin's Music Box-

01 Introduction By _Humble_ Harv
02 Mr. Farmer
03 No Escape
04 Satisfy You
05 Night Time Girl
06 Up In Her Room
07 Gypsy Plays His Drums
08 Can't Seem To Make You Mine
09 Mumble Bumble
10 Forest Outside Your Door
11 900 Million People Daily (All Making Love)
12 Pushin' Too Hard

Review:
The Seeds were an exceptional band that never achieved the success that they inspired. This album has a truly psychedelic cover with too-dark-for-pastel colors, swirling letters over eerie faces, and dynamic black and white photos on the back. If you want to see the image of Iggy Pop clothed, just look at Sky Saxon in the bottom right photo on the back cover with the screaming girl holding a flower grabbing at him. He had the image down, as well as the music. "900 Million People Daily All Making Love" sounds so much like the Doors and Jim Morrison's "When the Music's Over," one has to wonder which came first, or did they copy each other? "Mumble and Bumble" is a trippy "Alabama Song," but where Morrison is looking for the next whiskey bar, Saxon is off looking for flowers and magic mushrooms. The band has great energy which is pierced by annoying canned applause à la the Rolling Stones' Got Live If You Want It. This is a record album, not a situation comedy TV show, after all; what's the point of overdubbing an audience onto what is really good music? Sure, "No Escape" is a prelude to the closer and hit "Pushin' Too Hard" with a tip of the hat to Martha & the Vandellas, while "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" is placed nicely in mid-set, a song after the truncated "Up in Her Room." The revelation that is this "concert" album is what a great band the Seeds really were, and how Sky Saxon's vocals have a gritty edge that he held back on us in many of the studio recordings. "Gypsy Plays His Drums" has a great chug-chug guitar, nice off-key backing vocals, and a driving pulse which is present throughout the performance. If you can ignore the extraneous additions, a song like "Forest Outside Your Door" shows really how creative and influential this pioneering band was, while "Satisfy You" is Saxon's direct sexual rock to Mick Jagger's "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Sky claims he can get satisfaction, and can satisfy you at the same time. He then veers off into more familiar psychedelic territory with "Night Time Girl" which combines the sex and the psychedelia. If they taught rock & roll in school, "Raw & Alive" would have to be the textbook for image, design, and content. ~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide

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by Lost-In-Tyme

And here you can find one of the best tracks by the Seeds
The Wind Blows Your Hair
(As requested)

The Head Shop - 1969 - The Head Shop

Side 1:

1. Head Shop (Milan/Maxim/R. Craig), 2:56
2. Heaven Here We Come (Milan), 2:40
3. Sunny (Bobby Hebb), 3:11
4. Listen with a Third Ear (Milan/Maxim), 2:30
5. Opera in the Year 4000 (Milan), 4:25
   1. Where Have All the People Gone (Milan)
   2. Yesterday (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

Side 2:

1. Revolution (John Lennon/Paul McCartney), 2:28
2. I Feel Love Comin' On (Milan), 6:20
3. Prophecy (Maxim/Milan), 2:17
4. Infinity (Milan), 4:45

Band Members

• Danny Prosseda, Guitar

• Drew Sbordone, Bass

• Joe Siano, Vocals

• Jesse Luca, Drums, Percussion

• Milan, Rhythm Guitars and Screams

• Geoff Wright, Hammond/Farfisa Organ, Fuzz Bass (on "Heaven Here We Come" and "I Feel Love Comin' On")

• Maxim, Violin Solo (on "Prophecy")

• Larry Coryell, Guest Musician, Guitar Solo (on "I Feel Love Comin' On")

The Head Shop is a psychedelic rock band from New York that released one eponymous album on Epic Records in 1969. According to promotional material for the album, the band performs "9 musical chapters that will lead you into new musical and audiophile dimensions of psychedelic art of music". A commercial ad in New York's Screw magazine was blazoned with: "Do You Want Head? Blow Your Mind with the Head Shop Album!" The music features fuzztone bass and guitars, Farfisa as well as Hammond organ, and unusually soulful vocals for this type of music.

The album was produced by Milan, and the associate producer is Maxim; they are also listed as the songwriters on the original songs, which include "Listen with a Third Ear", "Heaven Here We Come" and "I Feel Love Comin' On". Larry Coryell, a respected jazz guitarist is a "guest musician" that provides a guitar solo on one track, "I Feel Love Comin' On". Coryell's debut album on Vanguard Records was also released in 1969.

Side 1 ends and Side 2 begins with two extremely familiar Beatles songs, "Yesterday" – reminiscent of the Deep Purple cover of "Help!" – plus a propulsive rendering of "Revolution". "Yesterday", along with an original song called "Where Have All the People Gone", are combined into "Opera in the Year 4000" that may function as a commentary on the state of the music world at the end of that decade: even if all the people are gone in two thousand years, the then omnipresent Beatles standard would still survive. The album also includes a melancholy version of another hit song of the period, "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb. Like "Yesterday", hundreds of other cover versions of "Sunny" are extant, but not like this.

The album cover feature a swirling group of multi-colored (and numbered) boxes that surround a black-and-white image of a shrunken head. The back cover is mostly black with minimal copy but also shows a shot of the band lit from beneath.

One recent reviewer describes the music as "a demented fusion of ’69 era heavy psych and ’66 era garage punk" ^[1]. An anonymous fan called this "a very special album" and cited influences on the album ranging from Arthur Brown to James Brown, and, regarding the "Revolution" cover: "The original idea was to mix Beatles with contemporary music (Schönberg and Mahler) into a new trip of music, making new music in a true ‘progressive’ edge." ^[2].

Although the band is obscure by any standard, The Head Shop is probably the best known and one of the last of the many projects masterminded by Milan, an enigmatic music industry professional who produced and performed on a variety of recordings released in the 1960's. Virtually all of the Milan projects, including The Head Shop are highly sought collectors' items, and original sealed copies of the Epic album surface occasionally.

The album has been reissued on two different German labels, Synton Records in 1998 and World in Sound Records in 2004. The latter reissue includes 7 bonus tracks, along with a copy of the 1969 Screw Magazine ad. The bonus tracks run the gamut from folk to flower power to psychedelic pop and include songs by Household Sponge (the predecessor band to The Head Shop), Licorice Schtik (a band being promoted by Maxim in the same time period), and other earlier Milan projects including The Aladdins.

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The Chocolate Watchband - 44 (Fourty Four)

The Chocolate Watchband - 44 (Fourty Four)

Track List:
01 Don't Need Your Lovin'
02 No Way Out
03 It's All over Now, Baby Blue
04 I'm Not Like Everybody Else
05 Misty Lane
06 Loose Lip Sync Ship
07 Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)
08 Gone and Passes By
09 Sitting There Standing
10 She Weaves a Tender Trap
11 Sweet Young Thing
12 I Ain't No Miracle Worker
13 Blues Theme

The Chocolate Watchband were one of the most important garage bands of the '60s, which makes the lack of an in-print anthology of their work all the more puzzling. Sundazed has released their three albums with copious bonus cuts and Rhino had a nice compilation in the early '80s, but is now out of print. 44 is a decent overview of their best cuts, including the rare singles released as the Hogs. ~ Brian Downing, All Music Guide

Biography:
The Chocolate Watchband never charted a record nationally. Indeed, ask most casual 1960s rock fans about them and you'll probably get little more than a blank stare. Most will remember their AVI Records labelmates the Standells more clearly, because they actually managed to chart a few singles. Alas, the Watchband had the disadvantage of being a punkier band than the Standells, and suffering continual lineup changes. The Chocolate Watchband was a mod-outfitted garage punk unit par excellence, their sound founded on English-style R&B with a special fixation on the Rolling Stones at their most sneering. After hooking up with producer Ed Cobb, a former member of the 1950s vocal ensemble the Four Preps, the group released No Way Out in mid-1967, though the Watchband had already begun breaking up. A new incarnation carried them through 1967, though the band's existence as a viable performing unit were all but over. The group's producers had other ideas, however, releasing two more albums (The Inner Mystique, One Step Beyond) in 1968 and 1969 , sporting the band's name but not too much else associated with the group. That would probably have been the end of the group's story, but in the early '80s, record buyers and, more particularly, young musicians discovered the Watchband. A set of Australian reissues of the group's albums quickly found a market in America and Europe. Thus, it was no surprise when, in 1994, Sundazed Records reissued the complete Watchband catalog on compact disc. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide