29-04-07 - 06-05-07
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Fallen Angels (US) - 1968 - Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels (US) - 1968 - Fallen Angels
01 Room At The Top
02 Love, Don't Talk To Strangers
03 Your Friends Here In Dundervil
04 I've Been Thinking
05 It Might Be EEasier To Stay Home
06 Most Children Do
07 Introspective Looking Glass
08 I Don't Want To Fall
09 No Way Out
10 Painted Bird
11 Your Mother's Homesick Too
12 You Have Changed
Fallen Angels
Personnel:
JACK BRYANT vcls, bs A B C D E
HOWARD DANCHIK keyb'ds, flte A B C D
WALLY COOK ld gtr A B C D E
NED DAVIS drms A
JACK LAURITSEN gtr, sitar, vibes A B C D E
ROCKY ISAAC drms B
RICHARD KUMER drms C
JOHN "THUMPER" MOLLOY drms D
KEVIN ARMSTRONG bs E
TOM MANSELL drms E
LARRY WILLIS keyb'ds, B-3 E
ALBUMS:
1(C) FALLEN ANGELS (Roulette SR 25358) 1968
2(D) IT'S A LONG WAY DOWN (Roulette SR 42011) 1968
3(B) RAIN OF FIRE (Wild Child! 05852) 1998 (CD only)
45s:
1(A) Everytime I Fall In Love/I Have Found (Laurie 3343) 1966
2(A/B) Have You Ever Lost A Love?/A Little Love From You Will Do (Laurie 3369) 1966
3(C) Room At The Top/Your Friends Here In Dunderville (Roulette 4770) 1967
4(C/D) Hello Girl/Most Children (Roulette 4785) 1967
5(C) Room At The Top / Most Childen Do (PS) (Philco HP-23) c1968
6(D) Everything Would Be Fine/Hid And Found (Sun Dream 704) 1974
NB: (5) is a 'Hip Pocket' 45 - a 4" flexi in a pic envelope, a series issued by Philco. (6) was recorded in 1969 but released posthumously on manager Tom Traynor's local label.
Operating out of Washington D.C. this band was formed in 1965 when Wally Cook and Ned Davis of the Young Rabbits teamed up with Jack Bryant and Charlie Jones. Initially called the Disciples, then the Uncalled Four, they eventually settled on the Fallen Angels. Drummer Rocky Isaac was also a member at one point (he was formerly with the Tejuns, the Creatures, and later Cherry People) but his place was eventually taken by Richard Kumer from the The Mad Hatters by the advent of the first LP. Lauritsen had also replaced Charlie Jones by then and Danchik had been added to make it a quintet.... Their first album has a nice paisley cover and consists of competent rock with some pleasant psychedelic interludes. The second album carried on from where the first had ended. Three tracks in particular - One Of The Few Ones Left, Something New You Can Hide In and I'll Drive You From My Mind - stand out, being full of melodic guitar work, climbing keyboards and sensitive vocals.
The band split in 1969 but in 1974 a retrospective 45 was released on their manager's own-label 45. This has an acoustic mellow rock sound until some mean guitar kicks in, and is notable for affected 'vibrato' vocals. The flip is dull by comparison and full of la-la-la-la-la's.
Both original albums are worth searching for and the second has been repressed. You can also find twelve album tracks on each of the Collectables CDs Roulette Masters, Part 1 and Part 2.
In 1998, The Fallen Angels returned with a new CD Rain Of Fire. Every Time I Fall In Love and Everything Would Be Fine are updated and accompanied by eleven new tunes (all bar one by Jack Bryant). Purists who expect a time-warp back to their garage and psych sounds of 1967/8 will be disappointed; but for those without such unrealistic preconceptions, this is accomplished and mature rock with blues, folk and country influences (just the odd spot of rust in the vocals department).
Compilation coverage has included: Have You Ever Lost A Love? on Mindrocker, Vol. 10 (Dble LP) whilst their decent cover of Arthur Lee's Signed D.C. resurfaced on Psychedelic Moods - Part Two (LP & CD).
For a comprehensive lowdown on the band check out issue #9 of Jeff Jarema's excellent Here 'Tis fanzine. (Max Waller)
01 Room At The Top
02 Love, Don't Talk To Strangers
03 Your Friends Here In Dundervil
04 I've Been Thinking
05 It Might Be EEasier To Stay Home
06 Most Children Do
07 Introspective Looking Glass
08 I Don't Want To Fall
09 No Way Out
10 Painted Bird
11 Your Mother's Homesick Too
12 You Have Changed
Fallen AngelsPersonnel:
JACK BRYANT vcls, bs A B C D E
HOWARD DANCHIK keyb'ds, flte A B C D
WALLY COOK ld gtr A B C D E
NED DAVIS drms A
JACK LAURITSEN gtr, sitar, vibes A B C D E
ROCKY ISAAC drms B
RICHARD KUMER drms C
JOHN "THUMPER" MOLLOY drms D
KEVIN ARMSTRONG bs E
TOM MANSELL drms E
LARRY WILLIS keyb'ds, B-3 E
ALBUMS:
1(C) FALLEN ANGELS (Roulette SR 25358) 1968
2(D) IT'S A LONG WAY DOWN (Roulette SR 42011) 1968
3(B) RAIN OF FIRE (Wild Child! 05852) 1998 (CD only)
45s:
1(A) Everytime I Fall In Love/I Have Found (Laurie 3343) 1966
2(A/B) Have You Ever Lost A Love?/A Little Love From You Will Do (Laurie 3369) 1966
3(C) Room At The Top/Your Friends Here In Dunderville (Roulette 4770) 1967
4(C/D) Hello Girl/Most Children (Roulette 4785) 1967
5(C) Room At The Top / Most Childen Do (PS) (Philco HP-23) c1968
6(D) Everything Would Be Fine/Hid And Found (Sun Dream 704) 1974
NB: (5) is a 'Hip Pocket' 45 - a 4" flexi in a pic envelope, a series issued by Philco. (6) was recorded in 1969 but released posthumously on manager Tom Traynor's local label.
Operating out of Washington D.C. this band was formed in 1965 when Wally Cook and Ned Davis of the Young Rabbits teamed up with Jack Bryant and Charlie Jones. Initially called the Disciples, then the Uncalled Four, they eventually settled on the Fallen Angels. Drummer Rocky Isaac was also a member at one point (he was formerly with the Tejuns, the Creatures, and later Cherry People) but his place was eventually taken by Richard Kumer from the The Mad Hatters by the advent of the first LP. Lauritsen had also replaced Charlie Jones by then and Danchik had been added to make it a quintet.... Their first album has a nice paisley cover and consists of competent rock with some pleasant psychedelic interludes. The second album carried on from where the first had ended. Three tracks in particular - One Of The Few Ones Left, Something New You Can Hide In and I'll Drive You From My Mind - stand out, being full of melodic guitar work, climbing keyboards and sensitive vocals.
The band split in 1969 but in 1974 a retrospective 45 was released on their manager's own-label 45. This has an acoustic mellow rock sound until some mean guitar kicks in, and is notable for affected 'vibrato' vocals. The flip is dull by comparison and full of la-la-la-la-la's.
Both original albums are worth searching for and the second has been repressed. You can also find twelve album tracks on each of the Collectables CDs Roulette Masters, Part 1 and Part 2.
In 1998, The Fallen Angels returned with a new CD Rain Of Fire. Every Time I Fall In Love and Everything Would Be Fine are updated and accompanied by eleven new tunes (all bar one by Jack Bryant). Purists who expect a time-warp back to their garage and psych sounds of 1967/8 will be disappointed; but for those without such unrealistic preconceptions, this is accomplished and mature rock with blues, folk and country influences (just the odd spot of rust in the vocals department).
Compilation coverage has included: Have You Ever Lost A Love? on Mindrocker, Vol. 10 (Dble LP) whilst their decent cover of Arthur Lee's Signed D.C. resurfaced on Psychedelic Moods - Part Two (LP & CD).
For a comprehensive lowdown on the band check out issue #9 of Jeff Jarema's excellent Here 'Tis fanzine. (Max Waller)
V.A. - Turkish Delights_26 Turkish Beat Psyche & Garage Delights
From Mogollar to Erkin Koray this is an excellent compilation,
which prooves that Turkey had a great rock scene back in the 60's.
26 Turkish Beat, Psych & Garage Delights: rarities from beyond the Sea of Mamara (also called Turkish Delights) is a compilation of Turkish rock groups from the 1960s and 70s. The album highlights the early and classic 1966-77 rock periods in Turkey, including giants such as Mavi Işiklar, Erkin Koray, and Moğollar. Informed by the music coming out of Britain and the United States, the fourteen bands in this collection run the gamut from early beat sounds of garage bands to mid-seventies psychedelic explorations, simultaniously infusing the music with a distinctively Turkish sound.
One of the greatest impediments to the total global domination of rock and roll was language. The young and curious in non-anglophone regions were often put off by their inability to decipher the frequently slurred and confusing lyrics of rock and roll. Such was the case in Turkey, which, although it had a small rock contingent in the 1950s, did not truly jump on the bandwagon until a decade later. Early on, the interest in Euro-American popular music was fuelled in Turkey primarily by instrumental bands such as the Ventures or the Shadows. Then the Beatles broke and, as happened in many popular music scenes around the world, everything changed.
No matter the era, most novice rock bands (and some more experienced groups) have participated in the time-honored tradition of copying hit songs, and the garage, beat and psych bands in Turkey were no exception. Turkish Delights includes several covers of early rock songs, ranging from Selçuk Alagöz’s Turkish reworking of a tune by the Israeli group The Cedars (Track 18) to renditions of tunes by more well-known European acts such as the Atwoods or Shocking Blue (Istanbul Erkek Lisesi’s “In the Deepings,” Track 4, and Mavi Işiklar’s “Ask Çiçeği,” track 11), to songs by large top-forty and super-groups like the Yardbirds (İzmar Özel Karşiyaka Lisesi’s “Over Under Sideways Down,” track 8) or Paul Revere and the Raiders (Mavi Işiklar’s “The Great Airplane Strike of 1967.”
While the covers are intriguing, what is truly fascinating are the ways in which Turkish musicians in the 1960s fused rock with more traditional Turkish elements. Turkish youth were in a unique position relative to many of their international peers, placed as they are at the geographical and social crossroads of Europe and Asia. The social and cultural reforms of Ataturk made the young people of that time particularly sensitive to European aesthetics and ideology. Turkish musicians in the 1960s, unlike their counterparts in other regions, were better able to fuse traditional Turkish music with rock and roll, leading to several recordings that are breathtaking in their beauty and audacity.
While the covers are intriguing, what is truly fascinating are the ways in which Turkish musicians in the 1960s fused rock with more traditional Turkish elements. Turkish youth were in a unique position relative to many of their international peers, placed as they are at the geographical and social crossroads of Europe and Asia. The social and cultural reforms of Ataturk made the young people of that time particularly sensitive to European aesthetics and ideology. Turkish musicians in the 1960s, unlike their counterparts in other regions, were better able to fuse traditional Turkish music with rock and roll, leading to several recordings that are breathtaking in their beauty and audacity.
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Labels: nikos1109, Various Artists 
Flat Earth Society - 1968 - Waleeco
Having read the previous review of this album,it's time to set the record straight.Firstly,their cover of the midnight hour[all the other songs are originals]is a fair effort.I wouldn't call it either dreadful or fantastic.
But I would call the haunting,eerie "Dark Street Downtown" fantastic..a masterpiece with its distinctive vocals and piano accompaniment supported by lyrics of the finest order.Turn the lights out,light the candles and just listen.Breathtaking stuff!! Very Baroque and very beautiful.
This standard is maintained on "Prelude For The Town Monk", another Jack Kerivan composition and with equally thought- provoking lyrics.A young man in his late teens getting his message across in the most literate of ways and with a voice to match any before or since in Rock.
His third contribution is "Shadows",an uptempo,organ-driven number but with the same haunting mood of "Dark Street".The rest of the songs are written by Jack Kerivan and Phil Dubuque or Jack Kerivan and Rick Doyle. The latter collaboration contains two excellent instrumentals of a laid-back,psychedelic nature, "Portrait in Grey" and "Satori". Some nice phasing and experimentation that rounded off an excellent debut[and sadly only]album.
If you like Folk Rock, you'll like The Flat Earth Society.If you like Baroque,similarly.Psychedelic,garagey, quite a mix in this album..as the band themselves say "no particular bag at all"
I rate this album with any Boston album of the era and probably any album of any area.But it's for the mellow,haunting moments when you want to be both relaxed yet stimulated by thoughts and imagery.Was music ever so good?
Wonderful fare from one of Boston's greats and if you like this try The Rising Storm's "Calm Before" and The Beacon Street Union's two albums.
Reviewer:C. M. Roughan "Panamaniac" (London,UK)
Download It Here :
http://rapidshare.com/files/29597865/Flat_Earth_Society.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/29597862/Flat_Earth_Society.part2.rar
But I would call the haunting,eerie "Dark Street Downtown" fantastic..a masterpiece with its distinctive vocals and piano accompaniment supported by lyrics of the finest order.Turn the lights out,light the candles and just listen.Breathtaking stuff!! Very Baroque and very beautiful.
This standard is maintained on "Prelude For The Town Monk", another Jack Kerivan composition and with equally thought- provoking lyrics.A young man in his late teens getting his message across in the most literate of ways and with a voice to match any before or since in Rock.
His third contribution is "Shadows",an uptempo,organ-driven number but with the same haunting mood of "Dark Street".The rest of the songs are written by Jack Kerivan and Phil Dubuque or Jack Kerivan and Rick Doyle. The latter collaboration contains two excellent instrumentals of a laid-back,psychedelic nature, "Portrait in Grey" and "Satori". Some nice phasing and experimentation that rounded off an excellent debut[and sadly only]album.
If you like Folk Rock, you'll like The Flat Earth Society.If you like Baroque,similarly.Psychedelic,garagey, quite a mix in this album..as the band themselves say "no particular bag at all"
I rate this album with any Boston album of the era and probably any album of any area.But it's for the mellow,haunting moments when you want to be both relaxed yet stimulated by thoughts and imagery.Was music ever so good?
Wonderful fare from one of Boston's greats and if you like this try The Rising Storm's "Calm Before" and The Beacon Street Union's two albums.
Reviewer:C. M. Roughan "Panamaniac" (London,UK)
Download It Here :
http://rapidshare.com/files/29597865/Flat_Earth_Society.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/29597862/Flat_Earth_Society.part2.rar
Labels: as Requested, F, innocent76
Family - Entertainment
FAMILY was formed in 1967 by John ‘Charlie’ Whitney (guitar, vocals), Roger Chapman (vocals), Jim King (saxophone, Flute), Ric Grech (bass) and Rob Townsend (drums) in Leicester.
FAMILY plays a mixture of Rock, Blues and Folk interwoven with Classical and Jazz elements.
The history of FAMILY goes back to1962 when John Charlie Whitney formed the R&B outfit THE FARINAS, together with Jim King (sax & vocals) Harry Overnall (drums) and Tim Kirchin (bass). In 1965 Rick Grech replaced Kirchin on bass and in 1966 singer Roger Chapman joined the band. Chapman’s vocal-style and the use of violin and sax expanded the band’s sound in a progressive direction. They changed their name to ROARING SIXTIES and started to wear double-breasted suits on stage, that gave them a gangster image. Consequently the producer Kim Fowley, who recorded demos with the band in1967,christened them ‘The Family‘. Shortly after becoming FAMILY, drummer Overnall was replaced by Rob Townsend.
In September 1967 FAMILY released a single for ’Liberty’, produced by Jimmy Miller and a year later signed to ’Reprise’ for their first record ’Music In A Doll’s House’ (1968), produced by Dave Mason (TRAFFIC), who contributed one composition to the record. The record presented a mixture of Rock, Blues and Folk with Classical and Jazz-elements, dominated by Roger Chapman’s typical ’throaty’ vocal-style. The record came out with a sophisticated cover, a feature that would become one of FAMILY’S trademarks. In July1968 the band opened for singer Tim Hardin at the ‘Royal Albert Hall’ in London and in 1969 they released their second record ‘Family Entertainment’, that followed the same musical direction as the first. After the release of the record and prior to a US tour Ric Grech quit the band to join BLIND FAITH. John Weider (Ex-ERIC BURDON &THE ANIMALS) joined the band on bass and violin and in 1970 John ‘Poli’ Palmer (Ex-ECLECTION/keyboards & vibes) replaced Jim King ,who was dismissed for his ‘erratic behaviour’.
In 1970 FAMILY released two records ‘A Song For Me’, on which the band developed a more aggressive sound and ‘Anyway’, a half-live half-studio record, with a beautiful ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’ cover . Both records entered the British Top Ten. In 1970 the band played several major European Rock-Festivals (among others ‘The Isle Of Wight Festival‘) and became an appreciated live-act. Roger Chapman became famous for tambourine and mic-stand crashing and his special custom ‘Idiot-Dancing’.
In 1971 the band released a compilation with remixes of older songs plus unreleased singles ’Old Songs, New Songs’. The same year John Wetton (Ex MOGUL TRASH/bass, guitar and vocals ), replaced John Weider. The new line-up recorded ‘Fearless’ in 1971, the first FAMILY album to use a synthesizer and ‘Bandstand’ in 1972. Both albums continued the harder and rockier side of FAMILY‘S music. Prior to a US tour John Wetton left the band to join KING CRIMSON and was replaced by Jim Cregan (Ex -STUD) on bass and guitar and Tony Ashton (Ex-ASHTON, GARDNER &DYKE) replaced Poli Palmer on keyboards. The band recorded one last record ‘It’s Only A Movie’ in 1973 and gave a Farewell-concert in Leicester on October 13. After the dissolution of FAMILY Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney formed the STREETWALKERS until Chapman went solo in 1979.
Family Entertainment was the second album from the British progessive rock band Family, released in February 1969.
The cover of the album was a clear takeoff off the sleeve of the Doors's second album, Strange Days, which Family frankly admitted to.
Family Entertainment was the last album from the group's original lineup, as listed below:
Roger Chapman: vocals and percussion
John "Charlie" Whitney: guitars, organ
Jim King: vocals, saxophone, piano
Ric Grech: bass, vocals, violin
Rob Townsend: drums and percussion
Track list
The Weaver's Answer
Observations From a Hill
Hung Up Down
Summer '67 (instrumental) (Whitney)
How-Hi-the-Li (Grech)
Second Generation Woman (Grech)
From Past Archives Dim Processions (Whitney)
Face In the Cloud (Grech)
Emotions
All selctions are by Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney except where noted.
This album is among the best music that has ever been made, in my opinion.
Enjoy
Labels: as Requested, F, JANISFARM
Daughters Of Albion - 1968 - Daughters Of Albion
Daughters Of Albion - 1968 - Daughters Of Albion
1. I Love Her & She Loves My
2. Still Care About You
3. Yes, Our Love Is Growing
4. Candle song
5. Ladyfingers
6. Sweet Susan Constantine
7. Hat Off, Arms Out, Ronnie
8. Good to Have You
9. Well Wired
10. Hey, You, Wait, Stay
11. Story Of Sad
12. John Flip Lockup
Personnel:
GREG DEMPSEY vcls, gtr A
KATHY YESSE vcls A
ALBUM:
1(A) DAUGHTERS OF ALBION (Fontana SRF 67586) 1968
NB: (1) came with a pair of mini-posters, approx 8"x11", featuring surrealistic hippie drawings. (1) also released by Fontana in U.K. (STL5486) and Holland (887806).
A hippie psych pop duo who were produced and arranged by Leon Russell. All the songs were written by Greg Dempsey (sometimes helped by Dave Luff) and some arrangements are obviously influenced by the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper album. Quite pleasant but nothing essential.
Graced with a really good voice, Kathy Yesse recorded a solo album in 1974 (produced by Greg Dempsey) as Kathy Dalton, Boogie Bands And One Night Stands. This was also released with one different track as Amazing, with both titles appearing on Frank Zappa's Discreet label. While the record itself is unremarkable, failing to showcase her considerable talents, it's worth noting that she was backed by Little Feat with guest apperances including Van Dyke Parks, Sneaky Pete, Carl Wilson, Billy Hinsche (of Dino, Desi and Billy) and others.
(Stephane Rebeschini/Matt Moses/Ed Worcester)
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1. I Love Her & She Loves My
2. Still Care About You
3. Yes, Our Love Is Growing
4. Candle song
5. Ladyfingers
6. Sweet Susan Constantine
7. Hat Off, Arms Out, Ronnie
8. Good to Have You
9. Well Wired
10. Hey, You, Wait, Stay
11. Story Of Sad
12. John Flip Lockup
Personnel:
GREG DEMPSEY vcls, gtr A
KATHY YESSE vcls A
ALBUM:
1(A) DAUGHTERS OF ALBION (Fontana SRF 67586) 1968
NB: (1) came with a pair of mini-posters, approx 8"x11", featuring surrealistic hippie drawings. (1) also released by Fontana in U.K. (STL5486) and Holland (887806).
A hippie psych pop duo who were produced and arranged by Leon Russell. All the songs were written by Greg Dempsey (sometimes helped by Dave Luff) and some arrangements are obviously influenced by the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper album. Quite pleasant but nothing essential.
Graced with a really good voice, Kathy Yesse recorded a solo album in 1974 (produced by Greg Dempsey) as Kathy Dalton, Boogie Bands And One Night Stands. This was also released with one different track as Amazing, with both titles appearing on Frank Zappa's Discreet label. While the record itself is unremarkable, failing to showcase her considerable talents, it's worth noting that she was backed by Little Feat with guest apperances including Van Dyke Parks, Sneaky Pete, Carl Wilson, Billy Hinsche (of Dino, Desi and Billy) and others.
(Stephane Rebeschini/Matt Moses/Ed Worcester)
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Thanks Chris41 for this one !!!
Labels: by Friends and Visitors of this Blog, D
Friday, May 04, 2007
Shiny Gnomes - 1994 - Mc Creatrix
Shiny Gnomes - 1994 - Mc Creatrix(Vinyl Rip @256)
Tracklist :
A 1 Birthday OM
A 2 Healing Sounds Asleep
A 3 It`s All Here
A 4 In Nadreena`s Garde
A 5 Heart Moon
B 1 Lavender Hill
B 2 Dyade
B 3 Triple Mother
B 4 Thinking At The Edge Of The Unthinkable
B 5 Hemlock 93
Limo - voc,g
Gasman - keys, filter
Hanz - b, voc
Ufo - dr, cymbals
“MC Creatrix is a very rich, versatile and almost perfect contemporary psychedelic album, the best Shiny Gnomes have ever made and one of the very best German-made releases from the past years. This is big class and therefore mega-recommended. What more can I say?” (Crohinga Well, Belgium)
Tracklist :
A 1 Birthday OM
A 2 Healing Sounds Asleep
A 3 It`s All Here
A 4 In Nadreena`s Garde
A 5 Heart Moon
B 1 Lavender Hill
B 2 Dyade
B 3 Triple Mother
B 4 Thinking At The Edge Of The Unthinkable
B 5 Hemlock 93
Limo - voc,g
Gasman - keys, filter
Hanz - b, voc
Ufo - dr, cymbals
“MC Creatrix is a very rich, versatile and almost perfect contemporary psychedelic album, the best Shiny Gnomes have ever made and one of the very best German-made releases from the past years. This is big class and therefore mega-recommended. What more can I say?” (Crohinga Well, Belgium)
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Phantasia (2 albums)
Phantasia - 1972 - PhantasiaMonster acid fuzz guitar alert! A much sought after super rare US '70s psych album loaded with trippy, languid West Coast styled fuzz guitar.
Tracks
1 Transparent Face 3:09
2 Winter Wind 2:55
3 Talk to the Moon 3:35
4 Chasing Now the Flying Time 4:54
5 Featheredge 3:39
6 Genena 9:21
7 Willow Creek 5:48
8 Give Life Another Try 3:51
9 I Walk to the Moon 4:30
10 Winter Wind 2:57
11 Chasing Now the Flying Time 5:11
12 The Saddest Song I Know 5:44
2 Winter Wind 2:55
3 Talk to the Moon 3:35
4 Chasing Now the Flying Time 4:54
5 Featheredge 3:39
6 Genena 9:21
7 Willow Creek 5:48
8 Give Life Another Try 3:51
9 I Walk to the Moon 4:30
10 Winter Wind 2:57
11 Chasing Now the Flying Time 5:11
12 The Saddest Song I Know 5:44
Reissue of US psychedelic ultra rarity recorded 1971/72. The original albums (a complete one and a one-sided) are legends for all psychedelic/garage collectors, only 25 copies pressed of each -- not many people have the pleasure of having seen a copy. The music is creeping slowly and sensitively in your mind, whether stoned or not ö it takes you wherever you want. Those are the complete sessions, 55mins in mastertape quality presented the first time to the public. One of the best Psychedelic albums, playing in the same league as Fraction, Music Emporium, Hunger, Mystic Siva, Damon. Later the band changed into Trizo 50. Unbelievable that this extremely talented band didn't make it!!!
Download Link : (224 @ with artwork)
phantasia-_1972_-_phantasia.rar
Phantasia 1969-1972 A Psychedelic By
This is unreleased material laid down in the Damon Studios from 1969 into the early Seventies.
The sound is gentle psychy hippie-rock but with the odd heavier moments as witness the excellent slow burnin' psychedelic workout A Stumbling Dragon.
Other highlights the siren effects on the rocky Ride Me and the phasing and bubbling sounds on I'm Alive.
Some songs of this album are from the time the group called Trizo-50.
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Hungry Wolf - 1970 - Hungry Wolf
Hungry Wolf - 1970 - Hungry WolfMy favourite line-up of session men combine on this album from 1970 Hungry Wolf fantastic organ from the king of Hammond Alan Hawkshaw and the most inventive bass you'll ever hear from ace bassman Herbie Flowers.This album is the little brother of Ugly Custard-same 1971, which I'll post if requested.
1. Melanie
2. Watching and Waiting
3. Custards Last Stand
4. Country Wild
5. Waiting For the Morning Sun
6. Like Now
7. Hole In My Shoe
8. Sleepy
9. The Drifter
10. Revolution???
Alan Hawkshaw-Piano,organ
Alan Parker-Guitar
Clem Cattini-Drums
Herbie Flowers-Bass
Peter Lee Stirling-Vocals
Enjoy !!!
1. Melanie
2. Watching and Waiting
3. Custards Last Stand
4. Country Wild
5. Waiting For the Morning Sun
6. Like Now
7. Hole In My Shoe
8. Sleepy
9. The Drifter
10. Revolution???
Alan Hawkshaw-Piano,organ
Alan Parker-Guitar
Clem Cattini-Drums
Herbie Flowers-Bass
Peter Lee Stirling-Vocals
Enjoy !!!
Thanks Steve for this one !!!
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Folly's Pool (Fresno, CA)
FOLLY'S POOL (Fresno, CA)
"Folly's Pool" 1977 (Century 44675)
Tracks
01 Folly's Pool
02 Fallen Pony
03 Just a Memory
04 Jig in A
05 Before the Gates of Elessaar
06 Kathleen
07 West of the Skies
"Here's another little musical gem, this time featuring the indisputable talents of guitarist and singer/songwriter Steve Ono and his chums in Folly's Pool. Folly's Pool is another of the literally hundreds of private pressings which appeared in 1977 on the specialist label, Century Records, although it must be said that there can't be many other bands on the label that attain this level of recording quality and impressive musicianship. Under the stewardship of Fresno-born Ono, the band takes us on a tour de force of acoustic-based rural rock with folk, prog and country influences often to the background. At times Folly's Pool sounds like they're trying to be The Eagles or Loggins & Messina, but in many ways this does the band a disservice as they have successfully created an individual approach to their music which often turns the ordinary into the exceptional (the cunning transformation from folk to prog of 'Jig In A' is worth the price of admission alone) and the high standard of everything the band plays (the stunning electric guitar solos are particularly fine) makes this album one to play and savour."
This is an unusual album, kind of to prog what The Third Estate is to psych, with the same combination of acoustic guitars and wide-open low-budget production sound. It’s highly ambitious despite obvious recording limitations. It’s also extremely varied, going from California-style 70s rural rock to long folk songs with jig beats to flute-heavy prog epics. The creative approach to an otherwise mainstream style is intriguing, though the sound is really smooth, with harmonies that occasionally make me long for the good taste, restraint and passion of the Eagles and Seals & Croft. The sharp acoustic guitar sound doesn’t exactly mix well with the showoffy electric leads either. There seems to be a good deal of talent here to go along with the creative ideas, but ultimately it sounds like the slickest possible major label recording (but without a major label budget.) I find much of it irritating, but I think that if the basic sound of it doesn’t turn you off, with deep listens you’ll find a lot more to like here than I do. In fact, this is the kind of unique record that may become an absolute favorite to the right person. The way they turn “Jig in A” from an old fashioned folk tune into a prog epic and back is unlike anything else I’ve heard. Also noteable: the last song is based around the interesting lyric “we’re waiting on a mountain to die.” [AM]
~~~ These guys tried hard to eat their cake and have it too, as they mix Eagles-style 1970s westcoast with musically advanced UK guitar-prog and hope that noone's going to complain. Few people probably will, as they do both styles in a surprisingly adept way for a vanity label band, with nice country-flavored melodies and strong vocal harmonies on the LA cowboy stuff, and adventurous and technically impressive guitar arrangements on the prog moves. Possibly originating from Jethro Tull, the end result recalls another Tull-influenced band, Denmark's great Culpeper's Orchard, although Folly's Pool don't quite reach that level of consistency and inspiration. Third Estate is another possible reference, although the dreamy psych x-factor magic of that LP isn't really to be found here. Still, I enjoy this LP quite a bit, and as a merger of two seemingly opposite musical styles it's a rare experience. [PL]
I am really into it right now.... west coast feeling but something makes it different.....
Very Recommended
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The Ill Wind - 1968 - Flashes
American hippie psychedelic monster from 1968.
A Boston band made only this album. Guitars that intertwine like incense and soaring male/female vocals harmonies, make this an aural pleasure.
Tracks
1 Walkin' and Singin'
2 Sleep
3 Little Man
4 Dark World
5 L.A.P.D.
6 High Flying Bird
7 Hung-Up Chick
8 People of the Night
9 Full Cycle
2 Sleep
3 Little Man
4 Dark World
5 L.A.P.D.
6 High Flying Bird
7 Hung-Up Chick
8 People of the Night
9 Full Cycle
Bonus
10 illwind
10 illwind
11 You΄re All I See Now
12 It΄s Your Life
13 People Of The Night
14 R.U. Write
15 Tomorrow You'll Cme Back
The Reviews
1
The psychedelic group Ill Wind released just one album, and even though it was for a fairly big label (ABC), it was indeed ill-distributed and heard by few at the time. Like a number of late-'60s bands from Boston, Ill Wind suffered from the lack of a consistent musical direction and uneven material and production that didn't make the most of the bandmembers' assets, though there was some instrumental and vocal talent in the group. Their album, Flashes, was a tense, brooding stew of folk-rock and freaky psychedelia that didn't quite coalesce, with the stirring, assertive vocals of Conny Devaney the best ingredient. Although it was produced by one of the best producers in 1960s rock, Tom Wilson (who had worked with Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, the Mothers of Invention, and others), it didn't do much, and the Ill Wind disbanded at the end of 1968, though the group re-formed for a few months in 1970.
2
In 1988, after buying Vernon Joynson's FLASHBACK, I had the cheek to ask him if he'd do some tapes for me. At that time, there were next to no re-issues and the cost of 2nd hand albums was way beyond me. ILL WIND's 'FLASHES' was among some of the first batch that he did me. I grew up in Glasgow, as did my wife and between us we had virtually no West Coast music, mine was all STOOGES, VELVETS, KRAUTROCK & TAMLA MOTOWN. There was something abourt FLASHES which just got to that peak in us, and it still does. Ignorant people who know little about music would compare them to JEFFERSON AIRPLANE etc. My cherished little TDK tape from Vernon has given my wife and I years of delight. They didn't slcken either when listening to them on mushrooms, just got more powerful. I LOVE this album, and I can really relate to Stardancer and how he feels about them. In my opinion, a TRULY Psychedelic album that cuts to the Central Nervous System like a laser, Ill go into the Glaswegian vernacular now - fucking brilliant, Alistair. By the way, in exchange for all the tapes Vernon did me, I did the first cover of FUZZ, ACID & FLOWERS, and the cover for his re-issue of FLASHBACK before he began using a more laid back Artist not possessing the Celtic edge.
3
My album collection was stolen from my apartment in the mid 70's. Of all the albums I lost, it was the Ill Wind - Flashes that I missed the most. I had to go to an oldies shop and have them record this for me on tape ( I've since put it on CD) I was probably the first person in my area to ever hear of Ill Wind and only because, at the tender age of 16, I fell deeply and passionately in love ( summer romance) with a handsome, older man (19) from Massachusetts. Ahhhh Frank S...where are you now? He and his family introduced me to this album and I've been in love with it ( and maybe him) since. My taste in music has changed over the years but I still love cranking up the radio in my car and flying down the road on the Ill Winds of time.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft (1971)
Awesome progressive acid-folk. Reminiscent of the excellent Fuchsia album but somewhat darker, slightly more rock oriented and "out," and peppered with almost Gong-like jams. And maybe a tiny touch of Tim Buckley in the vocals? The first side-length track features great melodies and intelligent, complex, well-arranged song structures that make it a delight to parse. The two songs of the second side are more freeform but equally engaging. Highly recommended by me and the NWW list, too.
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Labels: fuzztunnel, J
Robbie The Werewolf - Live at the Waleback
ROBBIE THE WEREWOLF: Live at the Waleback (no label US 1964)
This is one of the rarest beatnik and monster-related lps. It was featured in the book “Incredibly Strange Music” (which is a guidepost to any collection like this). This is a small press, local record of a beat poet reciting in full werewolf get up at club in California in the early sixties.
Vampire man
Drums and guns
My little brother
Frankie Stein
That judge
Censored man
Count Dracula
Lucifer
Streets of Transylvania
Rockin' werewolf
Inside story of flamenco
Tip-toe through the wolfbane
Censored Dooley
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/tabacid/Robbie.html
Live jawdropper bohemian folk comic "real person" with monster concept. Strummed guitar lunatic tunes about Frankenstein, the joys of werewolfdom, and Count Dracula. A cover to die for with serial photos of lycanthropic transformation. [RM]
--- Remarkable early private press LP that manages to be a folk LP and a parody of a folk LP at the same time. Half of it is monster-fan piss-takes on standards such as "Tom Dooley", "Tip toe through the tulips", other half is Robbie originals of varying quality, hitting an unforgettable apex with the echo-laden Count Dracula track, which warns us to "...watch out for those vampires, some of them are QUEER". Also daring for the time marijuana and sex jokes, and a general bohemian counterculture feel to it all. Some of his in-between song jokes aren't all that funny, but the Santa Monica crowd had had enough red wine & weed to cheer and laugh at pretty much everything, creating a nice vibe. Unique artefact, made even more compelling by the fact that this guy later turned up in big time band Clear Light. [PL]
http://lost-in-tyme.blogspot.com/2006/11/clear-light-1967-black-roses.html
I LOVED IT..... VERY FUNNY VERY HIP AND VERY UNIQUE.....
VERY RECOMMENDED
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Labels: as Requested, JANISFARM, R
Deerfield - Nil Desperandum
Texas had the knack in the late '60s and early '70s for birthing excellent rock bands — whether they were psychedelic, blues-rock, pop/rock, or some oddball hybrid — that were, first and foremost, exceedingly heavy. Loud was the rule rather than the exception, and incendiary guitar work and thundering drums the hallmark of the sound, even as each band found individual ways of utilizing the volume. On their 1971 debut, Nil Desperandum, Deerfield occasionally show the vaguest hints of heaviness — white-lightning guitar runs, for instance — but mostly follow a decidedly divergent path, one that emphasizes a laid-back charm and textured group harmonies. The album is a smiling, fresh-faced effort, permeated by a good-time communal vibe so full of country goodwill that it melts away any possibility for cynicism. While Nil Desperandum is without question a rock & roll album, roots music is an important formative influence on the record — and not just the normal, blues-based infatuation most of Deerfield's Lone Star peers favored. This is unequivocally American music, bursting at the seams with references to, and borrowed tricks from, California country-rock, folk-rock, and bluegrass. Its rootsy amalgam strongly recalls the Grateful Dead, and, indeed, there are strong strains of Workingman's Dead and American Beauty on the loping title track, the effervescent "Kitty Is a Lady," and "Me Lovin' You" that rarely sound like affectations. Sunny, CSNY/America-like harmonies pop up on occasion, and there are fingerprints of Buffalo Springfield all over the songwriting. The band also toss in the odd British touch (the offbeat, English music-hall feel of "Magapolis/Out Without") and a bit of Bob Dylan's spicy humor, as well. Many of their contemporaries couldn't shoehorn such overt influences into a personal hybrid, but there's something singularly appealing about Deerfield's music. There are missteps along the way, to be sure: The playing can occasionally drag, while "Riverside" and "Do You Believe in Words," attempts to write epic Neil Young/Crazy Horse-style tracks, are only partly successful. But surprises such as the funky, wah-wah-laced "Better Way" and "The Great Rio Grande Border Run," with its hayseed guitar picking and farmyard languidness, easily trump any criticisms that can be leveled at this sweetheart of an album.
Labels: D, Lanchester
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Fresh Maggots - 1971 - Fresh Maggots
Fresh Maggots were just two people, Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin, they recorded their only vinyl in London 1971. They played acid folk-rock with electric and acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, tambourine, violin, tin whistles and vocals.
The original vinyl is very much sought-after today.
Tracks
Tracks
1.Dole Song
2. Rosemary Hill
3. Quickie
4. Everyone's Gone To War
5. And When She Laughs
6. Spring
7. Balloon Song
8. Guzz Up
9. Who's To Die?
10. Elizabeth R
11. Frustration
Bonus Tracks
12. Car Song (non-album A-side)
13. What Would You Do? (non-album B-side)
The Reviews
1
Long established as a cult classic and collector's grail, Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin's sole album is presented here with their full co-operation. Originally recorded in 1971 when they were just nineteen and fresh to the studio, Fresh Maggots is one of the best distillations of folk and psychedelia ever recorded. Varying in tone form heavy rock 'Frustration', to protest 'Everyone's Gone To War', social commentary 'Dole Song' and pastoral 'Rosemary Hill', it's a highly unusual and powerful record that enjoyed extravagant acclaim on release but sold poorly. Welcomed by all lovers of acid folk.
2
This duo from Warwickshire that had a meteoric career, but their sole album is ultra-sought after especially so that both vinyl pressings had major fabrication flaws. They developed an acid-folk-prog that was particularly personal but their style was wide-ranging including fuzz guitars. Even before their debut album, this multi-instrumental duo was hyped by the music press, but there was an unusual delay (including an artwork change) between the recording and the release of the album, and when it did finally arrive on the market, all interest had waned. Which is a real shame, because the duo had much talent and they were switching from guitars to violin to glockenspiel to guitars again. Sadly they became one of the many casualty from the era’s overcrowded scene.
3
Fresh Maggot played melodic acid folk-rock with electric (heavy on the fuzz side) and acoustic guitar mixed with glockenspiel, tambourine, violin, tin whistles and harmony vocals. The results are stunning particularly on the evergreen "Rosemary Hill" which features some beautiful harmonies. The electric fuzz guitar kicks in at various points on the record to startling effect, particularly evident on "Everyone's gone to War".
A must have for lovers of early Strawbs, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span etc.
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Human Zoo - 1968 - Human Zoo
Human Zoo - 1968 - Human Zoo
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01 It's Got To Be
02 Na - Na
03 Help Me
04 I Don't Care No More
05 Funny
06 Late To My Resurrection
07 When Papa Started Drinking
08 Gonna Take Me A Ride
09 Stone Sassy Fox
10 Human Zoo
11 The Time Was Over
Personnel:
Jim Cunningham -vcls A
Bob Dalrymple -bs A
Larry Hanson -gtr, keyb'ds A
John Luzadder -gtr A
Kim Vydaremy -drms A
Roy Young -vcls A
Album:
1(A) The Human Zoo (Accent ACS 5055) 1969
Labels: H, Lost In Tyme
V.A. - Best Of IGL _Folk Rock
Best Of IGL - Folk Rock
1] The Scavengers - It's Over
2] The Scavengers - But If You're Happy
3] The Scavengers - She Don't Care About Time
4] The Dark Knights - Send Her To Me
5] The Epicureans - I Don't Know Why I Cry
6] The Torres - Don't You Know
7] The Restrictions - Down On The Corner
8] Dale & The Devonaires - Never Be Free
9] Second Half - Forever In Your Mind
10] The Berries - Baby, That's All
11] The Berries - I've Been Looking
12] The Dynamic Hursemen - You Tell Me Why
13] Mad Lads - Everything Is Blue
14] Napoleon I & His Relatives - Summer Love
15] The Pawnbrokers - Someday
16] The Senders - She Told Me
17] The Kingpins - Come And See
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Bear - 1968 - Greetings, Children of Paradis
01 Greetings (2:30)
02 So Loose and So Slow (2:17)
03 Like Cats (3:37)
04 Happy Days (2:12)
05 What Difference? (6:24)
06 It's Getting Very Cold Outside (3:08)
07 I Won't Be Hangin' Round (3:00)
08 Don't Say a Word (2:32)
09 Don't You Ever Want to Think About Them? (3:24)
10 Hungry Dogs of New Mexico (3:56)
Artie Traum - Acoustic Guitar
Eric Kaz - Keyboards, Vocals on track 7, 9
Steve Soles - Vocals on track on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
John Herald - Vocal on track 10
Skip Boone - Bass
Darius Davenport - Drums
Though a formidable lineup of talent came together for Bear's sole album, it had neither a consistent style nor compelling material. Another one-shot late-'60s psychedelic band, Autosalvage, might serve as a point of comparison, as two members of that group (Skip Boone and Darius Davenport) play on Greetings, Children of Paradise. Bear's record, though, is even more diffuse than Autosalvage's in its dodges between various circa-1968 underground rock styles, made even more erratic by some aspects which seem to aim for a bit of pop appeal. There's a little of the Lovin' Spoonful's good-time rock from time to time, but more often it's an uneasy mesh of free-floating American hippie rock with some Beatlesque harmonies and melodies. Sometimes there are jazzy beats and arrangements; at other times there are moderately heavy psychedelic guitar solos; at others, their basic folk-blues roots poke through (as on "Hungry Dogs of New Mexico"). The songs are kind of shapeless and the melodies on the undistinguished side, however. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Bio :
Although the members of Bear had some roots in the 1960s folk scene, their late-1960s album was actually an average psychedelic outing, and not an especially folk-rock-inclined one. Artie Traum and Eric Kaz had played in the rock band Children of Paradise, who recorded for Columbia. On the sole Bear album, titled (probably in a nod to the name of their prior group) Greetings, Children of Paradise, they were joined by Steve Soles, with Skip Boone (brother of the Lovin' Spoonful's Steve Boone) and Darius Davenport of the band Autosalvage contributing. The record is a mish-mash of period styles, from good-time rock and Beatlesque meanderings to songs with psychedelic guitar solos and loose, jazzy feels. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Labels: as Requested, B, Opa-Loka
