06-05-07 - 13-05-07

Saturday, May 12, 2007

The Left Banke - There's Gonna Be A Storm: the complete recordings 1966-69

Though it's missing a few rarities -- namely the Steve Martin single for Buddha that reunited him with Michael Brown -- this is the most definitive Left Banke compilation. It features the entirety of their two late-'60s albums, as well as a couple of singles that didn't make it onto LPs at the time (though they later appeared on Rhino's History) and a previously unissued cut, "Men Are Building Sand." Their debut 1967 LP, Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina, is an underrated classic of the time, matching smart harmonies and pop hooks to baroque orchestration. Its brilliance casts a bit of a shadow over the rest of this collection. The group's 1968 album Too suffered from bloated production and, more importantly, the absence of chief songwriter/arranger Michael Brown. In turn, the 1967 single Brown cut under the Left Banke moniker with singer Bert Sommer suffers from the absence of lead vocalist Steve Martin. By the time Brown and Martin tenuously reunited for a late-1969 single, some of the spark had gone. All of the aforementioned highs and lows of this prodigiously talented but strife-ridden group are on this disc. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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Savage Rose - 1968 - Savage Rose

Danish psychedelic rock group, founded in 1967 by Thomas Koppel, Anders Koppel, Alex Riel, Jens Rugsted, Flemming Ostermann, and Annisette. Ilse Marie Koppel was also participating. Nils Tuxen replaced Flemming Ostermann from their second album. Since the mid 1970s, the group has been an acoustic trio consisting of Thomas Koppel, Annisette Hansen and John Ravn as a core. From the beginning of the 1990s, the group returned to electric instrumentation. Thomas Koppel died on February 25, 2006, and the future of the band is still uncertain. Annisette has announced that the 2006 autumn tour in Denmark will be carried out. Their debut album was recently selected to be part of the Danish national "cultural canon".

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http://www.thesavagerose.com/srindex.html

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Bob Hocko and the Swamp Rats - 2003 - Disco Still Sucks!

Looking back at the '60s, it seemed like any kid with a garage and a guitar was able to record and release a disc. As a result, the dusty bins of rock & roll history contain too many bands to keep tabs on. Among the avalanche of Nuggets and Pebbles collections, there are passing notices paid to the Swamp Rats, but unlike many of the one-off bands included in those collections, the Swamp Rats are worth revisiting. Hailing from the Pittsburgh, PA suburb of McKeesport, the Swamp Rats emerged in 1966 and gained some degree of renown with their surprisingly wild take on the ubiquitous garage rocker, "Louie Louie." Their reputation was further fueled by a string of raucous singles offering solid versions of tracks by the Beatles ("Here, There and Everywhere"), the Kinks ("She's Got Everything"), and what would become the group's most recognizable song, the Rolling Stones' "It's Not Easy." A thoughtful reissue unleashed by Get Hip in 2003, Disco Still Sucks! does a solid job of gathering up the band's finest moments. With a string of songs originally released from 1966 and 1967, the band made quite an impression among garage rock fans. Graced with extensive liner notes, the album details the band's career from beginning to end. The most immediately jarring thing about Disco Still Sucks! is how brash and noisy the guitar were for 1966. Before kids were armed with digital effects and fancy studio tricks, the Swamp Rats were pounding their instruments into fuzzy revolt with pure teenage fury — and it sounds great. The CD also includes unlisted bonus tracks that seem to show leader Bob Hocko wrestling with some psyched-out Vietnam-era demons. Whether the stories are fact or fiction, the trippy barrage of spoken word pieces and sound effects are an unsettling but offer an intriguing glimpse at the experimental direction the band might've taken had it survived a few more years. (allmusic)

Bob Hocko and the Swamp Rats - 2003 - Disco Still Sucks!

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Peter Ivers Band - Knight of the Blue Communion

Prepare yourselves for one of the strangest albums ever made. Originally released on Epic (!!!!) in the late 60s, this album really has no peers, the nearest possible connection would be to staunchly noncommercial artists such as United States of America, White Noise, Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa. Peter Ivers-singer/ songwriter, actor, theatre writer, experimental video director, Harvard graduate and all-round nutter/genius created this incredible soundscape from electronic sounds (provided by an "intermodulator"), free jazz, classical yet spontaneous singing, blues and rock.

Many music fans will know Peter Ivers as the writer of 'In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)', which he originally composed for David Lynch's classic film, Eraserhead. The song was later immortalised, of course, by fellow Bostonians, the Pixies.

Ivers may not be a household name, but during his short life he made an impact on many fronts. He was a musician, arranger, composer, screenwriter, catalyst, TV presenter, spotter of new talent, a black belt in karate and a yoga master. Talking to people who knew and worked with him even 24 years after his untimely death, the superlatives still come gushing forth: such epithets as 'perfect'; 'a totally unique and refreshing individual'; 'a legend in the making'; 'a genius in many fields' freely trip off the tongue about him.

Peter's first big music industry break came in 1969, when Epic Records signed him to record his debut solo LP, Knight of the Blue Communion, the first ever legitimate CD reissue of which is now released on Hux Records.

In addition to playing harmonica and providing backing vocals, Peter acted as arranger and composer, while his friend Tim Mayer provided all the lyrics. Ivers assembled a fascinating group of musicians to play on his record. On drums was Cleve Frank Pozar, with Richard Youngstein on contrabass, and Tony Ackerman on guitar. The horn section featured Steve Kowarsky on bassoon, Henry Schuman on oboe and Paul Balmuth on sax. However, the icing on the cake was chanteuse Yolande Bavan, and the way in which Peter used her as lead vocalist on the album. Bavan was a singer and actress who was born in Sri Lanka and had started her professional career working as a vocalist with renowned pianist Graeme Bell. Later, she met and was befriended by the legendary singer Billie Holiday. Holiday took the young Bavan under her wing and in addition to mentoring Yolande, developed a close friendship with her. Subsequently, Yolande found her way to America where she replaced Annie Ross in the renowned jazz vocal trio, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross.

On its original release in 1969, Knight of the Blue Communion drew comparisons with Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa, with Yolanda appearing to be the conventional vocalist cast in what was often a sea of avant-garde madness, the music a blend of blues, rock & jazz. The LP was produced by the veteran US pop producer Sandy Linzer, who had written and produced the hit 'Let's Hang On To What We Got'.

Yolande left the band the following year and was replaced by Asha Puthli, a forward thinking, boundary breaking vocalist who'd trained in Indian classical singing and was a natural jazz improviser, whom the New York Times described as 'a sound like raga meeting Aretha Franklin'.

With Asha now on vocals, the Peter Ivers Band released their debut single in 1971, a cover of the Marvin Gaye number, 'Ain't That Peculiar', backed by the Ivers' original, 'Clarence O'Day'. Both titles, previously unavailable on CD, are included here as bonus tracks. As Puthli recalls, the single 'received glowing reviews from all three major industry magazines, Billboard, Cashbox & Record World and briefly entered the Top 100 Singles Billboard charts'.

Asha Puthli went on to sing on Ornette Coleman's Science Fiction album and won Downbeat poll award for best female jazz vocalist for her sterling contribution to that classic album.

Track Listings
1. Cat Scratch Fever
2. Water Curtain
3. Dark Illumination
4. Confession
5. Travelling Lightly
6. Showroom Model
7. Tobacco
8. Lord God Love
9. Knight of the Blue Communion
10. Gentle Jesus

Absolutely amazing stoned walk stuff
IMO a must have

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Freeman Sound and Friends - Heavy Trip (1970)

"Unreleased recordings from obscure Ohio band with 1970 45 on the same label as Morly Grey. Much of this is actually modern recordings, nevertheless about half of it is enjoyable sinister psychrock with a late Doors vibe." (AcidArchives)

"World In Sound presents another group that represents the late '60s, early '70s heavy psychedelic era scene in northeast Ohio, USA (the same region that Dragonwyck is from). Having won the Starshine Productions' 'Battle of the Bands' in 1970, the five-member Freeman Sound was established as the most popular of several bands (including Morly Grey), that had records released on the Starshine label. This special collection of original songs and sounds is an exciting bit of rock history that documents some of the charm, wit and depth of talent that made Freeman Sound the special local phenomenon they were. This release includes twelve great, quality tracks, four on an extra 7" record. Bio and photos are on a poster. You'll get stoned on some mind-bending vocals backed by instrumentation that includes some very intense, heavy fuzz and wah pedal guitar sounds, solid drums and a screaming organ with flashes of famous British groups. This band broke up before they were able to make the most of their popularity. With this previously unreleased album, they may be taking up where they left off. For fans of intelligently-executed psychedelic hard rock and pop with a message."

1) Tomorrow Is Plastic
2) Heavy Trip #70 (Freak Out)
3) All I Need
4) If I Could Only
5) Wanting To Be Free
6) All Roads Lead Home
7) 16 Tons
8) Singing My Own Song
9) On The Way
10) Get It While You Can
11) I Just Can't Stop Lovin' You, Babe
12) Christmas Card

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Vikings - I Need Your Lovin/Such A Love (7" single-Norton,2007)

"rare 1965 ohio garage"

side 1
I Need Your Lovin'

side 2

Such A Love

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Sea Train - 1969 - Sea Train

Of the Blues Project came Sea Train.

This album ranks alongside Family's Music in a Dolls House, Quicksilver's Happy Trails, Steve Miller's Sailor; all classic albums of the time. It's an eclectic mix of classical,country,jazz and psych-fuzz-rock styles that is fragile and inventive and still sounds "quite good".

Tracks
A1 Sea Train 4:07
A2 Let The Duchess No 3:38
A3 Pudding Street 4:55
A4 Portrait of The Lady As a Young Artist 3:45
B1 As I Lay Losing 4:55
B2 Rondo 3:22
B3 Sweet Creek's Suite 4:20
B4 Outwear The Hills 4:40

Roots-fusion combo Seatrain formed from the ashes of the Blues Project -- following the exits of the New York-based group's other members. Flutist/bassist Andy Kulberg and drummer Roy Blumenfeld relocated to Marin County, CA, forming a new lineup with vocalist Jim Roberts, ex-Mystery Trend guitarist John Gregory, former Jim Kweskin Jug Band violinist Richard Greene, and saxophonist Don Kretmar. Though the group's 1968 album, Planned Obsolescence, was issued under the Blues Project name out of contractual obligations, the sextet immediately rechristened itself Seatrain to release a self-titled 1969 LP highlighted by their unique blend of rock, bluegrass, folk, and blues. A series of roster changes plagued the group in the months to follow, however, and in 1970 Seatrain -- now comprising Kulberg, Roberts and Greene in addition to keyboardist Lloyd Baskin, drummer Larry Atamanuik, and former Earth Opera guitarist Peter Rowan -- released their second album, also eponymously-titled, scoring a minor hit with the single "13 Questions." The George Martin-produced Marblehead Messenger followed a year later, with Greene and Rowan soon exiting to join Muleskinner; Roberts and Atamanuik left Seatrain as well, with the latter eventually resurfacing in Emmylou Harris' Nash Ramblers. The remaining duo of Kulberg and Baskin recruited guitarist Peter Walsh, keyboardist Bill Elliot, and drummer Julio Coronado for one final LP, 1973's Watch.

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V.A. - Relics (of the 60's) 1&2

Relics #1 - LP

Side 1
1 The Traits - High On A Cloud (Pelham, NY, U.S.A.)
2 Hot Dog Stand - Zilch
3 The Xtreems - Facts Of Life (St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.)
4 The Soulbenders - 7 And 7 Is (Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.)
5 The Basement Wall - Never Existed (Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.)
6 The Eyes - I'm Rowed Out (London, U.K.)
7 The Pack - The Colour Of Our Love (Detroit, MI, U.S.A.)
8 Third Power - Snow (Detroit, MI, U.S.A.)

Side 2
1 Bubble Puppy - Beginning (San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.)
2 The Eyes - When The Night Falls (London, U.K.)
3 Plastic Cloud - Shadows Of Your Mind (Bay Ridges, Canada)
4 The Underground - Psychotic Reaction (U.S.A.)
5 The Ninth Street Bridge - Hey Baby (Houston, TX, U.S.A.)
6 Pinkerton Colors - Strange Things (MI, U.S.A.)

Relics #2 - LP

Side 1
1 The Bow Street Runners - Another Face (U.S.A.)
2 Nomads - Hey Joe (Edmonton, Canada)
3 Marcus - A Trip In Time (PA, U.S.A.)
4 Help - Questions Why (CA, U.S.A.)
5 Maxx - 200 Years (MI, U.S.A.)
6 The Day After - The Graduate (PA, U.S.A.)
7 The Night Riders - Journey To The Stars (NC, U.S.A.)

Side 2
1 The Saxons - The Way Of The Down (West Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.)
2 The Saxons - Things Have Been Bad (West Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.)
3 Internal Canitery Sin - Purple Haze (Circleville, OH, U.S.A.)
4 King's English - Mister You're A Better Man Than I (Worthington, OH, U.S.A.)
5 Beau Jests - Love Is A Beautiful Thing (FL, U.S.A.)
6 Little John & The Monks - Black Winds (Blue River, OR, U.S.A.)
7 The Animated Egg - I Said, She Said, Ah Cid (U.S.A.)
8 The Farm - Inner Space (IL, U.S.A.)

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Many Bright Things - 1st album

Label Lone Starfighter
Released 1998
Time (minutes) 60
Tracks 7

From Aural Innovations #5 (January 1999)

This was one of the albums that led me towards writing the Texas Psych-out article. Never mind that I later discovered the band is really from Indianapolis! (Only the issuing label is in Texas.) It's funny, but the style of psychedelia on this one lays right in the Texas tradition. But what the hey? Who cares where they're from...the music is really cool. Many Bright Things is a band (?) with two main protagonists (Stan Denski and Ray Pierle) and a guest guitarist (Larry DeMyer) on one track. Both Denski and Pierle are versatile instrumentalists, sharing guitar and bass duties, but with Denski solely providing the vocals and Pierle the drums. I believe the LP came out a few years' back - this CD reissue also includes three bonus tracks which up the total time to a full hour.

The three-part epic musical rendition of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" opens with a female voice reading what I can only imagine is prose originally penned by Shakespeare in the work of the same name. But a majority of the twenty-minutes is just total psychedelic madness with an eastern flavor (there's that sitar sound again). "When the Night" is an excellent piece of work, a 10-minute shamanistic tribal romp featuring successive wah-wah and e-bow guitar solos. Here, Denski's vocals are chant-style and oddly engaging. "Lazy River Blues" is a cover of an old Jon Uzonyi (of Peace Pipe and The Human Equation) tune, though it seems to hearken all the way back to the Robert Johnson delta blues style. MBT adds their own touch to the music though, with the 'tremelo-style vocals' and a particularly intriguing bubbly guitar sound. "4 AM" is a Denski solo signature piece, which could very easily be a Jimmy Page composition for acoustic guitar (a la "White Summer"). I really like this sort of thing when done well, and this one ranks very high. The bonus tracks don't add too much to the original album, though are well worth a listen. "Loop Jam #2" is undoubtedly a bit of fooling around in the studio one day while the tape was rolling, pleasant enough whether 'finished' or not.

From the photos on the back cover, I can tell these guys have been around for awhile and no doubt have recorded things in the past, whether as a unit or separately. I enjoyed this effort and want to seek out more of their work. And now that I realize the band resides in Indiana (just a few hours west of the AI home base), the possibility of researching their past history seems more feasible. So watch this space for more info on this talented duo.

Available through Lone Starfighter records
Reviewed by Keith Henderson

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V.A. - Delincuentes (Martian, 2001)

"Jovenes Punks de America Latina"

Side 1

1 Los Hitters - Delincuente

2 Los Yetis - No Me Digas Adios

3 Los Ovnis - Baby Please Don't Go

4 Los Yorks - El Loco

5 Los Yetis - Amor Sideral

6 Los Ampex - Lost Love

7 Los Yaki - Las Estatuas De Marfil

8 The Speakers - Glendora

Side 2

1 Los Yorks - El Sicodelico

2 The Speakers - Lucille

3 Los Ovnis - Ya Se

4 Los Beat 4 - Lo Que Sera

5 Los Saicos - Lonely Star

6 Los Bulldogs - I'm Gonna Find A Cave

7 Los Shain's - Shain's A Go Go

8 The Beat Boys - Wake Me Shake Me

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V.A. - Czechoslovakian Beat vol.1 (Reverendo Moon, 1996)

Side 1

1 The Matadors - Old Mother Hubbard

2 The Matadors - Malej Zvon, Co Mam

3 The Matadors - Don't Bother Me

4 The Bluesmen - A Proto Se Bojìm Mìt Te Rád

5 The Bluesmen - Ler Proc Nemohu Spat

6 Juventus - Bob Hands

7 Juventus - 18 Minut

Side 2

1 The Beatmen - The Enchanted Lie

2 The Beatmen - Safely Arrived

3 Flamengo - Poprava Blond Holky

4 Flamengo - Pani V Cenerem

5 Flamengo - Zavrazdil Jsem Lasku

6 The Olympics - Vzpominka Pliziva

7 Juventus - Procitnuti

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Afterflow - 1968 - Afterglow

Extremely Organ/Keyboard driven album with a few catchy pop songs and the aforementioned Pscyh-out "Susies Gone".

Recorded in 1966-67, this Oregon group's sole release is notable for two serious 60s pop classics ("Morning" and "Afternoon"), a 2:29 gem of farfisa, slide guitar, and vocal dementia worth snagging for a "freaky 60s" comp ("Susie's Gone"), and another outstanding pop cut only a step behind the two monsters ("Love"). As the remaining cuts are quite solid and satisfactory, it's an album that holds up well to a full play and repeat plays. The basic sound is dominated by thin, corny, effusive farfisa organ lines and fleshed out with electric guitar, bass guitar, and drumkit. The multi-part male vocals are very clean, pretty, and generic to the era.

Tracks

1. Morning (2:05)
2. Dream Away (2:33)
3. Susie's Gone (2:29)
4. Mend This Heart of Mine (2:37)
5. Afternoon (1:59)
6. Chasing Rainbows (1:49)
7. By My Side (1:54)
8. It's a Wonder (2:28)
9. Love (3:02)
10. Riding Home Again (2:34)
11. Meadowland of Love (2:23)
12. Susie's Gone [Alternate Version) (2:32)
13. Chasing Rainbows [Alt. Backing Track)1:51)
14. Afternoon [Alt. Backing Track ) (1:48)
15. Morning [Alt. Backing Track] (2:11)

The Reviews

1

Afterglow starts with "Morning," a gentle folk-rock song that finds the middle ground between the Byrds and Jefferson Airplane. Although there are a couple of tracks similar to "Morning" on the album, it is no more an indication of what's to follow as any other song on the record. Each song on Afterglow sounds as if it could have been written by different bands -- sure, there is the sighing "Mend This Heart of Mine," but it follows the downright bizarre "Susie's Gone," a which, with its dissonant Farfisa organs and slide guitars, sounds like a space voyage. It's not particularly coherent but its sampler nature makes Afterglow a charming psychedelic relic.

2
An obscure psychedelic band based in Oregon, Afterglow released only one album in 1968 before vanishing. Afterglow's lone, eponymous release was sort of like a sampler of American psychedelic styles, featuring songs that recalled not only the Doors and Jefferson Airplane, but also the Byrds, Donovan and trippy garage-psychedelic bands like the Strawberry Alarm Clock. Led by guitarist/vocalist Tony Tecumseh, the group formed in August of 1965 when Tecumseh was convinced by a friend to contact drummer Larry Alexander and a bassist named Mike. The trio, dubbed the Madallions, soon added vocalist Gene Resler and the band played several shows, usually at a local pizza parlor, before they went their separate ways to attend college. They re-formed in 1966, adding new bassist Ron George and keyboardist Roger Swanson. That fall, they began recording with producer Leo Lukla at his Golden State Recorders studio, but due to their studies, they were unable to complete an album until late 1967; the resulting eponymous record appeared early the following year on MTA Records. Afterglow was ignored at the time and the group broke up shortly afterward, but the record became a favorite of psychedelic collectors.

3

Organs, sunshiney guitar, harmonious backup vocals. This record is so good I had to raise the score! The sound is often similar to Belle and Sebastian (I suspect they may have covered "Riding Home Again", or written a song that is an exact copy)other times it's Beatle-esque. Beautiful organ stuff going on (Farfisa?) similar to the Piper at The Gates of Dawn at times (much more bubblegummy song content though in comparison but not overall). They get spaced out on "Susie's gone" almost to a No-Wave groove 10 years too soon. It's kind of a short record, but you'll just want to listen to it again after the first time, so who cares.
Something of a cross between Country Joe and The Fish and British North American Act,their album is certainly worth investigation and has been reissued on CD by Sundazed.

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Gandalf The Grey -1972 - The Grey Wizard Am I

A spellbinding combination of laid back acid folk rock & psychedelic fuzz guitar,
of the classic 1972 privately pressed album from the New York wizard aka, Chris Wilson.


Originals sell for over $1000! Sixteen tracks in total all recorded between 1966 and 1972.The songs are jangly folk-pop, mixing Tolkien mythology with big-city observationals. Througout the record, Wilson maintains a keen sense of structure and drama, adding little modulations here and there to keep things interesting.

Tracks

1. The Grey Wizard Am I
2. My Elven Home
3. From The Green Havens
4. Here On Eighth Street
5. Go And See
6. The Christmas Song
7. Old Town Church
8. The Home Coming
9. I Don't Know Why The People
10. Mr. Joe's
11. Sunshine Down The Line
12. The World Belongs To The Children
13. A Young Girl Just Died
14. Before Tomorrow
15. The Shadow Of Tomorrow
16. An Elven Song Of Love

One could make the argument that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings fantasy trilogy (published 1954-1955) had as significant a formative influence on the emergent hippie generation as did Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) or Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961). Certainly you can hear it in the twee archaisms of British folk from the era and in the more whimsical, otherworldly strains of British psychedelia (the Incredible String Band comes immediately to mind), and, in time, it would saturate '70s prog rock. It is right there, too, as a catalyst in American folk-rock (perhaps Simon & Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," probably the Byrds' "Renaissance Fair") and Baroque pop (Sagittarius' Present Tense, Love's "Forever Changes"), and ultimately in its acid folk (Perry Leopold's dark masterpiece Christian Lucifer). But Chris Wilson took the inspiration to its logical extreme on The Grey Wizard Am I. His nom de guerre, appropriated from the novels, is the ultimate homage, while many of the lyrics on the album were directly inspired by Tolkien's imaginary landscapes as well, and even by some of his characters. The remainder convert the ins and outs of Wilson's bohemian life in Greenwich Village into a sort of fantasy world of its own. And it is all quite delightfully, if earnestly, done — or, to be less precious about it, The Grey Wizard Am I is often a transfixing, bewitching little relic, particularly on such songs as "My Elven Home," "Go and See," and "Sunshine Down the Line." It's not likely to have a wide appeal — anything this eccentric, unworldly, and chimeric, no matter how well done, probably has a limited audience — and there is not a great deal of melodic variation from song to song to push it into the upper echelon of similar recordings. Nevertheless, The Grey Wizard Am I is a lovely little pastry for fans of obscure '60s and '70s folkadelica, ideal music for playing dress-up to, or for daydreaming.

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Savage Rose - 1969 - In The Plain

Savage Rose - 1969 - In The Plain

01 Long Beofre I Was Born (3:19)
02 I'm Walking Through the Door (4:28)
03 Let's See Her (3:52)
04 Ride My Mountain (5:38)
05 Shepherd and Sally (5:18)
06 His Own Happiness Gods Little Hand (4:19)
07 Evening's Child (3:25)
08 Trial in Our Native Town (7:08)


In the Plain by Denmark's Savage Rose has a striking cover photo with psychedelic color coordinated band members surrounded by wild pink lettering of the group name. Inside is innovative music, pretty much living up to the typical Polygram hype from this era written on the back cover. "Let's See Her" sounds like Ten Wheel Drive meets Vanilla Fudge; brothers Anders Koppel and Thomas Koppel wrote seven of the eight tracks, and created with this one clever sound and arrangements. The sleeper on In the Plain, though, is the one non-original, five minutes and 38 seconds of "Ride My Mountain," a composition by Jade. It's a wonderful production number where Anisette's vocal scream out over the very together instrumentation. The back cover photo reflects the intensity of "Ride My Mountain," the band looking like exiles of Charles Manson's clan in the positive of the back cover photo, a larger negative version above it making this import very hip. The Savage Rose look like they are auditioning for the film The Savage Seven. The opening track reminds one of a hipper Peanut Butter Conspiracy, and there is no doubt that Savage Rose find more inspiration in their music than similar bands from the era. The production is somewhat like Davd Briggs' work on Alice Cooper's Easy Action, while titles like "The Shepherd & Sally" are as experimental as anything on that early Cooper disc. Having the male vocals on "His Own Happiness" is unnecessary, sort of like Big Brother & the Holding Company letting Janis Joplin take a time out. Thankfully, Anissette comes back after a mini-instrumental interlude for a rare look at the band's sangfroid. It is also interesting to hear Thomas Koppel's to-be ex-wife, Llse Maria Koppel, on harpsichord backing his next wife, Anissette. "Evening's Child" is like a psychedelic powwow of jazz-influenced garage rock which cascades into the dirge that is "A Trial in Our Native Town." Without the polish producer Jimmy Miller would bring to the mix on Refugee, In the Plain is a very good look at a highly creative band.
~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide

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P.J. Orion & The Magnates

P.J. Orion & The Magnates

"Local prep-garage LP with a folkrock sound a la Ha'Pennys but slightly more pro-sounding, adds some early 60s and UK R'n'B covers for good measure. Consistent in its $15 jangly Searchers/early Byrds sound, even on Stones and Animals numbers, with a folkrocked "Love Minus Zero" perhaps the most original thing on board. Nice live feel with appealingly loose drummer and amateur vocals. No selfpenned material and kind of short with only nine tracks, even as most of them cross the 3-minute mark. Recorded in New York. The band members belonged to wealthy Greek shipping families (hence "Magnates") and were students at the Groton prep school, which makes their tough greaseball stance on the supercool cover seem a wishful Spring break fantasy. [PL]"

1] As Tears Go By
2] We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
3] Eve Of Destruction
4] Under The Boardwalk
5] Sheila
6] Love Minus Zero
7] What Have They Done To The Rain
8] Bells Of Rhymney
9] Gloria


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V.A. - Crude PA vol.1-2 (Distortions, 1996)

Side 1

1 Pat Farrell & The Believers - Brand New Baby

2 The Conductors - She Said So

3 The Soul Generation - I Can't See You

4 The Couriers - Feelings

5 The Changing Tymes - You Make It Hard

6 The Sands Of Time - Come Back Little Girl

7 The Scholars - I'm Gonna Make It

8 The Effects - I've Been Told

9 The Bitter End - If You Want Somebody

Side 2

1 The Snaps - Polka Dotted Eyes

2 J.C. & The New Tones - Love: Human Emotion

3 The Nomads - Point Five

4 The Nomads - I Need Your Energy

5 Facts Of Life - I've Seen Darker Nights

6 The Iron Gate - Feelin' Bad

7 Thee Young Generation - Ruby Tuesday

8 Thee Young Generation - Stupidity

9 The Starfyres - Captain Dueseldorph

Side 1

1 The Wilde Things - Can't See The Sun

2 The Wilde Things - My Life Is Black

3 The Undertakers - Little Girl

4 The Bats - How Could You Have Known

5 The Glas Menagerie - Natasha

6 The Creations - Love Is Tuff

7 Effects/Glass Company - MW Lads

Side 2

1 The Savoys - Only So Much

2 The Savoys - Got To Say Goodbye

3 The Loose Enz - A World Outside

4 The Rising Tydes - Artificial Peace

5 The Rising Tydes - Don't Want You Around

6 The Chosen Few - Staircases, Places And Time

7 Strawberry Tuesday - Return Of The Walrus

8 Mysterious Clown - Mysterious Clown

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V.A. - Cicadelic 60's vol.3-1965-66 Folk Rock ( Cicadelic CD,1993)

"The Savage Sounds of 12 Far-Out Groups"

1 The Sting Rays - Baby If I Loved You

2 The Sting Rays - You Better Think Twice
3 The Sting Rays - I Can Feel
4 The Sting Rays - Now That You're No Longer Mine
5 The Beats - We Can Work It Out
6 The Beats - Paperback Writer
7 The Mods - Days Mind The Time
8 The London Knights - Go To Him
9 The Maltees Four - You
10 The F.B.I. - What Am I To Do
11 The F.B.I. - Daytime Nightime
12 The Shillings - Laugh
13 The Cascades - She'll Love Again
14 The Uncalled For - Since You've Been Gone
15 The Uncalled For - Masters Of War
16 The Outcasts - Nothing But Love
17 The Outcasts - Something About You
18 The Infinite Pyramid - On A Windowsill
19 The Beats - Norwegian Wood
20 The Beats - Love Me Do
21 The Super Lloyds - River


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V.A. - Attack Of The Jersey Teens (Bona Fide,1984)

"60's Punk from the Garden State"

Side 1

1 The Young Monkey Men - I Believed You
2 The Young Monkey Men - I'm Waiting For The Letter
3 The What-Nots - Morning
4 The What-Nots - I Need You Baby
5 The Friedles - She Can Go
6 The Young Monkey Men - I Love You
7 The What-Nots - I Was A Fool
8 The Friedles - I Lost Her

Side 2
1 T.P. & The Indians - Ally Or Enemy
2 The Friedles - Don't Tell Me What To Do
3 The Young Monkey Men - Bald Headed Woman
4 The Calliope - Streets Of Boston
5 Loved Ones - Surprise, Surprise (For You)
6 The Confederate Society - Pride
7 The Friedles - When Love
8 Saturday's Garbage - The River Of Styx

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Shark Move - Chede Chokra's Shark Move (Indonesia 1970)

(Many thanks to Mr. Attic for the vinyl rip!)

Shark Move started playing in Bandung, Indonesia in 1970 and was founded by Benny Soebardja who play lead guitar and sings. Shark Move is one of the Indonesian rock pioneers who combined rock music with traditional harmonies and progressive sounds. Some songs on this LP using English lyrics, while other bands at that time where still playing sweet music, this is really an experimental recording. Unfortunately at the end of 1970 the keyboard player passed away so Benny decided not to continue with his band and formed a new on named Giant Step. A very complex prog album which is as strong as many good UK albums of the same period but it has this little extra which makes this album unique and great. (Shadoks)

Another heavy new title from Shadoks that restores an obscure 1970 psych monster from Indonesia. Shark Move have that classic slow sunrise sound of countless South American titans mixed with the kind of sunburst vocal style that floats the best of the UK freakbeat sides (Jason Crest et al), crunching fuzz, heavy keyboards and kaleidoscopic song stylings. This is ambitious, florid psych that should please anyone who digs the more dramatic UK sugarcube moments as much as the more enjoyably complex Euro prog shit. And if that ain't you, who the fuck is it? (Volcanic Tongue)

1. My Life
2. Butterfly
3. Harga
4. Evil War
5. Bingung
6. Insan
7. Madat

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A Cid Symphony - 1967 - A Cid Symphony

A Cid Symphony - 1967 - A Cid Symphony
[bonus tracks] @256

1. Loudusphone Number 1 - 1:17
2. Loudusphone Number 2 - :35
3. Loudusphone Number 3 - 14:01
4. Pierced Hand Number 1 - 6:30
5. Pierced Hand Number 2 - 4:11
6. Pierced Hand Number 3 - 8:50
7. Golden Gate Number 1 - 7:34
8. Golden Gate Number 2 - 3:21
9. Golden Gate Number 3 - 1:33
10. Golden Gate Number 4 - 3:57
11. Burning Bush Number 1 - 3:02
12. Burning Bush Number 2 - 2:56
13. Burning Bush Number 3 - 8:45
14. Noismakers, No. 1 - :35
15. Noismakers, No. 2 - 4:37
16. Noismakers, No. 3 - 5:46
17. Noismakers, No. 4 - :56
18. Scrambled Psychadelic BS Number 1 - 8:31
19. Scrambled Psychadelic BS Number 2 - :26
20. Scrambled Psychadelic BS Number 3 - 6:43
21. Scrambled Psychadelic BS Number 4 - 3:21
22. BT 1 [*] - 2:53
23. BT 2 [*] - 4:15
24. BT 3 [*] - 2:37

The artists' name are actually Fischbach & Ewing while the LP is often listed as "Acid Symphony", a reading that one of the band members has approved. The music is stoned acoustic counterculture brainstorms with an Eastern vibe. More bluesy/folky beatnik angle than psychedelia, so beware of the usual dealer hyperbole. Interesting period piece in any event. Engineered/produced by Denise Kaufman of the Ace Of Cups, who handled the publishing via her Thermal Flash Music company (this is NOT the label).
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Homemade low-key mostly acoustic acid folk with eastern sounds and anti-war spoken word dialogues. Records are on green, orange, and purple vinyl respectively with matching inner sleeves and square labels. [RM]

Any CD that opens with over a minute of country harmonica-backed yodeling followed by an entire 35-second track of silence is bound to be peculiar, even if it was created in a time that hosted more than its fair share of bizarre music. A Cid Symphony certainly wasn't the pop group next door. In fact, there is nothing remotely pop about the group, from their psychedelically derived moniker to the nameless "songs" and original 3-LP, colored-vinyl packaging, and the completely counter-pop, noodling droning of their music — droning sometimes indescribably beautifully, but occasionally in the pejorative sense of that word. The band is unquestionably of their time, yet their music is unique from any other during the '60s. The most obvious way in which their sound is grounded in the heady, spiritually yearning malaise of the '60s is its complete immersion in Hindustani and Middle Eastern music, with modal, raga-esque scale progressions and a discernibly mystical bent filling the entire first CD and a portion of the second. A Cid Symphony easily conjures an image of college-aged kids who are caught up in the kaleidoscope of social and cultural energy of the period, sitting in a public park completely engrossed in the strangely expressive, foreign music coming out of the instruments they're playing, oblivious to any passers-by. This is actually very close to how the music was actually conceived. Ernest Fuschbach's fluttering dulcimer is the basis of these songs, interspersed with Charles Ewing's flamenco-picked guitars. At times, alongside the Eastern underpinnings, the music is wholly evocative of front-porch Appalachian folk and blues, and the mixture of the two genres mostly works brilliantly, and at least much more successfully than it would seem possible. There are also elements of Native American ceremonial music, Spanish music, and a smattering of 12-bar acoustic blues, especially on the second CD, where A Cid Symphony performs several actual folk-blues songs with vocals, although even these are rarely straightforward. At times the music can touch on a palpable dissonance, while at others it can be so lyrical and innocent that the only way to describe it is heart-wrenchingly romantic or entirely sensual. There is no doubt that this is indulgent music, hopped up with not a little bit of naivete and the sort of self-righteous austerity that is only the province of the young, compounded by the righteousness of the era. It can seem underdone or convoluted in small patches, and after long stretches of undisturbed listening, it can also blend together a bit. By and large, though, a profound and transforming sort of innocence shines through these songs, and A Cid Symphony frequently hit on a groove so beautiful that it is mandala-like in its transcendence. — Stanton Swihart

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A CID SYMPHONY
Formed 1966 in Berkeley, CA

Unquestionably a harbinger of the times, A Cid Symphony — a folk-and-ethnic music collective that incorporated instruments as wide-ranging as dulcimer, hand-held brass, and Hindustani ankle bells into their extended Middle Eastern-cum-country & folk music drones — was instigated and helmed by Dustin Mark Miller. Miller, was a part of the mid-'60s Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, spending his time selling protest records to raise money for the movement. The musical passion stuck, so in 1966 he enlisted old pal and neighbor Charles Ewing, whom he had known since kindergarten, and Ernest Fischbach to start a folk/ethnic flower-child band aligned with the San Francisco Diggers. Ewing was an avid flamenco guitar aficianado, and he had met Fischbach while the two were in graduate school together at Cal State Long Beach. The two shared a passion for music, and Ewing soon discovered Fischbach could play any instrument with strings, as well as drums and harmonica. The trio converged in Los Angeles and A Cid (originally Acid) Symphony was born.

Early in the band's genesis, Fischbach married teenage model Deborah Cleall, who promptly became a part of the group, which, moreso than a band, soon grew into a loose band of nomadic friends, a family and tribe. John Goeckermann and Tom Harris often added their percussive skills, and David Goines contributed as well. A Cid Symphony began playing mostly at colleges, often with like-minded peers the Firesign Theatre and sponsored by friends, Students for a Democratic Society, or whomever would support the music. They also crashed the Monterey Pop Festival, playing on the grounds of the festival and meeting Ravi Shankar. According to Digger principles, the band would hold free concerts at which they fed everyone that showed up.

When the band earned its first write-up in the Sunday Los Angeles Times, they all quit their jobs on the spot and migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Ewing and Fischbach studied Hindustani music at the Ali Akbar (Khan) College of Music. San Francsco music columnist Ralph Gleason introduced Miller to Max Weiss of Fantasy Records. Weiss allowed the band to use Fantasy's studios, and they recorded and released their first and only record, a self-titled triple LP, in 1967, published by the Thermal Flash Music label of Denise Kaufman, an original Merry Prankster. The Fischbachs went on to play with the Golden Toad, one of California's premier folk/ethnic music bands led by Bob Thomas and a sister band of sorts to the Grateful Dead. They would often join A Cid Symphony at functions such as the Renaissance Pleasure Faire. By the late sixties, after three years together, A Cid Symphony dissolved for the most part as a collective musical entity. Miller and Ewing's families, however, went on to live communally for the next two decades. — Stanton Swihart

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Monday, May 07, 2007

V.A. - A Pot Of Flowers (Mainstream, 1967)

Side 1

1 The Wildflower - Baby Dear

2 The Wildflower - Wind Dream

3 Euphoria - Hungry Women

4 Other Side - Streetcar

5 The Wildflower - Coffee Cup

6 The Harbinger Complex - I Think I'm Down

Side 2

1 The Wildflower - Jump In

2 Other Side - Walking Down The Road

3 The Harbinger Complex - When You Know You're In Love

4 Euphoria - No Me Tomorrow

5 The Harbinger Complex - Time To Kill

6 The Harbinger Complex - My Dear And Kind Sir

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Sixto Rodriguez - Coming from Reality (1972)

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez is a US folk musician, born in Detroit, Michigan on the 10th of July 1942. He was named 'Sixto' because he was the sixth child in his family. However, he is also known as Jesus Rodriguez by South African fans. Rodriguez's parents were middle-class immigrants from Mexico, who left in the 1920s. In most of his songs he takes a political stance on the cruelties facing the inner-city poor.

Rodriguez recorded some songs with a small recording company, who later folded due to financial problems. He did, however, manage to produce two albums - "Cold Fact", in 1970, and "Coming to Reality". They were relatively unknown in his home country, and most of the world, but unbeknownst to him went platinum in South Africa, where he achieved cult status. He was also popular in Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Australia. After the failure of the record company, he gave up his career as a musician. He was working on a Detroit building site in the late 1990's when his daughter discovered his fame thanks to a South African fan website.

"South Africa in the early 1970s was a very restrictive society," says Stephen Seger-man, a former Johannesburg jeweller who made it his mission to track down Rodriguez. "Cold Fact was never banned, but it never received any radio play, except on pirate stations like Swazi Radio, which weren't under the censor board. The song I Wonder had this line, 'I wonder how many times you had sex', which for South Africa in those days was about as controversial as it could get. For kids, it was like a joke song, they were like 'listen to this!'. Then they heard the album, and realised there was a lot more in it, it was trippy, it was beautiful, it had a lot of social content. It affected a lot of people in a lot of different ways. The commercial success was unbelievable. If you took a family from South Africa, a normal, middle-class family, and looked through their record collection, you'd find Abbey Road, Neil Young's Harvest and Cold Fact. It was a word-of-mouth success."

The word of mouth did not reach Detroit, where Rodriguez had given up his recording career after a second album, 1972's Coming From Reality, vanished in much the same fashion as his debut. He tried an unsuccessful career in politics, studied for a BA in philosophy, worked in a petrol station and apparently "took part in Indian pow-wows throughout Michigan", before becoming a self-employed labourer. In South Africa, meanwhile, his record company seemed to have no idea of his whereabouts. In place of any concrete information, rumours spread. It was variously assumed he was dead from a heroin overdose, had been burned to death onstage, had been committed to a mental hospital, or was serving a prison sentence for murdering his lover: "Who or what Rodriguez is remains a mystery," claimed the sleeve notes to a reissued CD.

1. Climb Up On My Music
2. A Most Disgusting Song
3. I Think Of You
4. Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour
5. Silver Words
6. Sandrevan Lubally - Lifestyles
7. To Whom It May Concern
8. It Started Out So Nice
9. Halfway Up The Stairs
10. Cause

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Subway - 1972 - Subway

A dreamy Acid-Folk album, very much evocative, beautiful.
Truly odd and almost indescribably strange record.

Subway were a half American, half British duo, living in France who released 200 copies of this, their self titled album, on vinyl, and promptly disappeared without trace. Their sole 'gigging' consisted of busking in Paris subways- hence the band's name- and to add to the legend, it seems that most of the unsold copies were melted, which was usual French practice!! The music itself is dark, psychedelically inclined folk with elements of freeform prog: somewhere betwixt Comus and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, but with less instruments.

Tracks

1. I Am A Child

2. Songs For Sinking Shelters

3. Warm You Are

4. All The Good Things

5. Enturbulation - Free Form

6. Arizona Sands

7. Rosana Of The Roses

8. Can I Trade With Your Mind

Early 70s acid folk songcraft from Subway -- the duo of guitarist/singer/composer Irv Mowery and violinist Malcolm Watson -- a lost gem of minimalist psychedelia! Legend has it the the original LP was released in 1972 in an astoundingly small pressing of 200 copies (?!) -- and it's totally worth a rediscovery! The tunes aren't as out there as you might imagine -- the guitar and violin are both plaintive and impeccable, and Mowrey's tunefulness is rewarding -- with real songs that are closer to a stripped down Sunshine era Donovan than the typical overpitched freak folk oddity. Nice! Titles include "I Am A Child", "Song For Sinking Shelters", "Warm You Are", "All The Good Things", "Enturbulation -- Free Form", "Arizona Sands:m "Rosanna Of The Roses" and "Can I Trade You With My Mind".

A Must Have Acid Folk Lovers.

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Flying Karpets - 1968 - Flying Karpets

Flying Karpets - 1968 - Flying Karpets

01 Gimme A Little Sign
02 La Felicidad
03 White Rabbit
04 Behind A Young Girl's Smile
05 20th Century Fox
06 That Girl Don't Say Much
07 San Francisco Nights
08 I Wanna Be Free
09 My Back Pages
10 Yes I Know
11 Mercy Mercy Mercy
12 Winter Song


Wonderful mellow psychedelic from late 60's recorded by a bunch of US draft dodgers in Mexico. All english vocals and dreamy trippy psych pop. Full of appealing garagey primitiveness with some originals & great covers of 'My Back Pages', 'San Francisco Nights' & 'White Rabbit'

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Os Mutantes - 1968 - Os Mutantes

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Allmusic review:

The band's debut album, Os Mutantes, is far and away their best — a wildly inventive trip that assimilates orchestral-pop, whimsical psychedelia, musique concrète, found-sound environments — and that's just the first song! Elsewhere there are nods to Carnaval, albeit with distinct hippie sensibilities, incorporating fuzz-tone guitars and go-go basslines. Two tracks, "O Relogio" and "Le Premier Bonheur du Jour," work through pastoral French pop, sounding closer to the Swingle Singers than Gilberto Gil. Though not all of the experimentation succeeds — the languid Brazilian blues of "Baby" is rather cumbersome — and pop/rock listeners may have a hard time finding the hooks, Os Mutantes' first album is an astonishing listen. It's far more experimental than any of the albums produced by the era's first-rate psychedelic bands of Britain or America.