Posts Tagged ‘Psychedelica’

13th FLOOR ELEVATORS – ” The Sign Of The 3 Eyed Men ” Box Set

Posted: December 14, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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  1. 13th Floor Elevators was an American rock band from Austin, Texas, formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland, which existed from 1965 to 1969.

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Its Hard to choose just one Elevators album, such is their influence, so why not all of them? Plus extras, some of which had never been heard before prior to this ground-breaking release. At 10 CDs this box set just keeps on going.

Available only from this official website, the ultimate package the band has long deserved. Following strong initial demand and such positive early reviews the final worldwide production run was set at 4,000 pre-numbered copies.

With excellent sound quality from newly discovered sources with rare previously unavailable recordings and including unique reproductions of original band memorabilia.

  • The bands three landmark albums The Psychedelic Sounds Of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere and Bull Of The Woods including rare mono versions, outtakes and alternate versions.
  • Two lost albums featuring previously unreleased material
  • Rare and previously unreleased live recordings
  • A 72 page hardback book written by the bands biographer Paul Drummond, enhanced with posters, ephemera, discographies and many rare and previously unseen photos
  • A selection of reproduction memorabilia including photographic prints, reproduction posters, stickers and handbills.

CLEAR LIGHT – ” Clear light “

Posted: December 12, 2014 in MUSIC
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Clear Light were a Prime Example of L.A./West Coast psychedelia containing virtually everything one could want in an album from that time period. I still get goose bumps just thinking about this one. Possibly second-tier but decidedly not second-rate. An antidote to those burnt out on the Doors.

In 1966, The band Brain Train formed and was managed by Sunset Strip hipster Bud Mathis. They recorded one single – “Black Roses”,written by Wolfe Dios – before changing their name to Clear Light and signing to Elektra Records. The Doors‘ producer Paul A. Rothchild took over management of the band.

The core members of Clear Light were Bob Seal, lead guitarist and vocals, Robbie “The Werewolf” Robison, rhythm guitar and vocals, Doug Lubahn bass and vocals, Dallas Taylor drums, and Michael Ney on, unusually, another set of drums.  The original line-up was featured in the 1967 motion picture The President’s Analyst,with Barry McGuire cast as their leader and vocalist  They soon added Cliff De Young on lead vocals  this version of the band seen on their only album cover. However, sometime during the recording process, often described as “brutal”, Paul Rothchild was not happy with Robison’s guitar playing skills and pressured the group to remove him- he was replaced by keyboard player Ralph Schuckett.

A notable track from the Clear Light album, was “Mr. Blue,” a psychedelic version of a folk song written by Tom Paxton and a popular request on underground radio at the time. Lasting over six minutes, the rather sinister, psychedelic song is considered a classic of the genre. Its lyrics, which alternate between spoken word and song, include verses opening with such lines as, “Good morning, Mister Blue, we’ve got our eye on you,” “Step softly, Mister Blue, we know what’s best for you,” and “Be careful, Mister Blue, this phase you’re going through ..

The album also included a reworked version of “Black Roses”, released as a single, and some of guitarist Bob Seal’s psychedelic folk-rock songs, namely “With All in Mind” and “They Who Have Nothing.” It had some success in England, but was largely ignored in the U.S, After having started work on a second album the group disbanded in 1968. Two tracks from the sessions for the second album surfaced in 2006, “Darkness of Day” and “What a Difference Love Makes”; the latter showed the group moving into more commercial territory due to Kortchmar’s influence.

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – ” Their Satanic Majesties Second Request “

Posted: December 12, 2014 in MUSIC
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There’s simply no way to minimize the influence this band has had on the last 15 years of bands flying the psychedelic banner. Easily the most mentioned influence on all of them. For me, this is as fine an entry point as any to the gateway drug known as the BJM. Opener “All Around You (Intro)” is your own personal invitation to the trip. Take them up on it. The band went through an intense period of recording in 1996, releasing three separate albums. Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request reflects a pastiche of 1960s psychedelia that continues to characterize the present Brian Jonestown Massacre sound. The album also includes vast experimentation with a variety of different instrumentation including Indian drones, sitars, mellotrons, farfisas, didgeridoos, tablas, congas, and glockenspiels. The title of the album is a pastiche of The Rolling Stones‘ 1967 album of the similar name.

ASTEROID No4 – ” These Flowers Of Ours “

Posted: December 12, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Telling that this release is out on the Anton Newcombe-backed (the BJM) label. Timeless, or out-of-time, music with thoughtful and thought-provoking lyrics which will stick in your head for what seems like a timeless eternity. These Psychedelphians even have the great good taste to cover a Rain Parade chestnut. Comes off like a best-of collection. the liner notes to “These Flowers of Ours“, we’re treated to a brief description of the Asteroid No. 4‘s workshop, where across the room from an extensive shrine to the history of shoegaze the bass player watches a bootleg video of the Rain Parade while rolling a joint on the back of a Teenage Fanclub album. And if that sounds like a place you’d enjoy visiting, then “These Flowers of Ours” is doubtless the sort of record you’d like to spend some time with. Floating through an echoey netherworld of jangling and roaring guitars, subsonic bass, thundering drums, and vocals that drift as clouds through the paisley atmosphere, this music is space rock at its most engaging and organic, psychedelia that’s timeless because the music sounds too languid and loose-limbed to bother committing itself to any decade in particular. Not that this stuff sounds lazy this is an album that is dense and impressively rich for all the space in the music, and while melody often seems to be an afterthought in this sort of stuff, the Asteroid No. 4 rival Outrageous Cherry in their ability to write tunes with actual hooks to accompany their flights of guitar-fueled aeronautics. These Flowers of Ours is almost too much of a good thing at times, soaring so far into the ether that it has a hard time making its way back to Earth, and at 54 minutes this album begins wearing out its welcome in the later chapters.

ETERNAL TAPESTRY – ” Karma Repair Kit “

Posted: December 6, 2014 in MUSIC
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taken from the album Guru Overload by Eternal Tapestry on Oaken Palace Records .Guru Overload finds Eternal Tapestry at their wooziest best with guitar noodling aplenty and pure, full-on jamming to the fore. On vinyl, side A is taken up by just two songs and they seem to go nowhere and everywhere at the same time leading the listener into a trance like groove. The music is pretty special and obscure and so are the song titles; “Trout Fishing On The Street of Eternity”, “Where Water Comes Together.

JOSEFIN OHRN and the LIBERATION – ” Free “

Posted: November 29, 2014 in MUSIC
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Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation are a Swedish retro, psychedelic groove machine with busy bass lines, freaky drums, moody arpeggio guitars, keyboard layers and soft expressive vocals from Öhrn. Their songs have a self perpetuating melancholic dark beauty, a dreamy captivating sensuality and a sense of mystery with an urgency in the songwriting that keeps your eyes closed and your ears open. This is most definitely a band to watch out for in the future even if their inspiration comes from the past. A debut album is due early 2015.

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ALLAH- LAS – ” Sacred Sands “

Posted: November 29, 2014 in MUSIC
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Allah-Las is an American Psychedelic Rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States, formed in 2008. The band consists of Matthew Correia (percussion), Spencer Dunham (bass), Miles Michaud (vocals, guitar), and Pedrum Siadatian (lead guitar).[1] When the band got together, three of them – Correia, Dunham and Siadatian – were working at Amoeba Music.Record Store.

 

 

The ACTIVE LISTENER – ” Sampler No 26 “

Posted: November 27, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The BABE RAINBOW – ” Planet Junior “

Posted: November 22, 2014 in MUSIC
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The Babe Rainbow from Queensland in Australia, The Babe Rainbow (yes, that is their name) have announced a run tour dates to accompany the release of their new single, “Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest” (yes, that is its name). Following on from the single’s the trio have also been spreading their new video and now they are touring as support to King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizzard.

PUSHER – ” On My Own “

Posted: November 20, 2014 in MUSIC
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Yorkshire act Pusher are releasing the video to their latest brooding single, entitled ‘On My Own (Serpentine)’, the lead-track from their self-recorded impending EP 10,000 Hours, to be released at the end of November. the band recently played support to the Danish band the WANDS and even though a short soundcheck was possible they were awesome, with two accomplished guitarists and a superb collection of songs, With hints of the Mission, Echo and the Bunnymen and gothic bands of yore, their swirling melancholic sound is anchored by frontman James Gilroy’s powerful vocals and laced with the intertwining, teasing guitar work of both Nevyn Stevenson and Matthew Clayton. certainly a band to watch .

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