Lion Productions is an independently owned label and wholesale distribution company started in 2001. Our own Lion Productions label concentrates on creating respectful re-releases of music first recorded during the "psychedelic era" (1965-1973); as a distributor, we offer similar reissues made by other labels from locations all across the globe.

If it is not a contradiction to say so, we carry a wide range of music within the boundaries of our chosen musical niche. As the definition of what is "psychedelic" alters and expands, we find that we can stock whatever happens to catch our ears and eyes—music that tends to fall between the cracks at other, larger companies. While Lion Productions does stock a wide range of music, we are proud of our selectivity. We are a small company, and excel in customer service and ease of use for both customers and vendors alike.

We sell to independent music stores throughout the United States, and to small, independently owned distributors all over the world. We export to many countries, including Canada, Mexico, England, Benelux, Spain, Greece, Brazil, Japan, and Korea.

LION PRODUCTIONS LPs RELEASES
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CHRISTOPHER “What’cha Gonna Do?” deluxe LP
Official authorized reissue of the legendary psychedelic LP by Christopher from South Carolina. One of the absolute best American psychedelic LPs of the 1960’s, and one of the rarest—a copy went for close to $4,000 the last time an original copy sold online, and nearly double that changed hands off-line for an original!

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PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SYNDICATE “Space Alley”
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate has finally returned with a wide- ranging/raging new album — recorded two years ago in an expansive, benevolent alleyway in the midst of a dark, diseased, claustrophobic time of global chaos. The new PCWS album, entitled "Space Alley," boldly travels into the relatively unexplored malevolent terrain of free doom, space/noise punk, and darkly dubbed-out library/soundtrack grooves (call it 70's crooked-cop show/freak-funk, if you must).

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Yama & the Karma Dusters (Euphoria Blimpworks Band) "Up From the Sewers"
Quintessential underground anarcho-Hippie, anti-establishment private press blast by a band (and commune) from Chicago c. 1970, with poetic, sometimes vicious lyrics (Dylan-esque, or Arthur Lee and Love? you decide), and funky, hard-edged bones. Yama & the Karma Dusters, a.k.a. the Euphoria Blimpworks Band, were inter-racial, anti-war, Stop the Bomb, free love Hippies, the wildest of the wild kids..

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LOTHAR JAHN “Dreams of ‘75”
Lothar Jahn’s "February '75” single was released by the German label Sound Records in 1977 — a very unusual record, somewhere between psychedelic, folk, and Krautrock. That single was reviewed thus on Discogs: “A mysterious journey through Cosmic Psych Folk Kraut, whatever you may call it. Fantastic, from beginning to end. Another Kraut on 45 milestone.”  This newly recorded album, “Dreams of ’75,”  is an extended riff on the original singl

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BLACK SUN ENSEMBLE “S/T” (Volume 2) LP
The music here still sounds as gorgeous to me as it did when I first stumbled across it. The magnificent weight of Jesus’ guitar work is always a surprise. From the midst of the most gently-drawn sand waves, he rises with his scimitar gleaming black in the hot desert sun to fulfill a mission whose orders only he can hear. What more could you ask for? I mean, really?" —Byron Coley

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BLACK SUN ENSEMBLE “S/T”
Their classic first album, reissued for the very first time with the tracks exactly as they were on the original 1985 issue on Pyknotic!
"It is difficult to think of a band that has ever produced psychedelic music that sounded even remotely like the original Black Sun's" —Byron Coley

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The SilverBeats “S/T" LP
"The first time I saw the SilverBeats… the band took the cramped stage at the window near the front door. Fronted by James Tessier, who appeared to be the missing link from The Standells, the band’s sound was simple, fuzzy and perfect. These cats were no strangers to reverb. — Blaine Schultz

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SEOMPI “We Have Waited: Singles And Unreleased”
"Huge buzz saw bass churns its way through this heavy-progressive tune, all stern Fripp-ian chord changes and driving insistency, amidst the primal guitar sludge.”  — Julian Cope’s Head Heritage website

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SPIRAL GALAXY ”S/T"
•Expansive kosmische sounds with flute, sitar and electronics, that travels from devotional soundscapes to motorik beats, freak-folk and beyond.
•Guest-starring: Jean-Hervé of the legendary Faust, Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple, Alisha Sufit of Magic Carpet, and Ryley Walker.

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CEPTIC FROG “Ceptic Frog”
Ultra-rare rehearsal sessions from 1969 by this South African heavy psych / acid rock band, mastered from a tape transfer — and yet still doom-laden, dark, heavy, and as messy as can be, in all the right ways. Influences from heavy bands of the time, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Steppenwolf are noticeable, with proto-doom and psych/funk undercurrents.

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HAWK “African Day”
It's dark and still in the chief's village protected by mountains of the great southern regions of Africa..." so begins the seventeen minute epic 'African Day' that kicks off the greatest Afro-psychedelic concept album ever made — first released on Parlophone in 1971. Hawk’s music on this epochal album is a fusion of tribal African rhythms with acoustic hippie music elements — long solo jams, saxophone breaks, percussion — sounding at times like an African version of Embryo fronted by Tim Buckley!

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Jeff Carney's sophomore effort for audioFile (1989) could not have been criticized were it to have remained in similar territory as the electronic wall of sound he had created on Imperfect Space Journeys. Instead, he created a more sparse, evolving tapestry of analog timbres. Using an exclusively vintage analog arsenal and recording live without overdubbing, Carney pushed forward with new ideas and uniquely developing sweeps of filter madness.

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BADGE “Collected Singles” 
Not many albums can get you in the mood to blow out your speakers quite like Kath “1”, the hideously rare and expensive 1974 low-fi, semi-ramshackle DIY psychedelic LP made by members of Maryland band Badge, recorded in the home of band leader Val Rogolino (and, yes, dedicated to his girlfriend and their pet monkey!).

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JORGE TRASANTE "Investigacion Musical Desde Las Raices Folklore Afro Uruguayo Interprete Jorge Trasante”
A masterpiece of South American percussion, recorded in 1977 by worldwide legend and Gipsy Kings percussionist Jorge Trasante—and impossible to find for decades—finally reissued!

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SIDEWINDERS "Cuacha!” LP
"By the time they recorded Cuacha!, the Sidewinders had almost figured out what kind of band they wanted to be. On some cuts here the Hüsker Dü-goes-West mix of acoustic textures and roaring guitar is almost perfect. 'I Guess It Doesn't Matter' and 'Blood on Our Hands' are punk-pop masterpieces driven by Rich Hopkins' snarling guitars and Dave Slutes' country-inflected but brash singing... The album is worth having for the first released version of 'What She Said,' a song that the band released on three different albums, each time rocking a bit harder and at greater length. The version here is a dark, mournful folk-rock piece." —AllMusic

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MANDHYLON "Negra ciudad”
From the ashes of the mythical Argentine duo Sandhy & Mandhy—who recorded in 1969 the intensely rare and beloved album “Para Castukis” (reissued by Lion Productions on vinyl and CD), a record suffused with beat and psychedelic influences—comes this resurrection by Mandhy of his "Celestial Stories." Alberto Vanasco Jr. (Mandhy) resumes his musical tale with twelve tracks written between 1968 and 1978.

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EARTHFORCE "Earthforce”
Praise for the long out-of-print CD reissue of Earthforce:
"Ultra rare mid-70s UK acid folk rock recordings. Features sitar, moog,  acoustic and electric guitars, assorted percussion instruments to create a Popul Vuh like soundscape. If you can imagine the perfect blend of Eastern trance/psych and English hippy acid folk rock, this would be it. Very cool and freaky."

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SINN SISAMOUTH “Groove Club Vol. 4: Sinn Sisamouth Vol. 1”
Cambodian garage psych music from the late '60s and early 70’s, is some of the strangest music you will ever hear: amazing garage psych excursions with brilliant farfisa keyboards and wah wah fuzz guitar topped off with fascinating Cambodian vocals — influenced by American and British music of the era, but transformed into something unique and incredible. Primal versions of rock 'n' roll, surf, and R'n’B — sometimes all in one song!

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JEFF CARNEY "Imperfect Space Journeys” (ISJ)
"Immediately engaging & all recorded live without overdubs. An analogue e-music roller-coaster ride. Hop on if you dare!”  —Eroc

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UMBRA “S/T” Unreleased heavy rock from 1971-1972!
What was available to unknown hard rocking dreamers like Umbra in Denver in 1971-72? Weekend gigs. Nothing but weekend gigs. But there was an upside to that: bands like Umbra could mix original material in with covers, and make enough money to survive. Or in the case of Umbra, to make enough money to build a home studio, where they recorded ads to promote their upcoming shows—and eventually, laid down the eight tracks on this disc.

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INDEX "Originals Vol. 2 (1969)” LP
In February of 2009, Jim Valice of Index discovered three reels in a cardboard box stuffed in a closet of his parents home in Michigan. These songs from 1969 were on those reels. Fourteen original compositions by Index, seven making their vinyl debut, the other seven released for the first time ever, all transferred from the original tapes!

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INDEX "Originals Vol. 1 (1967-68)" LP
All of the original compositions from the band's two self-released holy grails of psychedelia (the Black Album and the Red Album, from 1967-68) combined into one collection—all newly transferred from the original tapes!

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Various “Ayahuasca: Psychedelic Cumbias, Vol. 1”
What have we here? At first glance it seems like the missing volume from our Groove Club series, which it so easily could have been! This is stunning collection—which took more than fifteen years to put together—of hot, rare tracks that combine cumbia with psychedelic rock.

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DASZU "Zone of Swans/Lucid Actual + 1/2 Dativa” 2xLP
If there's one thing we've learned from doing reissues for twenty years, it's that there is often a lack of justice in the arts. All too often, the intensely talented are shunted aside, or not able to access the means to a greater hearing, or marginalized (or eradicated) by larger societal (commercial) (racial) (political) forces, to name just three potential prongs of an art-crushing pitchfork. The less an artist's work can be categorized, the greater the odds of being an eternal outsider.

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CARPE DIEM  “Cueille Le Jour” LP
In December 1976, Carpe Diem entered whacked-out recording wizard Jean-Pierre Massiera’s Azurville studio and recorded — on 16-tracks — and in just ten days — working sometimes from ten in the morning until three the following morning — all the material they’d written since their first album. The trademark Carpe Diem sound is here in full force: cosmic synthesizers, psychedelic-flavored guitar-led flights of fancy, fluid woodwinds, along with an astounding degree of harmonic sophistication.

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CARPE DIEM  “En Regardent Passer Le Temps” LP
“The album practically encompasses the diversity and inspiration of the French progressive rock underground. It is, easily, one of the finest albums to have emerged from that scene. At the risk of sounding like a raving fanboy, En Regardent Passer Le Temps is indeed a classic record for the ages.” —Greg Northrup, Progweed

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NEXUS "En El Comienzo del Topos Uranos"
"If you like ELP influenced prog served up to you hot and heavy there is an hours worth of intense pleasure here. Highly recommended." —Ken Golden, Laser's Edge (review of the CD edition)

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NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE  "Powerglide"
"Evokes images of lonesome horsemen riding across painted-desert landscapes... and then into the eventual dark, starscape of night."
—Ian Capilouto, Maplewood Records

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JEAN-EMMANUEL DELUXE "Rouen Dreams”
"This album has restored my faith in pop music as a concept. File between Syd Barrett and Sacha Distel. Listen to it in the dark." —Tot Taylor

"All stories should be completely planned out from beginning to end.” —George Sanders

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the TROYES "Love Comes, Love Dies: The Troyes Complete recordings (1966-68)"
Essential Michigan garage/psych! Propelled by their local chart-topper 'Rainbow Chaser,' Battle Creek quintet The Troyes entered the orbit of bandleader Ray Anthony (“Dragnet”, “Peter Gunn”), laying down a multitude of fuzztone laced tracks throughout 1966-1967 that, save for one 7” release on his Space Records label, remained unreleased on vinyl—until now.

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the MORNING DEW “The Morning Dew”
Morning Dew have been psych collector faves for ages. Their sole release, "At Last" (much like the Morgen album on Probe) becomes more obviously crucial with each passing year. After recording their legendary album for Roulette in 1969, Morning Dew headed back to Topeka feeling good about their prospects.

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VARIOUS “Puissance 13 + 2” (the Power of 13 + 2)
The atmosphere was wonderful throughout all of the recording sessions, sessions recorded in the open air, in the sunshine, amongst friends. We were motivated simply by the desire to play music, the music we love the way we wanted to play it. All the titles on this album are unreleased, and most of them were recorded specifically for this occasion.... this isn’t any old debut, it’s the Debut. — Laurent Thibault (1971)

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SOULS OF INSPYRATION “S/T”
After nearly twenty years of work, finally a proper reissue of this sought-after album by the Souls of Inspyration, first released on Columbia in 1970. Sought after, yes — and deservedly so, with stellar keyboard-driven, melodic songs, strong vocals, and an overall sense of cohesion.

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HONEST JOHN "Sailor"
Unreleased underground Texas hard rock from 1975! First release anywhere, anytime!
Heavy grooves with dense, layered guitars and Deep Purple/Black Sabbath style vocals from bassist T.J. Sanders. Honest John was a band that meant business at a time when most bands were softening their sound for radio.

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A PASSING FANCY "S/T"
Rare yet much beloved Canadian pop-psych record from 1968—an album considered by many to be the best to come out of Canada during the late 1960’s! Built around the talents of singer/guitarist Jay Tefler and bassist Fergus Hambleton, A Passing Fancy made their name in Toronto's vibrant Yorkville Village scene.

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LAURENCE VANAY “Les Soleile De La Vie”
"The tracks on the album reflect my feelings at the time, a great happiness to live an interesting life (although stressful!) with the key, a happy story of love." —Jacqueline Thibault






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LAURENCE VANAY “La Petite Fenêtre” 
“My ship of stone, tonight I came as a passer-by. Yet I gave you everything, my joy, my love, my freedom. I feel like singing, dancing, laughing like in the old times.” —Jacqueline Thibault (from ‘Mon vaisseau de Pierre,' a tribute to the Hérouville castle)

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WILSON McKINLEY  "Heaven's Gonna Be A Blast!"  
With beginnings firmly in the secular realm and a strong following in the Northwest, Wilson McKinley signed to Alshire Records (home of 101 Strings) and recorded one album under the label's 'acid-rock' moniker, The California Poppy Pickers.

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WILSON McKINLEY  "Spirit of Elijah"  
With beginnings firmly in the secular realm and a strong following in the Northwest, Wilson McKinley signed to Alshire Records (home of 101 Strings) and recorded one album under the label's 'acid-rock' moniker, The California Poppy Pickers.

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the LOST SOULS “The Lost Souls”

"Lost Souls indeed—this is one of the great lost groups of the 60's.” —Option Magazine

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JARVIS STREET REVUE “Singles (and More)”   
“Back in 1970, up in the cold North of Ontario, Canada hailed a group that had already had prophetic visions of the corporate, strictly-business, profit-driven, polluting, oil addicted, don’t let the environment-get-in-the-way-of-a-buck bullshit world that we currently live in." —Helios Chrome




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the DEEP “Psychedelic Moods of the Deep”  

"The best Nuggets-era garage album ever." —www.lysergia.com

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the BEAUTIFUL LOSERS "Nobody Knows the Heaven"
It’s 1974 in Paris. Two young guys in their bed-sit (one of whom is French music maven/famous producer Jay Alanski) are dreaming counter-cultural dreams, spinning their own eternal versions of California and New York. The result of those imaginings is this album, a child begotten of Baudelaire, Lautréamont—and Marc Bolan.

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EDUARDO MATEO & JORGE TRASANTE
“Mateo Y Trasante”
Under the dark cloud of an early 1970's dictatorship, most musicians fled Uruguay. Not the nation's best, iconoclast Eduardo Mateo. It was during this dark period that Mateo reached his zenith as a composer and arranger, with a help from famous Afro-folk percussionist Jorge Trasante.

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MONTEVIDEO BLUES “S/T"   
The one and only album by Montevideo Blues (1972) is a serious contender as one of the most important, and as it happens, most grooving records released in Uruguay. It's also incredibly rare, fetching big prices when it appears, which is almost never. But there is another reason that the album has attained exalted status.



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JARVIS STREET REVUE “Mr. Oil Man”   
“Back in 1970, up in the cold North of Ontario, Canada hailed a group that had already had prophetic visions of the corporate, strictly-business, profit-driven, polluting, oil addicted, don’t let the environment-get-in-the-way-of-a-buck bullshit world that we currently live in. Their epic title track “Mr. Oil Man” spoke of 'oil being slick in the Gulf Of Mexico' and 'Mr. Oil Man, you’re killing all the fish again, you ruin all that water again,' fully equipped with sounds of splashing water and trippy effects. I could go on and on about how great the record is..." —Helios Chrome


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49th Parallel "Singles"
All of 49th Parallel's singles and b-sides + rare alternates, on vinyl for the first time since their initial pressings back in 1966-68! 

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GREEN "Green"
Green arrived on the alternative rock scene in the mid-80s, amidst a Chicago scene that included bands like Naked Raygun, Big Black, and Ministry. While Green bypassed the major label-express that other bands rode to fame and fortune, they continued to make records their own way, records which were lauded in the pages of Trouser Press, Spin, and The Village Voice, among others.


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MCKAY "Into You"
One of the "holy grails" of Indianapolis private-pressdom (surpassed only by Zerfas and Anonymous) available again in its original format!

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TIN HOUSE “S/T”  
Tin House were so good—their music was a hard-rocking onslaught of lust, chops and powerhouse riffs that gripped like an alligator bite—they were signed to Epic Records out of high school. They were respected by Leslie West and Johnny and Edgar Winter. Their album (released in 1971) was produced by Rick Derringer.



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VISITORS "S/T"
Visitors was the brain-child of French producer/composer/genius, and enfant terrible Jean-Pierre Massiera. In 1974, he recruited a group of nineteen musicians (most notably jazz violinist Didier Lockwood, who made an indelible mark on Magma's 1975 live album), to record his latest compositions. Massiera had been impressed by violin-fronted jazz-rock acts such as the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jean-Luc Ponty.


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49th PARALLEL "49th Parallel"  Limited LP edition
1st Edition
In the spring of 1969, 49th Parallel had a hit in with ‘Twilight Woman’, a lovely song that sounds like a poppier version of what bands like Tomorrow were doing in England. That success led to the release of 49th Parallel’s only album.

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PTARMIGAN "Ptarmigan"
Ptarmigan recorded the basic tracks for what would eventually become their only album in 1972. It then took the band’s producer and manager, renowned flautist Paul Horn, more than

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NIHILIST SPASM BAND "No Record"
One of very few indie label releases on Spin Magazine's list of 100 top counter-cultural music, ahead of legends like Mulatu Astatke, Brigitte Fontaine, Pärson Sound, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra, Harry Partch, and Os Mutantes. Zowie!

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IL BALLETTO DI BRONZO "Sirio 2222" Limited LP edition
Raw-edged heavy rock, fronted by Lino Ajello's powerful electric guitars, channeling the dark, jagged energy of Jimmy Page, Adrian Gurvitz, and Jeff Beck. Il Balletto di Bronzo absorbed their influences (Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds), but moved from there into an inspired, hard-edged musical space; the band's overwhelming power and great melodies make them irresistible.


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GUY SKORNIK "Pour Pauwels"
Skornik was a mystic explorer, psychonaut, and gifted musician, who was immersed in the metaphysical revolutions of his time. He presented television reports, laced with elements of Eastern mysticism, on LSD experiences.



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SNAKEGRINDER "Snakegrinder...and the Shredded Feldmice"
West Coast From the East Coast! Every burgh in the 70's that had a steady supply of weed and electricity provided a birthing ground for bands influenced by the likes of Jerry Garcia and Lowell George, and the Delaware area was no different.

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MICHAEL OOSTEN “S/T” 
Keeping a band together was difficult in the late 1960’s. Tough too, because Michael Oosten was writing songs that veered away from pop-song structures. There was also the relative ease and lack of responsibility required for hauling around a guitar.

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SANTA Y SU GENTE "Urgente"
In the 1970's in Chile, recording anything was complicated. The state-owned IRT label was administered by the military. Domestic releases gave way to an invasion of foreign music. At most, a Chilean group like Santa y su Gente (Santa and his People) could hope for one appearance on television, or a very low-key event—this was the reality of the music world after the coup.


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FUSIÓN "Top Soul"
Impossible to find jazz/soul/funk monster by Fusión, issued in Chile in 1975 by ALBA (ALD-041)—a fulsome combination of funk, electric jazz, and soul, with Latin roots.

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PROBE 10 "There is a Universe"
"This masterpiece crawled up my spine like a kundalini snake and proceeded to take the top of my head off. Probe 10 are unquestionably linked to a very specifically American form of proto-prog-into-jazz-rock synthesis of the precise sort Elektra Records used to specialize in, from Tim Buckley's Starsailor to David Stoughton's Transformer. Toss in trumpet fanfare laden acid psych straight out of the C.A. Quintet songbook, the riotously melodic and dense brassy arrangements of McLuhan... and...well...hold on to your hookahs!" —Mutant Sounds


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LAURENCE VANAY "Evening Colours" Limited LP edition
Laurence Vanay is the pseudonym for Jacqueline Thibault, wife of music producer and musician Laurent Thibault (Magma). The first ever reissue of her second album.

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LAURENCE VANAY “Galaxies” (2xLP Special Edition)
Laurence Vanay is the pseudonym for Jacqueline Thibault, wife of producer and musician Laurent Thibault (Magma). Her debut album "Galaxies" (1974) is pure genius: incredible, spacey “progressive chanson,” rivaled only by the early work of Brigitte Fontaine for pure inventiveness. An album of inconspicuous, sincere beauty, a masterwork of the French progressive music scene, and a Holy Grail for collectors of 70's underground French music. Sublime compositions: unique, melancholic and very powerful.

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LAURENCE VANAY “Galaxies” Limited LP edition
Laurence Vanay is the pseudonym for Jacqueline Thibault, wife of producer and musician Laurent Thibault (Magma). Her debut album "Galaxies" (1974) is pure genius: almost all instrumental, with gorgeous keyboards of many types, acoustic/electric guitar, even a little Zeuhl bass.

 


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EDUARDO MATEO “Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame”
A record that requires many superlatives in order to do it justice: from it’s first moments, the music is lilting, poetic, intimate, in turns life-affirming and melancholic, with pulsating percussion backed by unheard-of guitar chords and tunings (perhaps the reason for the frequent Caetano Veloso comparisons); it is an album that sounds—simply put—honest.

 

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SHIN JOONG HYUN & YUP JUNS "S/T" (original version)
Spring of 1974, in Seoul: this was the time and place that witnessed the birth of psychedelic power trio Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns. "In Korean, yupjun literally means a brass coin," Shin explains. "However, during that time it was used as slang to describe a sense of unpleasantness and dislike.

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KIM JUNG MI "Now"
At the dawn of the 1970’s, South Korea’s rock music scene was at its zenith. Much of the reason for this was the god-like musical touch of guitar wizard, songwriter, producer, and arranger Shin Joong Hyun. For this album, he took a young girl named Kim Jung Mi, and transformed her from a wallflower student into a folk-psych chanteuse in record time (if Francoise Hardy is the Marianne Faithful of France, then Kim Jung Mi is, I suppose, the Francoise Hardy of Korea).

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ROTOMAGUS "The Sky Turns Red: Complete Anthology"
There’s no way to know why CBS Records unceremoniously dumped Rotomagus and the Chico Magnetic Band after one single apiece; suffice to say that decision was a poor one, as both bands have (quite rightly) developed a cult-like following over the years. All in all, the artistic trajectory of Rotomagus was peculiar: they started out as a harmony pop-psych band, shifted through a brief Jimi Hendrix-ian interlude (‘The Sky Turns Red’), straight into a Vanilla Fudge groove; they then went down in flames as a hair-raising monolithic heavy rock power trio.

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the CASE "Blackwood" LP edition
 Blackwood. The title alone is portentous, at the very least semi-evil sounding. Fear not, there are no devils, demons, or witches lurking in these woods. Instead we have a heretofore almost completely unknown and rarely spoken of album of nine original tracks, self-released on the legendary RPC Records label by a group of self-motivated teens from Pennsylvania.

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AURA "S/T" (a.k.a. "Sativa")
Official replica vinyl edition of this oft-sampled slab of Bay Area history, a psych funk masterpiece that cannot be denied. Aura formed in 1974 and played extensively throughout Northern California. By 1976, the band recorded their first and only album at Pacific Recording Studio in San Mateo.

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MIGUEL Y EL COMITÉ "Para Hacer Música, Para Hacer..."
El Syndikato made Miguel Livichich a rock star in South America; but it was his sole effort as "Miguel y el Comité" that made him a groove-loving crate-digger’s dream! Livichich left El Syndikato, and in an instant, formed another band. This new group was called Miguel y el Comité (Miguel and the Committee)

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SCOTT KEY “This Forest and the Sea”
Excellent 1976 private press acoustic album, self-recorded at various places in Colorado, and filled with beautiful fingerstyle acoustic guitar, plus some atonal bottleneck slide, string scrapes and drones (at times, very Ry Cooder/“Paris, Texas” about six years before that soundtrack existed). Although almost completely instrumental, what lyrics there are tend towards the dark and the satiric.

 
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HOLLINS & STARR "Sidewalks Talking"
I love this record. For me, it has a trace or two of Arthur Lee and Love at their best (‘Krishna Dov’ would not sound out of place on "Forever Changes," for example), with dashes of maybe Terry Callier in some of the jazzier tunes. I also like that Hollins & Starr wrote a gentle tribute to one of my favorite old-time bluesmen, Mississippi John Hurt.

 
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HEAVEN & EARTH "Refuge"
This reissue has been a long time coming, in no small part because we wanted it to be perfect. We’re happy to finally be able to announce the re-release of this psychedelic folk/funk beauty from 1973, featuring the gorgeous voices of Pat Gefell and Jo D.

 
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VARIOUS "Groove Club Vol. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified!"
There were no deluxe studios for the musicians who recorded the devastating tracks contained on this double-LP collection. Nothing so grand. Most of these tracks were recorded live, with traditional instruments finding a place alongside any keyboards or guitars that could be found. And yet, it was these experiments of Khmer rock musicians which transformed the nightlife of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh

 
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VARIOUS "Groove Club Vol. 2: Cambodia Rock Spectactular!"
There were no deluxe studios for the musicians who recorded the devastating tracks contained on this double-LP collection. Nothing so grand. Most of these tracks were recorded live, with traditional instruments finding a place alongside any keyboards or guitars that could be found. And yet, it was these experiments of Khmer rock musicians which transformed the nightlife of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh

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AGUATURBIA "S/T"
AGUATURBIA "Volumen 2"
Replica LP editions of both albums (both first released in 1970), by one of the best and most important psychedelic bands to emerge from South America in the late 60’s/early 70’s

 

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VARIOUS "Groove Club Vol. 1: La Confiserie Magique"
A terrific compilation of succulent French psych/pop treats, collected and annotated by French author, journalist and flaneur Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe (Martyrs of Pop), and carefully sequenced for maximum enjoyment by the Lion! Together, we have imagined those magic years 1966-71 in France to be just as you find them here — overflowing with truly decadent pop-sike,...


 
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LIMONADA “LimoNada”
Although they sprung ready-made from of the ashes of legendary candombe/beat group El Kinto, one of the best-kept secrets from Uruguay’s musical mythology is nevertheless the group of musicians who recorded one album as Limonada. So what happened?

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EL KINTO “Circa 1968”
“I was lucky to see Uruguayan music born. Before El Kinto it didn't exist, and if it did I did not know it or like it.” Osvaldo Fattorusso

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EMMANUELLE PARRENIN “Maison Rose”

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Catalogue number: LION LP-106 


 
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SANDHY & MANDHY “Para Castukis”
Here at last is a chance to discover why people have been willing to pay a very steep price to hear Sandhy & Mandhy, the duo who were not a duo, the band who were not a band, creators of perhaps the rarest and most expensive album from Argentina.




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FOLKLORDS “Release the Sunshine”
When we first issued this terrific album—twelve perfect examples of dreamy sunshine pop/folk psych released by independent Canadian label Allied Records in 1968—on CD some time ago, our booklet featured the few scraps of information on the band we could find. We challenged “anyone out there” to find some information on this elusive and intriguing band, with the offer of a reward that would be “something very Folklordish.”
 

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PLASTIC CLOUD "S/T"

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Catalogue number: LION LP-103
UPC: 778578310318 

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PLASTIC CLOUD "S/T":

1st Edition
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Catalogue number:LION LP-103


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ODYSSEY “Setting Forth” (LION LP 102-D)
Once upon a time, when the music business was more music than business (but only just), there was a band that created a quintessential dose of New York sixties psychedelia: one perfect album, loaded with fuzz guitar riffs of the greatest ferocity, heavy swirling organ, pulsating drums, and intense vocals. That band was Odyssey. It is true that their album, "Setting Forth," did not take them from support slots in their native Long Island to the major label heights of other local bands like Vanilla Fudge.

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ODYSSEY “Setting Forth”

Catalogue number: LION LP-102 
 

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CHRISTOPHER “What'cha Gonna Do?”

Catalogue number: LION LP-101

Collaborations with other labels—listed alphabetically:

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A BOLHA "Um Passo a Frente" (Lion Edition)
After venturing from Brazil to England to attend the Isle of Wight Festival, Brazilian band the Bubbles—the toast of the underground Rio de Janeiro scene, who had backed Tropicalist singer Gal Costa’s residence at the Sucata night club in that epochal year of 1970—decided to experiment with a heavier sound than that of their Brazilian cohorts.

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COIL "Astral Disaster" (Prescription Edition)
In 1998, Coil were invited to record at Sun Dial's studios beneath the London Bridge Hop Exchange—a studio originally know as Samurai Studios, originally built and owned by Iron Maiden. The premises in Victorian times was an old debtors prison which had three underground levels, and still had the original chains, manacles and wrought iron doors from the old prison.

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COIL "Astral Disaster Sessions Un/finished Musics" LP
These rare recordings were recorded as part of the legendary prescription label album series in the late 1990's that resulted in the album "Astral Disaster". Coil were invited to record at sun dial's studios beneath the London Bridge Hop Exchange. This studio was originally know as Samurai studios that was originally built and owned by Iron Maiden. The premises in Victorian times was an old debtors prison which had three levels underground, and still had the original chains, manacles and wrought iron doors from the old prison.


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DUG DUG’S "Smog"
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Catalogue number: LION 650-LP (LP)
UPC: 886977985416

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DUG DUG’S "S/T" (also known as "Lost in My World")
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Catalogue number: LION 649-LP (LP)
UPC: 886977985416

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DAVY GRAHAM & HOLLY "Godington Boundry"
Davy Graham needs no introduction here, as he is one of the UK's most influential and legendary guitarists. Drawing on influences as diverse as folk, jazz and blues, "Godington Boundry" is one of his later classics, which has (incredibly) been out of print on vinyl for decades. Taken from the original analogue studio master tapes.

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THE GOOD MISSIONARIES "Pylons” LP
"The hipness and success of London punk-explosion photocopy fanzine Sniffin' Glue was almost entirely due to the irreverent, pugnacious sincerity of its founder/spark-plug Mark Perry. That Perry should form a band (Alternative TV) seemed a natural progression; that it was any good at all a surprise; that it maintained a stance utterly disdainful of compromise a small miracle.”

 
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IRON CLAW "Iron Claw" 
"Sixteen pulverizingly heavy early masterpieces of dirty doom metal, this is a can't miss package for all fans of heavy psych, proto-metal and the early days of doom rock." —The Ripple Effect
"This Scottish band are just ridiculously heavy and I think it's a travesty that the sixteen songs they wrote around 1970/1971 never got an official release until 2009. This whole album is just breathtaking." —Terrorizer


 
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Jerusalem “S/T”

a Lion Productions co-release with
Vintage/Rockadrome (USA)

*a new pressing on transparent purple vinyl!*

“Sledgehammer-heavy masterpiece of underground British rock!” —Classic Rock Magazine

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JERUSALEM "Jerusalem"

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Catalogue number: ROCK/LION-031-V-1
UPC: 858581031018  

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MARY BUTTERWORTH "S/T"
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Catalogue number: Rock/Lion-036-V-1
UPC: 858581036013

 
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MCKENNA MENDELSON BLUES "S/T"
Another great album from Canada's legendary Paragon label, a set of super bluesy psych demo tapes from 1968. The band's album "Stink" was received not just as a great album of electric blues, but as some sort of revelation when it appeared in the second half of 1969. But lead guitarist Mike McKenna had spent time ('67-'68) in the Ugly Ducklings, and had already developed a 'local hero' tag by playing hard electric blues as a member of the legendary Luke and the Apostles.

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MODERN ART "Underwater Kites"
"Guitar, drum machine and keyboards creating a calm yet dark atmosphere, sometimes psychedelic and no way mellow. Truly a great lost gem!" —Mutant Sounds

Welcome to the darkly enchanting minimal synth-pop and psych-tinged world of The Modern Art. As an introduction to the world of Coil and Current 93 collaborator Gary Ramon and his orbiting bandmates, you can't do better.

 
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MODERN ART  "Oriental Towers"
Another entry from the darkly enchanting minimal synth-pop and psych-tinged world of The Modern Art. As an introduction to the world of Coil and Current 93 collaborator (and Sun Dial main man) Gary Ramon and his orbiting bandmates, you can't do better.

 
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MYSTERY PLANE "Still Life"
Mystery Plane formed in 1980 from the ashes of 70's new wave band 3D5 who's line-up also featured future Cure member Porl Thompson. This record was originally a demo cassette made in 1981 that was hawked around record labels with a view for release.

 
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NEON PEARL "S/T" (aka "1967 Recordings")
"In 1967 my musical world shifted and changed when Neon Pearl with their hazy riffs, mildly hypnotic vocals, and layered sonic meanderings made up of gentle guitar distortions, and ever expanding floating harmonies filtered from across the ocean from my speakers, morphing like clouds caught by the setting sun, holding and reshaping the light...

 

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PLEASE "Circus Days: A Collection of Demos and Studio Recordings 1967-69”
A third collection of previously unreleased recordings by this late 1960’s British psychedelic band fronted by Peter Dunton, who went on to form the legendary band T2. Dunton was a key figure in UK psychedelia, founding or playing a key role in many important bands. In brief, here’s Dunton’s pedigree: Neon Pearl (1967), Please (1967) and (1969), Flies (1968), Gun (1969), T2 (1969-1972), and Infinity (1969-70).

 
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PRINTS OF DARKNESS “Zindabad” 
“Raw, exciting and really quite excellent... fans of fuzz will find a feast of it on this set. The Prints turn in enjoyable readings of ‘Summertime,’ ‘Morning Dew,’ and Country Joe & the Fish’s ‘Rock and Soul Music,’ but it’s their original numbers that really stand out… The band’s bottled-up creative energy comes bursting to a head on the culminating number, ‘Oh Color the Shadowy Distance,’ which starts out as an über-dramatic Doors-in-the-garage exercise atop a ‘Tobacco Road’-type stomp riff, before levitating into a psychedelic instrumental section that sounds a bit like Jorma Kaukonen jamming with the Velvet Underground. Thrilling stuff.” —Mike Stax (Ugly Things)

 
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PUSSY “Invasion” Vinyl debut for post-Jerusalem material from 1972/73!
Jerusalem is well known among 70s hard rock enthusiasts thanks to their stone-cold classic 1972 Deram label debut album. After that record was released, the band made the bold decision to not to continue with the same name—for them, Jerusalem was a one-off moment in time and could never be recreated.

 

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SAINTE ANTHONY’S FYRE "S/T"
Wild, loud, raw New Jersey hard psych beast from 1970 that’s been a favorite target of record collectors, dealers, aficianados and swamp dwellers for the past few decades. Also described thus: "Totally fucked up, messed up New Jersey hard psych monster that can’t be bettered. Loud, wasted vocals, speedfreak riffing / soloing, bashing rhythm section, like a hayride to hell. To me, one of the all-time best albums if you like drugged-out 60s anarchic hard psych."

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SEA-DERS“Sea-ders” (Complete):
This specially-priced Lion Productions LP edition contains all known grooving and infectious Middle Eastern inflected rock/beat tracks from the Sea-ders (or Cedars, depending on which 45 label you look at), Lebanon's top musical export to the world. Eight dynamic tracks, with driving rhythms, blazing electric bouzouki (or oud?), recorded between 1966-1968. Fantastic!

 
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STEPSON "The Lost Tapes: 1972-1974" (ROCK/LION048-V-1); UPC: 858581048016
About forty years in the making, and finally the world has the second Stepson album! Utilizing tapes preserved by drummer Len Fagan then transferred to digital and mastered by bassist Bruce Hauser, this fine collection of twelve songs is as close as the world will ever get to a real second Stepson album. Some is raw, some is embryonic, but it’s all prime stuff for fans to savor, reflecting the band’s "devil may care" attitude and rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.

 
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T2 "T2-1970" (aka "S/T" or "Fantasy")
Even though fame and fortune never came to pass for T2, their Decca album “It’ll All Work out in Boomland” has become an all-time classic amongst collectors of progressive and psychedelic music—and even in the techno and dj scenes. Apart from a BBC radio session, fans assumed that “Boomland” was both the beginning and the end of the group’s recorded legacy.



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TRUTH AND JANEY "No Rest for The Wicked"

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Catalogue number: ROCK/LION030-V-1
UPC: 858581030011

 

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TRUTH & JANEY "Erupts!"
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Catalogue number: ROCK/LION051-V-1
UPC: 858581050019  

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VARIOUS "Cold Waves of Color" (LION edition)
A special vinyl edition of the first "Cold Waves of Color" volume, pressed for the US market specifically for Lion Productions. This edition has a different coloured sleeve and comes with a poster insert (the poster is also slightly different to the first edition pressing). A superb album, compiling electronic synth pop, cold wave and minimal tracks from the Color Tapes label, spanning 1981-1985.

 
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  VARIOUS "Cold Waves of Color 2" (LION edition)
Following on from the superb first volume, here is the second volume of electronics, synth pop, cold wave and minimal tracks culled from the archives of the legendary COLOR TAPES UK cassette label from the 1980's. These tracks originally came out as micro editions on cassette back then some of which are also unreleased too.

 
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VAROUS "Cold Waves Of Color Volume 3"
Latest collection of rare cold wave from the Color Tapes archives also includes a full colour poster plus a rare reprint of issue 2 of Color Tapes' own Purple Twilight fanzine from 1985, featuring articles on bands such as Bushido and Mystery Plane, plus The Subway Organization cassette catalogue from 1985.

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VARIOUS "Cold Waves of Color Vol. 4"
Fourth volume of the completely sold out electronic compilation series from the 1980's color tapes label. As with the other volumes you can find great examples of cold wave, minimal wave and synth electronics made by obscure British bands such as Disintegrators, Mystery Plane, Berserk In A Hayfield and Lives of Angels—all recorded between 1980-1985, vestiges of the 1980's UK cassette underground scene.

 

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Various "Cold Waves of Color Volume 5" LP edition
Here is the long-awaited fifth volume of the well received electronic compilation series from the 1980's color tapes label. As with the other volumes you can find great examples of cold wave, minimal wave and synth electronics made by obscure British bands such as: Berserk In A Hayfield, Disintegrators, Lives of Angels, The Lord, plus a rare track by The good Missionaries, post Alternative TV.

 
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VARIOUS "The Cool Aid Benefit Album: Deluxe Edition"
At the end of the 1960’s, there was a house in Vancouver that was a home solely for Hippies and homeless youth; it was known to locals as "the Cool Aid House." When the Canadian government withdrew funding in 1970, the house was in danger of closing.

 
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VARIOUS “Holy Fuzz”
Great compilation of late '60's and early '70's Christian rock/psych/garage ranging from album tracks by well known groups like Agape, Search Party and All Saved Freak Band to singles by more obscure groups such as Concrete Rubber Band and Stonewood Cross. There is an extremely high level of musical quality throughout, with varying degrees of fuzzed up guitar solos on all tracks.

 
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WARPIG "S/T"
Lion Productions, in association with Kreation Records, proudly unearths another buried-treasure of pure ‘70s hard rock in Canada's WARPIG. This is an early masterwork of psychedelic proto-metal. A high quality, remastered piece of vinyl that combines sounds from the era of rock that is timeless and just so good.

 
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WINTERHAWK "Revival"
Highly anticipated—and first ever—official vinyl reissue of all-time classic private press hard rock guitar album featuring Jordan Macarus.  It overflows with a powerful Rush meets Blackfoot hard rock sound featuring the unmatched soaring vocals of bassist Doug Brown, tight, powerful hard hitting drumming from Scott Benes and the incomparable guitar wizardry of Jordan Macarus, who will leave you wondering why he isn't featured in every guitar magazine around. If you love hard rock lead guitar action then do yourself a huge favor and grab this album immediately!

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YAYS & NAYS "Yays & Nays"
Monster rare USA private pressing from 1968, rated with 6 stars in the Hans Pokora 3001 Record Collector's Dreams book. The Yays & Nays were a groovy, hip group (says so on the original LP jacket!) comprised of three guys and three girls. Theirs is a truly unique sounding album, full of creative songwriting and vocal arrangements and a style that defies categorization.
  

PREVIOUS LION PRODUCTIONS CD RELEASES

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49th PARALLEL“S/T” plus eleven bonus tracks
First proper version of this legendary Canadian psych album, supplemented by eleven bonus tracks, two of which have never seen reissue before now. The group's first two singles, ‘Laborer’/’You Do Things’ (1967), and ‘She Says’ b/w ‘Citizen Freak’ (1968), are prime pieces of pouting Prairie punk.

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A BOLHA"Um Passo a Frente"
Brazilian band the Bubbles became the toast of the underground Rio de Janeiro scene, backing Tropicalist singer Gal Costa’s residence at the Sucata night club in 1970. They won the "Best Band of the Festival" award at the VII FIC of 1971 (International Festival of Songs), the same year they appeared on Leno’s "Vida y obra de Johnny McCartney" album.

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A PASSING FANCY “S/T”: revised and expanded version of the much beloved Canadian pop-psych album by A Passing Fancy!
This edition has been a long time in the works, with most of the delay resulting from our efforts to make something out of the fragments of mangled stereo master tape that still exist (the previous edition was in mono).

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AGINCOURT “Fly Away”
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Catalogue number: ACLN 1002 CD
UPC number: 778578100223

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ATTACK “Complete Recordings 1967-1969”
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Catalogue number: ACLN 1005 CD
UPC number: 778578100520

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BEAT BOYS “S/T”:
“Caetano called the Beat Boys, an Argentinean group settled in São Paulo who had been inspired by the Beatles, to accompany him in ‘Alegria, Alegria.’ That, in fact marked the beginning of the Tropicalista thing.” —Gilberto Gil

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the BEAUTIFUL LOSERS "Nobody Knows the Heaven"
To set the scene: it’s 1974, it’s Paris, two young guys in their bed-sit (one of whom is French music maven/famous producer Jay Alanski) are dreaming of counter-culture, and their internal versions of California and New York. The result is this album, a child begotten of Marc Bolan, Baudelaire, and Lautréamont; a fascinating record, subtle and engaging as it is scarce; the re-creation of a parallel pop universe which one Michael Moorcock wouldn’t have renounced.


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the BOSSMEN "Personally Yours: The Complete Anthology of the Bossmen" Dick Wagner and his guitar. The Frost. Ursa Major. Lou Reed's "Rock 'n' Roll Animal". Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare". Kiss. Aerosmith. Peter Gabriel. Wagner's contribution to rock 'n' roll is immense. And it all started a little bit north of Detroit with the Bossmen. In just three years (1964-67), The Bossmen amassed an impressive run of no less than eight regional number one singles.

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BRAINSTORM "Smile A While"
With this record from 1972, Brainstorm, led by future Guru Guru stalwart Roland Schaeffer, established themselves as one of Germany’s premier bands. Their complex Krautrock, based on strange harmonics (thanks to Schaeffer’s enthusiasm for Jimi Hendrix and the free jazz sounds of John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders), and impelled by wild and distorted sax, flute, and Vox organ, would later put them smack in the middle of that bible for the intrepid musical adventurer, the revolutionary music reference guide known as the Nurse With Wound list.

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BULLDOG BREED “Made in England”
First official issue, taken from the original DECCA master tapes, of this amazing mod/psych/freakbeat rarity from 1969, featuring members of T2 and The FLIES.

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the CASE "Blackwood" CD edition
 Blackwood. The title alone is portentous, at the very least semi-evil sounding. Fear not, there are no devils, demons, or witches lurking in these woods. Instead we have a heretofore almost completely unknown and rarely spoken of album of nine original tracks, self-released on the legendary RPC Records label by a group of self-motivated teens from Pennsylvania.

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CHRISTMAS “S/T”
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Catalogue number: PACE 043-LN
UPC number: 778578004323

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CLASSICAL M “Bad Guys: The Complete Collection”
Classical M could have made a great album if given the chance. As it is, the songs contained on this disc make for a stunning collection, with the band’s psychedelic flourishes, outrageous melodies, and fantastic attention to production detail evident throughout. This profoundly original music was made in three short years (1967-1970): twenty-four delirious and provocative songs that establish Classical M as perhaps the best, and certainly the most intriguing French band of all time.

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COIL "Astral Disaster" (Prescription Edition CD) second edition
"Coil descended into the bowels of the Sun Dial studios, surrounded by manacles and chains under the level of the River Thames in the Ancient Borough of Southwark, to commit what would become one of their most possessing sides. Astral Disaster was the result: two correlating hemispheres channelling, meditative, eastern raga drone with sage-like poetry and electro-acoustic phantasmagorias, projecting a plasmic miasma of pharmaceutical shimmer and surreality that’s pretty much arch Coil. If there’s any one big reason you need it, though, that would be the amazing B-side, The Mothership and The Fatherland, framing creaking wooden drums and the gibber-chin shivers of swarming, translucent studio duppies in a diaphanous soundfield of freefall ambient atmospheres—basically the sound of ketamine in the ‘90s. Makes us want to melt. Massive recommendation!" —Boomkat

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COIL "Astral Disaster" (Prescription Edition CD)
"Coil descended into the bowels of the Sun Dial studios, surrounded by manacles and chains under the level of the River Thames in the Ancient Borough of Southwark, to commit what would become one of their most possessing sides. Astral Disaster was the result: two correlating hemispheres channelling, meditative, eastern raga drone with sage-like poetry and electro-acoustic phantasmagorias, projecting a plasmic miasma of pharmaceutical shimmer and surreality that’s pretty much arch Coil. If there’s any one big reason you need it, though, that would be the amazing B-side, The Mothership and The Fatherland, framing creaking wooden drums and the gibber-chin shivers of swarming, translucent studio duppies in a diaphanous soundfield of freefall ambient atmospheres—basically the sound of ketamine in the ‘90s. Makes us want to melt. Massive recommendation!" —Boomkat

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CONGREGACIÓN “Viene...”
Congregación was the most legendary of the many excellent bands of the early 1970’s Chilean music scene—one could easily say that for many people, this album has had the impact of a religious experience.

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DASZU "Zone of Swans/Lucid Actual + 1/2
Dativa" digipack CD

•Excavation of astounding underground post-punk recorded from 1979-1983
•Style: minimal, semantic, intense (in poetic first). There is poetic subtlety and musical freshness not confined to one historical period.

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DASZU VOL. 2:
MARK RUDOLPH "Lucid Actual 2000" digipack CD
Unlike earlier Daszu music, Lucid Actual 2000 was digitally constructed and edited from recordings and generated loops for use in live interactive 3D performances: many of them were performed at a Digital Electronics Festival in Montreal in 1999. The introduction of a visual element into the mathematical minimalist world of Daszu composer Mark Rudolph allowed for a more ambient, repetitive, suggestive—and danceable—style.


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DINO & MONTEVIDEO BLUES
The one and only album by Dino & Montevideo Blues (Macondo GAM 551, 1972) deserves to be a serious contender as one of the most important, and as it happens, most grooving, records ever released in Uruguay. But there is another reason that the album has attained exalted status: the incisive power of the lyrics, which are all the more impressive considering the national turmoil out of which they were created. 

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DUG DUG’S "Smog"

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Catalogue number: LION 650 (CD)
UPC: 778578065027

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DUG DUG’S "S/T" (also known as "Lost in My World")
The "must have" debut album (1971) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and his band, recorded after their failed trip to NYC did not produce the stardom they had been promised—pain and disappointment sparking great song-writing on this, the first Mexican psych album in English. After an extended stint as the house band at Tijuana strip joint Fantasitas, Los Dug Dug's relocated to Mexico City in 1966.


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EDEN ROSE  "On the Way to Eden"
It might be easy to think of Eden Rose as simply a first version of famed French progressive band Sandrose. Both bands had the same musicians; both existed at nearly the same moment in time (c. 1970). But Eden Rose is now seen, quite rightly, as something unique, a chimera from the misty past, a time during which the winds of change were blowing on the fixed universe of music.

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EL KINTO "El Kinto" (Complete Collection)
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Catalogue number: LION 612
UPC number: 778578061227


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EL POLEN "Fuera del la Ciudad" (Outside of the City)
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Catalogue number: LION 7659
UPC: 778578765927 

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EL POLEN "Cholo" (Music from the Original Film)
This is an album we've wanted to reissue for years... at long last—together with our friends Repsychled Records from Peru—we can present this masterpiece to you wonderful people out there! The fusion of native folk instruments and trippy psychedelic rock elements produced some of the finest music to emerge from South America in the early 1970’s: Congregacion (and Los Jaivas) from Chile, Arco Iris from Argentina, Wara from Bolivia, and Genesis from Colombia. 

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EMTIDI “Saat”:
Recording in a good studio in 1972 with an accomplished engineer/musician such as Dieter Dierks (Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, Tangerine Dream, and yes, the Scorpions), certainly enabled Emtidi to expand their musical style on “Saat.” The end result was a shimmering, lush cosmic folk trip, with multi-tracked and treated acoustic guitars plus electric piano, fragile angelic femme vocals, vibes, and mellotron, (punctuated by the occasional acid guitar solo).

 
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ERGO SUM “Mexico”
Along with the two records by Nurse With Wound favorites Moving Gelatine Plates, Ergo Sum’s weird and wonderful album “Mexico” is an unusual portal into the intense creativity of early 1970’s French music. True, the bands are not musically similar; yet these three albums are distinguished not only by their instrumental richness, but by their unceasing sense of adventure.

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THE EYES "The Arrival of the Eyes: the Complete Recordings"
The Eyes' 1965 single, 'When The Night Falls,' produced by the king of compression Shel Talmy, should have made them rich and famous (it didn’t). Alan Freeman described it as "truly unforgettable"—a prophetic statement.

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THE FLIES "Complete Collection 1965-1968"

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Catalogue number: LION ACLN 1009CD
UPC: 778578100926

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FOLKLORDS “Release the Sunshine”:
Fourteen perfect examples of dreamy, sunshine-infused pop psychedelia with a folk ben, originally released by independent Canadian label Allied Records in 1968. When we first issued this terrific album on CD many years ago, our booklet featured the few scraps of information on the band we could find.

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FOUR LEVELS OF EXISTENCE “S/T”
Slightly revamped second edition of an album that many people consider to be the best Greek psychedelic album ever recorded, a belief that would mean that the Four Levels of Existence LP would supercede albums by artists like Axis, Aphrodite’s Child, Socrates, and George Romanos. We’ll let you decide the argument, for there is no doubt of one thing—that this is tremendous hard edged psychedelic rock, originally released on LP in a very small quantity by the private Venus label in 1976.


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FREAK SCENE "Psychedelic Psoul"

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Catalogue number: LION 642
UPC: 778578064228 

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FRIENDS "Fragile"
The rarest, and I would dare to say best, folk/psych album from Peter Howell and John Ferdinando, musical brainchildren behind Ithaca, Agincourt, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and Tomorrow Come Someday.

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FUSIÓN "Top Soul"
Impossible to find jazz/soul/funk monster by Fusión, issued in Chile in 1975 by ALBA (ALD-041)—a fulsome combination of funk, electric jazz, and soul, with Latin roots. Bassist Enrique Luna had lived and studied art in New York, and knew first-hand the last, avant-garde years of John Coltrane, and Miles Davis’ mutation from hard bop trendsetter into an electric jazz pioneer; Matias Pizarro had appeared on the scene in the mid-60s as a young pianist of outstanding technical ability and advanced ideas. 

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GOLEM “Orion Awakes” New digipack edition!
Epic early to mid-1970's instrumental psychedelic space-rock from the Pyramid Records archive, pseudonymous after-hours studio sessions featuring the biggest names on the Krautrock scene at the time; heavy drums, jamming guitars and Hammond organ: in short, and amazing improvised free-form trip of impressive magnitude, on par with the music of Krautrock heavyweights like Neu! and Gila.

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GOLEM "Orion Awakes"

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Catalogue number: Acme/Lion ACLN 1014CD
UPC: 778578101428

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SERGIUS GOLOWIN (with the COSMIC JOKERS)
"Lord Krishna von Goloka":
“The first release of what has become known as the Cosmic Jokers series, a Cosmic Courier super-session organized by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser... (Sergius Golowin) handles the vocals on this extraordinary album, recanting verse over music that sounds like a hybrid of Ash Ra Tempel and the Third Ear Band, full of rich musical textures adrift with Mellotron and synthesizers. A timeless work of beauty that has no equal.” —Crack in the Cosmic Egg



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JEAN-PHILIPPE GOUDE "Drônes"
In the beginning there was the piano. As soon as he had mastered the basics, Jean-Philippe Goude discovered the spell of melancholy while working on a little musical piece: an etude ringing out in the style of a somber hymn. Not the dead meat smell of somberness that, according to Picabia, serious people emit, but the earthen gravity of an abyss dug by life itself. Everything is the result of this bedazzlement.


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GREEN "Green" + bonus
Green arrived in the mid-1980s, amidst a Chicago scene that included bands like Naked Raygun, Big Black, and Ministry (and eventually, Material Issue and Smashing Pumpkins).

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GURU GURU “UFO”
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Catalogue number: LION 626
UPC: 778578062620

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HEAVEN & EARTH "Refuge"

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Catalogue number: LION 652
UPC: 778578065224 

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HOLLINS & STARR "Sidewalks Talking"
I love this record. For me, it has a trace or two of Arthur Lee and Love at their best (‘Krishna Dov’ would not sound out of place on "Forever Changes," for example), with dashes of maybe Terry Callier in some of the jazzier tunes. I also like that Hollins & Starr wrote a gentle tribute to one of my favorite old-time bluesmen, Mississippi John Hurt.

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HOJAS “Mis sueños piden” plus seven bonus tracks
If you were in Uruguay in 1971, you would have known along with everyone else that Hojas (the Leaves) was the best band for melodic rock—what we now might call power pop—and slow-burn rock ballads. This was the year of their hit singles, ‘El mundo es una flor’ (The World is a Flower) and ‘Caminar en la lluvia’.

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PETER HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO
"Tomorrow Come Someday"
The second release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ithaca, Agincourt, and Friends.

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PETER HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO
"Alice Through the Looking Glass"
The first release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell (he wrote the second version of the Doctor Who theme tune for BBC-TV) and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Ithaca, Agincourt, Friends, and Tomorrow Come Someday.

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HUNT & TURNER "Magic Landscape"
Fabulous grooving folk rock sounds with plenty of atmosphere, first released by the much beloved Village Thing label in 1972. Ian Hunt and John Turner first teamed-up in the late summer of 1970, the inevitable collaboration of two of the West Country's most sought-after session musicians.



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IL BALLETTO DI BRONZO "Sirio 2222" 
Raw-edged heavy rock, fronted by Lino Ajello's powerful electric guitars, channeling the dark, jagged energy of Jimmy Page, Adrian Gurvitz, and Jeff Beck. Il Balletto di Bronzo absorbed their influences (Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds), but moved from there into an inspired, hard-edged musical space; the band's overwhelming power and great melodies make them irresistible.


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ILOUS & DECUYPER "S/T"
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Catalogue number: LION 610M
UPC number: 778578061029

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INDEX "Black Album + Red Album + Yesterday & Today" 2xCD
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Catalogue number: LION 644 (2xCD)
UPC: 778578064426 

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INFINITY "Collected Works 1969-70"
Legendary UK psych outfit Infinity formed in 1969 from the ashes of "Chocolate Soup" psych faves the Flies and Cymbaline. The mission: to develop a heavy psychedelic/pop sound, and express it through complex original songs.

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ITHACA “Game For All Who Know”
Incredibly good and extremely rare home recordings from the same basically the same line-up, headed by psychedelic-folk masters Peter Howell and John Ferdinando, that had made the AGINCOURT album two years earlier. The album opens with the sound of pages turning, and more or less follows a journey through a cycle of questions, times, feelings, and dreams; a slightly different emphasis this time, as the band sounds more like a folk version of Pink Floyd.

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LOTHAR JAHN “Dreams of ‘75” 2xCD
Lothar Jahn’s "February '75” single was released by the German label Sound Records in 1977. It was a very unusual record, somewhere between psychedelic, folk, and Krautrock. It was reviewed thus on Discogs: “A mysterious journey through Cosmic Psych Folk Kraut, whatever you may call it. Fantastic, from beginning to end.

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JARDINE “Look in the Window”
Jardine’s album was recorded in three glorious weeks in June 1969, at Sounds Aquarian Studios, a stone’s throw from that justifiably famous fashion hub, Carnaby Street. The sessions were fun. Polydor was supposed to release the album.

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JULY "Second of July"
By this time, anyone with an interest in psychedelia that stretches beyond the Beatles or maybe Strawberry Alarm Clock (at a pinch), knows who July is. Well, at least they know that a band called July put out a super rare album that is considered by many to be one of the pinnacles of the psychedelic era.

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KANSAS CITY JAMMERS "Got Good (if you get it)" + "Tracks"
The members of Kansas City Jammers (described elsewhere as "struggling between getting good grades and scoring good drugs") first began performing together in 1969, while students at Ohio Wesleyan University. Colorful though that description may be, it hardly tells the tale, as the band members were all accomplished musicians and songwriters.

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KATH "1" (original album) + Unreleased Material
Not many albums can get you in the mood to blow out your speakers quite like Kath, a band that evolved from local Maryland 1960’s band Badge. This is an authentic low-fi DIY effort, recorded in the home of the band’s leader (and, yes, actually dedicated to his pet monkey—and his girlfriend!), originally released in 1974 in a micro edition of 60 hand-made copies, and later reconfigured for a legendary Rockadelic label LP version.

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SCOTT KEY “This Forest and the Sea”
Excellent 1976 private press acoustic album, self-recorded at various places in Colorado, and filled with beautiful fingerstyle acoustic guitar, plus some atonal bottleneck slide, string scrapes and drones (at times, very Ry Cooder/“Paris, Texas” about six years before that soundtrack existed). Although almost completely instrumental, what lyrics there are tend towards the dark and the satiric.

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KIM JUNG MI "Now" "Now"
At the dawn of the 1970’s, South Korea’s rock music scene was at its zenith. Much of the reason for this was the god-like musical touch of guitar wizard, songwriter, producer, and arranger Shin Joong Hyun. For this album, he took a young girl named Kim Jung Mi, and transformed her from a wallflower student into a folk-psych chanteuse in record time (if Francoise Hardy is the Marianne Faithful of France, then Kim Jung Mi is, I suppose, the Francoise Hardy of Korea).

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LENO “Vida e Obra de Johnny McCartney”
Leno’s “Vida e Obra de Johnny McCartney” was intended as the next musical step after Tropicália, it’s full-blooded rock and roll approach intended to link the music that had already been made to the music that would be played a few years later. This record just might have been that bold step had CBS released it in 1971.

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LIMONADA “LimoNada” plus one bonus track
Although they sprung ready-made from of the ashes of legendary candombe/beat group El Kinto, one of the best-kept secrets from Uruguay’s musical mythology is nevertheless the group of musicians who recorded one album as Limonada.

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ALFREDITO LINARES "Salsa a Todo Sabor…"
Peruvian pianist Alfredo "Sabor" Linares is a legend—a cult figure—long recognized throughout Latin America as one of the creators of salsa music. He started out recording Afro Latin jazz in the late 60s, with two solo LPs and guest piano and arrangement work for both Coco Lagos and El Combo de Pepe. In the early 70s, he moved to Cali in Colombia, and became heavily involved in what developed into the Salsa scene.

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the LOST SOULS “The Lost Souls”
"Lost Souls indeed—this is one of the great lost groups of the 60's.” —Option Magazine
"The Lost Souls never released any records, yet the meager recorded evidence that survives indicates that they were one of the finest unknown American groups of the mid-'60s, able to write both catchy British Invasion-type rockers and, in their latter days, experimental psychedelic pieces with unusual tempo changes and song structures.

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LOS VIDRIOS QUEBRADOS "Fictions"
Some came to make records. Others did not leave any recorded evidence—they have been reduced (at best) to the testimony of a blurred photograph in an old magazine. But it was a generation of bands from Chile which gave shape to a stream of permeating rock, beat, folk and psychedelia music influences radiating from the "first world." And on that list of pioneers of Chilean rock, Los Vidrios Quebrados (the Broken Glass) are unanimously considered as the greatest.

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the MADS “En Concierto 1969”  
The first (and so far only) live recording of a Peruvian rock band from the 1960's, and therefore of incredible importance to lovers of rock from that exciting scene!

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The MADS/MOLESTO "Molesto"
Los Mads started out in the mid-1960's, playing covers and a few of their own songs on Peruvian television. But a chance sea-side encounter with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards after a private party got the Mads the chance to go to England; interest from Stones' manager Marshall Chess got them backstage to see Hendrix at the Isle of Wight—and recording time in the Rolling Stones studio.

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GERARDO MANUEL & EL HUMO "Apocallypsis"

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Catalogue number: LION 7657
UPC: 778578765729

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MARCUS (RUSTY EVANS) "Marcus: Original LP and Outtakes"
fter the release of the Freak Scene album, psychedelic guru Rusty Evans made his way from NYC to San Francisco, a geographic shift that resulted in work for the legendary San Francisco Sound label, producing bands such as It’s A Beautiful Day, Tripsichord, and Indian Puddin’ and Pipe; it also led to a drastic shift in style from the psychedelic "happening" of the Deep album for Cameo Parkway and the raga rock of the Freak Scene album for Columbia.

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EDUARDO MATEO “Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame” plus bonus tracks

“If I can be a little romantic, Mateo is Uruguayan music's light. He is the sun.” Osvaldo Fattoruso

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EDUARDO MATEO & JORGE TRASANTE
"Mateo y Trasante"
"If Eduardo Mateo was a genius, and that fact no one who has heard his music doubts, then ‘Mateo y Trasante’ is his masterpiece. Eduardo Mateo, Jorge Trasante and this wonderful album, marginalized during the course of a dictatorship, resisted the dictators, and those who came afterwards. There were some who said that Mateo and Trasante were both crazy, that Mateo could not sing. Mateo and Trasante resisted the vile and ruthless criticism of those skeptics: those who resisted the quality and depth of this record. Mateo and Trasante resisted, immovable, as are those who know that history will have its day of judgment. To paraphrase someone who knew music and much more, for the truth and Mateo, I sign my name here."—Daniel Figares, 2006

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MICHAEL ANGELO “Michael Angelo”
["S/T" (Guinn Sessions) + "Sorcerer's Dream" + "Nuts"]
Enigmatic exemplar of subterranean overachievers, Michael Angelo Nigro, has long been known to sound-hounds searching for esoteric figures on the fringe. He was a man out-of-time, with unerring vision and dedication, principally known for his head-of-the-class 1977 private-press joy, "Michael Angelo" (Guinn 1050—aka The Guinn Album).

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MIGUEL Y EL COMITÉ
"Para Hacer Música, Para Hacer..."
El Syndikato made Miguel Livichich a rock star in South America; but it was his sole effort as "Miguel y el Comité" that made him a groove-loving crate-digger’s dream! Livichich left El Syndikato, and in an instant, formed another band, joining forces with an existing group called Feeling Rock.

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MODERN ART "Oriental Towers" CD edition
Another entry from the darkly enchanting minimal synth-pop and psych-tinged world of The Modern Art.

"Arriving in the wake of inspirational releases from Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and Throbbing Gristle, Modern Art’... pinched those templates into a range of nervy, minimalist styles porous to influence and defined by the moody character of Gary Ramon’s vocals and his feel for expressive, evocative melody." —Boomkat


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MODERN ART "Underwater Kites" CD edition
"Guitar, drum machine and keyboards creating a calm yet dark atmosphere, sometimes psychedelic and no way mellow. Truly a great lost gem!" —Mutant Sounds

Welcome to the darkly enchanting minimal synth-pop and psych-tinged world of The Modern Art. As an introduction to the world of Coil and Current 93 collaborator Gary Ramon and his orbiting bandmates, you can't do better.


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MYSTERY PLANE "Still Life"
Mystery Plane formed in 1980 from the ashes of 70's new wave band 3D5 who's line-up also featured future Cure member Porl Thompson. This record was originally a demo cassette made in 1981 that was hawked around record labels with a view for release. Later Color Tapes released a 100 copies edition.

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NEON PEARL “1967”
First time on CD for these incredible sessions from the year of psychedelia’s apex—gliding rhythms and softly pulsing melodies floating on a bed of organ and harmonium ('Out Of Sight' and 'Going With The Flow' in particular are especially delicious). Peter Dunton (drums/vocals), Bernard Jinks (bass) and Rod Harrison (guitar) (sometime members of PLEASE and THE FLIES and later in legendary band T2) plied their trade as Neon Pearl in Germany in the summer of 1967.


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NIHILIST SPASM BAND "No Record"
One of very few indie label releases on Spin Magazine's list of 100 top counter-cultural music, ahead of legends like Mulatu Astatke, Brigitte Fontaine, Pärson Sound, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra, Harry Partch, and Os Mutantes. Zowie!

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ODYSSEY “Setting Forth: Deluxe Edition"
Once upon a time, when the music business was more music than business (but only just), there was a lean, mean, and super tight band who created a quintessential dose of New York sixties psychedelia: one perfect album, loaded with heavy swirling organ, ferocious fuzz guitar, and powerhouse vocals. That band was Odyssey.

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ODYSSEY “Setting Forth”
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Catalogue number: Lion 601
UPC 778578060121

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ODYSSEY “Live at Levittown Memorial Auditorium: 1974”
A live recording that was never really meant to be, recorded by Odyssey’s sound engineer on a portable cassette recorder, and recently unearthed! “Live at Levittown” is the only document of Odyssey as they were in their progressive phase, just before Fred Callan and sometime Odyssey keyboardist Tom Doncourt recorded their legendary album as Cathedral.

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OPA “Back Home: The Lost 1975 Sessions”
This disc is a departure from the other reissues in our Uruguayan music series. It’s not remotely in a psychedelic or rock idiom; it was not released on the mighty Sondor label. Yet when given the opportunity to reissue these “lost” sessions, we did not hesitate for a moment.

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OPHIUCUS “S/T”
Ophiucus may be the name of an obscure constellation, but it's also the name of a French band that recorded an exceptional album in 1972 for the Barclay label. All the members of the band had already enjoyed ample success in music before musician/actor Emmanuel Booz brought them together in 1971.

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EMMANUELLE PARRENIN "Maison Rose"
We begin by saying that this is an album unlike any other. A bold statement, perhaps. Yet look in the "Scented Gardens of the Mind" book and you will see this description: "a revelation of a folk album, with songs of incredible beauty and innovative arrangements.

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RAY PIERLE (MCKAY)  "Time And Money"/"Rhythm Of The Highway"  
In the years close upon the creation of his 1977 masterpiece "Into You" (as McKay), Ray "McKay" Pierle released two more long-players, "Time And Money" (1980) and "Rhythm Of The Highway" (1981).

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Plastic Cloud "S/T"
"What remains so remarkable about the band's album is that... the performances retain an energy, but also a naivety, that somehow evokes both the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground — often within the same song." —Shindig! Magazine

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PLASTIC CLOUD “S/T”
In 1968, the Plastic Cloud recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made. This is one hip album, full of catchy melodies and hippie harmonies, as well as some of the most superb (and trippiest) fuzz guitar ever recorded. There is no point singling out a specific track, they are all excellent—one is equally as good as the next.

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PLEASE "1968/69" CD edition
Superb and historic collection of 1968-1969 UK psych—excellent somber, moody, minor key demo material taken from original master tapes and restored acetates.

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PLEASE "Circus Days: A Collection of Demos and Studio Recordings 1967-69”
If Sonny Rollins is the “Saxophone Colossus” (and he is—I love Sonny Rollins, a true lion of jazz), surely Peter Dunton is a top contender for Underground Psychedelia Colossus Best known for, one of the most important underground psychedelic bands to ever devise trippy music and lay it down on tape, T2 (1969-1972). Psychedelic music lovers love Peter Dunton’s music. Madlib loves him too.

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DAVID PRITCHARD “Nocturnal Earthworm Stew”
An incredible pioneering electronic album recorded in the early 1970’s, from the first Canadian artist signed to Island Records. Serious headphone music made under the influence of Stockhausen, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Stravinsky, Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Charles Ives and others—and with a sound that’s often compared to that of early Eno and/or (depending on your preferences) the first two Kraftwerk albums.



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PROBE 10 "There is a Universe"
"This masterpiece crawled up my spine like a kundalini snake and proceeded to take the top of my head off. Probe 10 are unquestionably linked to a very specifically American form of proto-prog-into-jazz-rock synthesis of the precise sort Elektra Records used to specialize in, from Tim Buckley's Starsailor to David Stoughton's Transformer. Toss in trumpet fanfare laden acid psych straight out of the C.A. Quintet songbook, the riotously melodic and dense brassy arrangements of McLuhan... and...well...hold on to your hookahs!" —Mutant Sounds

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PTARMIGAN "S/T"
First official release of this cult favorite—an album overflowing with brooding, mystical, Eastern-influenced hippie psychedelia dominated by long and largely instrumental tracks—all based on a complex interplay of recorder, hand drums and acoustic guitar. Ptarmigan recorded the basic tracks for what would eventually become their only album in Vancouver, B.C. during the fall of 1972. 

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QUAD “S/T” (A.K.A. “No.1”)
The material recorded by Sun Dial approximately between 1990-1997 under their alter-ego QUAD has been among the most elusive prizes for fans of modern psychedelia, as it was issued many moons ago as an extremely limited LP in a clear plastic sleeve.

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ROGER & WENDY "Love Rog + Wem"
Formerly of 1960’s U.S. psych-folk band Euphoria (MGM/Heritage), not to mention veterans of the late 1960’s Greenwich Village coffee-house scene that spawned many a career, Roger & Wendy made this private press album for family and friends in 1971, in an edition of 50 copies.

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ROTOMAGUS "The Sky Turns Red: Complete Anthology"
There’s no way to know why CBS Records unceremoniously dumped Rotomagus and the Chico Magnetic Band after one single apiece; suffice to say that decision was a poor one, as both bands have (quite rightly) developed a cult-like following over the years. All in all, the artistic trajectory of Rotomagus was peculiar: they started out as a harmony pop-psych band, shifted through a brief Jimi Hendrix-ian interlude (‘The Sky Turns Red’), straight into a Vanilla Fudge groove; they then went down in flames as a hair-raising monolithic heavy rock power trio.

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SANDHY & MANDHY "Para Castukis"
Alberto Infusino (Sandhy) and Alberto Vanasco (Mandhy) began their musical partnership in beat bands The New Free Men and La Máquina de Música. In 1969, Billy Bond, chief of La Pesada del Rock Roll and legendary major domo of Argentine rock, asked them to prepare a demo as a duo.

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SANDROSE "S/T"
One week in Studio Davout was all it took for Sandrose to record an album that has long been considered one of the most important to emerge from France. After a failed stint as Eden Rose, the various members of that ensemble, led by guitarist extraordinaire Jean-Pierre Alarcen, decided to try a new approach.

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SANDSTONE "Can You Mend A Silver Thread"
There is nothing ordinary about Sandstone. This private press folk/psych album (1971) is so head and shoulders above almost every other album in the genre, it's hard to believe it's not better known. The instrumentation and compositional style are reminiscent of heavy English folk hitters like Mellow Candle, Pentangle, and Heron. 

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SANTA Y SU GENTE (SANTA & HIS PEOPLE) "Urgente"
In the 1970's in Chile, recording anything was complicated. The state-owned IRT label was administered by the military.  Domestic releases gave way to an invasion of foreign music. At most, a Chilean group like Santa y su Gente (Santa and his People) could hope for one appearance on television, or a very low-key event—this was the reality of the music world after the coup.

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SEA-DERS "Sea-Ders"
This specially-priced disc contains all known recordings of infectious Middle Eastern inflected rock/beat from the Cedars (or Sea-Ders), Lebanon's top musical export to the world. Eight dynamic tracks, with driving rhythms, blazing electric bouzouki (or oud?), recorded between 1966-1968. Fantastic! Starting in 1965, many groups began to borrow elements of Eastern music to add a little mystery and exotica to their sound.

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The News Is You: The Sacred & Secular Music of Nick Freund: featuring the Search Party "Montgomery Chapel" (1968) and St. Pius X Seminary Choir "Each One Heard In His Own Language About the Marvels of God" (1968)
Recorded at the San Francisco Theological Seminary’s own Montgomery Chapel, acid-folk-rock psychedelic gem Search Party "Montgomery Chapel" was the brainchild of (then Reverend) Nicholas Freund.

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SHIN JOONG HYUN & YUP JUNS "S/T" (original version)
Spring of 1974, in Seoul: this was the time and place that witnessed the birth of psychedelic power trio Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns. "In Korean, yupjun literally means a brass coin," Shin explains. "However, during that time it was used as slang to describe a sense of unpleasantness and dislike. Since I was so unpleasant and dissatisfied [in my career], I told myself, ‘Ok, fine, I am just a yupjun,’ and named my band with a rebellious attitude."

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VERA SIENRA "Nuestra soledad" (1969) + "Vera" (1972) It was—and is—almost impossible to categorize Vera’s musical style, but we’ll try: wistful songs with the world-weariness of Fado, and the pulsating sadness of the bossa nova. Her powerful and unique tone of voice, plus the softness of her guitar, have always been an unmistakable trademark.



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GUY SKORNIK "Pour Pauwels"
Guy Skornik was a mystic explorer, psychonaut, and gifted musician, who was a  key member of François Wertheimer's Popera Cosmic collective; he was also deeply immersed in the metaphysical revolutions of his time. He presented television reports, laced with elements of Eastern mysticism, on LSD experiences.



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DOUG SNYDER & BOB THOMPSON "Daily Dance"
After meeting at a Stooges/MC5 concert, drummer Bob Thompson and guitarist Doug Snyder met one fine day in October 1972 in Thompson’s kitchen and bashed out this set of fiery improvisations, seemingly influenced as much by Iggy’s proto-punk moves as John Coltrane’s whole "sheets of sound" ethos; the result is a mythical frenzy of distorted guitar and improvised drums, creating walls of psychedelic noise; its sound is unparalleled for its time, preceding its closest kin, New York's no-wave explosion, by a solid five years.


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SOULS OF INSPYRATION “S/T”

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Catalogue number: PACE 037-LN
UPC number: 778578003722

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PIPPO SPERA "A Buen Puerto"
  Pippo Spera had come into the orbit of Uruguayan master Eduardo Mateo back during the days of El Kinto (one of that band’s finest songs is about a visit by Mateo to Pippo’s house). From 1967 to 1970, Pippo concentrated on studying classical guitar at the Conservatorio Nacional of Uruguay, until the military dictatorship closed the school.

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ST. THOMAS PEPPER SMELTER "Soul & Pepper"
The first official reissue of this much-bootlegged classic South American psychedelic freakbeat album, recorded in 1969 by Peruvian band The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter. Perhaps the story of the band is not well known, but their achievements were great—and international: editions of their sole LP were produced in Peru, Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador, and 45rpm singles were published in Mexico and Greece.

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STONE HARBOUR “Emerges” (1974) plus bonus tracks
“Extraordinary basement psych with two multi-instrumentalists creating a melancholic dreamlike state with songs fading in and out of the speakers, cavemen drums, primitive electronics and murky fuzz lurking in the background. The best tracks go into places no other albums reach. Actually closer to the heart of psychedelia than most other records listed here.”
—Acid Archives of Underground Sounds


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SUN ALSO RISES "S/T"
Superb sought-after 1970 British acid folk rarity from the Village Thing label. The Sun Also Rises is another case of a folk/psych duo (we’re thinking of Emtidi, whose "Saat" album we have also reissued) who virtually disappeared in the flesh, once they had left behind a small but fascinating recorded legacy.

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SUNFOREST “Sound of Sunforest”
(Deram Nova SDN7, 1969)
There was once a band called Sunforest, who recorded a splendid album in 1969. The record is (as has been said elsewhere) a unique compendium of UK acid folk with a popsike feel, sporting harpsichord and (somewhat) medieval-tinged arrangements integrated into electric and acoustic folk-esque tunes.

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SUNLIGHT “Creation of Sunlight” plus bonus
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Catalogue number: Lion 605H
UPC number: 778578060527 

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SWEET SLAG "Tracking With Close-Ups" LP
Formed in 1969, this 4-piece UK outfit went on to record one ultra collectable album in 1971 for President Records. Originally the album was going to be titled "guerilla jazz rock" but came instead to be renamed "Tracking With Close-Ups," which is a good thing, as this is not a jazz rock album! The band toured extensively, supporting the likes of Deep Purple, Stray, Nucleus, Graham Bond, Black Cat Bones and Third Ear Band.

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T2 “It’ll All Work Out in Boomland” + bonus
The rise of power trio T2 in 1970 was rapid: important open-air festivals; headlining residencies at the Marquee Club; appearances at virtually every major venue in London. Then their debut album was released; they seemed poised for a breakthrough. As the band recalled, they were playing the Marquee club, with John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix hanging out backstage, which was all to the good. But people were coming forward saying, “we can’t find your album anywhere.”

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T2 “S/T”
Even though fame and fortune never came to pass for T2, their Decca album “It’ll All Work out in Boomland” has become an all-time classic amongst collectors of progressive and psychedelic music, and even in the techno and dj scenes.

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T2 "1971-72"
The rise of power trio T2 was rapid: important open-air festivals; headlining at the Marquee Club; appearances at virtually every major venue in London. Their debut album ("It'll All Work Out in Boomland") was released; they seemed poised for a breakthrough. They were playing the Marquee club, with John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix hanging out backstage, which was all to the good. But people were saying, “we can’t find your album anywhere.” In short order, the band fell apart. Still, their sole Decca label album has become well established as an all-time classic amongst progressive and psychedelic music collectors—even the techno and dj crowds. The fact that it has done so without hype is a testament to the innate quality of the music.
 

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TETRAGON "Nature"
An ecology-inspired Krautrock album (1971) from a short-lived group comprised of German school-chums, some of whom had recorded an LP as Trikolon. Tetragon did not conform to any predetermined musical style: they played whatever they pleased, as long as it included groovy Hammond organ and very trippy, flanged wah-wah guitar, in various taut jamming modes that favored jazz/rock fusion à la Miles Davis with a small dose of classical music (adapting a Bach fugue along the way).

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THIRD ESTATE “Years Before the Wine” + AGONISTES “S/T”
Third Estate’s “Years Before the Wine” is an ambitious and intricate psychedelic concept album from 1976 about the French Revolution (!) which blends warm Southern summer sounds (the band were from Baton Rouge, Louisiana) with baroque song structures.

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STEVE TILSTON “An Acoustic Confusion”
An instantly captivating, all-original acoustic album of great depth and incredible maturity, the debut album (1971) by acoustic guitarist and songwriter, Steve Tilston. As for the making of the album: “It was Ralph McTell who very kindly contacted Ian Anderson of Village Thing on my behalf," Tilston explained. "I followed it up and secured a meeting with Ian and a gig at the Troubadour Folk Club.

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TIN HOUSE “S/T”  
"In the twinkling universe of virtuoso electric guitarists that followed in the wake of the genre’s progenitor Jimi Hendrix, perhaps one of the most deserving of renewed recognition is Floyd Radford of the band Tin House, a little known three piece that signed briefly to CBS records in 1970 and released one highly prized album a year later. The overdriven, fluid guitar work—heavy on the wah-wah pedal—is brought to the fore by a beefy full production that lifts the band above the sludgy audio presentation that bedevilled many heavy rock albums of the era." —Richard Allen, Shindig! Magazine

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TRAFFIC SOUND "A Bailar A Go Go"
Willy Barclay and Willy Thorne were friends right from the start. At the age of nine, they began to play music together using acoustic guitars borrowed from their brothers. In 1964, they formed their first rock band. After that, they formed Los Mads, although they left that group a couple of years later. One day in January 1967, Thorne was walking with Barclay near Nicolás de Ribera street in Lima.

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UMBRA “S/T” Unreleased heavy rock from 1971-1972!
What was available to unknown hard rocking dreamers like Umbra in Denver in 1971-72? Weekend gigs. Nothing but weekend gigs. But there was an upside to that: bands like Umbra could mix original material in with covers, and make enough money to survive. Or in the case of Umbra, to make enough money to build a home studio, where they recorded ads to promote their upcoming shows—and eventually, laid down the eight tracks on this disc.

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LAURENCE VANAY "Evening Colours" deluxe CD edition
Laurence Vanay is the pseudonym for Jacqueline Thibault, wife of music producer and musician Laurent Thibault (Magma).

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LAURENCE VANAY “Galaxies” deluxe CD edition
Laurence Vanay is the pseudonym for Jacqueline Thibault, wife of producer and musician Laurent Thibault (Magma). Her debut album "Galaxies" (1974) is pure genius: almost all instrumental, with gorgeous keyboards of many types, acoustic/electric guitar, even a little Zeuhl bass. There are wordless vocals on many of the tracks, although she occasionally sings in a soft, seductive manner.

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LAURENCE VANAY “Les Soleile De La Vie”
"The tracks on the album reflect my feelings at the time, a great happiness to live an interesting life (although stressful!) with the key, a happy story of love." —Jacqueline Thibault

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LAURENCE VANAY “La Petite Fenêtre” 
“My ship of stone, tonight I came as a passer-by. Yet I gave you everything, my joy, my love, my freedom. I feel like singing, dancing, laughing like in the old times.” —Jacqueline Thibault (from ‘Mon vaisseau de Pierre,' a tribute to the Hérouville castle)

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Various “Ayahuasca: Cumbias Psicodélicas Vol. 1”

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Catalogue number: LION 7665
UPC: 778578766528

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Various "Cold Waves of Color"
Collection of rare UK cold wave tracks taken from Color Tapes label cassettes released in micro editions between 1981-1985. Color Tapes was the brainchild of future Sun Dial leader Gary Ramon: "Living in East London, it was a very grey and bleak time. Huge imposing tower blocks, gasworks and concrete just about everywhere. You couldn't walk through some areas without the risk of being shot at by an air rifle, or worse.

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VARIOUS "Cold Waves of Color 2" (LION edition)
Following on from the superb first volume, here is the second volume of electronics, synth pop, cold wave and minimal tracks culled from the archives of the legendary COLOR TAPES UK cassette label from the 1980's. These tracks originally came out as micro editions on cassette back then some of which are also unreleased too.

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VAROUS "Cold Waves Of Color Volume 3"
"Those out there who have chased super limited editions of Color Tapes/Discs on Discogs will know how special the underground label was for the English 1980s... Britishness may seem to be mentioned often in how these tracks are talked about, but in a sense the glorious intuition of Color Tapes was to pick up some of the much more European undercurrents in British synth and connect them to other countries, scenes, situations. Listening to this record, you don’t hear what we know as the UK sound of synth or coldwave, but something else, a rarefied, joyously experimental scene filled with ideas, perhaps to be picked up now... Oh, and you get an A5 photocopied issue of the Purple Twilight fanzine from 1985!" —Juno Records (Best Reissues and Archival Releases)

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VARIOUS "Cold Waves Of Color 4" CD edition
Fourth volume of the completely sold out (on vinyl) electronic compilation series of tracks from the 1980's Color Tapes label—some released here for the first time!

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VARIOUS "Electric Holyland”
Music known as “Jesus rock” or "Jesus psych,” the synthesis of the Christian philosophy combined with heavy rock or psychedelic music, first saw light of day in the late 1960’s and was immediately pressed on vinyl. It didn’t dent popular consciousness and was met with almost zero popularity in its infancy.




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VARIOUS "The Gaiety Records Story Volume Two":
At last, a second collection of rare singles from the label that produced the cream of the mid-sixties crop of Canadian garage, punk, and psychedelic music! The Gaiety roster was rich in talent (the 49th Parallel, Jarvis Street Review, and Souls of Inspyration, not to mention the Checkerlads, White Knights, Dewline, Tomorrow's Keepsake, NRG, Merriday Park, and Portland Street South)—but it was not rich in resources, which is why these singles are so incredibly rare.

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VARIOUS "Groove Club Vol. 1: La Confiserie Magique"
A terrific compilation of succulent French psych/pop treats, collected and annotated by French author, journalist and flaneur Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe (Martyrs of Pop), and carefully sequenced for maximum enjoyment by the Lion! Together, we have imagined those magic years 1966-71 in France to be just as you find them here — overflowing with truly decadent pop-sike, as beautiful as the cathedral of Evry.

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VARIOUS "Groove Club Vol. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified!"
There were no deluxe studios for the musicians who recorded the devastating tracks contained on this double-LP collection. Nothing so grand. Most of these tracks were recorded live, with traditional instruments finding a place alongside any keyboards or guitars that could be found. And yet, it was these experiments of Khmer rock musicians which transformed the nightlife of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.

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VARIOUS "Groove Club Vol. 2: Cambodia Rock Spectactular!"
There were no deluxe studios for the musicians who recorded the devastating tracks contained on this double-LP collection. Nothing so grand. Most of these tracks were recorded live, with traditional instruments finding a place alongside any keyboards or guitars that could be found. And yet, it was these experiments of Khmer rock musicians which transformed the nightlife of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.



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WAPASSOU “S/T”   
"The ancient fathers of post-rock? The least skillful prog band ever? The answer is somewhere in between: through obsessive symphonies Wapassou show that there is no clear mark between depressive madness, cold fever, and music making." —Mutant Sounds.




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WE ALL TOGETHER "S/T"

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Catalogue number: LION 7663  
UPC: 778578766320  (hand numbered edition of 400 copies)

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WE ALL TOGETHER "Singles"
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UPC number: 778578061524

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WE ALL TOGETHER & FRIENDS "We Are Not Together"
Second joint effort of Lion Productions and Repsychled Records of Peru brings together an abundance of rare tracks recorded at MAG studios in Lima, Peru between 1968 to 1974 by members of We all together along with various musician friends of the time (and a few relatives too).

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Yama & the Karma Dusters "Up From the Sewers"
Super political, rocking, anti-establishment communal band (c. 1970) put together as a result of the Kent State Massacre. As the Euphoria Blimpworks Band, fronted by Howard Berkman from morose garage punksters the Knaves, they played demonstrations and student strikes when they weren’t opening for blues royalty—or being the first band to play the yard at Cook County Jail. They were inter-racial, anti-war, Stop the Bomb, free love hippies, the wildest of the wild kids.

LION PRODUCTIONS with VICOR MUSIC (Philippines):
Official reissues of albums by JUAN DELA CRUZ guitarist WALLY GONZALEZ!!
That’s right: official reissues (for the first time) from the master-tapes (for the first time) of rare LP's by Wally Gonzalez, the amazing heavy fuzz guitarist on all the Juan De La Cruz albums. Gonzalez emerged in the 1970's as a rock icon along with band-mates Joey "Pepe" Smith (who was also in Speed, Glue, & Shinki by the way) and Mike Hanopol. Together, they were collectively called Juan Dela Cruz—a powerhouse group who awed the hippie generation in the Philippines with a their scorching Pinoy Rock. The two solo Wally Gonzalez albums are the rarest—and among the best—recordings from the Juan Dela Cruz contingent, up (or down) the same turgid back-alley as the the Juan Dela Cruz band’s own "Himig Natin" and "Maskara" LPs. Recommended without reservation. If you like heavy fuzz guitar/psych similar to Shinki Chen and Speed Glue and Shinki—you will love these albums!

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WALLY GONZALEZ "Tunog Pinoy" (1977) (KBA-5009)
A much more varied album than we expected—just listening to the soaring solos of the third track, ‘Pinag-isa’, makes us think how much this sounds like Pink Floyd circa “Dark Side of the Moon”—atmospheric, with breathy vocals, yet thick with that mid-70’s heavy energy at the same time; then you get to ‘Rock & Roll Mama’, and it’s stinging guitar leads and crunching rhythm section all the way; Gonzalez clearly was not a one trick (heavy acid blues rock) pony, which explains why this album has always been held in such high regard among those who had a chance to hear it.

Catalogue number: KBA-5009 (LN)
UPC number: 4800616770108

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WALLY GONZALEZ "Wally On The Road" (1978) (KBA-5024)
First off, don’t be deceived by the title—this is a studio album all the way; altogether a different sort of album from “Tunog Pinoy”, thudding out of the gate with the monumental ‘Kailan Pa Kaya’, syrupy treated vocals, John Bonham-esque drumming and all; dig too, if you will, the Zeppelin vibe of ‘Screw’ before sailing into the trippy, acoustic ‘Tattong Araw’, or the legendary ‘Wally’s Blues’; more effects than the earlier record, sounding more like newfound recordings from the late 1960’s than a mid-70’s record—this has more psychedelic credentials than most reissues which get that label bestowed upon them; you might say that while “Tunog Pinoy” is classic rock in the best sense, this is classic psychedelia, in the best sense.

Catalogue number:KBA-5024 (LN)
UPC number: 4800616770115