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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“Live
Electronic Music”
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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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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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”
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. It features
traditional instruments you’ve hardly ever heard
before and touches of the avant-garde.”
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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“
“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”: 1st Edition
In 1968, the Plastic Cloud
recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest
psychedelic albums ever made. This a record with
few equals, full of foreboding melodies and
lovely hippie harmonies, as well as some of the
most superb and trippiest, Eastern sounding 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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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”
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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CHRISTOPHER “What’cha
Gonna Do?”
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!
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”
Classic second album
(1972) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and
his band is in Spanish this time, as all other
Mexican bands were by now singing in English.
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DUG DUG’S “S/T”
(also known as “Lost in My World”)
Classic
second album (1972) from psychedelic guru
Armando Nava and his band is in Spanish this
time, as all other Mexican bands were by now
singing in English.
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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”
Heavy UK hard rock album from 1972, produced by
Deep Purple’s legendary frontman, Ian Gillan,
originally released on the Decca/Deram label. It
was Gillan who said of them: “Not many bands
really excite me. But this one’s so raw and
completely unpretentious. They make the biggest,
bloodiest noise you can imagine, tempered with
moments of extreme emotion.”
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MARY BUTTERWORTH “S/T”
Travel
back in time to 1969 with our official, limited
edition LP reissue of one of the most sought
after private press West Coast psychedelic LPs
ever cut. In the tumultuous Spring of 1968, the
Mary Butterworth band was formed. Contrary to
rumors, the group originated from Southern
California and enjoyed being thrust onto the
incredible scene that was developing during this
remarkable time for music.
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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”
“This is essential, must-get release for fans of
1970’s hard rock.” —Roadburn
“One of the greatest hard rock albums of
all-time.” —The Acid Archives
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TRUTH &
JANEY “Erupts!”
Raw bone-crushing live recordings from 1976 by
one of the finest and heaviest Midwest power
trios of all time! Guitarist Billy Lee Janes
takes his Gibson Firebird to stratospheric
levels of heavy 70’s guitar nirvana. Double
slabs of vinyl featuring more than 70 explosive
minutes of the raw live hard rock concert
experience, including many tunes not on the
band’s essential “No Rest for the Wicked” album.
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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”
First official issue of this
much-loved album of Moody Blues-influenced
home recordings from around 1970, from the
fertile minds of psychedelic-folk masters
Peter Howell and John Ferdinando, but credited
to their semi-fictitious group Agincourt; an
intricate, dreamy psychedelic album, made all
the better by the fragile female vocals on
offer from Lee Menelaus; considered a bit more
progressive than the duo’s other albums, with
reasonable comparisons often made to the music
of Syd Barret or Fairfield Parlour.
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ATTACK “Complete
Recordings 1967-1969”
The four great bands of the 1966 pop-apocalypse
were the Who, the Action, the Creation and the
Attack: four names that in their brevity summed
up their flash and mod-pop appeal. These were
bands that had more energy than an H-bomb
after-flash, and they hit the senses with a
long-awaited wake up call.
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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”
Available again! debut album by Bob
Bryden’s (Reign Ghost) “dream band”, first
released on Paragon in 1970 the same day as
the second Reign Ghost album!
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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”
Classic second album
(1972) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and
his band is in Spanish this time, as all other
Mexican bands were by now singing in English.
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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)
“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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EL POLEN
“Fuera del la Ciudad” (Outside of the City)
Following hot on the heels of our
sold out mini-LP sleeve edition of Peruvian
group El Polen’s “Cholo” album (Lion 7655),
together with Peruvian label Repsychled
Records, we bring you the band’s second album,
“Fuera del la Ciudad” (Outside of the City)
(1973).
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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”
From the opening riff of
the Flies’ hard-edged debut single for Decca,
‘(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone,’ you might
think that here was a band who were destined
for glory—possibly even fame and fortune. But
their story, like that of many awe-inspiring
UK underground bands from the 1960s, was not a
success story.
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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”
Fresh from his studio experiences with The
Deep and the Third Bardo, Rusty Evans decided
to create a psychedelic “happening” which
would also function as a recording group. He
gathered together a few New York musicians,
including three members of the Deep (David
Bromberg among them), dubbed them the Freak
Scene, and began work on the “Psychedelic
Psoul” album, which was released in 1967.
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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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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”
A brief version of the
Guru Guru story is told in the rare OHR label
LP sampler “Ohrenschmaus”: “Formed in the
summer 1968, when, as acoustic musicians Mani
Neumeier and Uli Trepte (up to then Free jazz)
said, ‘everyone bought a strong amplifier.’
The album text goes on to note that: “There
are many groups who practice with acoustic or
electronic instruments a spontaneously
changing music, which is characterized as
improvisation.
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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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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”
It has always seemed a pity to us that the Ilous
& Decuyper LP, (first issued in 1971 on the
boutique Flamophone label), has not been more
widely available. It is an inspired album, with
superb vocal harmonies and an introspective
quality that sets it apart from most other musical
efforts of the time.
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INDEX “Black
Album + Red Album + Yesterday & Today”
2xCD
Two holy grails
of psychedelia (from 1967-68), coupled
with a disc of recently discovered
unreleased material, all from the original
tapes!
In the mid
1960’s, Detroit Michigan was a thriving
industrial city. It was at the edge of a
cliff, however. The great ethnic diversity
in the inner city was a brewing powder keg
of civil unrest.
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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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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”
By the start of 1970, young Peruvian musician
Gerardo Manuel Rojas already had an impressive
body of work with various rock bands: The
Doltons (in Ica), Los Doltons (in Lima), Los
Shain’s and The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter; he
had recorded to that point five LP’s and many 45
rpm records.
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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”
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—strong harmonic vocals, heavy
swirling organ, and fuzz guitar riffs of the
greatest ferocity.
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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”
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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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
The first licensed CD version—and thus
the first from the original master
tapes—of an album that is absolutely
great from start to finish, loaded
with organ and fuzz guitar and just
oozing with an acid and sunshine vibe.
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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”
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! In
short, it’s a
stunning
collection—which
took more than
fifteen years
to put
together—of
tracks that
combine cumbia
with
psychedelic
rock. Starting
in the late
1960’s, there
was a boom of
tropical music
in Peru, both
in Lima and
the
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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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VARIOUS “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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info
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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more info
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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info
WE
ALL TOGETHER “S/T”
40th anniversary edition—and for the first time,
taken from a pristine master, which restores
missing elements to several songs! Those of you
with a more than slight acquaintance with rare
psych will know that We All Together were among
the best Beatlesque pop/rock bands of the early
’70s.
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WE
ALL TOGETHER
“Singles”
400th
anniversary
edition—and
for the first
time, taken
from a
pristine
master, which
restores
missing
elements to
several songs!
Those of you
with a more
than slight
acquaintance
with rare
psych will
know that We
All Together
were among the
best
Beatlesque
pop/rock bands
of the early
’70s..
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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