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and that we maybe should?
I have one new one, new to me after I heard their cover of A Day In The Life....
out of England.....Captain. I have one CD and a 2nd on the way, melodic, psychedelic pop from a dark pace.....lots of influences...shifting like a scared snake....I like them.
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Great melodic pop.
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if not discovered, than at least not discussed...
Relatively Clean Rivers, Beat of the Earth, Linda Perhacs, the Remains, Laghonia, Kubero Diaz, Strawberry Path, Alan Watts, Kenneth Higney, Gary Wilson, Euphoria, the Invaders (Bermuda), the Bachs, Gandalf, the Sonics, Sabu Martinez, Vashti Bunyan, Gary Higgins, Jake Holmes, Os Mutantes, Novos Baianos, Satwa, Maitreya Kali, Curt Boettcher, Gary Usher, Jeronimo, Bohemian Vendetta, Orient Express, Fraction, Erkin Koray, Edip Akbayam, Yoshino Sai, Zerfas, Francis Bebey, Blo, the Dayton Sidewinders, Demon Fuzz, Comus, Arica, Timothy McNealy, Rainbow Ffolly, Harry Partch, Dialogue, Charalambides, Mysterious Minds, Sun City Girls, Cold Sun, Golden Dawn, Millennium, Sagittarius, Goldenrod, Damon, Darius, Jean Claude Vannier, Agitation Free, C.O.B., Billy Nicholls, Del Shannon, Bergen White, Lula Cortes, We All Together, Aguaturbia, Group 1850, Q65, Flied Egg, People (Ceremony: Buddha Meet Rock), Shinki Chen, Speed Glue & Shinki, Justin Heathcliff, Ananda Shankar, the Wailers (Washington State's finest), Shadows of Knight, Ernest Ranglin, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Wire, Hot Snakes, Liquid LiquidIf I had to choose one, it might be Relatively Clean Rivers (a deeper American Beauty ) or maybe People: Ceremony Buddha Meet Rock (one of Japan's greatest psychedelic rarities, an absolute monster).
Of course, there's a whole 'nother layer of unknown music beyond these.
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nope... I've heard of the LA-based Touch, who released one single and were actually Hunger (of Strictly From Hunger! 'fame,' good album) and the St. Louis-based Touch (who did "Street Suite", which is pretty cool). there was also another LA-based Touch who i've not heard, though i gather they were kind of proto-prog sounding. is that the one?
recall a lyric about "watch LA fall in the sea."
"Touch" by Touch was the lp title.
Phenomenal tripping record.
Touch (60s band)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Touch were a 60s rock group who recorded just one album, 1968's eponymous 'Touch'. They consisted of John Bardonaro (Drums, percussion, vocals), Don Gallucci (Keyboards, vocals), Bruce Hauser (Bass, vocals), Jeff Hawks (Vocals), and Joey Newman AKA Vern Kjellberg (Guitar, vocals). (Bardonaro's name has many spellings but the handwritten sleeve of the original album seems to suggest that this spelling is correct). Gallucci will probably always be best known as the kid who played the keyboard riff on the Kingsmen's classic recording of the song 'Louie Louie', but it was this hit that forced him to leave the group. At the age of 15 he was not old enough to tour with them and thus it was that he later founded 'Don and the Goodtimes' with Newman and Hawks. They had a No. 20 pop hit in the US with 'I could be so good to you'.In his as yet unpublished biography, Gallucci recalls that by the end of 1967, following the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, they were beginning to feel like they were "Just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic" and felt the need to move on. Accordingly he wrote what the sleevenotes to the Eclectic Discs CD reissue of the album calls the "Lysergic soaked" epic 'Seventyfive', and Touch was born. The three teamed up with Hauser and Bardonaro and they set themselves up in a house in the Hollywood Hills where they set to work on writing the songs for the album.
The recording took place in the Sunset Sound studios with Gene Shiveley producing. Exactly how Shiveley and the band created some of the sounds on the album in these pre-synthesiser days is still a matter of conjecture as no one present seems to remember, but with the only unusual instrument on the album being a tone-generator it seems it was all done with the use of real instruments and ingenious production. Unconfirmed reports suggest that "Certain substances" may have been involved, which, given the time of recording, would not be too surprising.
The band folded soon after the release of the album because they believed that the music contained on it could never be replicated live which resulted in them being unable to tour to promote it. This one LP has since been credited as the inspiration for the Brit prog rock band 'Yes', a major influence on rock bands Kansas and Uriah Heep, and an inspiration for the transformation and rebirth of prog rock band Genesis after the departure of their vocalist, Peter Gabriel.
According to various internet sources Gallucci and Hawks no longer work in the music business and are now in real estate and hairdressing respectively. Newman still works as a musician. Bardonaro and Hauser seem to have vanished without trace.
Along with the one release by The United States of America, Touch was a psychdelic masterpiece.
it seems....
on the record....
Oh, and if you're into "melodic, psychedelic pop from a dark place," I especially recommend Euphoria , "A Gift from Euphoria." It fits that description really well... veers from heavy fuzzed-out psychedelic rock, to acoustic folk, to symphonic pop, to country-rock that puts FBB to the shade. Gandalf is another album (not coincidentally also from the Capitol vaults) in a similar dark psychedelic pop vein--it's got more reverb than some dub albums!These albums are like a gateway drug to the Acid Archives... They're also much easier to find than many of the other albums albums listed, but they should all be Googleable.
A fine endevour indeed! Funny, the first two (maybe three...) PF LPs are worthy of a place amongst your amazing list of obscure and oblique artists. Certainly NOTHING after those first three though...Haven't perused the linked website like I intend to when I have the time, but it seems an extraordinary place! Folk in the Vinyl Asylum would be most intertested too, methinks.
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
Absolutely, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is one of the top British LPs from 1967-1975, and it's far and away the greatest thing that band ever accomplished, totally essential. My mono copy is one of the few rekkids I wouldn't trade for anything (except for an even better copy, you know how it goes).I always tell people who like that record to check out "Paradise Now" by Group 1850 . It's kind of like Piper's evil cousin, replacing whimsy with lysergic menace. Of course, folks who dig the whimsy angle instead would love Kaleidoscope's (UK) two albums, "Tangerine Dream" and "Faintly Blowing"...
9-lb. Hammer, Lazy Cowgirls, and the all-conquering Helmet.
Those are a bit older.
For real new hot band: Hard-Fi (Stars of CCTV) and, of course, though they're hardly a secret, The Arctic Monkeys.
No response. But having listened to their album a dozen times or so it is right up my alley and I think has really great music and great lyrics.
Hanz Erik & The Hims --- fantastic power pop
Try Donna The Buffalo. They are from upstate New York and have been around for years but have never gotten that big, especially when the jamband thing was huge. They play a lot of the festival circuit and have fans all around the country but mostly on the East side. There sound is a mix of a cajun, country, honky tonk, reggea, rock, jam kinda sound. Check out the earlier albums like "The Purple One", or "Rockin' in the Weary Land." Especially check out there live album "Live From the American Ballroom." Just some good groovy stuff. If that doesn't work out for you, give Hamsa Lila a try. Not much rock in there sound but but they are damn good at some spiritual trance without any computerized music. They play all the crazy indigenous instruments themselves. They may be an aquired taste, but I think they kick ass.
By the time I first heard 8 1/2 Souvenirs, based in Austin, TX, they had already broken up. They had three great (IMHO) albums:
- Happy Feet (1995)
- Souvonica (1997)
- Twisted Desire (1999)I would describe their style as swing jazz with a European flavor. Fantastic guitar and piano. I haven't heard anything else like them.
All three albums are excellent. Over the years, Happy Feet was released three times - with vocals by each of their three female lead singers. Although their last vocalist Chrysta Bell was the best, I prefer the 2nd edition of Happy Feet. Souvonica is great! I heard a snippet of a song on KPFK in Los Angeles, which is what turned me on to them in the first place. Twisted Desire is probably their best album.
It's too bad they didn't stay together, especially with Chrysta Bell, who is now into other projects (with David Lynch, no less), and has a website at chrystabell.com.
If you like jazz, and you like swing, and you haven't heard 8 1/2 Souvenirs, do yourself a favor and track down their stuff.
I have Happy Feet , it's a good album ... I like the parts where she sings in French .
It's WAY better than the original. And also better than the third edition that came out much later when they went back into the studio and dubbed vocals by their last vocalist, Chrysta Bell (although she's fantastic on their last album, Twisted Desire).If you like the French on Happy Feet, you'll also like Souvonica, which I think is a better album.
But probably only for fans of Nurse with Wound and The Hafler Trio. Sonic sculpture that probably go into the rock bins at CD stores because no one is sure where else to put it, although the shop by Purdue University has an "Avant Garde" section that is fitting.The most interesting thing about these "sound effects" (as they've been called by some) is that unlike typical sound effects discs, they demand attention from start to finish - kinda like some of John Zorn's quick-change music.
Specifically, Eostre, Mohnomishe & Norsch. Picked them up during my Throbbing Gristle infatuation phase. I thought they were pretty interesting.
Out of Chicago. My son and I read about their drummer (Kris Meyers) and checked out the music.Hard to describe, but: Part jam band (esp. live) part prog (Zappa-esque odd and/or shifting meters), part pop, they are all excellent musicians and play their oftentimes tricky music with precision.
I stumbled upon them by accident on Sirius Jam On (17). What was especially amazing is that someone at that station figured out there are more jam bands than Phish, Grateful Dead and String Cheese Incident.
Umphrey's has a TON of shows up there - and ALL are free, legal downloads. Umphrey's is one of the jammingest bands on the planet and their live shows are incredible. The twin lead guitar attack of Jake and Brendan is a sight (sound) to behold, very tight playing and awesome call and response. In addition, the rhythm section is as good as any that's ever played.As for songs, I'm particularly enamored of "Miss Tinkle's Overture" and "Mulche's Odyssey", but they have a lot of great songs.
Check 'em out, there are countless hours of concerts available to you on the Archive.
. . . I find their jamming less interesting than their through-composed tunes. That's just me.
I saw these guys play over the New Year in the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago and they are fine musicians, all of them.
What puzzled me then and continues to puzzle was the makeup of the crowd. The music is dense and complicated at times but the crowd was young to say the least. Lots of kids around 15 and 16. I am amazed that those kids could unravel the music, but maybe that is old thought.
Imagine how a 55 year old felt hanging out with them.
Enjoy.
Best thing T-Bone Burnette ever did. Best concert ever for me at the
old Armadillo in Austin before about 40 people. They put out only
three albums, every one a jewel. They were Dylan's core backup band
for the Rolling Thunder tour. Regards,
The Earlies are a kind of approximate of what might have been if George had been The Fabs major writer and had bumped into Brian Wilson between sandpit and chemist.http://www.theearlies.com/
Where I have just learned that they have a new album out. Goodie. They were also the band on Misha P Hinson And The Gospel Of Progress.
Primitive Radio Gods nearly had a hit several times with Standing Outside A Broken Phonebooth With Money In My Hand. White Hot Peach an album released something half way to what they wanted is sublime. The original is available from their website.
If not you bloody should.Get either of the "States" series first (Come On Feel The Illinoise or Michigan, The Great Lakes State) or the album of outtakes (The Avalanche)and wonder how one person can play so many different things and at times sound like Frank Zappa And The Mothers on a camping holiday.
Also featured on the soundtrack to Little Miss Sunshine.
And then after listening, definitely see him and his crew live. Very good, a lot of fun.
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