Ganglians - 2007 - Blood On The Sand

Genre: Psych Pop
Label: Captured Tracks

Just a quick post. Ganglians is one of the band from the woodsis/captured tracks swamp - and they release a lot of records this year - and they going to be better with each new.

I am wondering that this 7" didn't go through each blog. I've found it accidently - so I will just link to the source blog.

Enjoy - very good record/7" and buy it with some other nice vinyl on captured tracks.

dronæment - 2009 - fieldbox

Genre: psych drone, field recording, electronic, kraut
Label: fieldmuzick (GER)

this 3 disc box might be good to induce weird moods in wintertime ;-). warm and organic sounds and lot of strange athmospheres like beeing drunk/stoned in the jungle or in space or just at home.

get one of the last boxes with beautiful inserts here

Try it (128kbps lofi rip) - Buy it - MicePays

That Ghost - 2008 - Young Fridays

Genre: Bedroom Fuzz Pop
Label: Two Syllable

What happend to that long awaiting Beach Fossil release? As far as I know 3 mp3 tracks circulated in the mid of this year... anyway That Ghost reminds me on them. A bit less "beach" and instead more garage. So check it out and go to the labelsite, to order his newest stuff, which is very good!

Check out these two songs too!

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Almaden - 2007 - The Dream Continues in 1,000,000 Roads as the Journeyman Slumbers to be Awoken by the Berries of Air and Forest, a Dawn Pre-Imagined

Genre: Psych Folk
Label: 267 lattajjaa (FI)

Ok, the full album title is: The Dream Continues in 1,000,000 Roads as the Journeyman Slumbers to be Awoken by the Berries of Air and Forest, a Dawn Pre-Imagined and so Owned in Footstep and Deed as Our Lovely Sojourner of Unabysmal Light Sojourns 4th into Willowy and Totally Purple Dawning, Day is Upon r Hero and the Golden Rd. of Infinitudinous Blessedhood get it :)? Who is Almaden? Yes you may know it - so if you like his current project you will like this too. This is Lo-Fi as it Low Fidelity can be. Tape hiss, Psych Folk and drone.

Find the lyrics and much more on the labelwebsite

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Some Superfree Stuff V - Hungry Owl, Slothbear

Genre: Lo-Fi Acoustic/Bedroom Folk and Indie/Garage Rock
Label: Rack & Ruin

2 new founds on one of my favorite free music labels. Rack & Ruin - I will never forget you to introduce me to Jason the Swamp! One of my 2009 records!

So more or less related to Jason the swamp is Hungry Owl, a short but enjoyable EP. Recorded by a girl with a acoustic guitar and lots of tape hiss and bliss

Get it at Rack & Ruin an here's her micepays

The next one is Slothbear - they released on Rack & Ruin last year a trashy Garage Rock EP and for the forthcomming new Album here is a single. Much cleaner but very good too.

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Kulturni Program - 1997 - POZOR

Genre: Hip Hop-Lounge-Sampling Madness
Label: Funny Entertainment (GER)

If you liked Beastie Boys and 2 Live Crew or Beck as kiddie in the nineties :P

Another CD from the wayback maschine - Kulturni Program - a group with czech bandname from germany who simiulate beeing from the states. Nice.

Saw them live, back in 1999 and it was very funny. Well this CD is a real gem - I am not sure if it sounds totally retro to you kids, please tell me.

This record contains so much styles - means sampling, from sixties easy listening tunes, over the crappy porn hip-hop band 2 live crew, over john zorn to some death metal.

Hold together by head nicking beats and weird breaks.

They were very inspired by the Beastie Boys - Check Your Head album, I suppose. This influence is very strong, but beside that you will have a lot of fun with theirs mixing skills.

Tracklisting

1. Start
2. Kicke Me
3. GewGaw
4. We Want Some Party
5. POZOR
6. Say Yeah!
7. Down In The Underground
8. Habambuleijah
9. Kultura
10. Jazzbo
11. Russ Meyer
12. Orientalni
13. Chicago Killer
14. Poetry In The Jungle

Try it

Flugschädel - 1995 - Othniel Trug Flugschädel

Genre: Drum n Bass, Downtempo, Cut-Up, Collage
Label: Plattenmeister (Ger)

Flugschädel were kind of dadaistic Electro/Industrial from germany. If I write Industrial I mean that Electro Rock'n'Roll Bastard that Ministry forced, years ago.

On one of their record, Flugschädel used weird and dadaistic spreech samples. I never liked that Ministry sound, but that EP was different. It's more electronic with downtempo beats and some weird drum n bass + all layered with oriental tunes.

Tracklisting

1. Zija Waswarme San
2. Dubei
3. Malm 71
4. Moond 13

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Jeremy Bradley Earl - 2007 - Skulls

Genre: Artbook
Label: NotNotFun

You like the scrawly strange illustrations and artwork on woodsist releases, the collages with eyes or stuff like that? It's Jeremy Earls work, and it's as Lo-Fi as the first woods/woodsist releases.

You should order the book before it's sold out and these are just low-res scans so try and buy!

Try it - Buy it

Grains - 2009 - Some Tracks...

Genre: Electronique pop muzak

Vasilis is the man behind Grains and he's making some really good music.

It's a bit different from that stuff I know in that sample based - so called chill wave (you know, Neon Indians, Washed out) area. Mostly it's not my cup of tea, but this is good. It has some strange layered vocals/chants in Milky Green, that "tropical" (hate that tag :P) vibe in Over the Sea and lot of nice sampling work. Not too noisy, not too cheesy. You should really check it!

Tracklisting

1. Milky Green
2. Over The Sea
3. Sunshine
4. Tyrotape In Three Halves

Keep up the good work!

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Mixtape #10 - Your Ghost

Genre: Psych Folk, Folk

If you like John Fahey you may like this compilation, some Fahey-like fingerstyle guitar stuff, some so called freak folk stuff. Check it out on the right sidebar and maybe you will like it.

Enjoy.

Coverpicture was taken from the (fake) spirit photographs of William Hope

Tracklisting

1. Leopold Skin - Last night - (Leopold Skin and the Blue House Dandelions)
2. Micah Blue Smaldone - Summerbelle, Winterbelle - (Hither And Thither)
3. Black Eagle Child - Made-Up Name - (Seeds That Sprout In Summer)
4. John Fahey - The Red Pony - (God, Time And Causality)
5. Cian Nugent - When The Snow Melts And Floats Downstream - (Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 3)
6. Matthew Solberg * - I Am a Fool - (I Am a Fool)
7. Goodtime John - Howlin' Wind - (Dark Slipped it's Cloak)
8. Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin - Lay Down Your Arms - (Hapless)
9. OCS - Our Lovesong - (2)
10. Weighted Pines * - Small Town - (Weighted Pines)
11. Little Gold * - On The Knife - (On The Knife)
12. Peter Scion * - the fathermost shore - (Through My Ghost)
13. Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan - Aloop - (Aloop)
14. Still Light - Footprints In The Garden - (Lything)
15. Bakers At Dawn * - Pick A Fight - (You Must Hide Your Love Forever)

(* means you will find it here on the blog ;-)
Grab it!

Peter Scion - All records for free

Genre: Psych Folk

Peter Scion is a musican from Sweden, who mostly put aout lot's of psych folk records during the nineties. He cleaned his archiv and since summer this year all of his official and unreleased recordings are available for free as 320 kbps mp3 and wav files.

It's an interesting to read about the details of his work. But to be honest it's a lot to download and to listen. So maybe it's good to start with his compilation
THE PECULIAR SOUNDS OF PETER SCION: A NEWCOMER'S INTRODUCTION (1989-2005)

If you like sometimes plain folk, sometimes fuzzy psych music check it out.

Personally I can recommend:

• THROUGH MY GHOST (Peter Scion 2000)
• THE AMETHYST DREAM (Peter Scion 1997)
• SISTER SONGS (Peter Scion 2002)

via Mutant Sounds

of Montreal - Microuniversity 7", Sony Connect Set EP, The Interface Session

Genre: Indie Pop
Label: Polyvinyl Records US

My favorite Band! Yes - I fell in love in 2007 with the Hissing Fauna Album and it was easy to fell in love with their previous releases, too.

I'm not sure about their new output ( listen here or here) it's pretty sick, but I'm sure Kevin Barnes have a vision of his music and he's brilliant.

Here I will post a nice 7" and two great acoustic sets. Especially the epic "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal" as acoustic version is pretty nice and still work as fragile Singer-Songwriter thing. The Sony Connect Set EP contains a wonderful Love Is All Coverversion (the orginaltrack is also very good) and Harvest Moon by good ol' Neil Young.

Tracklisting - 2006 - Microuniversity

1. Microuniversity
2. I Am A Christian’s Son

Try it

Tracklisting - 2007 - Sony Connect Set

1. Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover)
2. We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafing
3. Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
4. Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up (Love Is All Cover)

Try it!

Tracklisting - The Interface

1. Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
2. Lysergic Bliss
3. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal

Try it! - See the Video of that Performance

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Edit: Linkf of that Interfacesession is fixed now.

Little Gold - 2009 - On The Knife

Genre: Alt Country, Folk
Label: ADAGIO830 (GER)

Sounds not like Woods/Meneguar/Sheperds even if Christian DeRoeck was a member of them

Stumbled about this and some questions was answered. When I saw the latest videos or pictures of Woods, I always missed one guy I know from the backcover of the "At Rear House" CD. Well Christian DeRoeck disappeared some time ago and now he is back with his own project Little Gold.

As I said before it has not very much to do with the music of his former bands. You will get solid Alt. Country with slide guitar and violin. But if you listening closer you will find connections to his old bands. Julia and On The Knife are two brilliant tracks that are comparable to Woods. Very nice floating athmosphering tracks. Julia could be an adaption of Julias Dream by Pink Floyd?! Who knows...

I would sum up this release with a quote by Ballboy "I lost you, but I found Country Music"

You can order the deluxe vinyl edition in europe via the label or at Little Gold Website directly. So check it out! Really!

Tracklisting

1. Secret Handshake
2. My Side Of The Bed
3. Sympathy Chain
4. Julia
5. On The Knife
6. Silver Clouds
7. Roses
8. Lock Me Up

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Mixtape #9 - Quiet Music For Quiet People

Genre: Space Rock, Prog Rock, Psych Rock, Rock Rock

Finally a collection of newer and older psych and prog rock. You know, heavy organs and tambourine... but not only - a strange Procol Harum coverversion of Whiter Shade of Pale by Helge and the Firefuckers, an old great song by the german Hardrock fuckkers The Scorpions (yeah Wind of change ;-), a spacy, trippy jam track by Hawklords (I think it's Hawklords not Hawkwind, but a sideproject) and a hammond organ driven, Suicide like track by zZz and and and... try it if you are interested... oh - and the opener really kicks ass!

(Coverpicture taken from Monkeyabout)

Tracklisting

1. Psychic TV/PTV3 - Just Because - (Hell Is Invisible Heaven Is Her/e)
2. Wizardzz - Sailship - (Hidden City Of Taurmond)
3. Tame Impala - Desire Be, Desire Go - (Antares, Mira, Sun)
4. Action Beat - High Action - (The Noise Band From Bletchley)
5. Silvester Anfang - Boom van de eerste menstruatie - (II)
6. Crystal Antlers - Andrew - (Tentacles)
7. Dungen - Du E För Fin För Mig - (Ta Det Lugnt)
8. zZz - Ecstasy - (Sound Of zZz)
9. Helge And The Firefuckers - A Whiter Shade Of Pale - (Eiersalat In Rock)
10. The Terminals - Last Days Of The Sun - (Last Days Of The Sun)
11. Parts & Labor - Solemn Show World - (Receivers)
12. Weird War - mental poisoning - (Illuminated By The Light)
13. Tame Impala - Forty One Mosquitoes Flying In Formation - (Antares, Mira, Sun)
14. Scorpions - I'm Going Mad - (Best)
15. Hawkwind - Time of... - (Wierd Tapes 2 - Live&Hawklords studio)

Enjoy it