Technicolour Dreaming

Ok, I've very nearly caught up with the blogging duties back-log, one more to go, then all will be back on track - the darn flu-lurgy sure has a talent for putting your life on hold while you recover! Here's some more eye-candy (and ear-candy) to feast upon, until next week's instalment.....

Kelley Stoltz - Villiers Terrace ("Crockodials" 2006 San Francisco USA)

Soft Walls - Never Come Back Again ("No Time" 2014 Brighton UK)

The Strawberry Alarm Clock - Hummin' Happy ("Incense and Peppermints" 1967 USA)

Cosmic Fields - Velvet and the Moons ("Cosmic Fields" LP 2016 Argentina)

Astralasia - Johnny, Remember Me ("Fruits De Mer Annual" 2014 UK)

Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Lost in Space ("Fruits De Mer Annual" 2014 UK)

Worthless - Pizza Break ("All My Friends Are Stone" 2014 Brooklyn, New York USA)

Tor Peders - Tema Ett (Theme One) ("Brev Fran Edersdorp" 2014 Sweden)

Snobby Oxalis - Kings of Seaford ("Depthcharge 15" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Gary Moonboot Masters - Be What You Are ("Depthcharge 15" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Satelliters - Gotta Get You (Out of My Head) ("More Of..." LP 2014 Germany)

The Cape Kennedy Construction Company - Armageddon (7" single [b-side to "The First Step On The Moon"] 1969 USA)

The Kinetic - Suddenly Tomorrow ("Live Your Life" 1967 UK)

Absinthe Ava - Dig ("Underground Sunshine - Your Psych Tunes Vol 4" 2008 Detroit, USA)

Vibravoid - She's Just 13 (2015 version) ("Stoned Circus Radio Show 20th Anniversary" LP 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Children Of Leir - Bad Little Woman ("3rd Album" 2016 Leicester, UK)

Pink Umbrellas - Raspberry Rainbow (7" single 1983 UK)

Wayne Faro's Schmaltz Band - There's Still Time (7" single 1969 Canada)

The Shivas - Mr Marmalade ("Underground Sunshine - Your Psych Tunes Vol 4" 2008 Portland Oregon, USA)

Michael Moorcock and The Deep Fix - The Brothel in Rosenstrasse ("The New World's Fair" LP 1975 UK)

Baby Woodrose - Open Doors ("Freedom" 2016 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Cleaners from Venus - Wivenhoe Bells II ("Midnight Cleaners" cassette 1982 UK)

Flared - American Dream ("Stoned Circus Radio Show 20th Anniversary" LP 2015 Sweden)

King Suffy Generator - Mucillanggine ("Last Night The Flowers Bloomed - Your Psych Tunes Vol 6" 2008 Italy)

Joy as a Toy - Ghost Train ("Mourning Mountains" 2016 Belgium)

Polska Radio One - New Space (Cassette Single 2013 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Alan Avon and the Toyshop - Night To Remember (7" single [b-side to "These Are the Reasons"] 1970)

Ramblers - Ride On ("Stoned Circus Radio Show 20th Anniversary" LP 2015 [recorded in 1987] Orange, France)

Karova's Milkshake - Hey Girl ("Low-Cow-Motion" 2010 Russia)

Technicolour Dreaming

We decided to remain in continental Europe again for this edition’s “Band of the Week”, and the band we chose was Germany’s Vibravoid. This prolific psychedelic group have been together for a decade and are renowned for their extravagant light shows and multitudes of releases – have a look at their website for more details about this very cool band. Other features in the show included the new single by Perth’s High Learys, tracks from Quilt’s brilliant second and MGMT’s self-titled third albums plus Elephant Stone’s newest release, the excellent “Three Poisons” LP. Then there were a diverse bunch of songs from the past, ranging from the1966 ‘faux-psychedelia’ of session band the Deep, to the Nazz, featuring Todd Rundgren, and onto the Pretty Things’ 1969 French recordings with Philippe DeBarge, plus a modern take on 60’s icons Love by Doug Tuttle from a very cool Active Listener tribute compilation and lots more.....

..... so here is the playlist, with attendant visuals.....

the Jabberwocky Band – To the Old Temple      ("Ritual " EP 2014 Paris, France)

King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard – Float Along - Fill Your Lungs      ("Float Along - Fill Your Lungs" 2013 Geelong, Australia)

Baby Woodrose – Nothing is Real     ("Third Eye Surgery" 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Sons of Hippies – the Soft Parade [Doors cover]      ("A Psych Tribute to the Doors" compilation 2104 Germany)

Wild Rocket – La Rucolala      ("Daisy Dream" 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the High Learys – Clear My Mind      (CD-single 2014 Perth, Australia)

Doug Tuttle – You Set the Scene [Love cover]      (recorded 2013 USA – taken from "The Active Listener presents : Forever Changing – A Tribute to Love’s Forever Changes" compilation 2014  New Zealand)

Jack Ellister – Within You, Without You [Beatles cover]      ("Dawn Dream Club" 7" EP 2013 UK)

Quilt – Arctic Shark      ("Held in Splendor" 2104 Boston, USA)

Grant-Lee Phillips – Soft Asylum (No Way Out)      ("Strangelet" 2007 USA)

the Nazz – Hello, It's Me      (7"single 1968 USA)

Deep Feeling – Pretty Colours      (recorded 1968 UK, unreleased – "Pretty Colours" anthology 2008 UK)

Octopus Syng – Cuckoo Clock Mystery      ("Reverberating Garden Number 7" LP 2014 Helsinki, Finland)

Donovan – Sunny South Kensington    ("Mellow Yellow" LP 1967 UK)

   ###  “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –   Vibravoid   ###

Vibravoid – La Poupée qui fait non [Michel Polnareff cover]       ("Colour Your Mind" EP 2103 Germany)

Vibravoid – The Empty Sky      ("Delirio Dei Sensi" 2013 Germany)

Vibravoid – the White Ship [HP Lovecraft cover]      ("Gravity Zero" LP 2012 Germany)

Vibravoid – Incense and Peppermints [Strawberry Alarm Clock cover] / Playing with Beuys       ("Politics of Ecstacy" 2008 Germany)

the Pretty Things & Philippe DeBarge – Alexander     (recorded 1969 but unreleased – "The Pretty Things & Philippe DeBarge" anthology 2009 France/UK)

the Deep – Color Dreams      (“Psychedelic Moods” LP 1967 USA)

Elephant Stone – Between the Lines      (“Three Poisons” 2014 Montreal, Canada)

les Limiñanas – I’m Dead        (recorded ‘live at Hozac Records’ showcase USA 2011 – taken from “I’ve got Trouble in Mind : 7” & Rare Stuff 2009 –2014” anthology 2014 France)

MGMT – Alien Days      (“MGMT” 2014 USA)