Technicolour Dreaming

Some tasty treats from the wonderful Fruits de Mer Records arrived in my letterbox, so of course I just had to play ALL of them on the show this week - how could I resist! The current crop of soon-to-be-released vinyl included the latest single from the sixties legends July (an exclusive extended version, and a demo mix of "Can I Go Back Again" a song that appeared in it's original form on their new album "Resurrection"); a coloured vinyl 4-track 7" 33rpm EP (phew!) from Crystal Jacqueline, titled "Morning Dew"; and finally Sendelica's latest spacerock epic, "The Cromlech Chronicles" LP, with which I closed the show by playing all 20 minutes worth of Side 2 - because I can!
Other new releases included Doug Tuttle's "It Calls on Me", and another track off The Luck of Eden Hall's wonderful "The Acceleration of Time" plus a swag of songs from 2015 which I've only just got around to playing.....
So here's the playlist, with not nearly as many clips as usual, cos I can't include what doesn't exist - a pitfall of playing relatively "unknown" bands, but at least the music's out there to enjoy.

The Sun Birds - Drag Me Down  ("Your Psych Tunes Vol 3" compilation 2007 (Portland,  Oregon USA)

Inside Looking Out - Long Live Sivananda  (7" single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

Al Hotchkiss (Los Tentakills) - I'm a Wolfman For You  ("Your Psych Tunes Vol 3" compilation 2007 Glasgow, UK)

Gilligan Smiles - Whatever Happened to Atlas Johnson?  ("Karmasouptruck" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Erasers - By Your Side  ("Stem Together" 2015 Perth, Australia)
July  - Can I Go Back Again  (7" single [to be released 9 May 2016] UK)

Vibromaniacs - Gloria's Nightmare  ("Sweet Smell of Hell" 2007 Dijon, France)
The Diamond Center - Messenger of Wonder  ("Crystals for the Brass Empire" 2015 Austin, Texas USA)
Barry Uhl - Song of Songs  ("The Stargazer's Bible" 2015 Seattle, USA)

The Striped Bananas - Open Eyes ("Cosmic Carnival" 2015 Ann Arbor, Michigan USA)
The Luck Of Eden Hall - Arthropoda Lepidoptera  ("The Acceleration of Time" LP [to be released 1 June 2016] Chicago, Illinois USA)

Doug Tuttle - Saturday-Sunday  ("It Calls On Me" 2016 Rochester, New Hampshire, USA)

Apple - The Otherside  ("An Apple a Day" LP 1969 Cardiff, Wales UK)

The Flies - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone  (7" single 1966, London UK)

Billy Nicholls  - London Social Degree  ("Would You Believe" LP 1968 UK)

The Wrong Society - Without You  (7" single [b-side to "She Destroyed Me"] 2015 Hamburg, Germany)

Paul Messis - The Blind Leading the Blind  (7" single 2015, West Sussex, UK)

The Brats - We Love You [Rolling Stones]  ("Live at the Pt Elliot Hotel" demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia)
Blue Sunshine Minds - How Does it Feel  ("Burn Your Fingers on the Sun" compilation 2007 Melbourne, Australia)

Crystal Jacqueline - Morning Dew [Bonnie Dobson/Tim Rose]  ("Morning Dew" 7" EP [to be released 9 May 2016] UK)

Maston - Gold Leaf  ("Opal Collection" 2014 Los Angeles, California USA)

Felipe Arcazas - Carl Sagan  ("Felipe Arcazas and Vintage Cucumber" split EP 2013 Brazil)

Flowers of Hell - Atmosphere [Joy Division]  ("Odes" 2012 Toronto, Canada / London)

The Green Circles  - Let Me Through  ("Tavistock Street" 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

The Perpetuated Spirits of Turpentine - The Girl with the Sandy Blonde Hair (7" single 1966 USA)

Sendelica - Satori (Part 1)/Vellichor/Zenosyne  ("The Cromlech Chronicles" LP [to be released 29 May 2016] West Wales, UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Just when you think that the recent spate of musical heroes departing this earth has abated, along comes a very big lightning bolt from the blue - David Bowie has joined them. Not a promising start for the year, but a fitting reason to re-listen to Bowie's collected works, and play some favourites on the radio. Indeed, on the day in question, by the time 1pm had rolled around, there had been a massive 29 Bowie tracks aired, with not a single repetition amongst them! Just goes to show that Bowie's different stylistic twists and turns appealed to a very wide range of fans over the years. Sadly, so many inspirational musicians are approaching an age where their mortality is becoming more and more apparent - as a friend recently wrote, someone should go find Keith Richards and roll him up in bubble-wrap, pronto!
..and here's the playlist for this week's show, clips and all...
David Bowie - Scream Like a Baby  ("Scary Monsters" LP 1980 UK)




Vespero - Scream thy Last Scream [Pink Floyd]  ("A  Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 Russia)

Soft Hearted Scientists - Mount Palomar  ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015 reissue Wales UK)




Wild Pink Yonder - Two of a Kind [Syd Barrett]  ("A  Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 UK)
Crystal Jacqueline  - Somebody to Love [Jefferson Airplane]  ("Sun Arise" 2015 UK)



Soft Hearted Scientists - Diving Bell  ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015reissue Wales UK)

Papy - Toi le Shazam  (7" single 1967 France)


Fatty Nautty - Tumba Part 2  ("Fatty Nautty EP" 1968 France)



Dodson and Fogg - Clunes the Gravedigger  ("In a Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)
Traffic - Paper Sun  (7" single 1967 UK)




David Bowie - Friday on my Mind [Easybeats]  ("Pin Ups" LP 1973 UK)



The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Leave it Alone  ("Thingy Wingy" mini-album 2015 USA)

The Hanging Stars - Golden Vanity  (CD single 2015 London UK) 

The Easybeats - Peculiar Hole in the Sky [Valentines]  (7" single 1969 Australia) 



 The Amazing - Picture You  ("Picture You" 2015 Sweden)




 David Bowie - Queen Bitch  ("Hunky Dory" LP 1971 UK)




 Dukes of Stratosphear - Vanishing Girl  ("Psonic Psunspot" LP 1987 UK)




The Monkees - Girl That I Knew Somewhere  ("Monkees Live 1967" LP 1987 USA) 



  Cherokees - I've Gone Wild  (7" single b-side (to "Minnie the Moocher") 1967 Australia) 




 Castaways - Liar Liar  (7" single 1965 USA)




 The Systemaddicts - Can't Put You Down  ("The Systemaddicts" 2011 Adelaide, Australia)


Vertebrats - Left In The Dark  ("Screaming Like a Mad Choir" 2011 USA) 


The Nightcrawlers - The Little Black Egg  (7" single 1965 USA) 


The Fallen Angels - Mother's Homesick Too  ("The Fallen Angels" LP 1967 USA)
 

The Black Angels - Deer-Ree-Shee  ("Directions To See a Ghost" 2008 Austin Texas, USA)


The Velvet Underground - I'm Set Free  ("The Velvet Underground" LP 1969 USA)  

 Adrian Pride - Her Name Is Melody  (7" single 1966 USA) 

Rashamra - The Love of a Woman  ("Unforgotten" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Flaming Lips - Is David Bowie Dying?  ("The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends" 2012 USA)  

Technicolour Dreaming

The so-called “race that stops a nation” passed with barely a ripple here at 3D Radio, though we did begin with Welsh popsters Race Horses as an ironic wink, thus leaving the rest of the show to our regular perusal of new sounds, topped up with older favourites and obscurities. In the latter grouping, we saluted the late Paul Revere, who continued performing with a version of the Raiders until last year – definitely a lifetime dedicated to music – by playing, from 1965, one of their many great songs, “Just Like Me”. Amongst the newer contingent were tracks by Moth Effect, Melbourne’s Basement Spaceman, the latest release by Beaulieu Porch and the upcoming single by Sweden’s Haleiwa. Finally, for two weeks in a row, our “Artiste of the Week” was provided by Switzerland... last week it was Borderline Symphony, this time it is the prolific musician known as Balduin. He has just released “All In A Dream”, a new limited edition ‘vinyl-only’ LP on the UK’s Sunstone Records, following his sold-out “The Glamour Forest” EP from earlier in the year. Both have been garnished with well-deserved rave reviews in magazines such as “Shindig!” and various on-line psych blogs and this new LP has flown into Technicolour Dreaming’s “Top 5 releases of 2014” list! So, until next week....

..... here is the playlist, plus some visuals.....

Race Horses – Cake      (“Goodbye Falkenburg” 2010 Cardiff, Wales)

Les Big Byrd – White Week      (“They Worshipped Cats” LP 2014 Sweden)

Halasan Bazar – Tin Foiled      (“How to Be Ever Happy” 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark)

the Buzzcocks – Moving Away from the Pulsebeat      (“Another Music in a Different Kitchen”  LP 1978 UK)

the Tages – To Be Free      (7”single b-side [to Fantasy Island] 1968 Sweden)

Cheval Sombre – She Went Walking in the Rain       (“Mad Love” 2013 UK)

Basement Spaceman – Outback Star     (“Basement Spaceman” LP 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Just Like Me      (7”single 1965 USA)

Stay – I See the Rain (Marmalade cover)      (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)

the Kinks – All Day and All of the Night      (7”single 1964 UK)

Bobby and Laurie – Hitchhiker      (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Grease Arrestor –Spirit Bodies      (“What Was, Is” 2014 Sydney, Australia)

the New Dream – Groupie      (7”single 1969 Australia)

Trolley – My Obsession      (“Things that Shine and Glow” 2013 UK)

Gravenhurst – Only a Northern Song [Beatles cover]      (recorded 2012 UK for “Mojo: Yellow Submarine Resurfaces” – ‘Mojo’ magazine covermount-CD 2012 UK)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup – Jabberwocky [C.S.Lewis adaption]      (7”single 1968 UK)

Balduin – Which Dreamed it [Boeing Duveen cover]      (“All in a Dream” LP 2014 Switzerland)

Balduin – In a Better Land     (“Balduin 4” 2010 Switzerland)

Balduin – Mirror, Mirror      (“All in a Dream” LP 2014 Switzerland)

Balduin – Everything      (“Choose Balduin” 2011 Switzerland)

Haleiwa – Wall of Blue Sky      (7”single 2014 Sweden)

Moth Effect – Look Nicely       (“Crocodilians” 2014 UK)

Rolling Stones – Child of the Moon      (7”single b-side [to Jumpin’ Jack Flash] 1968 UK)

the Cowsills – Newspaper Blanket      (7”single b-side [to Indian Lake] 1968 USA)

New Electric Ride – The Beyond      (“Balloon Age” 2014 UK)

Kingdom of the Holy Sun – Sihanouk Trail      (“Thirteen Eyes” EP 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

Crystal Jacqueline – And Yet it Was/White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane cover]      (“Honey” EP 2014 Wales, UK)

 

Beaulieu Porch – Golden Face      (7”single 2014 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Amongst the new releases featured this week on the show was the Junipers “Euphonius Trolley EP”, their pop-psych side-project, and if the track we played, “My Budgerigar (is addicted to rasmalai)”, is any indication, we can only hope they pursue this direction further and put out a full album – we loved it!  Do check it out! Also featured were new tracks from the Horrors, the Roaring 420’s, Kikagaku Moyo and Octopus Syng, plus two French favourites, Sudden Death of Stars and Forever Pavot. Older music was not forgotten, of course, ranging from 60’s singles by Ola & the Janglers, the Dave Miller Set and Rhubarb Rhubarb, with a 70’s recording by the Left Banke, through to more recent tracks by the likes of Psychic Ills, Gold Paint and from 1990, the debut single by Cat & Brat faves, the Luck of Eden Hall. We also featured another track by Adelaide’s own Twilights and you’ll find Part 2 of the pilot of their ill-fated TV series attached for your viewing pleasure. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist plus associated visuals, including of course the aforementioned Twilights special and a HD remix of the Monkees.....

Holy Wave – Psychological Thriller         (“Relax” LP 2013 USA)

the Horrors – Jealous Sun         (“Luminous”  2014 UK)

September Girls – Man Chats         (“Wanting More” EP 2012 Ireland, UK)

the Black Lips – Funny        (“Underneath the Rainbow”  2014 USA)

Gold Paint – Backyard         (“Gold Paint/Faraway Places” 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Kelley Stoltz – Kim Chee Taco Man         (“Double Exposure” LP 2014 USA)

the Pancakes – Man on the Moon         (“Space Cow”  2005 Germany)

the Junipers – Our budgerigar [is addicted to rasmalai]       (“Euphonious Trolley” EP 2014 UK)

Rhubarb Rhubarb – Rainmaker         (7”single 1968 UK)

the Monkees – Porpoise Song         (7”single 1968 USA)

Ola & the Janglers – That’s Why I Cry         (“Let’s Dance” LP 1968 Sweden)

the Luck Of Eden Hall – Hook, Line and Sinker         (7”single 1990 Chicago, USA)

Sudden Death of Stars – Magical Mirror         (“All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown” LP2014 Brittany, France)

the Dave Miller Set – Mr Guy Fawkes         (7”single 1969 Australia)

Sendelica – Set the Controls for the Heart of the Buddha         (“Live in London” double 7” EP compilation 2013 UK)

Forever Pavot – Christophe Colomb         (“Christophe Colomb” EP 2014 Paris, France)

Crystal Jacqueline – I Had Too Much to Dream [Electric Prunes cover]        (“Honey Pot” double 7” EP 2014 UK)

Kikagaku Moyo – Kodama         (“Forest of Lost Children” 2014 Japan)

the Murlocs – Jukebox         (“Loopholes”  2014 Australia)

the Allah-Las – Every Girl         (7”single b-side [to Had It All] 2014 USA)

the Roaring 420’s – These Waves of Stone         (“What is Psych?” LP 2014 Germany)

Octopus Syng – Thought Collector         (“Reverberating Garden No. 7”  2014 Finland)

Icarus Peel – Almost Murder Ballad         (“Barnburner” split-EP [with Mordecai Smyth] 2014 UK)

the Twilights – Comin’ On Down         (7”single b-side [to Tell Me Goodbye] 1968 Adelaide, Australia)

the Green Tambourine Band  – Here She Comes         (“Let Yourself Be...” 2013 USA)

the Left Banke – And One Day       (7”single b-side [ to Queen of Paradise] 1978 New York, USA)

Psychic Ills – Mind Daze      (“Hazed Dream” 2011 USA)

 

Technicolour Dreaming

Before we begin, the Cat and the Brat would like to thank fellow 3D Radio announcers “harry” and Michael for stepping into the breach and doing the past couple of shows for us with such panache – great music from both of you! And while we were away, of course, a big pile of new releases awaited us at the P.O., only some of which we were able to fit into this week’s show, so look out for lots of new music in the weeks to come. But back to this show!  We started with a track for the long-anticipated new album from Finland’s veteran psychedelecists Octopus Syng, newly released on the UK’s “Mega Dodo” record company, who also put out the “Barnburner” split-EP by Mordecai Smyth and Icarus Peel. We also celebrated the “Fruits de Mer” vinyl-only label’s “Crabstock 2014” series of shows in the USA, Finland and Wales by playing tracks by some of the featured artists such as the Luck of Eden Hall, Sendelica and Sky Picnic as well as a few selections from the FdM back-catalogue. Add to these the usual mix of 60’s goodness by the likes of Procession, the Sorrows, Iceland’s legendary Thor’s Hammer and the Pretty Things, some proto-punk from Zolar X and the Dictators and new music from Holy Wave, Pinkunoizu and Night Beats plus much more, and it’s Technicolour Dreaming for another week......

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

Octopus Syng – Cuckoo Clock Mystery      (“Reverberating Garden, No.7” 2014 Finland)

Mike Furber – I’m on Fire      (7”single 1969 Australia)

Mordecai Smyth – Plastic People      (“Barnburner” split-EP [with Icarus Peel] 2014 UK)

Pinkunoizu – I said hell you said no      (“The Drop” 2013 USA)

Impala Syndrome – Let Them Try      (“Impala Syndrome” LP 1969 Spain)

Rochelle Rosenthal & the Kickball Queen – Lottery       (7”single 1969 Detroit, USA)

Kelley Stoltz – Inside My Head      (“Double Exposure” LP 2013 California, USA)

the Liverpool Scene – We’ll All Be Spacemen Before We Die      (unreleased, recorded 1969 for UK  4-part TV series “the Liverpool Scene Look At...”   – taken from “Love Poetry And Revolution: A Journey Through The British Psychedelic And Underground Scenes 1966 To 1972” compilation boxset 2013 UK)

Holy Wave – Night Tripper      (“Relax” 2014 USA)

 

the Sorrows – The Makers      (“Old Songs, New Songs” LP 1969 UK)

the Dictators – California Sun [Rivieras cover]      (“Go Girl Crazy” LP 1975 New York, USA)

Zolar X – Space Age Love      (unreleased, recorded 1974 Los Angeles, USA – released on “Timeless” LP 1982 USA)

Night Beats – H-Bomb (Al Lover remix)      (“Trouble In Mind label : Liverpool Psych Fest 2013” promo-cd 2013 USA)

the Bonniwell Music Machine – Astrologically Incompatible      (7”single b-side [to Bottom of the Soul] 1967 USA)

the Pretty Things – Baron Saturday      (“S.F. Sorrow” LP 1968 UK)

the Luck of Eden Hall – S.F.Sorrow Is Born [Pretty Things cover]      (recorded 2011 USA – taken from “Sorrow’s Children: the songs of S.F. Sorrow” compilation LP 2012 UK)

the Hounds – Office Girl      (7”single 1967 Sweden)

Seventh Ring of Saturn – 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box [Aquarian Age cover]      (recorded 2011 USA – taken from “Keep Off The Grass” double-LP compilation 2011 UK)

Procession – Mind Magician      (“Procession” LP 1968 Australia)

Sky Picnic – Try It [Hollies cover]      (rec. 2011 USA – taken from “Re-Evolution: FdM Sings the Hollies” compilation LP 2013 UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – Remember a Day [Pink Floyd cover]      (“Honey” EP 2014 Wales, UK)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Lucifer Sam [Pink Floyd cover]      (“Fruits de Mer Live in London” compilation EP 2013 UK)

Sendelica – Venus In Furs [ Velvet Underground cover]      (7”single 2009 Wales, UK)

Thor’s Hammer – My Life      (“Umbarumbamba” EP 1968 Iceland)

the Sandals – House of Painted Glass       (7”single b-side [to Cloudy] 1967 USA)

the Barracudas – We’re Living in Violent Times      (“Drop Out with the Barracudas” LP 1980 UK)