Technicolour Dreaming

There is so much great new music at the moment for us to play on Technicolour Dreaming we are occasionally guilty of failing to feature the equally wonderful sounds of past decades from around the world as much as we perhaps should. Not this week however... almost half the songs are from both days past and diverse locales, including, amongst the 60’s contingent, the USA‘s Lyme & Cybelle [featuring a young Warren Zevon] and Hour Glass [from whence the Allman brothers appeared], Sweden’s Mecki Mark Men, an unjustly obscure, fantastic track from Frenchman Bernard Chabert and the Atlantics’ classic “Come On” featuring vocals by Australian legend, the late Johnny Rebb. Not that the aforementioned “great new music” was ignored though, with a spangly new EP from Adelaide veterans the Mynd Gardeners and a wonderful new single from Chicago’s the Luck of Eden Hall, both of which can be found on bandcamp and other digital outlets, which brings us to this show’s “Band of the Week” – the White Kites hail from Warsaw in Poland [though singer Sean Palmer is English, the rest of the band are Polish] and their debut full-length LP “Missing”, which was released in late 2013, is a brilliant modern take on late 60’s/early 70’s UK pop psych, with elements of folk, music-hall whimsy and space-rock woven into an album of clever, hook-laden pop songs which could easily have come from that era, but, produced with current production values, it makes them simultaneously modern, and that’s no mean feat, plus mention must be made of the fantastic cover art which presents an accurate guide to the splendours within! They certainly deserve their “band of the week” accolade, so check them out – you won’t be disappointed! So, until next week....

..... here is the full playlist, with bonus visual aids.....

the Green Tambourine Band – You are the One that I Love to Love         (“…Let Yourself Be” 2013 UK)

Lyme and Cybelle – Follow Me         (7”single 1966 USA)

the Mynd Gardeners – Don’t Wanna Cry         (“The Arcing Train Set Pantograph” EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Groop – Woman You’re Breaking Me       (7”single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Mystic Brew – Your Reality         (7”single 2013 Samara, Russia)

the Mecki Mark Men – Free         (“Mecki Mark Men” LP 1967 Sweden)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Arthropodra Lepodoptra         (7”single b-side [to the Happine$$ Vending Machine] 2014 Chicago, USA)

the New Tweedy Brothers – Wheel of Fortune         (“The New Tweedy Brothers” LP 1967 Portland, Oregon, USA)

Syd Arthur – Ode to the Summer         (7”single 2011 UK)

Diane Coffee – Tale of A Dead Dog         (“My Friend Fish” 2013 USA)

Sumner – Let’s Go and Play         (7”single 2013 UK)

the Moving Sidewalks – 99^th Floor        (7”single 1967 USA)

Sendelica – Love Song for the Dead Che [United States of America cover]        (recorded 2014 Wales, UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

Serge Gainsbourg – Melody/Ballade de Melody Nelson         (“Histoire de Melody Nelson” LP 1971 Paris, France) [see a very cool 1971 film at  www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X5LwFCHNe4 ]

Balduin – In a Better Land         (“Post From Mars” 2014 Switzerland)

Bernard Chabert – Helga Selzer [often misnamed as “Olga Selzer” on compilations]         (7”single [with L’homme de l’univers] 1970 France)

Race Horses – No Man’s Land [Syd Barrett cover]         (recorded 2009 Wales – taken from “Mojo: The Madcap Laughs Again” magazine cover-mount compilation 2009 UK)

Thomas and Richard Frost – Gotta Find a New Place to Stay         (7”single 1969 USA)

Mad River – Wind Chimes         (“Mad River” LP 1968 Ohio, USA)

Hour Glass – Bells         (“Hour Glass” LP 1967 USA)

Morgan Delt – Barbarian Kings        (“Morgan Delt” 2014 California, USA)

Johnny Rebb and the Atlantics – Come On         (7”single 1967 Sydney, Australia)

    ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –   the White Kites   ###

the White Kites – Love Doctor         (“Love Songs” EP 2013 Warsaw, Poland)

the White Kites – Christening         (mp3 single –  also on “Tego Słucham 3” compilation 2014

Poland)

the White Kites – Clown King         (“Missing” 2014 Poland)

Jason Falkner – Holiday         (7”single 1999 – taken from “Can You Still Feel?” LP 1999 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

It was the Radiothon ’14 edition of Technicolour Dreaming this week – chaos abounded with the phones ringing, the picking and organising of ‘bribe-to-subscribe’ giveaways, subscribers coming into the station, payments being made, volunteers running about and, unusually for us, lots of air-breaks and chatter and.... did I mention chaos? But it was all in a good cause – our annual Radiothon where we ask listeners to help keep us on-air by becoming valued 3D Radio subscribers! We won’t go into all the details – you can go to the 3D Radio website here and see how to pay [yes we do PayPal], the form to fill out, what you get for your bucks [including this year’s DepthCharge CD compilation which ONLY subscribers are given] and details of the major prizes you are in the running for when you do subscribe - all for the low price of $60.... it doesn’t matter if you live in Adelaide or Athens, the USA or Uruguay, anyone can be a 3D Radio subscriber and help us keep this unique music community radio station broadcasting every day of every week, and of course letting us, the Cat and the Brat, play all the wonderfully diverse psychedelia [and associated obscurities] that we love to share with you every Tuesday afternoon on this show. Normal broadcasting will resume next week of course [whew!] but in the meantime.... dig deep, go to the 3DRadio website and SUBSCRIBE people!

..... anyway, here are all the tracks we played during the show, with some nice pictures ta boot.....

the Green Tambourine Band – Aum [Part A]      (“...Let Yourself Be / AUM” double-LP 2013 Edinburgh, Scotland)

the Beatles – I Am The Walrus      (“Magical Mystery Tour” double-EP 1967 UK)

the Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream [Last Night]      (7”single 1966 USA)

Holy Wave – Night Tripper      (“Relax” 2013 USA)

Kelley Stoltz – All That Jazz [Echo & the Bunnymen cover]      (“Crockodials” 2002 USA)

Robyn Hitchcock – The Ghost In You [Psychedelic Furs cover]      (“The Man Upstairs” 2014 UK)

Les Big Byrd – Indus Waves / Tinitus Aeternum      (“They Worshipped Cats” 2014 Sweden)

Dean Allen Foyd – Please, Pleaze Me      (“The Sounds Can Be So Cruel” 2012 Sweden)

Love – 7 and 7 Is      (7”single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

the Sand Pebbles – Sunshine to Burn [Long Grass cover]      (“Tomorrow Is Today : a tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70” compilation 2007 Australia)

the Chemistry Set – A House Is Not A Motel [Love cover]      (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

 

Tara King Th. – Magnetic Bounds      (“Uncoloured Past [Part 1 & 11]” cassette 2012 Lyons, France)

Jeff St John & the Id – Eastern Dream      (7”single b-side [to Black Girl] 1966 Sydney, Australia)

Mt Mountain – She Runs       (“EP” 2014 Perth, Australia)

Invisible Ships – Lucy Dream      (mp3 single 2013 Faversham, UK)

            ###  “BAND of the WEEK” – Soft Hearted Scientists  ###

Soft Hearted Scientists – The A470 Song      (“Take Time to Wonder in a Whirling World” 2007 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Robots Remember      ([from the pre-release of] “The Slow Cyclone” 2014 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – The Trees Don’t Seem To Know Its September      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Seeing      (“False Lights” 2013 Wales, UK)

Oak Apple Day plus the Deadly Pair – Moon Shot      (7”single b-side [to Let’s Do It On The Moon] 1969 Australia)

New Electric Ride – All Who You Know      (mp3 single 2014 UK)

the Fast Camels – Kelvin      (“Deadrooms and Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Sunchymes – Free Rider      (“Shifting Sands” 2009 UK)

Morgan Delt – Backwards Bird Inc      (“Morgan Delt” 2013 California, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

The new Brian Jonestown Massacre album came into our P.O. box this week so, needless to say, we felt it was a fine way to begin this week’s show before we moved into our trawl through the wonderful world of psychedelia. Also featured this week were tracks from a couple of cool Russian bands, Mystic Brew and the Spoon Box, with more to follow in coming weeks from what appears to be a very vibrant psych scene... special thanks to Dimitry of Mystic Brew for putting us onto some of the great bands there! Northern Europe also provided us with tracks by such Scandinavian bands as Octopus Syng and the Jessica Fletchers plus, from Poland, the White Kites, while from the Philippines we played D’Swooners, as well as a bunch from the USA and Britain including Flavor Crystals and Jeffertitti’s Nile from the former and Scars, the Open Mind and Schnauser from the latter, not forgetting Australia’s entries, Shining Bird and Subtract-S and New Zealand’s the Avengers, who did a great cover of “Listen, Listen”, which has to be one of our favourite 60’s classics! That’s your lot - another “Technicolour Dreaming” streamed into your ears, so until next week.....

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

Enjoy!

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Vad Hände Med Dem       (“Revelation”  2014 USA/Germany)

Octopus Syng – It’s Not a Coincidence         (”Reverberating Garden no.7” 2014 Finland)

Mind Garage – Asphalt Mother         (7”single 1968 Pittsburgh, USA)

Mystic Brew – Without You         (7”single b-side [to Don’t You Want To Stay] 2014 Moscow, Russia)

MYSTIC BREW - Without You (Official Video) from Zakharkin Oleg on Vimeo.

D’Swooners – Please Please Trina         (7”single 1968 Philippines/Hong Kong)

BB Jr – Walking with Jesus [Spaceman 3 cover]         (“Captcha Records... introducing” sampler compilation 2014 California, USA)

the Barbarellatones – Sharknado         (mp3 2014 Hawaii, USA)

the Modern Lovers – She Crack’d         (“The Modern Lovers” LP 1976 New York, USA)

Frantic Chance – My Name is Warfare         (mp3 demo 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Jessica Fletchers – Bloody Seventies Love         (“What Happened to the?” 2003 Norway)

the Green Tambourine Band – From the Seed into the Flower [Sir Psych Mix]         (mp3 – song orig. on “Let Yourself Be/Aum” LP 2014 Scotland, UK)

Cheval Sombre – You’ve got to Hide Your Love Away [Beatles cover]         (mp3 2013 USA)

Three Minute Tease – Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]          (“The White EP” double-7” EP 2013 UK)

Southern Boutique – Don’t Be Yourself (Cowboy Song Part 2)         (7” single 2013 USA)

Flavor Crystals – Blue Haiti         (“Three” LP 2013 USA)

Shining Bird – Can’t Stop Sleeping In         (demo 2014 Australia)

Jeffertitti’s Nile – The Day the Sky Fell         (“The Electric Hour” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

the White Kites – Percival Buck        (“Missing” LP 2014 Poland)

the Mirage – Ebenezer Beaver         (recorded 1968 UK, but unissued – taken from ”Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72” CD-boxset 2013 UK)

the Open Mind – Magic Potion         (7” single 1969 UK)

the Avengers – Listen, Listen [Merry-Go-Round cover]         (7” single 1969 New Zealand)

Scars – All About You         (“Author! Author!” LP 1981 UK)

Tall Tales and True – Wasted Life         (“Tale Tales and True” mini-LP 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Toys Went Berserk – Guns at My Head        (7” single [b-side to Don’t Run Away] 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Subtract-S – mb ph         (“Love From Outer Space” EP 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

Schnauser – Astral Traveller [Yes cover]         (7”single 2014 Wales, UK)

the Spoon Box – Два расиста [Two Racists]         (“The Spoon Box” EP 2012 Samara, Russia)