Lots of
music was played this week from all around the world, some new, some older, but
all interesting. Amongst them, from Moscow we heard the excellent new single by
Mystic Brew, from Tokyo a track off of Kikagaku Moyo’s
2013 debut album, from Chicago we heard the Luck of
Eden Hall and Secret Colours, as well
as a single by the Hedgehogs from Denmark, Blondi’s Salvation from Nantes in France with a
song from their new “Crusades” album, plus the UK’s Elephant Stone and Chile’s Föllakzoid, both with a track from their respective debuts,
and not forgetting a few 60’s gems such as Scott
Walker’s “The Amorous Humphrey Plugg”
for good measure. We were saddened this week by the passing of the Masters
Apprentices’ singer Jim Keays, the only
constant member of the band from their early days here in Adelaide through to
their final recordings many years later in London. I was fortunate enough to
know Jim in the early ‘70’s and even play in
a band with him for a while – being a teenager I was slightly in awe of him as
a rock hero, but he always just treated me as a fellow musician which was a
good lesson to learn – famous people are still just ‘people’ after all. Jim continued
playing until this year and recently released a great new album of 60’s garage
covers – a fine last release! However, we chose to play his 1971 ode to another
psychedelicist, “Our Friend Owsley Stanley III”
not just as a tribute to him but also to Swedish psychedelic philosopher Patrick Lundborg, who also died suddenly this week. He
was a well-known music-writer and author, most well-known for his “Acid Archives” compendium, his recent opus “Psychedelia : an ancient culture, a modern way of life”,
his articles in Shindig!, Ugly Things, Mojo
and other magazines, plus his website of everything psychedelic at http://www.lysergia.com
. Both will be sorely missed!
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so here is the playlist, plus visuals.......
Kikagaku Moyo –
Zo No Senaka (“Kikagaku Moyo” LP 2013 Japan)
Elephant Stone –
Setting Sun (“Elephant Stone” LP 2013 UK)
New Electric Ride
– All Who You Know (digital-only
single 2013 UK)
Mystic Brew –
Don’t You Want To Stay (7”single
b-side [to Your Reality] 2014 Moscow,
Russia)
the Luck of Eden Hall
– Chrysalide (“Greatest Hits, Vol.1” anthology 2014 Chicago, USA)
Secret Colours –
Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles
cover] (digital-only single 2010
Chicago, USA)
Human Expression
– Optical Sound (7”single 1966
California, USA)
Children of the Night
– World of Tears (7”single 1967
Connecticut, USA)
the Hedgehogs –
Make Me Wanna Cry (7”single 2014
Denmark)
Pinkunoizu –
Death Is Not A Lover (“Free Time!” LP 2013 USA)
Andrew Douglas
Rothbard – Golden Calf (“Abandoned Meander” 2006 Canada)
Jack Ellister –
Dear Prudence [Beatles cover] (“The
White EP” 2012 UK)
Cranium Pie – the
Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill [Beatles
cover] (“The White EP” 2012 UK)
Blondi’s Salvation
– Just a Puppet (“Crusades” 2014 Nantes, France)
Forever Pavot – Le pénitent le passe (“Christophe Colomb” EP 2014 Paris,
France)
the Masters
Apprentices – Our Friend Owsley Stanley 111 (”Choice
Cuts” LP 1971 Australia)
Dungen – Panda (“Ta Det Lungt” 2004 Sweden)
Ursula – Through
the Ether (“A Silhouette in the Hourglass“ 2014 Los Angeles, USA)
Jim Noir – The
Tired Hairy Man With Parts (“Jimmy’s Show” 2012 UK)
the Flower Machine
– Summer Ever Comes (demo 2012 Los
Angeles, USA)
Scott Walker –
The Amorous Humphrey Plugg (“Scott 2” LP 1968 UK)
Joy Zipper –
Transformation Fantasy (7”single
1999 Brooklyn, USA)
Octopus Syng – If
You Were a Flower (prev. unreleased
2014 Finland – taken from “Evolver : Mega
Dodo Records compilation” EP 2014 UK)
Föllakzoid – Loop (“Föllakzoid” 2012 Chile)
