Technicolour Dreaming

Rather than a band, we had Dutch solo performer Jacco Gardner as our “Artiste of the Week” in this edition of Technicolour Dreaming. Regular listeners will be aware that we have featured his music quite frequently since we first heard his “Clear the Air” single early last year, the song later appearing on his excellent debut album “Cabinet of Curiosities”. Whilst clearly in thrall to 60’s psychedelic pop, Jacco has managed to create his own inspired take on the genre, letting the strength of his song writing shine through – like his predecessors, he sure knows how to write a catchy pop song with twists and unexpected turns a-plenty. Wonderful music.... and his ever-growing renown is well-deserved – hopefully he’ll bring his band on tour to Australia soon! Also featured again this week was the UK record label Fruits de Mer, including tracks by FdM stalwarts such as Spain’s excellent Stay and Welsh outfit Schnauser amongst others, the two mentioned above taken from the latest promo sampler “Friends of the Fish vol. 1” which reminds us of the diversity of the label’s output and which we’ll certainly be plundering over coming months – great stuff! Also played this week were new tracks from Espectrostatic, Sky Picnic and Dodson & Fogg [featuring the Young Ones’ Nigel Planer] plus a few ‘blasts from the past’  by the likes of the Sorrows, Holland’s After Tea, the United States of America and Peru’s We All Together doing a Badfinger cover, taken from their sole 1972 LP.

There was much more of course, as always, so until next week.....

..... here is the playlist with some associated clips, plus a short film of the famous 1964 LSD debate at MiT featuring Dr Timothy Leary.... Enjoy!  

After Tea – The Time is Nigh         (7” single b-side [to Not Just a flower in Your Hair] 1967 Netherlands)

Lumerians – Xulux         (“Transmalinnia” 2013 USA)

David Crosby – Song With No Words [Tree With No Leaves]         (”If I Could Only Remember My Name...”  LP 1971 USA)

Stay – If I Needed Someone [Beatles cover]         (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)

Jason Crest – Black Mass         (7”single b-side [to A Place in the Sun] 1969 Kent, UK)

Espectrostatic – Escape from Witchtropolis         (“Escape from Witchtropolis” 2014 Austin, Texas, USA)

Paul Messis – Nightmares         (7”single 2014 UK)

Soft Walls – Won’t Remember My Name         (“No Time” 2014 USA)

the United States of America – The American Metaphysical Circus         (“The United States of America” LP 1968)

Schnauser – Westward Ho!         (“Where Business Meets Fashion” 2013 Wales, UK – taken from Fruits de Mer Records promo-CD compilation “friends of the fish – a first collection” 2014 UK)

Sendelica – Hard Coming Love [United States of America cover]         (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

Kaleidoscope – Flight From Ashiya         (7”single 1967 UK)

White Sails – The Answer         (“White Sails EP” 2013 USA/Finland)

the Californians – The Cooks of Cake and Kindness       (7”single b-side [to Mandy]1969 UK)

   ###    “Artiste of the Week”   –   Jacco Gardner    ###

Jacco Gardener – Puppets Dangling         (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)

Jacco Gardener – End of August         (7”single 2013 Netherlands)

Jacco Gardener – Clear the Air         (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)

Jacco Gardener – Always on My Mind [Billy Nicholls cover]         (“Trouble in Mind Records presents: Record Store Day 2013 4-Way Covers Split 7 inch” compilation EP [with Maston, MMOSS, and the Resonars] 2013 USA/Netherlands)

Skull Cave – Acid Tone      (CD-single 2014 Perth, Australia)

Miss Elm – Facebook Never Lies      (“Hybrid” EP 2014 Queensland, Australia)

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

the Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane – Blessings from the Reptiles [Diego]      (“Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane”  2010 Chile)

Maston – Strange Rituals       (“Shadows” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

We All Together – It’s a Sin to Go Away [Badfinger cover]      (“We All Together” LP 1972 Peru)

Dodson & Fogg (feat. Nigel Planer) – Entrepreneur in the Garden      (“In A Strange Slumber” 2014 UK)

the Sorrows – You’ve Got What I Want      (7”single 1966 UK)

Sky Picnic – Upon Further Reflection       (“Her Dawn Wardrobe” 2014 Brooklyn, New York, USA)

plus....

Timothy Leary 1964 debate link - http://www.openculture.com/2014/09/the-historic-lsd-debate-at-mit.html

Technicolour Dreaming

It’s the final show for 2013 and it was on New Year’s Eve, so it was appropriate we wrapped up our series of “Favourites of the Year” with what was certainly a highlight of 2013 – the new Wooden Shjips LP. Before we got there though, there was a plethora of other faves to be played, though of course some slipped through the cracks and these will no doubt ooze into our early 2014 shows! Anyway, we hope you all have a great New Year – one that promises to build on the growing eruption of excellent psychedelia that seems to be overtaking us... 2014 should hold some very intriguing new music! So, without further ado.....

..... here is the playlist plus a bunch of eye-candy to enjoy.....

Sundial – She’s Looking All Around      (“Other Way Out” LP 1990 UK)

Me & My Kites – Isis’ Adventure      (7”single b-side [to The Band] 2013 UK)

Brenton Manser – Dogged Old Joy      (“The Edge of Forgiveness” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Easybeats – Amanda Storey      (recorded 1968, unreleased – taken from “The Definitive Anthology” 2-CD box 2003 Australia)

the Sufis – I’ll Come to See You      (“Inventions” 2013 Nashville, USA)

Plastic Penny – Give Me Money      (“Currency” LP 1969 UK)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer      (“A Web of Sound” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Corey – Come On, Let’s Go      (7”single b-side [to Is It Really Really Real?] 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Peter Sarstedt – Mary Jane      (“Peter Sarstedt” LP 1969 UK)

Montero – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius/Ivy League cover]      (“Nuggets : Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era” compilation 2013 Australia)

Sendelica – Set the Controls for the Heart of the Buddha      (“The Kaleidoscopic Kat And It’s Autoscopic Ego” 2013 Wales, UK)

Temples – Mesmerise      (pre-release from forth-coming “Sun Structures” LP 2014 UK)

the Hidden Masters – Last Days of the Sun      (“Of This & Other Worlds” 2013 UK)

the Lovetones – Was I There In Your Future?      (“Meditations” 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Kaleidoscope – Flight From Ashiya       (7”single 1967 UK)

France Gall – Teenie Weenie Boppie      (“Teenie Weenie Boppie” EP 1967 France)

the Mynd Gardeners – Misinterpreted      (split-EP [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Lost At Sea [a love song]      (“Ride Into The Sun” LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Black Angels – The Day      (“Indigo Meadow” 2013 Texas, USA)

Warm Soda – Waiting For The Man [Velvet Underground cover]      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends” tribute compilation LP 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Crystal Stilts – Future Folklore      (“Nature Noir” 2013 USA)

Fuzz – Sunderberry Dream      (7”single 2013 USA)

the Monkees – Mary, Mary      (“More of the Monkees” LP 1966 USA)

Kak – Rain      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “The Gathering of the Tribes” compilation boxset 2013)

the Dandelion – Here Comes Love      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

Espers – Blue Mountain [Michael Hurley cover]      (“The Weed Tree” EP 2004 USA)

Olly Holmes – Mercedes Benz [trad. cover]      (“Whiskey Barrel” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Warlocks – Dead Generation      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Ghouls      (“Back to Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Another sizeable delivery of CDs landed in our post office box this week, which made deciding what to play on the show exceptionally easy! We had a mixed bag of old and new music, and threw in a few of our favourites for good measure, with the Walker Brothers, Death in June, the Alohas and Clinic all making a re-appearance. From our recent acquisitions we featured some cool and crazy French tunes from Evariste and Nelly Perrier; throbbing, swirling psych from Vibravoid, Dead Skeletons and the Koolaid Electric Company and 60’s classics from The Fool, Yellow Balloon and the Beau Brummels - you get the idea! All brought to you by the Cat & the Brat on Adelaide’s 3D Radio in FM, digital and internet-streaming formats for your listening pleasure.....

..... so here is the playlist [plus some eye-candy].....

Vibravoid – Gravitation Zero         (‘Gravity Zero’  2012 Germany)

the Alohas – The Headhunter         (‘Get Leid with the Alohas’  2000 Australia)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup – Jabberwock         (7” single 1968 UK)

Peter Daltrey – The Room of Percussion [Kaleidoscope cover]         (‘King of the Thieves: The Best of Peter Daltrey Vol.2’  anthology 2011 UK)

Yellow Balloon – Yellow Balloon         (‘Yellow Balloon’ LP 1967 USA)

Trolley – I Woke Up         (‘Things that Shine and Glow’ 2012 UK)

the Monkees – Love is Only Sleeping         (‘Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones’  LP 1967 USA)

the Aardvarks – Arthur C. Clarke         (‘Arthur C. Clarke’ EP 1989 UK)

 

the Beau Brummels – Don’t Talk To Strangers         (7” single 1965 USA)

Nelly Perrier – Un Soir D’ete        (‘Mr Fred Astaire’ EP 1968 France [taken from ‘Wizzz! Psychorama Français 1967-70, Vol.2’  compilation 2008 France )

the Sufis – Where Did She Go?         (‘The Sufis’  2012 Nashville, USA)

the Walker Brothers – Archangel         (7” single b-side [to Deadlier Than the Male] 1966 UK/USA)

Espers – That Which Darkly Thrives         (‘Espers 111’ 2009 USA)

the Koolaid Electric Company – Going Blind        (‘Random Noise and Organised Sounds’ 2012 USA)

the Fool – Rainbow Man         (‘The Fool’ LP 1967 Netherlands/UK)

Ty Segal and White Fence – Tongues         (‘Hair’ 2012 California, USA)

the See See – Mary Soul         (7”single 2010 UK)

Evariste – Connais-tu l’animal qui inventa le calcul integral?         (‘E=MC^2’  EP 1968 France)

Sula Bassana – Dealer McDope / My Blue Guitar         (‘Dreamer’ 2002 Germany)

the Jigsaw Seen – Bertha Brilliance         (‘Bananas Foster’ 2010 Philadelphia, USA)

Death in June – Death of the West         (‘Burial’  LP 1984 UK - taken from ‘Lesson 1: Misanthropy’ anthology 2009 Australia/UK)

Pond – When It Explodes         (‘Beards, Wives, Denim’ 2012 Perth, Australia)

Wavves – Cop         (‘Afraid of Heights’ 2013 California, USA)

the Black Angels – Holland         (‘Indigo Meadow’  2013  Austin, Texas, USA)

Dead Skeletons – When The Sun Comes Up         (‘Dead Magick’  2011 Iceland)

Clinic – The Witch (Made to Measure)         (‘Do It’ 2008 UK)