Technicolour Dreaming

Well, this has got to be (nearly) a first for Technicolour Dreaming - a video clip for every single song … well, there were two bands that I couldn’t find a clip for, but that’s pretty good! 

This week there were two brand, spanking new releases to play tracks from - Sydney’s The Dandelion, with the their wonderfully named “Seeds, Flowers and the Magical Powers of the Dandelion”, which sounds as good as the title is long; and a great new Mega Dodo release from Lisbon band Beautify Junkyards, whose CD “The Beast Shouted Love” was recorded outside for the large part, and this is definitely reflected in the mood that they have managed to create - great summer listening! And this show is dedicated to Peter Brat, who would have been celebrating his birthday today - so enjoy!

Judy Carne - Sock It To Me     (7” single 1968 UK)

Travis Wellington Hedge - Hey Bulldog     (7" single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

House of Nimrod - Slightly Delic     (7" single, 1967 New Zealand )

The Monks - I Hate You     ("Black Monk Time" LP 1966 Germany/USA)

FireFriend - Loveage Moondream     ("Psychedelic Underground Generation #24" compilation Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Lothar and the Hand People - Machines     ("Presenting Lothar and the Hand People" LP 1968 New York, USA)

Les Big Byrd - Tinnitus Aetérnum     ("They Worshipped Cats"  2014 Sweden)

The Dandelion - Spring Dance     ("Seeds, Flowers and the Magical Powers of The Dandelion" 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Beautify Junkyards - Technicolour Hexagon     ("The Beast Shouted Love" 2015 Lisbon, Portugal)

Borderline Symphony - Il Camaleonte     ("EP 1"  2014 Zurich, Switzerland)

Bee Gees - I Close My Eyes     ("Bee Gees 1st" LP 1967 Australia)

Gary Walker and the Rain - Magazine Woman     ("Album No.1" LP 1968 USA)

Belles Will Ring - And Jesus Said Unto Me     ("Mood Patterns" 2007, Sydney, Australia)

Flyying Colours-  I Don't Want to Let You Down     ("ROYGBIV" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Standells - Dirty Water     (7” single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

Faust - Just a Second     ("Faust IV" LP 1973 Germany)

Hurdy Gurdy - Peaceful Open Space     (“Hurdy Gurdy” LP 1971 Denmark)

Big Jim Sullivan - Tallyman     (“Sitar Beat” LP 1967 USA)

The Karovas Milkshake - Do You Wanna Eat Me/Godiva     ("Trip Inside this House - Summer Solstice VI“ 2013  Ekaterinburg, Russia)

The December Sound - Drone Refusenik     (“The Silver Album”  2007 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

DrAlienSmith - Lynchpin     ("Phosphorous" 2015 Perth, Australia)

The Creeping Bam - Don't Get High     (CD single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Frida - Slowly     (CD single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Shy Limbs - Reputation     (7” single 1969 UK)

Aquarian Age - 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box     (7” single 1968 UK)

The Higher State - The Electric Cowboy     ("Darker by the Day" 2009, Kent UK)

The Thanes - Chinese Rapture     ("Let All The Poisons That Lurk In The Mud Hatch Out" Adelaide, Australia 2014)

and an extra clip for your enjoyment - the Monks doing “The Monk Chant”, live in 1966 Germany

Technicolour Dreaming

We began with a track by the Green Telescope from the latest “Friends of the Fish” compilation put out by the wonderful Fruits de Mer label.  From thereon in, it was a mixture of new & old with familiars & obscurities of various genres loosely associated with psychedelia from all over the world... in short, the usual style of Technicolour Dreaming, with this week’s featured compilation being the Psychedelic Underground Generation series of samplers, commonly called P.U.G. and put out by a bunch of friends and musicians in Belgium sharing their latest discoveries from the huge number of new releases currently on offer. The samplers are free but you are asked to investigate the bands featured further and perhaps buy direct from those that particularly catch your fancy... most are on bandcamp so they are easily accessible. So, until next week, this is the Cat & the Brat signing off .....

..... and here is the playlist, with eye candy to occupy your mynd.....

the Green Telescope - I'm a Living Sickness [Calico Wall cover]      (recorded  1985 – taken from "Fruits de Mer Records presents ‘ Strange Fruit and Veg’ - Friends of the Fish, Promo 2" CD-compilation 2015 UK)

the Grease Arrestor - That's What's Happening, Baby      ("Volume 2" 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Crystal Jacqueline - Daisy Chains      ("Rainflower" 2015 Wales, UK)

July - Dandelion Seeds      ("July" LP 1968 UK)

Ponyface - Holly Said      ("Hypnotised" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

Permanent Clear Light - Constant Gardener      ("Beyond these Things" 2013 Finland)

Eric Burden & the Animals - A Girl Named Sandoz       (7" single b-side [to When I Was Young] 1967 UK)

Lumerians - Murder Dubbs      ("Transmissions from Telos Vol. 111"  2015 UK)

Doctor Cosmo's Tape Lab - The Painted Bird      ("Beyond the Silver Sea" March 2015 USA)

Tom Northcott - (Who Planted Thorns In) Miss Alice's Garden?      (7" single 1967 USA)

Indian Puddin & Pipe - Hashish      ("Fifth Pipe Dream" compilation LP 1967 San Francisco, USA)

Ty Segall - Drug Mugger      ("Mr Face" double 7" EP 2015 USA)

Sky Children - Sunny Creature      ("Sky Children" 2014 Hungary)

Cool Ghouls - Orange Light      ("A Swirling Fire Burning Through the Rye" 2014 California, USA)

Les Big Byrd - Back to Bagarmossen      ("They Worshipped Cats" 2014 Sweden)

“Compilation of the Week”   

“Psychedelic Underground Generation” compilation series

(Belgium)

the Orange Drop - She Will Get You (High)       (PUG #17)

the Money Go Round - Endless Sun      (PUG # 23)

Magic Shoppe - Midnight in the Garden of Evil      (PUG # 22)

Mr Elevator and The Brain Hotel - Are You Hypnotised?      (PUG #13)

the Watchmakers - To Be Part of You      (PUG #25)

Baywaves - Dreaming      (PUG #16)

Country Joe and the Fish - Superbird      ("Electric Music for the Mind and Body" LP 1967 USA)

the Whatt Four - Dandelion Wine      (7" single 1967 USA)

the Myrrors -   Dome House Music    ("Arena Negra" 2015 Tucson, Arizona USA)

Octopus Syng - Diamonds and Emeralds     ("Reverberating Garden no.7" LP 2014 Helisinki, Finland)

the Green Tambourine Band – Maybe The People Would Be The Times or Between Clark And Hilldale [Love cover]      (recorded 2013 USA – taken from “Forever Changing – a tribute to Love’s Forever Changes” compilation 2014 New Zealand)

Technicolour Dreaming

On this, our final show of 2014, we’d hoped to complete our “Best of the Year” picks in the categories of album, single, anthology, re-issue, compilation and boxset, which we started last week.... but because there are so many, we’ll probably be adding some more on our first show of 2015, because it truly was a great year for psychedelia. Indeed the past few years are now being hailed as “the third wave of psychedelia”, with a world-wide upsurge of young [and some not-so-young] musicians re-inventing and experimenting with their influences to make music that is all their own, not just a pale copy of the original 60’s garage/acid-punk/psych template, and a growing audience who are discovering these sounds, past and present, as witnessed by the popularity of “psych fests” around the world, while some bands such as Temples and Ty Segall [coincidentally our “Artiste of the Week”] are even gaining “mainstream” acceptance with commensurate record sales. So 2014 was an exciting year for new psychedelic music, which is reflected in the difficulty we had trying to play all of our favourites, as we mentioned at the start, because there were simply so many brilliant releases.  

So, all the best for 2015 to you from the Cat & the Brat and 3D Radio 93.7fm and let’s see if this “third psychedelic wave” continues to gather force in this coming year....

..... so here is the playlist, with some associated visuals.....

Red Plastic Buddha - Little White Pills      ("Songs for Mara" 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Rainbow Ffolly - Sun Sing      ("Sallies Forth" LP 1968 UK)

the Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties     ("The Velvet Underground and Nico" LP 1967 New York - taken from 2014 re-issue/boxset)

Psychic Ills - Come Around      ("Psych for Sore Eyes 2" compilation 2014 USA)

Sagittarius - In My Room [Brian Wilson cover]      ("The Blue Marble" LP 1969 California, USA)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard  - Indigo      ("Abandoned Meander" 2006 Canada)

the Monks - Complication      ("Black Monk Time"  LP 1966 Germany USA)

Les Big Byrd - Back to Bagarmossen      ("They Worshipped Cats" 2014 Sweden)

Marianne Faithfull - Sister Morphine     (7"single b-side [to Something Better] 1969 London, UK)

the High Dials - Our Time is Coming Soon      ("War of the Wakening Phantoms" 2005 Montreal, Canada)

Groep 1850 - Mother No-Head      (7"single 1967 Netherlands)

the Expression - Quicksand      (7"single 1970 Melbourne, Australia – taken from "Upside Down - Coloured Dreams from The Underworld Vol 1:1966 - 1970" compilation 2014 UK )

the Twilights - Time and Motion Study Man      (7"single [b-side to Young Girl] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Nonesuch - Ride the Wind Away     (7"single 1968 Australia – taken from "Upside Down - Coloured Dreams from The Underworld Vol 1:1966 - 1970" compilation 2014 UK)

Paul Messis - Nightmares      (7"single 2014 Kent, UK)

    ###  “Artiste of the Week”   TY SEGALL   ###

Ty Segall - Manipulator      ("Manipulator" 2014 California, USA)

Ty Segall - She Don't Care     ("Sleeper" 2013 California, USA)

Ty Segall and White Fence - The Black Glove/Rag      ("Hair" 2012 California, USA)

Ty Segall - Children of Paul      (“I Can't Feel It” EP 2011 USA)

Dodson and Fogg - Entrepreneur In the Garden      ("In A Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)

the Dunes - Badlands      ("Bad:Lands" EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Apricot - Aristocratic Appetite      ("A Forestful of Threes" 2011 Norway)

New Electric Ride - I Can't Help But Smile      ("Balloon Age" 2014 UK)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - TK16  Part 2      ("8"  LP 2014 Denmark/France)

Balduin - Mirror, Mirror      ("All in a Dream" LP 2104 Switzerland)

the See See - As The Morning      ("Days, Nights and Late Morning Lights" anthology 2014 UK)

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Sealed Scene       ("Chambers" 2014 Guadalajara, Mexico)