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

Some new releases, some recent favourites plus a further bunch of “classics from the past” [in our minds at least] all go towards providing the regular formula for an episode of Technicolour Dreaming, and indeed all are present and correct here this week. In particular, we were excited to find in our PO Box the long-awaited second album by the Fast Camels, “Dead Rooms and Butterfly Dreams” as it’s been quite a while since they delivered their brilliant 2007 debut “The Magic Optician”. Despite personnel changes along the way, the band has continued to play live intermittently in their native Scotland and elsewhere, but no recordings were released until now. It was definitely worth the wait though, for, like their debut, it sounds more enticing every time we spin it and we believe you’ll agree that it’s another prime slice of 21^st century psych-pop. Another such delicious slice came in the form of a [very] limited CD edition of “The Soft Focus EP”, previously only available digitally on Bandcamp etc, by Tasmania’s Violet Swells. They’ve created quite a buzz with these songs, especially lead single “Jupiters Garden”, even getting a rave-up in premier UK psych magazine “Shindig!” – not bad for a young band who only had their first live show a few months ago! Also on the show, our “Band of the Week” feature saluted Australia’s late, lamented Belles Will Ring, whose three albums and assorted singles will continue to enrich our musical vistas. Throw in some Kak, Pere Ubu, Luna, Morgan Delt and a plethora of others, and that was the show. Until we meet again next week .....

..... here is the full playlist, with moving pictures..... 

the Red Crayola (with the Familiar Ugly) – Hurricane Fighter Plane / Free Form Freakout         (“The Parable of Arable Land ” LP 1967 Texas, USA)

Verma – The Traveller         (“Sunrunner” 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Myrrors – Solar Collector         (“Solar Collector” EP 2014 Arizona, USA)

Alpha Waves – Vampiric Vultures         (“Distopia” EP 2014 Hamburg, Germany)

Pere Ubu – Non-alignment Pact         (“The Modern Dance” LP 1978 Ohio, USA)

Night Beats – Outta Mind         (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 USA)

Luna – Superfreaky Memories         (“The Days of Our Nights” 1999 USA)

the Fast Camels – Cecilia Deal        (“Dead Rooms and Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

James McKeown & the Negative Drivers – See the Rain [Marmalade cover]         (recorded 2013 Wales, UK for “The Active Listener Record Store Day 2013” compilation 2013 New Zealand)

Violet Swells – Into the Ether         (“The Soft Focus EP” 2014 Tasmania, Australia)

the Triptides – Throne of Stars         (“Colors” EP 2014 Indiana, USA)

**  BAND OF THE WEEK – Belles Will Ring  **

Belles Will Ring – The River         (“Crystal Theatre” 2011 Sydney, Australia)

Belles Will Ring – Mad Love      (“Mood Patterns” 2007 Sydney, Australia)

the Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico” LP 1967 New York, USA)

Kak – Trieuology      (“Kak” LP 1967 California, USA)

Kingdom of the Holy Sun – A Go Go      (“Kingdom of the Holy Sun” 2012 California, USA)

Demons of Negativity – Resurrection      (“These Dogs Live in the Garage” LP compilation 1988 Boston, USA)

the Ceyleib People – Changes      (“Tanyet” LP 1967 USA)

the Dolly Rocker Movement – What’s That Sound      (7”single 2007 Sydney, Australia)

Frumious Bandersnatch – Hearts to Cry      (“Frumious Bandersnatch” EP 1967 San Francisco, USA)

the Syssys – Jump Back      (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

unknown [possibly the Wild Colonials] – Junior Newsgirl      (acetate 1964 Australia – taken from “Devil’s Children : Vol.3” compilation 2002 Australia)

the Laughing Leaves – Tree People      (“Off Our Tree” EP 2014 Perth, Australia)

Morgan Delt – Mr Carbon Copy      (“Morgan Delt” LP 2014 California, USA)