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

We began the show this week with a prime example of 21^st Century psychedelia by American band Eternal Tapestry. We then ventured far and wide for the next two hours, with a mix of singles and album tracks by bands such the Leopards, the Lee Kings and the Turtles as examples of the former, and the Barbarellatones, the Apricot,  Moon Duo and Jim Noir representing the latter. We featured a song from Ben Mason’s fine new album, another from the latest Mynd Gardeners release, plus the A-side of a very cool 7”single by the Space Agency which is due for release at the end of the month on Market SquareRecords [we’ve attached their suitably spacey clip!]. Throw in some Cate le Bon, a live track from Germany’s Vibravoid, a slice of French 60’s psych by Bruno Leys, a Nilsson single B-side [he’s on the cover of the current Shindig! magazine] and lots more, finish with a track from Lumerians [whose new album we eagerly await!] and there you have it... another edition of Technicolour Dreaming, brought to you again by the Cat & the Brat!

...... so here is the playlist plus assorted visuals.....

Eternal Tapestry – Cosmic Manhunt      (‘Beyond the 4^th Door’ 2011 Chicago, USA)

the Chocolate Watchband – Don’t Need Your Lovin’      (‘Riot on Sunset Strip’ soundtrack LP 1967 USA)

the Barbarellatones – Gothic City      (‘The Breakup Ghost’ 2009 USA)

the Apricot – Mind Your Head      (‘A Forestful of Threes’ 2011 Finland)

the Leopards – Psychedelic Boy      (7”single 1986 Kansas City, USA)

the Sand Pebbles – Black Sun Ensemble      (‘Ghost Transmissions’ 2004 Melbourne, Australia)

Ben Mason – Black Sky Yellow Moon      (‘Holes and Corners’ 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Gothic Archies – The World is a Very Scary Place      (‘The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events’ 2006 UK)

Cate le Bon – Feel  [Syd Barrett cover]      (recorded 2010 Wales, UK – taken from ‘Mojo: The Madcap Laughs Again’ magazine covermount-CD compilation 2010 UK)

Syd Barrett – Dolly Rocker      (recorded 1970 UK – taken from ‘Opel’ 1988 UK)

the Dolly Rocker Movement – Enjoy a Paranoia      (‘Our Days Mind The Tyme’ 2009 Australia)

the Avengers – Midnight Visitation      (‘Medallion’ LP 1969 New Zealand)

Moon Duo – Seer [Psychic Ills remix]      (‘Mazes Remixed’ 2011 San Francisco, USA)

Golden Triangle – Blood & Arrow      (‘Double Jointer’ 2010 USA)

the Space Agency – Bombay Potatoes      (7”single 2013 Hove, UK)

the Lee Kings – Oriental Express      (7”single 1968 Sweden)

the Mynd Gardeners – Recharge Your Mynd      (7”split-EP [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Vibravoid – Suppose They Give a War & No-one Comes [West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band cover]      (recorded live 2011 Germany – taken from ‘Timemazine Vol.6’ magazine covermount-CD compilation 2011 Greece)

Jim Noir – Happy Day Today      (‘Jim Noir’ 2008 UK)

Bruno Leys – Hallucinations      (‘Maintenant je suis un voyou’ EP 1968 France)

the Fresh & Onlys – All Tomorrow’s Parties [Velvet Underground cover]      (‘The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends’ compilation LP 2012 California, USA)

Plasticland – Alexander [Pretty Things cover]      (‘Plasticland’ LP 1984 Milwaukee, USA)

the Whatt Four – You’re Wishing I Was Someone Else      (7”single b-side [to Dandelion Wine] 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Pillbugs – Here’s To The End Of Time      (‘Monclovia’ 2008 Ohio, USA)

the Turtles – Grim Reaper of Death      (7”single 1966 USA)

Nilsson – Sister Marie      (7”single b-side [to One] 1968 USA)

Lumerians – Hashshashin      (‘Transmilinnia’ 2011 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began the show this week with two tracks from Eric Burdon & the Animals 1967 album ‘Winds of Change’ and finished it with one from the new album by Australia’s Cloud Control, and so it was for the music we played in-between – the old and the new, here and overseas, soft and loud, fast blasts and slow drones – all the regular ingredients you’ve come to expect in the sounds of Technicolour Dreaming. From the b-side of Temples’ debut single to the Sons of Adam’s Arthur Lee-penned 1966 single a-side via Sula Bassana, Scott Walker, the Millennium and ex-Smallgoods songwriter Ben Mason’s latest psych-pop masterpiece and through to Beaulieu Porch, Mikal Cronin and the new Mynd Gardeners vinyl release, it was a varied journey through psychedelic realms and related states, which included a tribute to long-time Devo drummer Alan Myers who passed away recently, a1966 VOX radio ad, a track from the Gang of Four’s 1980 debut LP, a very electric version of a Serge Gainsbourg classic by Deep Sea Arcade and a strange 1970 b-side by Janie Jones, the London ‘identity’ immortalised by the Clash on their debut LP. So, business as usual here on 3D Radio with the Cat & the Brat.....

..... and here is the playlist, with some visual goodies thrown in.....   

Eric Burdon and the Animals – Poem By The Sea / Paint it Black [Rolling Stones cover]         (“Winds of Change” LP 1967 UK)

Crystal Stilts – The Dazzled         (“Alright of Night” 2008 New York, USA)

Scott Walker – Get Behind Me         (“Scott 4” LP 1969 UK/USA)

Janie Jones – Psycho         (7”single [b-side to Back on my Feet Again] 1970 UK)

Gang of Four – Return the Gift         (“Entertainment” LP 1980 UK)

Devo – The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize         (“Duty Now for the Future” LP 1979 Akron, Ohio, USA)

the Mynd Gardeners – Misinterpreted         (7”split-single [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Temples – Colours to Life         (7”single [b-side to Shelter Song] 2013 UK)

Sula Bassana – Perry Rhodan         (“Dark Days” 2013 Germany)

Deep Sea Arcade (with Megan Washington) – Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]         (“Melodie Francaise” compilation 2013 Aust.)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Hate the Taste         (“Spectre at the Feast” CD single 2013 USA)

the Cosmic Gardeners – Way of Going         (“Fortune Bells and Magic Candles” 1995 Bavaria, Germany)

Blue Effect – Snakes         (“Blue Effect” EP 1969 Czechoslovakia)

the Millennium – It’s You         (“Begin” LP 1968 USA)

the Executives – Summerhill Road         (7”single 1969 Sydney, Aust.)

Django Django – Hail Bop         (“Django Django” 2012 Scotland, UK)

Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ – The Little Record Store Just Around the Corner         (“Songs from the Psychedelic Time Clock” EP 2013 Georgia, USA)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Stairway to the Best Party in the Universe         (“Aufheben” 2012 USA)

Vibravoid – La Vie En Dusseldorf         (“Gravity Zero” 2012 Germany)

Ben Mason – I Can See Again         (“Holes and Corners” 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sufis – I Don’t Know         (“The Sufis” 2013 USA)

Love – The Red Telephone         (“Forever Changes” LP 1967 USA)

the Amazing – Evil          (“Wait for a Light to Come” 2010 Sweden)

Beaulieu Porch – We Are Today         (“We Are Beautiful” 2013 UK)

Mikal Cronin – Shout It Out         (“MC II” 2013 California, USA)

Sons of Adam – Feathered Fish [Arthur Lee cover]         (7”single 1966 California, USA – taken from “Pebbles Volume 1” compilation LP 1979 USA)

Radio Promo – VOX ‘wah-wah’ advert 1966 [featuring the Electric Prunes]         (‘mystery’ track on “Pebbles Volume 1”)

Adnan Othman and the Wanderers – Revolusi!         (7”single 1970(?) Malaysia – taken from “Pop Yeh Yeh – Psychedelic Rock from Singapore & Malaysia – 1964-1970, Vol.1” compilation 2013 Seattle, USA)

Les 5 Gentleman – LSD 25 ou les Metamorphoses de Margaret Steinway        (“Qu’as-tu Katioucha?” EP 1968 France)

Cloud Control – Promises         (“Dream Cave” 2013 Aust.)

Technicolour Dreaming

Joining the Cat & the Brat for this week’s show was our ‘Obscured by...’ co-DOT  Michael Hunter, who brought in some interesting items to share, including a bizarre one by Estonian band Winny Puhh, two versions of the song ‘You Never Know’, both from 1975, and a Steve Kilbey demo from his pre-Church days in Canberra. We also featured a sitar-drenched track from the brand-new EP by the Mynd Gardeners, a song from the latest Citradels recordings and another taster from the just-released Paul Messis LP, plus a few French 60’s delights from the likes of Claude Francois and Antoine, as well as playing a track in remembrance of Divinyls’ singer Chrissie Amphlett, who has passed away after a long illness..... Of course there were the regular nods to both 60’s and current psych from bands such as Pisces and Life On Earth! respectively, with oddities such as Giles, Giles & Fripp thrown in for good measure... all in all, another Technicolour Dream....

...... and here is the playlist, plus a few visuals.....

the Ones – Lady Greengrass      (7”single 1967 Germany – taken from ‘Ultima Thule: the Electronic Magic of Tangerine Dream’ anthology 2008 UK/Germany)

Eileen – Ces Bottes Sont Fait Pour Marcher [Nancy Sinatra cover]      (7”single 1966 France)

the Citradels – Here To Know      (‘Psychotic Syndrone’ cd-EP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Mynd Gardeners – Shadow Man      (‘Partial Spyral Staircase Entanglement’ digital-EP 2013 Australia)

Richard Lockwood – Highest of the High      (‘Highest of the High’ cassette-EP 1993 Australia)

Charlie Drake – You Never Know      (7”single 1975 UK)

Charlie Drake : You Never Know by nearlyoutofideas

Giles, Giles & Fripp – Newlyweds       (‘The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp’ LP 1968 UK)

Claude Francois – Eloise [Barry Ryan cover]      (7”single 1968 France)

Paul Messis – It Doesn’t Matter to Me      (‘Case Closed’ LP 2013 UK)

Peter Gabriel – You Never Know      (demo 1975 UK)

Chrissie Amphlett & friends – Money [Barrett Strong cover]      (recorded ‘live’ at E.A.T. Benefit Concert 1985 Melbourne, Aust.)

       * R.I.P.  Chrissie Amphlett   1959-2013   [the Divinyls]

Split Enz – Xmas message for fanclub      (‘Friends of the Enz’ message 1983 Aust.)

Wendy Saddington & the Copperwine – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      (‘Live’ LP 1971 Aust.)

Baby Grande – Pure, White & Deadly      (demo 1977 Canberra – taken from ‘Steve Kilbey: Addenda One’ anthology 2012 Australia)

Red Angel Panic – Viet Rock      (7”single 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Antoine – Les Elucubrations d’Antoine      (7”single 1966 France)

the Cherokees – Minnie the Moocher [Cab Calloway cover]       (7”single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

 

Bruner (aka Pisces) – Sam      (7”single 1969 USA – taken from ‘Pisces - A Lovely Sight: 1967-1970’ anthology 2009 USA)

Les Liminanas – Longanisse      (‘Crystal Anis’ 2012 France)

Life On Earth! – Listen       (‘A Space Water Loop’ 2009 Sweden)

Winny Puhh – Meiecundimees uks Korsakov laks eile latti       (recorded/filmed live on ‘Eesti Laul’ concert TV show 2013 Estonia)   [there are several clips of this with different costumes etc, but we liked the drummer playing upside-down suspended from the roof on this one – feel free to check out the others!]

the Five Man Electrical Band – Man with the Horse and Wagon      (‘Goodbyes & Butterflies’ LP 1970 Ottawa, Canada)

Machine – God’s Children      (‘Machine’ LP 1970 Netherlands)

the Magnificent Brotherhood of Eternal Love & the Happiness’s Close Companions – Old Tattoo      (taken from ‘Peace Frog #2’ covermount-CD compilation 2006 Greece)

the Warlocks – Bleed Without You Babe      (‘Surgery’ 2005 Los Angeles, USA)