Technicolour Dreaming

For one week only, "Obscured By..." alumni Michael Hunter filled in for Technicolour Dreaming.  Unsurprisingly, a few obscurities therefore surfaced such as the completely unknown Australian band Melody Mae, and Adam & The Ants' cover of a Village People song! Some sad RIPs were also acknowledged for Gulliver Smith and John McInerney (both from classic Australian 70s band Company Caine), and Jim Keays' excellent new, posthumous album, chok full of garage classics.

New psych-folk-rock from Trembling Bells and Wand also merged with 70s jazz rock fusion from Mackenzie Theory, and it all made sense, in a Technicolour Dreaming kind of way!

Not quite so many videos to be found for this selection of songs, as it happens.

Wand - Fire On The Mountain I-II-III  ("Ganglion Reef"  2014 US)
Trembling Bells - Killing Time In London Fields  ("The Sovereign Self"  2015 Scotland)

Go Home Productions - 2000 Light Years From Bolan  (Rolling Stones / T.Rex mash-up)

The Lammas Tide - 1. Soldier Of The Sun  2. Bethnal Green  ("Barefoot Electric" 2014 Australia)

Mackenzie Theory - Supreme Love  ("Highlights Of Sunbury '74"  1974 Australia)
Melody Mae - The Stars They Are In Line  ("Melody Mae" EP, c1978 Australia)
Jim Keays - 1. Come On  2. Hot Smoke & Sassafras  ("Age Against The Machine" 2015 Australia)
Peter Tilbrook - Goodbye My Friend  ("Living In The Sixties", 2015 Adelaide, Australia )

Company Caine - The Day Superman Got Busted  ("Product Of A Broken Reality" 1971, Aztec reissue 2015 Australia)

The Rope Sect - Da Da Da   (7" single  year unknown Germany)
Tom Dae Turned On - I Shall Walk  (7" single  c.1970 US)
Berry Clan & The Revolution - My Crock  (7" single  year unknown Belgium)
Illes - Nem Erdekel, Amit Monsz  (7" single  year unknown Hungary)

"Flexipop" magazine flexidiscs, 1981/2:
Adam & The Ants - A N T S

Altered Images - Leave Me Alone
The Cure - Lament
Fad Gadget - King Of The Flies

Mystic Siva - 1. Keeper Of The Keys  2. And When You Go  ("Mystic Siva"  1970  US)
Wand - 1. Growing Up Boys  2. Generator Larping  ("Ganglion Reef"  2014 US)
Trembling Bells - I Is Someone Else  ("The Sovereign Self"  2015 Scotland)

Obscured By...

The new - a local Adelaide band Tea whose demo was only received a matter of days previously.  The unreleased - a totally improvised song by Broderick Smith & Matt Walker recorded at Semaphore late 2011.  The odd - Yat-Kha's throat singing Love Will Tear Us Apart, and other wild world music versions of well known songs.  The unexpected - a reggae version of My Sweet Lord.  The pretty wonderful - music by US early 70s psych band Mystic Siva and South Korea's "godfather of rock' Shin Joong Hyun.  The Australian rarities - present and correct.  The host - Michael Hunter.  The common thread - Obscured By..., of course!

Inside Looking Out - On Whom Her Favour Falls  (7" single B-side 1969 Aust Adelaide)
Jeff St John & Yama -  Everybody's Gone  (7" single B-side 1967 Aust)
Vince Lovegrove - Livestock   (7" single B-side 1971 Aust Adelaide)
Snakes Alive - Fruit Pie  ('Snakes Alive' LP 1974 Aust)
Sidewinder - Heartaches  ('Sidewinder' EP 1978 Aust)
The Honeybus - I Can't Let Maggie Go  (7" single 1968 UK)


 
Pete Dello & Friends - A Good Song  ('Into Your Ears' LP 1971 UK)
Mystic Siva - Find Out Why  ('Mystic Siva' LP 1971  US)


 
Bokaj Retsiem - Something's Wrong With Bokaj  ('Psychedelic Underground' LP 1968 Germany)
T Swift & The Electric Bag -  Expo In Sound  ('Are You Experienced?' LP 1968 US)
Tea - Tea Home For Xmas  ('Tea' demo CD 2012 Aust Adelaide - precursor to full CD later this year)
Shin Joong Hyun -  Beautiful Rivers And Moutains  ('Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974' comp CD 2011, rec. 1973 Sth Korea )
Keith Lynn, The SPMs & Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - My Sweet Lord  ('A Reggae Tribute To The Beatles, Vol 1' comp 1999 UK)
Svetlyo Zhilev - Purple Haze ('Marmoreal Apparitions' CD 2008 Bulgaria)



Yat-Kha - Love Will Tear Us Apart  ('Re-Covers' CD 2005 Tuva) 


 
Dan Bau Vietnam - Rider In The Sky (Ghost Riders In The Sky) ('Roady Music From Viet Nam' comp  1997 Vietnam)
Father John Misty - Everyman Needs A Companion  ('Fear Fun' CD 2012 US)


 
Glenn Cardier - Hollywood  ('Stranger Than Fiction' CD 2012 Aust)
Broderick Smith & Matt Walker - Lazy Semaphore Sunday  (unreleased, live 2011 Aust) 


 
King Fox - Listen Girl ('70 2 07, The Unforgotten Album' recorded 1970, released 2007 Aust)
Agitation Free - A Quiet Walk  ('2nd' LP 1973 Germany)