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

It was a bit of an unusual show this week, with the Cat only present for the first hour and the Brat flying solo on the remainder - it's tricky living in the country and coming in each week, but when one of us needs to stay in town for 'medical experiments' [heh heh!] it gets downright complicated due to the single bus home which leaves from the city... and so on and so forth. Suffice to say, we managed to negotiate all the trials and tribulations. The Cat returned to the Cape and the Brat was successfully delivered into his world of pain in the hospital - said illness also being the reason for the lateness & briefness of this spiel. So here is the intro......   Our Band of the Week was the inimitable Roxy Music, a band who should need no introduction though sadly, probably do – unfortunately most people remember the “Avalon” period – so take a look at their film-clips (and it was film in those days!) for a reminder of this innovative group at their peak. Fittingly, early Roxy stalwart, Brian Eno, rounded off the show this week with a track from his debut solo album “Here Come The Warm Jets” replete with a suitably strange clip from 1976, posted a few years back....

.....and here is the playlist plus moving pictures.....

Heaven’s Gateway Drugs – Apropos      (“Apropos” 2014 Indiana, USA)

Cambrian Explosion – Umbra od Mind      (“The Sun EP” 2013 Portland, Oregon, USA)

Money Go Round – Endless Sun       (digital single 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Frantic Chant – Broken Biscuit Head (Mode rocker remix)      (“Ruthless Superman” rarities anthology 2014  Scotland, UK)

Napolleon – Rendez-Vous      (recorded 2014 Indonesia – taken from “Psychedelic Underground Generation : PUG #23” compilation 2014 Belgium)

Mordecai Smyth – Out in the Stars with DSP      (“Trip Inside this House Vol.6” compilation 2013 UK)

Balduin – Mirror, Mirror      (“All in a Dream” LP 2014 Bern, Switzerland)

The Karovas Milkshake – Do you Wanna Eat Me/Godiva      (mp3 2013 Moscow, Russia)

Bronco Bullfrog – Marmalade      (7”single 2014 UK)

Stuart Gray [aka Stu Spasm] – Rays of the Sun     (mp3 2013 Australia/USA – taken from “Trip Inside this House Vol.6” compilation 2013 UK)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup – Which Dreamed It      (7”single b-side [to Jabberwocky] 1968 UK)

Cheval Sombre – She Went Walking in the Rain      (“Mad Love” 2013 UK)

Prince Rupert’s Drops – Death March      (“Climbing Light” 2014 New York, USA)

Dave Davies – Susannah’s Still Alive      (7”single 1967 UK)

Sullivan – Hashish Faction      (7”single 1966 France)

the Grease Arrestor – Strange Love      (“What Was, Is” 2014 Sydney)

    ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –   Roxy Music   ###

Roxy Music – Pyjamarama      (7” single 1973 UK)

Roxy Music –The Bob (Medley)      (“Roxy Music” LP 1972 UK)

Roxy Music – Editions of You      (“For Your Pleasure” LP 1973 UK)

Roxy Music – Re-Make/Re-Model     (“Roxy Music” LP 1972 UK)

Elephant Stone – Three Poisons      (“Three Poisons” LP 2014 Montreal, Canada)

the Human Expression – Optical Sound     (7”single 1967 USA)

the State of Mickey and Tommy – I Know What I Would Be      (7” single 1967 UK/France)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Flying Horses      (“The Slow Cyclone”  2014 Wales, UK)

Brian Eno – Driving Me Backwards      (“Here Come the Warm Jets” LP 1974 UK)