Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week with a 2011 track by Jackie Paper [aka Josh Dowell from Philadelphia in the USA], an artist we’d not heard of before but discovered, like many others, through the always intriguing “Active Listener Sampler” series of free compilations emanating from New Zealand via Bandcamp – as we’ve mentioned previously, it’s a great way to find “new favourite bands”! Also featured this week were tracks from new releases by Mexico’s Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, California’s White Manna and Adelaide favourites, the Byzantines, soon to head off on their debut European tour which they’ve heralded by releasing a free digital demo single – hopefully we’ll have their guitarist Rhys on the show as guest-programmer/interviewee to share more details before they leave. Next, our selection for “Band of the Week” in this edition was Chicago’s the Luck of Eden Hall, who have won our hearts over the past few years with their uber-catchy take on modern psychedelic garage pop via their contributions to the Fruits de Mer Records series of releases, not to mention their brilliant albums, the latest of which, “Victoria Moon”, has just been released on groovy purple vinyl – LoEH... we salute you! We also peered into the past with a listen to 60’s singles by the likes of the Ivy League, the State of Mickey and Tommy and the Starfires, plus an obscurity by the Easybeats [who do have a 6-CD boxset of their albums despite our earlier statements to the contrary – our thanks to several listeners who gave us that info!] as well as another in that weird sub-genre of songs which emanated [primarily in the US] in the wake of those bizarre “Paul McCartney Is Dead” rumours in 1968/1969. Finally, we ended with The End and part one of the title track from their sole LP, the 1969 Bill Wyman-produced “Introspection”.  So until next time.....

..... here is the full playlist, plus a few dollops of eye-candy......

Jackie Paper – All Is All      (recorded 2011 Philadelphia, USA – taken from “The Active Listener Psychedelic Sampler : vol. 9” compilation 2013 New Zealand)

White Manna – Hassan       (“Come Down Safari” 2014 California, USA)

Lamposts – Melodramatics      (“...Adolt Cartoon” 2013 USA)

the State of Mickey and Tommy – With Love From 1 to 5      (7”single 1967 UK/France)

Robyn Hitchcock – The Crystal Ship [Doors cover]      (“The Man Upstairs” 2014 UK)

the Byzantines – I’m going to change the world      (mp3 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Balduin – My Love Soon      (recorded 2012 – taken from “Post From Mars” 2014 Switzerland)

Jacco Gardner – Always On My Mind [Billy Nichols cover]      (“Trouble In Mind Record Store Day 2013 Covers Split-EP” compilation EP 2013 USA)

Hindenburg Lyon – Eden      (recorded 1967 – taken from “Acid & Flowers” compilation 1996 USA)

the Walking Who – Walrus      (mp3 demo 2014 Sydney, Australia)

the Starfires – There’s Still Time       (7”single 1966 USA)

the Mystery Tour – The Ballad of Paul      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “I Buried Paul – the Paul McCartney Death Rumour Singles” compilation 2012 USA)

the Easybeats – All Gone Boy      (“Easyfever Vol.2” EP 1968 Australia)

Maston – I Go To Sleep [Ray Davies/Kinks cover]      (“Trouble In Mind Record Store Day 2013 Covers Split-EP” compilation EP 2013 USA)

Kelley Stoltz – I Am Your Singer [McCartney cover]      (rec. 2014 USA – taken from “Mojo: Songs in the Key of Paul” magazine-covermount-CD compilation 2014 UK)

Toy – Too Far Gone To Know      (“Join the Dots” 2013 UK)

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – What’s Holding You      (“Chambers” LP 2014 Guadalajara, Mexico)

            ***   “BAND OF THE WEEK” – THE LUCK OF EDEN HALL   ***

the Luck of Eden Hall – High Heeled Flippers      (“Alligators Eat Gumdrops” 2012 Chicago, USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – A Carney’s Delirium       (“The Active Listener presents.... Greatest Hits Vol.1” compilation 2014 USA/NZ)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey) [Beatles cover]      (“Fruits de Mer presents : The White E.P.” double 7”vinyl EP compilation 2012 UK)

Anna Karina – Roller Girl      (7”single France 1967)

Anna Karina - Rollergirl by clkleb

the Fast Camels – Camera Assassin      (“Deadrooms & Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Yardbirds – Glimpses      (“Little Games” LP 1968 UK)

the Carnaby – Jump & Dance      (7”single 1965 UK)

the Ivy League – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius cover]      (7”single 1966 UK)

the Dials – Bluebell Line      (“End of the Pier” 2013 UK)

the End – Introspection (Part 1)      (“Introspection” LP 1969 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Regular listeners will be aware of our fondness for rarities, and this week we had a couple of brilliant examples. Firstly, we played from the new Orgone Box LP, a re-issue of Rick Corcoran’s classic 2001 album which includes remixes, re-recordings and an extra track from a 1996 Japanese-only EP, which was of course the song we played. We followed that with a lost Curt Boettcher-produced single from 1967, by our favourite ex-Byrd Gene Clark, which was unreleased at the time but finally issued by the fine people at Sundazed in 2008. Finally, towards the end of the show, we featured a track by Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band from their never-released 1967 pop-psych masterpiece, “The Red Day Album”, which was issued by Gear Fab records earlier this year. Then there were tracks by Eternal Tapestry, Holy Wave, the Left Banke, the Moles and many more, before finishing with UK outfit, the Sunchymes, as well as a song by Death In June, as a prelude to our forthcoming interview with Douglas P. next week.....

..... so here is the playlist, with accompanying visuals.....

Sendelica – Zhyly Byly      (“The Fabled Voyages of the Sendelicans” LP anthology 2014 Wales, UK)

Ant-Bee – Love Is Only Sleeping [Monkees cover]      (“Lunar Muzik” 1997 USA)

the Yardbirds – Little Soldier Boy      (“Little Games” LP 1967 UK)

Eternal Tapestry – Cosmic Manhunt      (“Beyond The 4^th Door” 2011 USA)

the Sun Blindness – A Trip in a Painted World      (“Like Pearly Clouds” 2008 Australia)

Faust – It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl      (“So Far” LP 1972 Germany)

Lords of Gravity – Where You Gonna Run      (“Contact” 2005 Australia)

Holy Wave – Do You Feel It?      (“Relax” 2013 USA)

Chris Malcolm – Hurt, Love & Fire      (7”single b-side [to Trip on Life] 1968 Australia/USA)

the Allah-Las – Every Girl      (7”single b-side [to Had It All] 2014 California, USA)

Graham Day & the Forefathers – Love Me Lies      (7”single 2014 UK)

New Electric Ride – Mr Bumblebee      (“New Electric Ride EP” 2013 UK)

the Left Banke – I’ve Got Something On My Mind      (7”single b-side [to Desireé] 1967 New York, USA)

Camera – People Are Strange [Doors cover]      (“A Psych Tribute To The Doors” compilation 2014 USA)

Moon Duo – Zoned      (split-7”single [with Psychic Ills] 2012 USA)

Orgone Box – Ticket With No Return      (orig. released 1996 in Japan only – taken from “Centaur” LP re-issue 2014 UK)

Gene Clark – Only Colombe      (recorded 1967 USA, unreleased – issued on 7”single 2008 USA)

Pinkunoizu – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch      (“The Drop” LP 2013 USA)

Zhol Caravan – Planet Earth      (“Electrip” LP 1969 Germany)

Françoise Hardy – Song of Winter      (“One-Nine-Seven-Zero” LP 1969 France)

Dickens – Genocide      (“Royal Incarnation” LP 1969 France)

les   Limiñanas – Votre Coté Yéyé M’emmerde      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

Death In June – Idolatry      (”Rule of Thirds” 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

Pure Bathing Culture – Dream the Dare      (“Moon Tides” 2013 USA)

the Moles – Brain Garden      (“The Future Sounds of Ashton” 2010 Wales, UK)

Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band – Have You Been to the Light      (recorded 1967 – released as “The Red Album” 2014 USA)

the Sunchymes – Revelations In Her Mind      (“Let Your Free Flag Fly” 2012 Northampton, UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began the show with a track from one of our favourite albums of last year by California’s Lumerians, and while there was music from around the globe as usual, there was certainly a ‘West Coast’ bias this week, with some songs even name-checking the state of California while others featured the 12-string jangle, sunny harmonies and even the weirdness often associated with the music of the area. However, bands such as the Velvet Underground, the Yardbirds, the Playboys, les Limiñanas and the Red Crayola showed another side of psychedelia that owes little to such ‘sunshine pop’-iness – have a peek at Dead Skeletons’ video for confirmation of that .....

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

Lumerians – Life Without Skin      (“The High Frontier” 2013 Oakland, California, USA)

les Limiñanas – La Fille de la Ligne 15      (7”single 2013 Perpignan, France)

Dead Skeletons – Dead Is God      (“ORD” museum installation EP 2013 Iceland)

Brainticket – Black Sand      (“Cottonwoodhill” LP 1970 Belgium/Germany)

the Velvet Underground – The Gift [stereo mix]      (taken from 2013 “45^th Anniversary Re-issue” boxset 2013 USA – originally on “White Light, White Heat” LP 1968 New York, USA)

Maston – Tell Donna       (“Trouble In Mind : Liverpool 2013 Psych Fest” label compilation 2013 Chicago, USA)

the Yardbirds – Still I’m Sad      (7”single 1965 UK)

Wax Museums – Nothin’ to do (with the 60’s)      (“Eye Time” 2012 USA)

the Surrenders – Loaded Dice      (7”single 1988 France)

the Missing Links – You’re Driving Me Insane       (7”single 1965 Australia – taken from “Down Under Nuggets- Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967” compilation 2013 Australia/USA)

the Easybeats – The Last Day of May      (“Volume 3” LP 1966 Australia)

the Playboys – Sad      (7”single 1967 Australia/UK)

the Thanes – Love Is Fading Away [Poets cover]     (7”single b-side [to She’s Coming Back to Me] 2014 UK)

the Higher State – Sky Clears to Blue      (“The Higher State” LP 2013 Kent, UK)

the Entrance Band – Fine Flow      (“Face the Sun” 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Grapefruit – Dolce Delilah [Italian version of ‘Dear Delilah’]     (7”single 1968 Italy – bonus track on “Around Grapefruit” re-issue  2005 UK)

Wild Rocket – Year of the Snake      (demo 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

White Hills – Visions of the Past, Present & Future      (“Heads On Fire” LP 2009 USA)

Ganglians – California Cousins     (“Still Living” 2011 USA)

Surf School Dropouts – California      (demo 2013 Denmark)

the Holy Mackerel – Wildflowers      (“The Holy Mackerel” LP 1968 California, USA)

Mad River – Wind Chimes      (“Mad River” LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

the Story UK – Standing in the Rain      (“Joy Ride on Memory Lane” 2011 UK)

the Dandelion – Paranoid Floyd in a Bliss You Can Hear      (“Curse of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Red Crayola – Hurricane Fighter Plane      (“The Parable of Arable Land” LP 1967 Texas, USA)