Technicolour Dreaming

It was one of those weeks when our P.O. box was inundated with new releases and a few older goodies so we had lots to choose from to play for you. From amongst this pile of CDs and vinyl we selected new tracks from the UK’s Wicked Whispers, Three Minute Tease [featuring Anton Barbeau], Eternal Tapestry and the brilliant triple-CD from New Orleans’ Chef Menteur, plus songs from the Wands, Surf School Dropouts and Japan’s Sundays & Cybele amongst others. Our featured compilation series this edition was Northern Star Records’ excellent double-CD “Psychedelica” series, beginning with Volume One in 2006 and ending with volume 5 in 2013, and featuring a plethora of both known and obscure modern bands throughout, with many of the tracks unavailable elsewhere. Most of the issues are ‘sold-out’ but can be found on sites such as Discogs and eBay et al. if you search them out. We’ll be playing more of our new ‘incomings’ next week, so until then.....

..... here is the playlist with some visuals to divert.....

Surf School Dropouts - Ebb and Flow      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Sundays and Cybele - Waiting for You      ("Gypsy House" 2014 Hokkaido, Japan)

the Murlocs - Adolescence      (digital single 2015 Geelong, Australia)

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Knight      ("My People Were Fair and Had Stars in their Hair ...But Now they're Content to Wear Stars on their brows" LP 1968 UK)

Dungen - Jamna Plagor      (b-side from "Panda" CD single 2005 Stockholm, Sweden)

the Wicked Whispers - I'd Follow You Anywhere      ("Maps of the Mystic"  2014 UK)

Three Minute Tease - Coffee That Makes the Man Go Mad      ("Bite the Hand" 2015 UK)

the Wands - Get it Out of Your System / Don't You Wanna Feel alright      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

les Liminanas - Salvation      ("Crystal Anis" 2012 France)

House of Fire - The Morning Light      ("The Morning Light" EP 2012 Pennsylvania, USA)

Chef Menteur - Il obstrue ma vue de Venus / Terpsichore       ("Chef Menteur III : [disc 1] East of the Sun & West of the Moon”  2015 New Orleans USA)

Holy Wave - Star Stamp       ("Relax" 2013 Texas, USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Shifting Sands      ("Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil" LP 1968 USA)

Compilation of the Week :

Northern Star Records’  "Psychedelica" series no. 1 - 5

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anenome       (originally from "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" 1996 USA – taken from "Psychedelica Volume 1" 2006 UK)

Singapore Sling – Godman       (originally from "Perversity, Desperation and Death" LP 2009 Reykjavík Iceland – taken from "Psychedelica 4" 2011)

the Deaths -May Queen       (originally from “Choir Invisible” 2006 Canada – taken from "Psychedelica 2" 2007)

the Urges - In the End      ("Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Youngteam - Sunny Sunday Afternoon      ("Psychedelica 3" 2008)

the Silhouettes - All A Lie      (originally on “the Silhouettes” LP 2013 Netherlands – taken from "Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries     ("Wild Strawberries" 2015 Portland, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

As regular listeners to this show are probably aware, the Cat & the Brat are very fond of compilations, and this week saw the arrival in our letterbox of the latest in the Psychedelica series from Northern Star Records in the UK. Like the previous editions, the double-CD Psychedelica 5 is a wonderful treasure trove of psychedelic-related music from around the world, so, needless to say, we will be plundering its delights mercilessly over coming weeks, starting, on this show, with selections from Iceland’s Singapore Sling, the Lost Rivers from Germany and a cool slice of girl-group grooviness by the Silhouettes. This put us in the mood for other comps and boxsets and so we featured songs by Truth, the Majority, the Ballroom and more, all taken from variously compiled sources [details below!] plus a smattering of tunes by the likes of Life Coach, the Move, the Citradels and the Higher State, amongst others...

..... so here is the playlist and some clips for eye-candy.....

Truth – Archimedes Pad      (recorded 1972 USA, unreleased – taken from vol.7 of ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, Vols. 6-10’ compilation boxset 2011 USA)

Life Coach – Fireball      (‘Alphawaves’ 2013 USA)

Euphoria – No Me Tomorrow      (7”single b-side [to Hungry Women] 1966 Texas/California, USA)

the Majority[UK] – Hard Day’s Night [Beatles cover]      (recorded 1969 Netherlands, unreleased – taken from Vol.1 of ‘Electric Sound Show, Vols.1-5’ compilation boxset 2011 UK)

Tactics – Long Story      (‘My Houdini’ LP 1981 Sydney, Australia)

the Banshees – Project Blue      (7”single 1966 USA – taken from Vol.2 of ‘Mindrocker, Vols.1-13’ compilation boxset 2008 USA)

Fever Tree – Girl, Oh Girl      (7”single 1967 USA)

Singapore Sling – Nothing Inside      (recorded 2012 Iceland – from ‘Psychedelica 5’ compilation 2013 UK)

the Lost Rivers – Death of Eve       (‘My Beatific Vision’ EP 2011 Baden-Württemberg, Germany – taken from ‘Psychedelica 5’ compilation 2013 UK)

the Silhouettes – All a Lie      (recorded 2012 Netherlands – from ‘Psychedelica 5’ compilation 2013 UK)

the Higher State – Potentially (everyone is your enemy)      (7”single 2013 Kent, UK)

the Move – Night of Fear      (7”single 1966 UK)

Paul Revere & the Raiders – Theme from ‘It’s Happening’      (7”single b-side [to Cinderella Sunshine] 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

the Citradels – Illuminous      (‘Psychotic Syndrone’ 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Marianne Faithfull – Song for Nico      (‘Kissing Time’ 2003 UK)

Nico – Saeta      (12”single 1979 UK)

Guy Chadwick – Fall in Love with Me [Bowie cover]      (‘Lazy, Soft & Slow’ 1997 UK)

Secret Machines – Have I Run Out?      (‘Secret Machines’ 2008 UK)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Waking Up to Hand Grenades      (‘Aufheben’ 2012 USA)

the Barbarellatones – Night of the Surfing Dead      (‘Invasion of the Surf Zombies’ 2006 California, USA)

the Bee Gees – The Earnest of Being George [mono version]      (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 UK/Aust.)

the Easybeats – The Music Goes Round My Head      (7”single 1967 UK/Australia)

the Immediate Family – Rubiyat      (recorded 1967 USA, unreleased – taken from vol.2 of ‘Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965–1970’ compilation boxset 2007 USA)

the Elastik Band – Spazz      (7”single 1967 USA – taken from vol.2 of ‘Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968’ compilation boxset 1998 USA)

the Yellow Payges – Our Time Is Running Out      (7”single 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Leaves – Words [Boyce & Hart/Monkees cover]      (‘Hey Joe’ LP 1966 USA)

the Ballroom – Baby Please Don’t Go (Big Joe Williams/Them cover]      ( 7”single b-side [to Spinning, Spinning, Spinning] 1967 USA – taken from vol.3 of ‘Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965–1968’ compilation boxset 2009 USA)