Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week with some modern psychedelia from Italy. Sonic Jesus released this debut EP on Fuzz Club Records last year and more recently have done a split 10” single with the Black Angels on the same label. They were just one of some great new bands we played on the show today, including Sydney’s Aether Beach and Los Tones, and the UK’s Violet Woods. Needless to say there were also a bunch of our regular faves such as Balduin, the See See, Singapore Sling and the Dandelion, as well as some brilliant music by the Rolling Stones, the Throb, the Bee Gees and others from the mid-1960’s, since acknowledged as ‘the first psychedelic era’. This then led us into our new feature, “Compilation of the Week”, which we debuted by playing a bunch of classic singles taken from that original garage psych compilation, the one which has since spawned a plethora of successors, namely the 1972 double-LP, “Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic  Era, 1965-1968”, which was compiled of course by Lenny Kaye, who later found renown in the Patti Smith Group, though Nuggets will probably be his real legacy, and thus a fitting start to our new feature. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist, complete with visual extras.....

Sonic Jesus - Monkey On My Back      ("Sonic Jesus" 10" EP 2014 Lazio, Italy)

Toy - To a Death Unknown      ("Join the Dots" 2014 UK)

the Dandelion - Paranoid Floyd in a Bliss You Can Hear      ("Strange Case of The Dandelion" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Aether Beach - Friends      ("The Aether Beach EP" 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Okko - Painted Sails on Ganges      ("Sitar and Electronics" LP 1971 Germany)

Davie Allen and the Arrows - Experiment in Terror [Henry Mancini cover]    ("Shots in the Dark" compilation 1996 USA)

the Throb - Black      (7"single 1966 Australia)

the Rolling Stones - Citadel      ("Their Satanic Majesties Request" LP 1967 UK)

Balduin - Love is You       ("All in A Dream" LP 2014 Switzerland)

Bronco Bullfrog - Listen to the Sky [Sands cover]       ("Time Waits for Norman" EP 2014 UK)

Jim Jenkin - Bike [Syd Barrett cover]      ("Fruits de Mer Records presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" double-CD compilation 2014 UK)

the See See - The Rain and the Snow      (7”single 2013 UK – taken from "Days, Nights and Late Morning Lights" anthology 2014 UK)

the Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over my Head       ("Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina" LP 1967 New York, USA)

Psychic Ills - Come Around      (recorded 2014 UK – taken from "Psych For Sore Eyes 2" compilation 2014 Germany)

the Spyrals - Sunflower Microphone      ( 7"single 2011 San Francisco USA)

Sun Eater - Twin Peaks      (digital single b-side [to Wild Arum] 2014 Tacoma, Washington)

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

              ###   “Compilation of the Week”   ###  

      Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

the Strangeloves - Night Time      (7"single 1965 USA – taken from “Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic  Era” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

the Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard      (7"single 1966 San Francisco, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Count Five - Psychotic Reaction      (7"single 1966 San Jose, California USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

the Third Rail - Run, Run, Run      (7"single 1967 New York, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Sagittarius - My World Fell Down      (7"single 1967 Los Angeles, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Davey Lane - Molty [Barbarians cover]     (recorded 2012 Sydney – taken from "Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1967" compilation 2012 Australia)

Los Tones - Speedboat      ("Psychotropic" LP 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Singapore Sling  - Who Put the Ebb in the Ebbebbeb      ("The Tower of Foronicity"  2014 Reykjavik, Iceland)

Violet Woods - Cyanide Suns       (7"single [b-side to "Raw Love"] 2014 Cambridge, UK)

the Carnaby - Jump and Dance      (7"single 1965 UK)

the Bee Gees - Like Nobody Else      (recorded 1966 Australia, unreleased – taken from "Downunder Nuggets" compilation 2012 Australia)

Orange Seaweed - Pictures in the Sky      (7"single b-side [to "Stay Awhile"] 1968 UK)

Mona Lisa Overdrive - It's Just Too Much      (demo 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

the Wands - Sound of the Machine     ("The Dawn" 2014 Denmark)

Obscured by...

Beginning our regular opening set of Australian recordings from the 60’s/70’s with an obscure 7” single by the Limit, which seems to have been released twice by the Australasian arm of RCA Records, firstly in 1968 and then again in 1969, yet sadly failing to bother the ‘hit parade’ on either occasion despite its quality, we moved through some equally fine songs by bands such as the Throb, MPD Ltd and Adelaide’s the Hergs plus a single by the short-lived ‘power trio’ Bulldog, which featured members of Procession, the Purple Hearts and the Bay City Union. While keeping a general psych/garage focus, we then ventured further out in time and place to the 80’s and beyond, with the likes of the Wylde Mammoths from Sweden, Magic Lantern [ a Sun Araw-related project] from the USA, Italy’s Head & the Hares, the Pandoras from California and Something Really Beautiful, whose fine song we discovered on a sampler LP from UK label Creation Records and who apparently released only one single before disappearing ... but at least they left us this great slice of neo-psychedelia. Also featured were tracks from recent reissues of albums by Comus, the Druids of Stonehenge and Paul Revere & the Raiders as well as a track from Hapshash & the Coloured Coat’s sole album, produced by member Guy Stevens, plus another spin of the sitar headswirler by Kali Bahlu by [rare] request. All pretty rare, semi-forgotten yet worthy stuff...just your usual “obscured by...”, presented for your listening pleasure this week by the Cat and the Brat!

..... and here is the full playlist.....

the Limit – Happy Life       (7”single 1968/1969 Adelaide, Australia)

MPD Ltd – No Regrets     (7”single 1965 Melbourne, Aust.)

Marcie Jones – That Hurts     (7”single b-side 1966 Aust.)

the Throb – Turn My Head     (7”single 1966 Sydney, Aust.)

the Iguana – Good News     (7”single 1969 Aust.)

Bulldog – Innerspring     (7”single 1970 Aust. – played from “Fable label: Collector’s Items” compilation LP 1972)

Musick Express – Jackie’s Thing     (7”single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Hergs – Style of Love     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Cornflake Zoo – Rainy Day     (“End of the beginning” EP 1986 Sweden)

the Pandoras – Haunted Beach Party     (“It’s About Time” LP 1984 USA)

Head & the Hares – Why must you fade away?     (“Autumn Songbook” 1998 Italy)

the Hidden Masters – Into the Night Sky     (“It’s Happening, vol.1” compilation 2010 UK)

No Strange – Sailing Out     (“L’Universo” LP 1987 Italy)

the Fuzztones – I Gotta Way With Girls [Lavender Hour cover]     (“Greg Shaw: He Put the Bomp! in the Bomp” compilation 2007 USA)

the Wylde Mammoths – Gone Away     (“Go Baby Go!” LP 1987 Sweden)

 Something Really Beautiful – Freak Outburst     (recorded 1988 – taken from “Do you Believe in Love: Creation Records” compilation LP 1990 UK)

Moon Duo – Mazes [Walking Through This Space]     (“Mazes – Remixed” 2011 USA)

Magic Lantern – Moon Lagoon Platoon      (“Platoon“ 2009 USA)

David Sylvian – The Healing Place     (“Down To Earth” 1986 UK)

Comus – Winter is the Coloured Bird     (“Diana” EP 1971 UK)

Kali Bahlu – How Can I Tell My Guru?     (“Kali Bahlu takes the Forest Children on a Journey of Cosmic Remembrance” 1968 USA)

Hapshash & the Coloured Coat – Aoum     (“Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids” LP 1967 UK)

the Barracudas – I ain’t no miracle worker [Brogues cover]     (“Mean Time” LP 1983 UK)

John’s Children – Desdemona     (7”single 1967 UK)

Paul Revere & the Raiders – The Great Airplane Strike     (7”single 1966 USA)

the Full Treatment – Just Can’t Wait     (7”single 1967 USA)

the Druids of Stonehenge – Signed D.C. [Love cover]     (“Creation” LP 1968 USA)