Technicolour Dreaming

Alongside some new releases by local Adelaide favourites Slingshot Dragster and the Dunes we also played tracks from the brand new albums from Dodson & Fogg, Ty Segall and White Fence, plus single A-sides from House of Fire and the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s ‘tambourine guy’ Joel Gion, King Penguin’s brilliant Byrds cover from Fruits de Mer’s lavish “7 & 7 Is” singles boxset, which was released this week. We also featured songs by Les Big Byrd, the Chemistry Set, Swiss psychedelecist Balduin and 60’s classics by Gary Walker & the Rain and the Millennium, as well as a previously unreleased track by the Velvet Underground, recorded in 1969 but only released in 1984 on the “VU” album. Last, but certainly not least, we celebrated Beaulieu Porch as our “Band of the Week”. Consisting of the compositions and recordings of Englishman Simon Berry, Beaulieu Porch has released two albums, an anthology and several singles, both vinyl and digital, on his own Tillsammans Records label, all of which he recently made available as free downloads on his bandcamp page. His modern, idiosyncratic take on vintage psychedelia has been hailed in magazines such as “Shindig!” and “Mojo” plus blogs like “The Active Listener” and various “Top 10 Albums of the Year” lists – not bad for a bloke recording alone in his home studio, and we are eagerly awaiting the completion of his new album which he reports is “about halfway there”. In the meantime we strongly advise downloading the back-catalogue – you won’t regret it! – and also checking out his clips on youtube, also made by him at home, a few of which we’ve posted below. So, until next week, it’s “cheerio” from the Cat and the Brat.....

..... and here’s the playlist, with aforementioned vids.....

Prince Rupert’s Drops – Plague Ride         (“Run Slow” LP 2012 New York, USA)

 

the Heart Snatchers – Silk         (“Fall in Toulouse” 2013 Toulouse, France)

Les Big Byrd – Back to Bargarmossen         (“They Worshipped Cats” 2014 Sweden)

the Chemistry Set – Come Kiss Me Vibrate and Smile        (7”single b-side [to Time to Breathe] 2012 UK)

Balduin – A Hope For Loving You         (“Post From Mars” 2014 Switzerland)

Joel Gion – Overthrow        (7”single 2014 USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Help, I’m a Rock [Frank Zappa cover]         (“Part One” LP 1967 USA)

Slingshot Dragster – St Duane [Tremolo Beergut cover]         (demo 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dunes – End of the Beginning         (“Bad Lands” EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Velvet Underground – Ocean         (recorded in 1969, released on “VU” LP 1984 New York, USA)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – La Façon Dont La Machine Va Vers l'Arrière       (previously unreleased – taken from “Dead Bees Records Label Sampler No 9”  2010 Toulouse, France)

 

House of Fire – The Keeper of the Doors         (7”single 2014 Pennsylvania, USA)

the Millenium – 5 a.m.         (“Begin” LP 1968 USA)

Dodson and Fogg – A Sweet and Strange Surprise         (“In a Strange Slumber” 2014 UK)

  ###    BAND OF THE WEEK  –  Beaulieu Porch    ###

Beaulieu Porch – Laminations are Loaded      (“Beaulieu Porch” 2012 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – The View from Gainsborough      (7”single 2014 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – Greencroft Street      (“Beaulieu Porch” 2012 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – Is      (“We Are Beautiful” 2013 UK)

 

Tony, Caro & John – There Are No Greater Heroes      (“All On The First Day” LP 1972 UK)

White Fence – Wolf Gets Red Faced      (“For The Recently Found Innocent” 2014 California, USA)

Ty Segall – Who’s Producing You?      (“Manipulator” 2014 California, USA)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Magazine Woman      (“Album No. 1” LP 1968 Japan/UK)

King Penguin – She Don’t Care About Time [Byrds cover]      (7”single 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

the Myrrors – Mind’s Eye      (“Burning Circles In The Sky” 2008 Tucson, Arizona, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

After last week’s 60’s-fest we thought we’d better catch up with the plethora of new music springing up around the world, though we did slip in a few older songs by the likes of Jacques Dutronc and Donovan, but mostly it was new releases, including a track from the forth-coming new album by Australia’s own King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, new singles released by the UK’s prolific State Records folks by French garage-psychsters Les Grys-Grys and Denmark’s the Youth, a new single by Triptides plus further tracks from the latest Ty Segall, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Soft Walls and New Electric Ride offerings. Whew! So much fine new music to choose from... and then we received not one, but TWO new albums from Hawaii-via-Hollywood’s fabulous glam-psych-gothabilly outfit, the Barbarellatones, prompting us to make them the latest Technicolour Dreaming “Band of the Week”. Led by main songwriter, surfer Robbie Quine, and arising from 90’s outfit Sex With Lurch, the band first came to our attention in 2006 with their fantastic “Invasion of the Surf Zombies” album which blended sci-fi, glam, schlock-horror, surf, punk, psych, goth and more in a swirling mix of genres and clever, often amusing lyrics wedded to memorable hooks and lots of twang – all of our favourite things.... how could we not like it? Since then, the ever-prolific band has released a bunch of great albums, with the two we just received in the mail the most recent – if songs like “Poledancer”, “Gothabilly Gulch” and “Truckstop Angel” don’t raise a smile while you start uncontrollably dancing, well....

..... so here is the full playlist, with some moving pictures.....

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete – Sealed Scene         (“Chambers” 2014 Guadalajara, Mexico)

Ride Into the Sun – Lost Horse Valley         (”Sky Flowers” EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Ty Segall – The Clock         (“Manipulator” 2014 USA)

the Flower Machine – Live Oak Road         (“Chalk Dust Dream at the Tea Cosy Mitten Company” 2004 Los Angeles USA)

the Youth – I’ll Call Your Bluff         (7”single 2014 Denmark)

Devonian Gardens – Swallow the Sun         (“Solar Shifting” 2013 Calgary, Canada)

les Grys-Grys – Hot Gully Winds         (7”single 2014 France)

Soft Walls – Never Come Back Again         (“No Time” 2014 UK)

Thee Oh Sees – Drop         (“Drop” 2014 USA)

the Throwing Muses – Fish         (“Lonely Is An Eyesore” LP compilation 1987 USA)

Allen Pound’s Get Rich – Searching in the Wilderness         (7”single 1966 UK)

Jacques Dutronc – Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous         (“Jacques Dutronc” LP 1966 France)

Triptides – Clementine         (7”single 2014, Portland, Oregon, USA)

Kikagaku Moyo – Dawn         (“Kikagaku Moyo” LP 2013 Japan)

Brain Pyramid – Cosmic 1000 Years         (“Magic Carpet Ride” 2013 Rennes, France)

Chatham Rise – Oncoming Daze         (“Chatham Rise” 2013 Minneapolis, USA)

Vibravoid – The White Ship [HP Lovecraft cover]         (7”split-single [with Drug Free Youth] 2011 Germany)

                ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK” – the Barbarellatones   ###

the Barbarellatones – I had Sex with a C.H.U.D.         (“Invasion of the Surf Zombies”  2006 Hawaii, USA)

the Barbarellatones – Then the Sausage         (“Mummified” 2014 Hawaii, USA)

the Barbarellatones – Fake English Accents         (“Fake English Accents” 2014 Hawaii, USA)

the Barbarellatones – Get Your Freak On         (“The Breakup Ghost” 2009 Hawaii, USA)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cellophane         (“I’m in your Mind Fuzz” 2014 Geelong, Australia)

Rasputin & the Mad Monks – (I Had) Too Much to Dream Last Night [Electric Prunes cover]      (acetate 1967 Massachusetts, USA – taken from “Beyond the Calico Wall” compilation 1993 USA)

New Electric Ride – Marquis de Sade      (“Balloon Age” 2014 UK)

Dodson & Fogg – Watch the Skies      (“The Call” 2013 UK – taken from “the Active Listener introduces... Dodson & Fogg” anthology 2014 New Zealand)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – 1906      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

By Divine Right – Past the Stars      (“Organised Accidents” 2013 Toronto, Canada)

Donovan – Sunshine Superman [long version]      (recorded 1965/66 – bonus track on 2005 re-issue of “Sunshine Superman” LP 1966 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

There is so much great new music at the moment for us to play on Technicolour Dreaming we are occasionally guilty of failing to feature the equally wonderful sounds of past decades from around the world as much as we perhaps should. Not this week however... almost half the songs are from both days past and diverse locales, including, amongst the 60’s contingent, the USA‘s Lyme & Cybelle [featuring a young Warren Zevon] and Hour Glass [from whence the Allman brothers appeared], Sweden’s Mecki Mark Men, an unjustly obscure, fantastic track from Frenchman Bernard Chabert and the Atlantics’ classic “Come On” featuring vocals by Australian legend, the late Johnny Rebb. Not that the aforementioned “great new music” was ignored though, with a spangly new EP from Adelaide veterans the Mynd Gardeners and a wonderful new single from Chicago’s the Luck of Eden Hall, both of which can be found on bandcamp and other digital outlets, which brings us to this show’s “Band of the Week” – the White Kites hail from Warsaw in Poland [though singer Sean Palmer is English, the rest of the band are Polish] and their debut full-length LP “Missing”, which was released in late 2013, is a brilliant modern take on late 60’s/early 70’s UK pop psych, with elements of folk, music-hall whimsy and space-rock woven into an album of clever, hook-laden pop songs which could easily have come from that era, but, produced with current production values, it makes them simultaneously modern, and that’s no mean feat, plus mention must be made of the fantastic cover art which presents an accurate guide to the splendours within! They certainly deserve their “band of the week” accolade, so check them out – you won’t be disappointed! So, until next week....

..... here is the full playlist, with bonus visual aids.....

the Green Tambourine Band – You are the One that I Love to Love         (“…Let Yourself Be” 2013 UK)

Lyme and Cybelle – Follow Me         (7”single 1966 USA)

the Mynd Gardeners – Don’t Wanna Cry         (“The Arcing Train Set Pantograph” EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Groop – Woman You’re Breaking Me       (7”single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Mystic Brew – Your Reality         (7”single 2013 Samara, Russia)

the Mecki Mark Men – Free         (“Mecki Mark Men” LP 1967 Sweden)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Arthropodra Lepodoptra         (7”single b-side [to the Happine$$ Vending Machine] 2014 Chicago, USA)

the New Tweedy Brothers – Wheel of Fortune         (“The New Tweedy Brothers” LP 1967 Portland, Oregon, USA)

Syd Arthur – Ode to the Summer         (7”single 2011 UK)

Diane Coffee – Tale of A Dead Dog         (“My Friend Fish” 2013 USA)

Sumner – Let’s Go and Play         (7”single 2013 UK)

the Moving Sidewalks – 99^th Floor        (7”single 1967 USA)

Sendelica – Love Song for the Dead Che [United States of America cover]        (recorded 2014 Wales, UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

Serge Gainsbourg – Melody/Ballade de Melody Nelson         (“Histoire de Melody Nelson” LP 1971 Paris, France) [see a very cool 1971 film at  www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X5LwFCHNe4 ]

Balduin – In a Better Land         (“Post From Mars” 2014 Switzerland)

Bernard Chabert – Helga Selzer [often misnamed as “Olga Selzer” on compilations]         (7”single [with L’homme de l’univers] 1970 France)

Race Horses – No Man’s Land [Syd Barrett cover]         (recorded 2009 Wales – taken from “Mojo: The Madcap Laughs Again” magazine cover-mount compilation 2009 UK)

Thomas and Richard Frost – Gotta Find a New Place to Stay         (7”single 1969 USA)

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

Hour Glass – Bells         (“Hour Glass” LP 1967 USA)

Morgan Delt – Barbarian Kings        (“Morgan Delt” 2014 California, USA)

Johnny Rebb and the Atlantics – Come On         (7”single 1967 Sydney, Australia)

    ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –   the White Kites   ###

the White Kites – Love Doctor         (“Love Songs” EP 2013 Warsaw, Poland)

the White Kites – Christening         (mp3 single –  also on “Tego Słucham 3” compilation 2014

Poland)

the White Kites – Clown King         (“Missing” 2014 Poland)

Jason Falkner – Holiday         (7”single 1999 – taken from “Can You Still Feel?” LP 1999 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

We had a guest in the studio with us this week ... Vic from Walking Bird Records came in to give us a sneak preview of their latest release, the album “Look!” by Adelaide’s own Tom Redwood, recorded in Vic’s Walking Bird studio and featuring members of Vic’s own band, Vic Conrad & the First Third on some of the songs. Though basically ‘singer/song-writer’ in genre, there are more electric ‘acid-folk’ and ‘soft-psych’ elements in some of the songs, which we found appropriate for Technicolour Dreaming – definitely worth checking out! Our “Band of the Week” fetured UK band the Sunchymes, whom regular listeners will recognise as long-time favourites on this show. Aaron from the band has assured us that a new album is nearing completion and we’re hoping that this will be the one that finally gets them the recognition they richly deserve – a very talented band! There were also tracks from Ty Segall, Grand Rapids, Wellwater Conspiracy and Singapore Sling plus a single from the wonderfully-named Dr Cosmo’s Tape Lab and much more.....

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

Dahga Bloom – Goodnight Moon         (7” split single [with Jeffertitti’s Nile] 2011 USA)

Polska Radio One – Time Eternity         (“Cosmos Inside” 2014 Russia)

Ty Segall – The Singer         (“Manipulator” 2014 California, USA)

Dr Cosmo’s Tape Lab – Pin The Tail         (7” single 2014 Glasgow, UK)

Los Craters – Bronco         (“Low Tide Lover” 2013 California USA)

the Grand Rapids – Copper Girl         (7”single 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Beachwood Sparks – Once We Were Trees         (7”single 2000 USA)

Tom Redwood – Help Me Lord         (“Look!” 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Clay Allison – Fell From The Sun         (7”single 1984 USA)

Painted Hills – Morning Light         (“Painted Hills” 2010 USA)

Tom Redwood – Disneyland         (“Look!” 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Wellwater Conspiracy – Green Undertow/Enebrio         (“Single No 2”, 7”single b-side [to Trowerchord]  1994 USA)

Voice of the Seven Woods – Sailing to Byzantium         (10”single b-side [to The Holy Harbour] 2007 USA)

John Frankovic – You’re Telling Me         (“Under the Water Lily” 1993 USA)

the Minus Five – The Lurking Barrister        (“Sad Hasselhoff “ EP 2012 USA)

    ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –  the Sunchymes   ###

the Sunchymes – Through My Eyes [2014 remix]         (mp3 2014 UK)

the Sunchymes – Your Disguise         (“Let Your Free Flag Fly”2012 UK)

the Sunchymes – Uncle Albert’s Slide Show            (“Let Your Free Flag Fly”2012 UK)

Night Beats – The Seven Poison Wonders         (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 USA)

the Laurels – Merry Go Round      (“Mesozoic EP”2011 Australia)

King Penguin – She Don’t Care About Time [Byrds cover]         (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

Singapore Sling – Listen         (“The Curse of Singapore Sling”  2005 Iceland)