Technicolour Dreaming

As promised, this week I featured a veritable plethora of recent, new and soon to be released tracks (well, compared to previous weeks, a few, anyway!) from the likes of Technicolour Dreaming faves The Luck of Eden Hall, Kikagaku Moyo, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Violet Swells. After a reasonably quiet couple of months, it seems that I hear word of great new stuff every couple of days. Could it be a publicity flurry in advance of Record Store Day on April 16th, or just a coincidence? Who knows, but it's great to see the vinyl resurgence continue to grow, though unfortunately slowed somewhat due to the major labels jumping on the bandwagon with pointless re-issues, and clogging up the pressing plant schedules at the expense of the small independent labels, who were the ones that supported them through the tough times. 

So here's the play-list, with even more new stuff in store for the next show...

Billy Nicholls - Girl From New York  ("Would You Believe" LP 1968 UK)

Richard De Bordeaux Et Daniel Beretta - La Drogue ("Extrait Du Film 'Le Temps Fou' Du Marcel Camus" EP 1968 France)

Elephant Stone (featuring Alex Maas) - The Devil's Shelter  (digital single 2015 Montreal, Canada)

Kikagaku Moyo  - Kogarishi ("House in the Tall Grass" LP [to be released in May 2016] Japan)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife  ("Nonagon Infinity" LP [to be released 29 April 2016] Melbourne, Australia)

Murmurs of Irma - Vacuum Cleaner [Tintern Abbey]  ("The Great British Psychedelic Trip Revisited" 2016 Portsmouth UK)

Violet Swells -  Gravity Wins Again (digital single 2015 Hobart, Australia)

Circassian  - Eastern Patterns  ("Procrastinational" EP 2012 Greece) 

The Small Faces - I Feel Much Better  ("There Are But Four Small Faces" LP 1967 UK)

The Orange Revival - Lying in The Sand ("Futurecent" 2015 Sweden)

Signal to Noise Ratio - Magician [The Amazing Friendly Apple]  ("The Great British Psychedelic Trip Revisited" 2016 Warsaw, Poland) 
The Luck Of Eden Hall - A Procession of Marshmallow Soldiers Across the Clockwork Pudding  ("The Acceleration of Time" LP [to be released 1 June 2016] Chicago USA)

Black Market Karma - Run Run Run  ("Comatose" 2012 London, UK)

Neighb'rhood Childr'n - She's Got No Identification  ("Neighb'rhood Childr'n" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

Elephant Stone - Dhun  ("The Glass Box" EP 2010 Montreal, Canada)
The Reverb Syndicate - Return of the Angry Gentleman ("Mondo Cacti" 2011 Ottawa, Canada)

Mystic Brew - Something More Than A Dream  ("Something More Than A Dream" LP 2015 Russia)
Sacagawea and the Hunter - Boris the Assassin  ("Lewis and Clark" EP 2013 Philadelphia, USA)

Ipissimus - Hold On [Sharon Tandy]  (7" single 1969 UK)

ESP Limited - Tell Me  ("It Came From the Garage - Nuggets from Southern California"
compilation 2007 USA)  


A Little Bit of Sound - Girls Who Paint Designs  (7" single 1967 Long Island, New York USA)


The Black Ryder - Let Me Be Your Light  ("The Door Behind The Door" 2015 Australia/USA)

McGough and McGear - So Much To Love  ("McGough and McGear" LP 1968 UK) 

D.C. Drifters - Louisiana Blues  (7" single b-side [to "I Know"] 1967 USA)


The Sweet Acids - That Creature  (7" single 1969 Georgia, USA) 


Grateful Dead - Morning Dew (Take Me For A Walk)  ("The Grateful Dead" LP1967 San Francisco USA)




The Messengers - We Can't Get Along  ("The Messengers" EP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)




The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Action Strasse  ("Tomorrow Belongs To Me" LP 1975 UK)




The Peep Tempel - People Don't Get You  ("The Peep Tempel" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)



Shake Spears - I Can't Tell (7" single 1965 Belgium) 



The Sand Pebbles - Red Orange Purple and Blue  ("Ceduna" 2008 Melbourne, Australia)





And an extra little treat - another track from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's soon to be released LP "Nonagan Infinity" - it's called "People - Vultures".....enjoy!!

Technicolour Dreaming

I always try to cover as much ground, globally-speaking, as possible -

this week's offerings included music from Israel, Japan, Russia, France, Iceland, 

and the Netherlands, and of course the USA, UK, and Australia,

 including several tracks from the home of Three D Radio,

Adelaide, Australia. 

 So here's the play-list, plus quite a few clips for your visual edification...

The Churchills - So Alone Today / Debka  ("Churchills" LP 1969 Tel Aviv, Israel)
 

David Bowie - Speed of Life  ("Low" LP 1977 UK)
 

Subtract-S - Mb Ph  ("Love From Outer Space" 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
Nuvo Bloc - Western Drugs  (demo 1981 Adelaide, Australia)
Exhibit A - Confusion  (demo 1982 Adelaide, Australia)
 

Kikagaku Moyo - Streets of Calcutta  ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)
 

Sun Dial - Let It Go  ("Fazer" EP 1992 UK)
 

Polska Radio One - Time Eternity  ("Cosmos Inside" 2013 Yekaterinburg, Russia) 
 

White Fence - Wolf Gets Red Faced  ("For the Recently Found Innocent" 2014 Los Angeles UK)
 

Soft Hearted Scientists - At Night the Quarry Glows Like A Mother Ship

 ("Uncanny Tales From the Everyday Undergrowth" 2016 UK)
 

Liverpool Scene - Batpoem  ("Amazing Adventures Of..." LP 1968 UK )
 

Jacques Dutronc - Hippie Hippie Hourrah  (7" single 1968 France)
 

Balthazar - La Marche Des Travailleurs  (7" single 1968 France)
 

Jane et Julie [Barry Green] - Notre homme a moi  (7"single b-side [to "Boomerang"] 1972 France)
 

Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Strange Walking Man  (7" single 1969 UK)
 

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Mandrake Handshake  ("Thingy-Wingy" Mini-Album 2015 USA)
 

Dead Skeletons - Dead is God  ("Orð" 2012 Reykjavík, Iceland)
 

Royal Chant - Dick Move  ("War Cry of Failure" 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Tooth and Tusk - Nothing Makes Sense  (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
 

David Bowie - Pictures of Lily  ("Substitute -The Songs of the Who" compilation 2001 UK)
 

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon  ("Paper Mache Dream Balloon" 2015

 Sydney, Australia)
 

The Mynd Gardeners - Where Tomorrow Lands  ("The Acyd Raindrop Umbrella" 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
 

The Salt - Lucifer  (7" single 1968 USA)
 

Moon Duo - Mazes  ("Mazes" 2011 San Francisco USA)
 

Frowning Clouds - Do Like Me  ("Listen Closlier"  2009 Geelong, Australia)

The Mops - Inside Looking Out  ("Psychedelic Sounds in Japan" LP 1968 Japan)
 

The Molting Vultures - It's What I Wanted  ("Drop In and Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Adjeef the Poet - Iekk! (Eek!), I'm a.... Freak  (7" single 1967, The Netherlands)
The Sand Pebbles - All My Life (I Love You)  ("Ghost Transmissions" 2004 Australia)
The Break - Cylinders  ("Church of the Open Sky" 2010 Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

Another of the Nuggets series of boxsets was our choice for this edition’s “Compilation of the Week”... This time it was “Where the Action Is!  Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” which was released in 2009, in a hard-cover book format with the 4-CDs slotted into the back cover – lots of very cool photos and articles with detailed liner notes about each song and artist... and what great songs they are! This is probably our favourite of the Nuggets boxset collection [the 1972 original double-LP stands separately of course!] because LA was producing a plethora of wonderful bands in this period, many well-known, but most not, which in no way diminishes the quality of the sounds coming out of the area however – brilliant stuff! Basically, if you can only have one boxset, this is the one! Another producer of fine music is the UK’s Fruits de Mer label whose latest compilation “Strange Fruit & Veg” is packed with goodies. From it this week we chose a great version of the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”, complete with filmclip. We also featured an Australian 60’s section with tracks by Ray Brown and Hugo amongst others, plus recent music from acts such as Lumerians, the Myrrors and Elephant Stone. So now, we bid you “adieu” until next week, when we’ll have more psychedelia and associated obscurities for your listening and viewing pleasure....

.....until then, here is the playlist and some visuals to amuse you, including the Kikagaku Moyo “official clip” for ‘Kodama’..... enjoy!

Lumerians - Hook for an Eye      ("Transmissions from Telos - Volume III" 2014 UK)

Elephant Stone - Between The Lines      ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Rob Gould - Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      ("Fruits De Mer Records presents ‘Strange Fruit and Veg’ – promo 2” compilation 2015 UK)

Les Annees - Freaktown Stars      ("Les Annees" 2009 Melbourne, Australia)

Jake Holmes - Leaves Never Break      ("A Letter to Catherine December" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

Ray Brown and the Whispers - Ain't It Strange     (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Moods – ‘Cos of You       (7”single b-side [to Say Hello to Me] 1966 Australia)

the Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby      (7"single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Hugo - Girl in the Garden      (7"single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

Quilt - Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]      ("The Magical Mystery Psych Out - A Tribute to the Beatles" compilation 2015 USA)

Deep Sea Arcade featuring Megan Washington - Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]      ("Melodie Francaise" compilation 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Peoples Temple -   Twice Burned       (7"single b-side [to Brand New Thing] 2013 USA)

Clinic - The Lion Tamer      ("Bubblegum" 2010 UK)

the Myrrors - Juana Laguna      ("Arena Negra" LP 2015 Tucson, Arizona USA)

Amon Duul II - Archangel Thunderbird     ("Yeti" LP 1970 Germany)

Dr Cosmo's Tape Lab - The Secret of Tibetan Grapefruit is...      ("Ever Evolving Lounge" 2014 USA)

the Warlocks - House of Glass      ("Rise and Fall" 2001 USA)

      “Compilation of the Week”

  “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968”

WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator       (7" single 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” compilation boxset 2009 USA)

Keith Allison - Action, Action, Action          (7" Single b-side [to Glitter and Gold] 1966 – taken from disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Monkees - Daily Nightly    ("Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd" LP 1967 USA – taken from Disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Leaves - Doctor Stone      ("Hey Joe" LP 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen      (7" single 1968 USA – taken from disc 2 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

Gene Clark - Los Angeles      (recorded 1968, unissued – taken from disc 4 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Black Hollies - Benevolent Beacon      (7" single 2011 USA)

Toy - Motoring      ("Toy" LP 2012 UK)

Dead Skeletons - Dead is God      ("Ord" EP 2012 Iceland)

Kikagaku Moyo - Kodama      ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began the show this week with a track from “Balloon Age”, the debut album by UK band New Electric Ride which is a strong contender for topping our ‘release of the year’ list. But there were other rivals for this exalted position played on the show as well, including Dodson & Fogg, Southern Boutique and our “Band of the Week”, Japan’s brilliant psychedelecists Kikagaku Moyo with their latest LP “Forest of Lost Children”, released by Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records. We also featured some older tracks from bands as diverse as Belgium’s Moaning Cities, Los Angeles’ Maston and Australian legend Ray Brown before finishing with Iberian beat band Jysus, taken from a sampler provided by groovy Spanish label SunnyDay Records. So, until next week.....

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

New Electric Ride – In Chains         ("Balloon Age" 2014 UK)

Moaning Cities – Heaven-Abyss         ("Moaning Cities" EP 2012 Brussels, Belgium)

Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty – A Visit With Ayshia         ("Things" LP 1968 USA)

Ray Brown and Moonstone – Story of Ali         ("Mad House" LP 1970 USA)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard [feat. Broderick Smith] – Evil Man         ("Eyes Like the Sky" EP 2013 Australia)

Sidewalk Society – Shadows in the Sky         ("Fruits de Mer sampler 1 : Friends of the Fish" compilation 2014 UK)

Quitty and the Dont's – Running Out Of Time         (7"single 2104 New York/Australia)

Velvet Moth – Interstellar Stevens         ("Velvet Moth" 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Wooden Wand – Baby, You're a Rich Man [Beatles cover]         ("Mojo: Yellow Submarine Resurfaces" covermount compilation 2012 UK)

the Foreign Films – Broken Dreamers      (“The Record Collector” LP pre-release 2014 Ontario, Canada)

the Young Sinclairs – You’re Tied      (7”single 2013 Roanoke, Virginia)

the Moles – The Mysterious End of Friend # 2?      (“The Future Sounds of Ashton” 2010 Wales, UK)

     ###  Band of the Week – Kikagaku Moyo  ###

Kikagaku Moyo – Kodama      (“Forest of Lost Children” LP 2014 Japan)

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

Kikagaku Moyo – Streets of Calcutta [Ananda Shankar cover]      (“Forest of Lost Children” LP 2014 Japan)

Kikagaku Moyo – Pond      (“Mammatus Clouds” cassette-EP 2014 Japan)

the Junipers – And In My Dreams      (”The Junipers’ Euphonius Trolley Vol. 1” EP 2014 UK)

Maston – Gold Leaf      (“Opal” EP 2011 Los Angeles, USA)

the Hoa-Hoas – Modern Men      (“the Hoa-Hoas” EP 2011 Canada)

the Dentists – Peppermint Dreams      (recorded 1986 UK – taken from “NME C86” compilation 3-CD boxset 2014 UK)

the Brilliant Corners - Meet Me On Tuesdays         (recorded 1986 UK – taken from “NME C86” compilation 3-CD boxset 2014 UK)

the Gathering Grey – Sitting By The Window [Moby Grape cover]      (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” compilation of 7” singles box-set 2014 UK)

Southern Boutique – Tell Star      (“Southern Boutique” 2014 Texas, USA)

Dodson & Fogg (feat. Nigel Planer) – Clunes the Gravedigger       (“In a Strange Slumber” 2014 UK)

Jysus – Darkest Wine      (“Love, Nature & Disasters” LP 2014 Spain)