Technicolour Dreaming

The last show for May seemed to include quite a few bands from New Zealand, some of whom feature in the great compilation series "A Day in My Mind's Mind: 29 Kiwi Psychedelic Trips 1967-72" which is currently up to Volume 4. Psychedelia seems to have been a bit of a "late bloomer" on the Kiwi music scene, with psych tracks regularly in the charts up until the early 70's. Nowadays one of the cities to watch is Edinburgh, in Scotland - the new compilation "5", released by Dog's Got A Bone Records, is an excellent sample of a diverse range of bands, many unsigned or unreleased elsewhere - check out their sampler back-catalogue for more treats ... and this week's Technicolour Dreaming playlist is listed below:-

Hand - N.S.U. [Cream] ("A Day in My Mind's Mind Vol 1: 29 Kiwi Psychedelic Trips 1967-72" 2005 New Zealand)

The Spikes - Give Me Everything  ("Colour In A Black Forest" LP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)
The White Kites  - Love Doctor  ("Love Songs" 7" 2013 Poland)

Human Instinct  - A Day in My Mind's Mind  (7" single 1967 New Zealand)

The Third Eye - Pass Myself (7" single 1982 UK)

Troubled Mind - Finders Keepers  ("A Day in My Mind's Mind Vol 1: 29 Kiwi Psychedelic Trips 1967-72" 2005 New Zealand)

Maston - Wigwam / Well  ("Opal" EP 2011 Los Angeles, USA)

The Wicked Whispers - Amanda Lavender  ("Maps of the Mystic" 2014 UK)

Squire - No Time Tomorrow  (7" single 1982 UK)

The Playboys - Adventures in Paradise  ("The 'Sound Award' Album" LP 1965 Australia)

Pillow - Choirs  (7" single [b-side to "Oh, Carol"] 1968 Sweden)
Borderline Symphony - Crisantemi  ("Borderline Symphony" 2016 Switzerland)

Malka - For Now We Live  ("The Constant State" EP 2015 New York, USA)

Brilliant Beast - Another Day  ("Blue Thunder: A Tribute to Galaxie 500" 2016 Minneapolis, US )

Citrus Clouds - Christine [House of Love]  ("Soft as Fire in the House of Love" 2016 Phoenix, Arizona USA)

Dick Diver - Waste The Alphabet  ("Melbourne, Florida" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Dignan Porch - Sixteen Hits  ("Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen" 2012 UK)

Follow Me Not - The Beatles and the Stones [House of Love]  ("Soft As Fire In The House of Love" 2016 Bretagne, France )

Ghost Dance Collective - Byrd-Man  ("5 - Dog's Got a Bone" sampler, 2016 Edinburgh)
The Luck Of Eden Hall - Slow  ("The Acceleration of Time" 2016 Chicago USA)
Malcontent - Blue Thunder  ("Blue Thunder: A Tribute to Galaxie 500" 2016 Porto, Portugal)
Octopus Syng - Unknown Actress  ("Hollow Ghost/Rochelle Salt" LP 2016 Helsinki, Finland)

Peach Kelli Pop - Princess Castle 1987  ("Peach Kelli Pop III" LP 2015 Ottawa, Canada)

Pridjevi - Pjesma O Drveco  ("Pridjevi" 2014 Croatia)

Primitive Parts - Troubles  ("Parts Primitive" 2015 London, UK)

Psyclops Eyepatch - As Haunted As A Thousand Theremins  ("Paranoise" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Rats on Rafts - The Last Day on Earth  ("Tape Hiss" 2015 Netherlands)

Salad Boys - No Taste Bomber  ("Metalmania" 2015 Christchurch, New Zealand)

The Butterscotch Cathedral - Flood Of Mendoza  ("The Butterscotch Cathedral" 2015 Tucson, Arizona, USA)

The Red Plastic Buddha - Little White Pills  ("Songs For Mara" 2014 Chicago)

The Twistettes - Lampost Light  ("5 - Dog's Got a Bone"  2016 Edinburgh)

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

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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)

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Amongst the new music we played this week were tracks from Melbourne’s Flyying Colours, Russia’s Polska Radio One and Nikola Tesla & Thee Coils, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the new solo single from Higher State bassist Paul Messis. We raided our library for some 60’s coolness by the likes of Music Machine and the Monks and while we were there, played a set of French bands, new and old, including tracks by Evariste and Sheetah et les Weismüller plus lots more. So until next week.....

..... here is the playlist, with associated visuals.....

T.Swift & the Electric Bag – Expo In Sound      (“Are You Experienced?” LP 1968 USA)

Kings Ransom – Without You      (recorded 1966 Pennsylvania, USA, unreleased – taken from “Garageaholic! Psychedelic! Outsider Music! – the Arf! Arf! 30-Track Audio Relic Sampler” compilation 2008 USA)

Jeffertitti’s Nile – No One       (“The Electric Hour” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

Flyying Colours – Not Today      (CD-single 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Blondi’s Salvation – Dereliction Song      (“Songs of the New World Order” EP 2012 Nantes, France)

Apples In Stereo – Strawberryfire      (“Her Wallpaper Reverie” 1999 USA)

Polska Radio One – To The Delta Of Aquarius      (“Cosmos Inside” 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Bed Rugs – Be a Little Strange      (“8^th Cloud” LP 2014 Antwerp, Belgium)

the White Kites – Love Doctor      (“Love Songs” CD-single 2014 Poland)

Paul Messis – Nightmares       (7”single 2014 UK)

Distortion Girls – Paperwork       (“Psych On This #2 – Aarhus Psych Fest sampler” 2014 Denmark)

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

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Days, Weeks and Moths      (“Revelations” 2014 USA/Germany)

Dark Haze – The Temple      (“The Dark Haze EP” 2014 Brazil)

Subtract-S – Icehouse [Flowers cover]      (“3D SoundLounge Live-to-Air” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Marianne Faithfull – Ghost Dance [Patti Smith cover]      (“A Collection of Her Best Recordings” anthology 1994 UK)

Ponyface – Silver Tongue      (“Hypnotised” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Nikola Tesla & Thee Coils – Forbidden Path / Cerberus on Watch      (“Cerebus” 2014 Moscow, Russia)

the Monks – We Do Wie Du      (“Black Monk Time” LP 1966 Germany/UK)

Sheetah et les Weismüller – Pire Que Le Silence   (“¡ Hola Ye-Yeah !” 2009 France)

Danyel Gérard – Sexologie      (7”single b-side [to Avec Ces Deux Mains Là] 1970 France)‎

Evariste – Connais-tu L'animal Qui Inventa Le Calcul Intégral?       (“E=mc²” EP 1967 France)

Les Limiñanas – My Black Sabbath      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

Horror My Friend – Shivers & Spines      (“Shivers & Spines” EP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

the Bevis Frond – Glass Onion [Beatles cover]      (“The White EP” double 7” vinyl compilation 2012 UK)

Music Machine – The Eagle Never Hunts the Fly      (“Bonniwell Music Machine” LP 1967 USA)

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The new Brian Jonestown Massacre album came into our P.O. box this week so, needless to say, we felt it was a fine way to begin this week’s show before we moved into our trawl through the wonderful world of psychedelia. Also featured this week were tracks from a couple of cool Russian bands, Mystic Brew and the Spoon Box, with more to follow in coming weeks from what appears to be a very vibrant psych scene... special thanks to Dimitry of Mystic Brew for putting us onto some of the great bands there! Northern Europe also provided us with tracks by such Scandinavian bands as Octopus Syng and the Jessica Fletchers plus, from Poland, the White Kites, while from the Philippines we played D’Swooners, as well as a bunch from the USA and Britain including Flavor Crystals and Jeffertitti’s Nile from the former and Scars, the Open Mind and Schnauser from the latter, not forgetting Australia’s entries, Shining Bird and Subtract-S and New Zealand’s the Avengers, who did a great cover of “Listen, Listen”, which has to be one of our favourite 60’s classics! That’s your lot - another “Technicolour Dreaming” streamed into your ears, so until next week.....

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

Enjoy!

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Vad Hände Med Dem       (“Revelation”  2014 USA/Germany)

Octopus Syng – It’s Not a Coincidence         (”Reverberating Garden no.7” 2014 Finland)

Mind Garage – Asphalt Mother         (7”single 1968 Pittsburgh, USA)

Mystic Brew – Without You         (7”single b-side [to Don’t You Want To Stay] 2014 Moscow, Russia)

MYSTIC BREW - Without You (Official Video) from Zakharkin Oleg on Vimeo.

D’Swooners – Please Please Trina         (7”single 1968 Philippines/Hong Kong)

BB Jr – Walking with Jesus [Spaceman 3 cover]         (“Captcha Records... introducing” sampler compilation 2014 California, USA)

the Barbarellatones – Sharknado         (mp3 2014 Hawaii, USA)

the Modern Lovers – She Crack’d         (“The Modern Lovers” LP 1976 New York, USA)

Frantic Chance – My Name is Warfare         (mp3 demo 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Jessica Fletchers – Bloody Seventies Love         (“What Happened to the?” 2003 Norway)

the Green Tambourine Band – From the Seed into the Flower [Sir Psych Mix]         (mp3 – song orig. on “Let Yourself Be/Aum” LP 2014 Scotland, UK)

Cheval Sombre – You’ve got to Hide Your Love Away [Beatles cover]         (mp3 2013 USA)

Three Minute Tease – Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]          (“The White EP” double-7” EP 2013 UK)

Southern Boutique – Don’t Be Yourself (Cowboy Song Part 2)         (7” single 2013 USA)

Flavor Crystals – Blue Haiti         (“Three” LP 2013 USA)

Shining Bird – Can’t Stop Sleeping In         (demo 2014 Australia)

Jeffertitti’s Nile – The Day the Sky Fell         (“The Electric Hour” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

the White Kites – Percival Buck        (“Missing” LP 2014 Poland)

the Mirage – Ebenezer Beaver         (recorded 1968 UK, but unissued – taken from ”Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72” CD-boxset 2013 UK)

the Open Mind – Magic Potion         (7” single 1969 UK)

the Avengers – Listen, Listen [Merry-Go-Round cover]         (7” single 1969 New Zealand)

Scars – All About You         (“Author! Author!” LP 1981 UK)

Tall Tales and True – Wasted Life         (“Tale Tales and True” mini-LP 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Toys Went Berserk – Guns at My Head        (7” single [b-side to Don’t Run Away] 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Subtract-S – mb ph         (“Love From Outer Space” EP 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

Schnauser – Astral Traveller [Yes cover]         (7”single 2014 Wales, UK)

the Spoon Box – Два расиста [Two Racists]         (“The Spoon Box” EP 2012 Samara, Russia)