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)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began with a long track from a current band, Eternal Tapestry, and finished with another extended piece, this time by 60’s icon Ravi Shankar, illustrating yet another small indication of the ongoing influence of psychedelia, beginning thousands of years ago, as outlined in many books and studies, including “Psychedelia : An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life” by the late Patrick Lundborg, eminent Swedish writer and philosopher. But hey, we’re here for the music and there were plenty of new releases for us to play for you. These included the title track from the debut Wicked Whispers album, Syd Arthur covering Led Zeppelin and new 7” singles by Quitty and the Don’ts and Adelaide’s own the Dunes. Then there were some older tracks including one from the 1967 debut of the Glass Family through to Japan’s Ghost and onto Germany’s Vibravoid and Hawaii’s Barbarellatones. Then there was our choice of “Compilation of the Week” where we went back to last year’s seven 7” vinyl singles boxset from the brilliant Fruits de Mer Records, called “7 and 7 Is”, which compiled a group of current bands covering a diverse bunch of 60’s bands such as the Byrds, Love, the United States of America and Moby Grape, amongst others, all packaged with period-faithful artwork and using a mixture of red, white and blue vinyl for the actual singles – great concept!

We’ll be back next week but before we go, just a reminder to our UK listeners/readers that “Games for May”, presented by MegaDodo and Fruit de Mer Records is being held this Sunday 24^th May at 'the Half Moon' pub in Putney [details here] with a bunch of cool bands that we feature regularly on this show, so try and get along. It’s a tad too far away from Australia for us to go but you?? Until next time.....

..... here is the playlist with appropriate [or not] visuals.....

Eternal Tapestry - Trout Fishing on the Street of Eternity      ("Guru Overload" LP 2014 USA)

Ghost - Marrakech      ("Lama Rabi Rabi" LP 1996 Japan)

Jacco Gardner - Summer's Game      (7"single b-side [to Will You Go] 2013 Netherlands)

the Wicked Whispers - Maps of the Mystic      ("Maps of the Mystic" 2015 UK)

ST Mikael - My Dream      ("Mind of Fire" 2007 Sweden)

the Twilights - Bessemae      ("Once Upon a Twilight" LP 1968 Adelaide, Australia)

the Barbarellatones - L.T.K      ("The Sound of Love"  2012  USA/Hawaii)

the Glass Family - Agorn (Elements of the Complex Variable)          ("Electric Band" LP 1967 USA)

Joy Zipper - Out of the Sun      ("American Whip" 2002 USA)

Vibravoid - Listen, Can't You Hear?      ("Delirio Dei Sensi" LP 2013 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Syd Arthur - In the Light [Led Zeppelin cover]     ("Physical Graffiti Redrawn" MOJO-magazine cover-mount-CD 2015 UK) 

  

the Dunes - When You Wake Up      (7"split-single (with Glass Skies) 2015 Adelaide Australia)

Compilation of the Week :

"Fruits de Mer Records presents 7 & 7 Is" vinyl boxset compilation

King Penguin - She Don't Care About Time [Byrds cover]      ("Fruits de Mer Records presents 7 & 7 Is" – 7 x 7" singles box-set 2014 UK)

the Chemistry Set - A House Is Not A Hotel [Love cover]      ("Fruits de Mer Records presents 7 & 7 Is" – 7 x 7" singles box-set 2014 UK)

Sendelica - Hard Coming Love [United States of America cover]     ("Fruits de Mer Records presents 7 & 7 Is" – 7 x 7" singles box-set 2014 UK)

the Higher State - Wait for My Love [13th Floor Elevators cover]      ("Fruits de Mer Records presents 7 & 7 Is" – 7 x 7" singles box-set 2014 UK)

the Seventh Ring of Saturn - Cream Puff War [Grateful Dead cover]       ("Fruits de Mer Records presents 7 & 7 Is" – 7 x 7" singles box-set 2014 UK)

    

TV Eyes - She Gets Around      ("TV Eyes"  2006 USA)

Indian Jewelry - Eva Cherie     ("Peel It" 2012 Houston, Texas, USA)

Balduin - Everything       (“Choose Balduin” 2011 Switzerland)

Quittty and the Don'ts - Running Out Of Time     (7"single 2015 USA/Adelaide)

Ravi Shankar - Raga Jinhoti      ("The Dawn of Psychedelia' compilation 2013 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Here on Technicolour Dreaming our mantra is “psych, surf, pop, punk … and more” (the latter being a useful term that covers all bases!), though at times it can be a tough ask to cram in all the songs that we want to play. So little time, with so much amazing music from ‘round the world to play – 2 hours a week is never enough! For example, speaking of amazing music, we debuted a demo track from Copenhagen’s Surf School Dropouts, featuring their trademark soaring Beach-Boy-esque harmonies and slick pop-surf smarts; the guys are hoping that this track will be featured on their forthcoming album, which is planned for release early next year. We had plenty to plunder from Australia too, including a very cool new album from Melbourne’s the Citradels, the solo LP by Matthew J. Tow of the Lovetones, a single from the Ancients and the debut EP from Adelaide’s Olly Holmes plus another track from Volume 2 of Anti-Fade Records’ “New Centre of the Universe” compilation series. Then, from elsewhere in the world, there were songs from the brilliant new records by Cate Le Bon, the Wicked Whispers and Surf City, plus of course, another track from our favourite album of the moment – “The High Frontier” by California’s Lumerians – and lots more! But as we said earlier, there is never enough time to play everything, though of course there is always next week.....

..... but here is this week’s playlist with attendant visuals.....

Sula Bassana – Departure      (“Dark Days” 2012 Germany)

the Black Angels – You On The Run      (“Directions to See a Ghost” 2008 Texas, USA)

Donovan – The Fat Angel      (“Sunshine Superman” LP 1966 UK)

Surf School Dropouts – California      (demo 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Park Avenue Playground – The Trip      (7”single b-side [to I Know] 1967 USA)

Napoleon XIV – I’m In Love With My Little Red Tricycle      (“They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!” LP 1966 USA)

the Scantharies – Advance! Warning!      (“The Scantharies” 2012 Greece)

Eternal Tapestry – Alone Against Tomorrow      (“A World Out of Time” 2012 USA)

Thee Spivs – Safety Pin Stuck in my Heart [Patrik Fitzgerald cover]      (7”single b-side [to Flickin’ V’s] 2012 UK)

Olly Holmes – Bury Me With My Guitar      (“The Whiskey Barrel” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Sulphur Lights – Kill Everyone      (“New Centre of the Universe, Vol.2” compilation 2013 Australia)

Wire – 12XU      (“Pink Flag” LP 1977 UK)

Singapore Sling – The Nothing Inside      (“Never Forever” 2012 Iceland)

Surf City – Oceanic Graphs of the Wilderness      (“We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This” 2013 New Zealand)

Anton Barbeau & the Three Minute Tease – When I Was 46 (in the Year 13)      (“The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen” split-EP 2013 UK)

the Ancients – Molokai      (CD-single 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Jim Jones Revue – It’s Gotta Be About Me      (“The Savage Heart” 2012 UK)

Pete Dello & Friends – A Good Song      (“Into Your Ears” LP 1971 UK)

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Stairway to the Best Party      (“Aufheben” 2012 USA/Iceland)

the KVB – Velveteen       (“Psychedelica 5” compilation 2013 UK)

the Citradels – Manson’s Love Club      (bonus track on “Our Lord’s Secret Service” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Wicked Whispers – Voodoo Moon      (7”single 2013 Liverpool, UK)

No Thee No Ess – Collapsing Realities      (7”single 2013 Wales, UK)

Paul Messis & Jessica Winter – As Nightmares Turn to Dreams      (7”single b-side [to Sunflower] 2012 UK)

Cate Le Bon – Are You With Me Now?      (“Mug Museum” 2013 Wales, UK)

Lumerians – Koman Tong      (“The High Frontier” 2013 Oakland, USA)

Chorus Reverendus – Dans Son Euphorie      (“Ne Poussez Pas Mémé Dans Les Orties” EP 1967 France – taken from “Wizzz! Psychorama Français 1966-70, Vol.2” compilation 2008 France)

Matthew J. Tow – Seven Days      (“The Way Of Things” 2013 Australia)