Technicolour Dreaming

On this, the third-to-last show of 2014, our choice for “Band of the Week” was Denmark’s Halasan Bazar, who regular listeners will recognise from previous shows – we do play them a lot, but for good reason – just listen to their music and you’ll surely become a fan! We first discovered them though through their collaboration with France’s Tara King th. – another Cat & Brat fave – on the “8” album, released through their common  label, California’s Moon Glyph Records, and worked back from there to their earlier releases – great stuff! During the rest of the programme, we did play a few new releases, such as tracks from Ty Segall’s “$ingle$ 2” anthology and Los Trasgos Muertos’ new EP, but the bulk of the show featured some of our faves of this year, such as Balduin, les Limiñanas, the Chemistry Set and Southern Boutique, as well as a number of older releases which we discovered [or rediscovered] this year, such as Slight, the Rain Parade and Morgen. It’s been a great year for psychedelia and we look forward to the next two shows, when we’ll feature our picks for “best LP/single/band/etc of 2014” amongst all our other favourites of the year [and beyond!]! It should be fun, so tune in to 3D Radio and join us.....

..... but in the meantime, here is this week’s playlist, with visual appendages.....

les Limiñanas – Intro / I'm Dead [2013 live recording]    (“I’ve got Trouble in Mind : 7” & Rare Stuff 2009 –2014” anthology 2014 France)

MMOSS & Quilt - Sandy      ("New Hampshire Freaks" EP 2013 US)

Balduin - Kite Come Back      ("All In A Dream" LP 2014 Switzerland)

Slight - The Freakwave      ("Melodion " EP 2013 Quebec, Canada)

Morgen - Of Dreams      ("Morgen" LP 1969 New York, USA)

Ty Segall - Femme Fatale [Velvet Underground cover]      ("$ingle$ 2" 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

los Trasgos Muertos - Roll With the Punches      ("Eponymous" EP 2014 Manchester UK)

the Churchills  - Debka      ("The Churchills" LP 1969 Israel)

the Vagrants - I Can't Make a Friend      (7"single 1966 New York, USA)

Bill Plummer and his Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East      ("Cosmic Brotherhood" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

the Allah-Las - No Werewolf       ("Worship the Sun" 2014 California, USA)

Morgan Delt - Elastic Id      ("Psych For Sore Eyes Volume 2" compilation 2014 USA/Germany)   

Southern Boutique  - Afterglow      ("Southern Boutique" 2014 Austin, Texas, USA)

Sky PIcnic - The Good Humor Man (He Sees Everything like this) [Love cover]     (recorded 2013 USA for "The Active Listener Presents...Forever Changing - A Tribute to Love's ‘Forever Changes’ LP" compilation 2014 New Zealand)

Love - You Set the Scene      ("Forever Changes" LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Crystal Jacqueline - You Just Gotta Know My Mind [Dana Gillespie/Donovan cover}     (recorded in Wales, UK 2014 – taken from "Postcards from the Deep" flexi-disc box-set 2014 UK)

the Junipers - Our Budgerigar (is addicted to rasmalai)      ("Euphonious Trolley EP 1" 2014 UK)

     ###     “Band of the Week”    –   HALASAN BAZAR     ###

Halasan Bazar - Am I Blind     ("Space Junk" LP 2013 Denmark)

Halasan Bazar -Tin Foiled      ("How to be Ever Happy" 2012 Denmark)

Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. - Rot Inside      ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France )

the Chemistry Set - Elapsed Memories      (7"single 2014 UK)

the Rain Parade - What's She Done to Your Mind      ("Emergency Third Rail Power Trip" LP 1983  USA)

Bronco Bullfrog - Rocking Horse Mender      (“Time waits for Norman” EP 2014 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week’s edition with a tribute to the late Ian McLagan, keyboard-player extraordinaire with the Small Faces, and, later, the Faces.... plus appearing on a plethora of other bands’ records as an ‘in-demand’ sessioneer and playing ‘live’ until now, being about to tour with Nick Lowe. I was fortunate enough to see him play with the Small Faces during their notorious Australian tour with the Who... it was one of the first concerts I went to and, as a piano-player myself, his commanding style certainly made a big impression!  A brilliant career – he will be missed! We continued our 60’s venture for a while with the Twilights and Ultimate Spinach, plus a great version of the “Avengers’ Theme” by Icarus Peel, before returning to present day Adelaide with the Archers and then veering off into our usual forage through the world of psychedelia and associated obscurities. Towards the end of the show we featured King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard as our “Band of the Week”... they are a great band whose career we have followed since the early days in Geelong until their recent successes in Europe and the UK, where they have been signed by the prestigious “Heavenly” label for the release of their much-anticipated new album. Good on ‘em!! We finished with Brittany psychedelecists Sudden Death of Stars whose latest album rewards with each listening – a gem, and certainly a contender for our “releases of 2014” list. Until next week then.....

..... here is the playlist, with some attendant visuals.....

the Small Faces - Afterglow [of your love]      ("Odgen's Nut Gone Flake" LP 1967 UK)

Icarus Peel - The Avengers’ Theme [John Barry cover]      ("Postcards from the Deep" flexi-disc box-set 2014 UK)

the Twilights  - Devendra      ("Once Upon a Twilight" LP 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Ultimate Spinach - (Ballad of) the Hip Death Goddess      ("Ultimate Spinach" LP 1968 Boston, USA)

the Archers - Nobodies       (digital single 2013 Adelaide – taken from "Going Steady Mixtape # 4 – Hillside Fest" compilation  2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dandelion - On a June Morning      (rec. 2014 Sydney – taken from "Going Steady Mixtape # 5 – Sydney Psych Fest" compilation 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Slight - Spirit School      (7"single 2104 Quebec, Canada)

Beaulieu Porch -  Carmelite Divine    (7"single [b-side to Golden Face] 2014 UK)

Allah-Las - Buffalo Nickel      ("Worship the Sun" 2014 LA, USA)

the Black Angels - Indigo Meadow      ("Live in San Francisco 2013" EP 2014 Austin, Texas USA)

Jouis - All That Is and Is One      ("Dojo" LP 2014 UK)

Rick Nelson - Marshmallow Skies      ("Another Side of Rick" LP 1967 USA)

Del Shannon - I Think I Love You      ("The Further Adventures of Charles Westover" LP 1968 USA)

the Byrds - Change Is Now      ("The Notorious Byrd Brothers"  1968 Los Angeles, USA)

the Paperhead - Eye for Eye      ("Africa Avenue"  2014 USA)

Soft Hearted Scientists - The Up and Downs      ("The Slow Cyclone"  2014 Wales, UK)

Quilt - I Sleep In Nature      ("Held in Splendour"  2014 USA)

Halasan Bazar - Am I Blind     ("Space Junk"  2013 Denmark)

Christine Pilzer - Champs Elysees     (“Cafe Creme" EP 1967 France)

Delphine - Le Fermeture Eclair [cover of "In the Past" by We the People]     (7”single 1967 Belgium)

Thee Oh Sees - Penetrating Eye      (“Drop” 2014 USA)

Singapore Sling - Godman      (“The Curse of Singapore Sling” 2010 Iceland)

Vibravoid - Do It Alright      (“Mind Drugs”  2011 Dusseldorf, Germany – taken from “Fruits de MerRecords : Friends of the Fish” compilation 2014 UK)

   ###   “Band of the Week”   King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard  ###

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Dust in the Wind/Guns and Horses   ("Eyes Like the Sky" 2013 Geelong, Australia)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - 30 past 7    ("Float Along – Fill Your Lungs" 2013 Australia)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Crying      ("Oddments"  2014 Australia)

Sudden Death of Stars - The Void       ("All Unrevealed parts of the Unknown..." 2014 Brittany, France)

Technicolour Dreaming

Another psychedelic spin around the world from the 1960’s to the present? Yes, it’s another edition of Technicolour Dreaming on 3D Radio 93.7fm, featuring new songs from Lay Llamas, H.Hawkline and Haliewa back to “should-have-been-hits” by the Pretty Things, Ray Brown & the Whispers and Del Shannon, as well as a couple more tracks from Fruits de Mer's "A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" compilation. Then there was a set of songs by Canadian psychedelicists Elephant Stone, our “Band of the Week”. Led by sitarist Rishi Dhir, formerly of the High Dials, they have released two albums plus an anthology and are psych festival favourites. The most recent LP, “The Three Poisons” has received great reviews and has quickly become one of our picks for “best of the year”. We finished with a blast of girl garage fuzz from Melbourne’s Reprobettes, and so until next week.....

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

Les Papyvores - Le Papyvore      ("Le Papyvore" EP 1967 France)

Lay Llamas - We are You      ("Ostro" LP 2014 Sicily, Italy)

White Manna - Acid Head      ("White Manna" 2012 California USA)

Dodson and Fogg [feat. Nigel Planer] - Clunes the Gravedigger  / Don't You Pass Me By      ("In a Strange Slumber'' 2014 UK)

the Junipers -  And In my Dreams     ("Euphonius Trolley EP One" 2014 UK)

Pretty Things - Alexander      ( "The Pretty Things with Phillippe De Barge" LP 1969 UK/France)

Wild Pink Yonder - Two of a Kind [Syd Barrett cover]     (recorded 2014 New York, USA for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

Jay Tausig - Fearless [Pink Floyd cover]    (recorded 2014 USA for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

Heaven's Gateway Drugs - Apropos      ("Apropos" 2014 Fort Wayne, Indiana USA)

the Raveonettes - Boys Who Rape (Should be Destroyed)      ("In and Out of Control" 2009 Denmark  )

the Movements - All the Lost      ("Like Elephants 1" 2013 Denmark)

Rings and Things - Strange things are Happening      (7”single 1968 Netherlands)

Ray Brown & the Whispers - Ain't it Strange      (7"single Australia 1966)

the Challenge - Reflections of Charlie Brown (Les Fleur De Lys cover)      ( 7"single 1970 Auckland, New Zealand)

Ray Columbus and the Art Collection - Snap, Crackle, Pop      (recorded 1967 but unreleased, taken from "A Day in My Minds Mind: Volume 3" compilation 2008 New Zealand)

Holy Wave - Albuquerque Freakout ("The Evil Has Landed" EP 2012 USA)

Del Shannon - I Think I Love You      ("The Further Adventures of Charles Westover" LP 1967 USA)

Haleiwa - Wall of Blue Sky      (7"single 2014 UK)

H. Hawkline - Black Domino Box      ("Salt Gall Box Ghouls" 2014 Wales, UK)

the High Dials - Your eyes are a Door ("War of the Wakening Phantoms" 2005 Montreal, Canada)

     ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK”    Elephant Stone   ###

Elephant Stone - Seven Seas      ("Seven Seas" 2009 Montreal, Canada)

Elephant Stone - Child of Nature (Om Namah Shivaya)      ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Elephant Stone - Sally Go Round the Sun      ("Acid Killed my Rock'n'Roll" anthology 2013 Canada)

Elephant Stone - Living for Something     ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Jim Noir - Come and See      ("Finnish Line" 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Reprobettes - Young and Stupid      (“Off the Hip Sampler” record company compilation 2014 Australia)