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

It was one of those weeks when our P.O. box was inundated with new releases and a few older goodies so we had lots to choose from to play for you. From amongst this pile of CDs and vinyl we selected new tracks from the UK’s Wicked Whispers, Three Minute Tease [featuring Anton Barbeau], Eternal Tapestry and the brilliant triple-CD from New Orleans’ Chef Menteur, plus songs from the Wands, Surf School Dropouts and Japan’s Sundays & Cybele amongst others. Our featured compilation series this edition was Northern Star Records’ excellent double-CD “Psychedelica” series, beginning with Volume One in 2006 and ending with volume 5 in 2013, and featuring a plethora of both known and obscure modern bands throughout, with many of the tracks unavailable elsewhere. Most of the issues are ‘sold-out’ but can be found on sites such as Discogs and eBay et al. if you search them out. We’ll be playing more of our new ‘incomings’ next week, so until then.....

..... here is the playlist with some visuals to divert.....

Surf School Dropouts - Ebb and Flow      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Sundays and Cybele - Waiting for You      ("Gypsy House" 2014 Hokkaido, Japan)

the Murlocs - Adolescence      (digital single 2015 Geelong, Australia)

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Knight      ("My People Were Fair and Had Stars in their Hair ...But Now they're Content to Wear Stars on their brows" LP 1968 UK)

Dungen - Jamna Plagor      (b-side from "Panda" CD single 2005 Stockholm, Sweden)

the Wicked Whispers - I'd Follow You Anywhere      ("Maps of the Mystic"  2014 UK)

Three Minute Tease - Coffee That Makes the Man Go Mad      ("Bite the Hand" 2015 UK)

the Wands - Get it Out of Your System / Don't You Wanna Feel alright      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

les Liminanas - Salvation      ("Crystal Anis" 2012 France)

House of Fire - The Morning Light      ("The Morning Light" EP 2012 Pennsylvania, USA)

Chef Menteur - Il obstrue ma vue de Venus / Terpsichore       ("Chef Menteur III : [disc 1] East of the Sun & West of the Moon”  2015 New Orleans USA)

Holy Wave - Star Stamp       ("Relax" 2013 Texas, USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Shifting Sands      ("Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil" LP 1968 USA)

Compilation of the Week :

Northern Star Records’  "Psychedelica" series no. 1 - 5

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anenome       (originally from "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" 1996 USA – taken from "Psychedelica Volume 1" 2006 UK)

Singapore Sling – Godman       (originally from "Perversity, Desperation and Death" LP 2009 Reykjavík Iceland – taken from "Psychedelica 4" 2011)

the Deaths -May Queen       (originally from “Choir Invisible” 2006 Canada – taken from "Psychedelica 2" 2007)

the Urges - In the End      ("Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Youngteam - Sunny Sunday Afternoon      ("Psychedelica 3" 2008)

the Silhouettes - All A Lie      (originally on “the Silhouettes” LP 2013 Netherlands – taken from "Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries     ("Wild Strawberries" 2015 Portland, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Firstly we’d like to begin by saying congratulations to Cat & Brat faves, Chicago’s the Luck of Eden Hall, for achieving their Kickstarter campaign to raise over $14,000 to help pay for their tour of the UK and Europe later this year. They had the bookings but not much cash so we are pleased to announce that Curvey and his merry band of psychsters achieved their goal – they are still ‘travelling on the cheap’ so it gives some idea of the logistics and cost of a relatively small band to take their music overseas..... there are many Australian musicians who can no doubt relate. Anyway, we wish this very cool band all the best and so just had to play a track from their most recent LP, “Victoria Moon”. We did get a bit nostalgic on this show and played some older tracks by a few of our favourite bands, such as Temples, All Night Radio, Dark Ocean Colors and the Dandelion, as well as recent ones from the likes of the Black Ryder, Moon Duo and Melbourne’s Ben Mason. The 60’s were not forgotten either, with songs from the Rolling Stones and Mike Furber leading up to our compilation of the week, “Psychedelia : an herbal mixture of psychedelic remedies and freakbeat fantoms”, a 5-CD boxset of rarities from that era. Four of the sides were originally issued on vinyl in the 1990s by the UK’s “Tiny Alice” label with the fifth being the intended but unreleased final release – now it’s a CD boxset compilation and a great find if you are into late-60’s pop-psych rarities from Europe and the UK. So, until next week, we bid you “adieu”.....

..... and leave you with the playlist and some visual accompaniment.....

Temples - Sand Dance      ("Sun Structures" 2013 UK)

nick nicely - 49 Cigars      ( 7" single 1980 UK – taken from "Psychotropia” anthology 2010 UK)

the Rolling Stones - Sing this all together (see what happens)    ("Their Satanic Majesties' Request" LP 1967 UK)

Mike Furber - You      (7" single 1966 Australia)

the Steve Miller Band - The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing [Psychedelic BB]      ("Children of the Future"  LP 1968 California USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall - The Collapse of Suzy Star      ("Victoria Moon"  LP 2014 Chicago USA)

the Black Ryder -  The Seventh Moon      ( "The Door Behind The Door" 2015  Aust. / USA)

the Dandelion - Borderline Originality Disorder      ("Strange Case of the Dandelion" LP 2014 Australia)

Moon Duo - Night Beat      ("Shadow of the Sun" 2015 California, USA)

Jack - The End of the Way It’s Always Been      ("The End of the Way It’s Always Been" 2002 Cardiff, Wales)

All Night Radio - Fall Down 7      ("Spirit Stereo Frequency" 2004 USA)

DeWolff - Silver Lovemachine      ("Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants" 2012 Holland)

Dark Ocean Colors - Alone with Candy      (“Dark Ocean Colors” 2011 USA)

High Dials - Chinese Boxes       (“Anthems for Doomed Youth” 2010 Canada)

               COMPILATION OF THE WEEK

“Psychedelia : An herbal mixture of psychedelic remedies and freakbeat fantoms”  

Orange Machine - Dr Crippen's Waiting Room       (7" single b-side (to You Can all Join In) 1969 Dublin, Ireland – taken from “Psychedelia : An herbal mixture of psychedelic remedies and freakbeat fantoms” 5-CD compilation box set  2015 UK – Disc 3)

 

Cape Kennedy Construction Company - Armageddon      (7" single b-side (to First Step on the Moon) 1969 UK – taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 1)

the Executives - Moving in a Circle   (7" single b-side (to It's a Happening World) 1968 Australia – taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 2)

the Gibsons - City Life    (7" single b-side (to Night and Day) 1967 Australia – taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 1)

No to Co - Saturday to Sunday      ("So What" LP 1970 Poland – taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 5)

the Mirage - I see the rain      (7" acetate 1970 Hertfordshire UK– taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 3)

Edwick Rumbold - Boggle Woggle      (7" single b-side (to Shades of Grey) 1966 UK– taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 2)

Ben Mason - Esmerelda      ("She'd Need a Heart" pre-release 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Sun Dial - Out of Space, Out of Time       (7" single 2002 USA)

the Peoples Temple - (the) Forest Speaks       ("More for the Masses" 2012 USA)