Technicolour Dreaming

It is appropriate that this edition’s Compilation of the Week is the 2014 Electric Sound Show 5-CD box-set, a series that describes itself as ‘An Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur’, which, in part, is what we aim to play for our listeners each week, along with  more recent releases we pick from the current psychedelic outpouring and its 20^th century predeccessors! It has a slightly murky history (you try getting any CONSISTENT, accurate information about this series on the internet!) with the first instalment of the original vinyl series, the “We All Live On Candy Green” LP, put out by Soundshow Records in 2004, followed by “In King Solomon’s Minds” in 2010. The next LP was “Apricot Hash in the Hourglass” in 2011, “Paper Thoughts of Polly Pan” (2013) and finishing with “Green Eyed Gods of Smoke” (also 2013). The set covers rare 60’s psychedelia from Britain and the USA, plus what is variously described as ‘Pop-Psych’, ‘Mindblowing Nuggets’ and ‘Heavy Psychedelic Stoners’ from the rest of the world. The limited edition 5CD box set released by Particles Records that is our particular focus this week is based on the original vinyl albums, but with some different tracks to confuse the issue.... whatever, it is a great boxset, and deserved its place as our feature. Another highlight was a rare interview with Nick of Adelaide’s Molting Vultures... much merriment ensued as he regaled us with tales of the music scene in Melbourne where he now resides. This move several years ago means however that the Molting Vultures now only play occasionally in either city, but have a great turnout of loyal garage-psych aficionados whenever they appear and hopefully a new album release will also ensue in the not too distant future with Nick promising he has some new songs ready for the band to develop. For the rest of our playlist simply see below, and so until next Tuesday, between 2 and 4pm (Central Australian Time) on 3D Radio, we bid you “adieu”.....

...... and here’s the complete song-list, including some associated clips, including scenes from the Cat & Brat's wedding performance of 'Life On The Dole' with the Molting Vultures, the complete Andy Warhol tribute, “Songs for Drella”, played live in 1990 by John Cale and Lou Reed, plus an episode of Julian Cope's "Modern Antiquarian" TV show..... Enjoy!!

Three Minute Tease - Bravely Fade Away      ("Bite the Hand"  2014 UK)

Pinkunoizu - The Abyss      ("Free Time" 2013 Denmark)

White Noise - Phase In – Firebird     ("An Electric Storm" 1969 UK)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Ventolin     ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France)

the Molting Vultures - Here Come the Mushroom People    ("Drop in and Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)

Interview with Nick Molty of  the Molting Vultures 

Peter Brat and the Molting Vultures - Life on the Dole      (7"single 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

Lothar and the Hand People - Sex and Violence     ("Presenting ... Lothar and the Hand People" LP 1968 New York, USA)

Dodson and Fogg [feat. Nigel Planer] - Entrepreneur in the Garden      ("In a Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)

Octopus Syng - Listen to the Moths      ("Reverberating Garden Number 7”  2014 Helsinki)

Julian Cope - Psychedelic Odin      ("Trip Advizer" 2015 UK)

the Icy Poles - Sugar and Spice      ("Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" 2013 Aust)

Baby Grandmothers - Being is More than Life     (7"single 1968 Sweden)

the Black Hollies - No Illusion      ("Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere" USA 2013)

Dave Clark Five - Lost In His Dreams     ("Everybody Knows" LP 1968 UK)

Jacco Gardner - All Over      ("Hypnophobia" 2015 Netherlands )

the Wands - The Name of the Mountain      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

COMPILATION OF THE WEEK  

“ELECTRIC SOUND SHOW: An Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur”   [5-CD boxset 2013 UK]

Tapestry - Who Wants Happiness      (7" single b-side (to Heart and Soul) 1969 UK : taken from CD1 - We All Live on Candy Green)

the Avengers - Listen, Listen      (7" single 1969 Wellington, New Zealand : taken from CD 2 - In King Solomon's Minds)

American Revolution - Opus #1      (7”single 1969 USA : taken from CD 3 - Apricot Hash on the Hourglass)

Tages - You're Too Incomprehensible    (7”single 1968 Sweden - taken from CD 4 : Paper Thoughts of Polly Pan)

William Sheller - Living East, Dreaming West (7"single b-side (to She Opened the Door) 1970 France - taken from CD 5 : Green Eyed Gods of Smoke)

Jacques Dutronc  - Hippie Hourrah      (7"EP  b-side [to “La Publicité"] 1968 France – taken from "Jacques Dutronc" LP 1968 France)

Lou Reed and John Cale - Work      ("Songs For Drella" CD/DVD 1990 USA)

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

plus.....

Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s show featured a journey around the current world of psychedelia, plus assorted oddities and a side-trip back in time to the first pop psych explosion. So much music to play, and only two hours each week to squeeze it all into! We recently acquired a copy of the brand new addition to Born Bad Records’ wonderful “Wizzz! Psychorama francais 1966 – 71” compilations, Volume 3, making this series a serendipitous choice for our Compilation of the Week, mais oui! Back in the present, we played new tracks from the Wands, Pretty Lightning, Jacco Gardner, the Noble Krell and the Barbarellatones latest demo (love the lyrics!), fitted in some surf from Chile and Denmark, and some 60’s faves such as Gary Walker and the Rain’s much covered classic, “Francis”. And we finished up with Vibravoid’s ode to the Fuzztones organ player Deb O’Nair, which can be found on the just-reissued and re-mastered edition of their classic “2001” LP, complete with extra tracks and quite stunning packaging – it certainly gets our seal of approval! So.....

..... until next week, here is the playlist plus associated visuals.....

Sula Bassana - My Blue Guitar      ("Dreamer – 10^th Year Anniversary Edition” 2012 Germany)

the Lovetones - Journeyman (Anton Newcombe mix)      ("Dimensions" 2008 Melbourne Australia)

Gary Walker and the Rain - Francis      (7" single b-side (to Come In, You'll Get Pneumonia) 1969 UK)

the Electric Prunes - Dr Do-Good      ("Underground" LP 1967 USA)

the Aardvarks - Arthur C. Clarke      (7" single 1989 London UK )

the Black Angels - Never/Ever      ("Directions to See a Ghost"  2008 Austin, Texas USA)

Three Minute Tease - When I Was 46 in the Year 13      ("Bite the Hand" 2014 UK)

 

the Barbarellatones - Electric Pussycat      (demo 2015 Hawaii USA)

the Velvet Underground - Ocean      (recorded 1969, released on "VU" LP 1984 New York, USA)

the Noble Krell - Never Ever      (7" single 2015 Baltimore USA)

the Smoking Trees - Trips      ("Home in the Morning" EP 2015 California USA)

the Surfing Arcanis - Tenbrosa Silhouetta      (digital single 2015 Region Metropolitana, Chile)

Los Explosivos - Larga-te de Aqui!!!      (7" single 2009 Mexico)

 

Surf School Dropouts - Should Have Known Better      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Pretty Lightning - The Rainbow Machine      ("A Magic Lane of Light and Rain" 2015 Saarbrucken, Germany)

the Rolling Stones - Connection      ("Between the Buttons" LP 1967 UK)

Compilation of the week:  Wizzz! Psychorama francais 1966 - 71

 

Bernard Chabert - Helga Selzer      (7" single 1970 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 3” compilation 2015 France)

Les fleurs de Pavot - A 'degager      ( "Les fleurs de Pavot" LP 1969 France  – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 1”)

Bruno Leys - Hallucinations      (7" EP [unreleased] 1969 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 2”)

Papy - Toi Le Shazam     (7" single 1967 France  – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 3”)

Zorgones - Herr Doktor Reich      (7" single 1969 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 2”)

the Deep - Colour Dreams      ("Psychedelic Moods"  LP 1966 USA)

Morgan Delt - Mr Carbon Copy      ("Morgan Delt" 2014 USA)

Jacco Gardner - Another You      ("Hypnophobia" 2015 Netherlands)

the Wands - Totem Part II      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

Trolley - Love the Way you Look      ("Things that Shine and Glow" 2011 UK)

Vibravoid - She's Just 13 / Lovely Lady Deb-O-Nair      (" 2001 – 15^th Anniversary re-mastered edition" 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

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)