Archive for the Psych Category
Craig Smith “Love Is Our Existence” (Maitreya Apache)
Tip-on gatefold sleeve; Includes liner notes. Craig Smith was an extraordinarily gifted songwriter and musician who seemed poised for a successful career in the 1960s music business until his life was derailed by drugs and schizophrenia. In 1969 clean-cut, charismatic Craig Smith became Maitreya Kali, a dark, disturbed psychedelic Messiah […]
Fifty Foot Hose “Cauldron” (Modern Harmonic)
An electronic rock band wasn’t even an idea when Fifty Foot Hose released their landmark debut album at the end of 1967. Their fusion of psychedelia and electronics resulted in a truly trailblazing sound. Cauldron stands as a signal achievement that laid the groundwork for genres that didn’t even exist […]
Alphastone “Stereophonic Pop Art Music” (Hoga Nord Arkiv)
Pete “Bassman” Bain, one of the founding members of the UK cult psych rock band Spacemen 3, formed Alpha Stone after Spacemen 3 and his other band The Darkside split up in the mid-nineties. In 1996, Alpha Stone recorded the album Stereophonic Pop Art Music and it was released on […]
Grateful Dead “Skeletons From The Closet” (Grateful Dead Productions)
Reissue of The Grateful Dead’s 1974 greatest hits compilation, Skeletons From The Closet: The Best Of The Grateful Dead. Available here on white colored vinyl. Rhino Records is reissuing the best-selling Grateful Dead greatest hits compilation to date on white vinyl as part of their 2019 ‘Start Your Ear Off […]
Spectrum “Geracao Bendita” (Groovie)
The time has come this wonderful, mega-rare psychedelic album is available on vinyl again. Groovie Records brings back to the ring one of the heaviest Brazilian psychedelic albums ever, the soundtrack of a 1971 hippie movie with superb fuzz guitars all over, English/Portuguese vocals by both male and female singers […]
Young Flowers “On Air” (Longhair)
For the first time available, this lavish DOUBLE-LP set contains live recordings of the legendary Danish psychedelic power trio The Young Flowers, as recorded for Danish radio in 1969 and 1970. Rooted in the classic style of a.o. Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, the band is expanded to a five-piece […]
Andwella’s Dream “Love & Poetry” (Oak)
A vinyl reissue of Andwella’s Dream’s lone album, originally released in 1969 on CBS, and highly regarded by psychedelic collectors. This eclectic affair touches upon a number of approaches. It contains heavy progressive rock-tinged psychedelia with keyboards, fruity pop-psych with strings and fairytale-type lyrics, and folk- and blues-informed material bridging […]
Corporal Gander’s Fire Dog Brigade “On The Rocks” (Longhair)
Reissued on vinyl, including the band story, this is a killer German exploitation hard-psych album from 1970, originally released by the Europa label, which – besides tons of mainstream cash-in albums – also put out acclaimed late ’60s-early ’70s LP’s by a.o. Hell Preachers Inc., The Petards, John Deen & […]
Free-Son “Banguele” (Groovie)
A great vinyl-reissue of the 1971 LP by a Brazilian 8-piece, playing an exciting mixture of psychedelic rock, funk, jazz, Latin and African rhythms. The 12 tracks are almost entirely instrumental, with plenty of far-out wah-wah guitars, cool organ sounds and lively percussion. The album’s title, ‘Banguele’, refers to a […]
Various Artists Astral Daze: Psychedelic South African Rock 1968-72″ (Take It Acid Is)
This collection brings together rarities from well-known artists like Abstract Truth, Suck, Otis Waygood, Freedom’s Children, John & Philipa Cooper, McCully Workshop and Hawk, as well as lesser known acts like Buzzard, The Fireflies, The Idiots, Tidal Wave, and The Invaders. Although the South African rock movement of the late sixties and early seventies was not a major commercial success, its participants heralded […]
Apples “Mind Twister” (Odion Livingstone)
2018 repress; LP version. Odion Livingstone present another reissue from the Nigerian archives, the first ever international release of The Apples’ essential Afro-funk rarity Mind Twister, originally released in 1978. As part of the St Gregory’s student band scene in Lagos during the late ’70s alongside Ofege, Grotto, and more, Apples were picked up […]
Randy Holden “Population II” (Klimt)
Randy Holden is an American guitarist best known for his involvement with the West Coast blues-rock group Blue Cheer on their third album, New! Improved! (1969). Holden obtained a sponsorship deal with Sunn amplifiers. Through this, he received his legendary sixteen 200 Watt amplifiers. His new band was dubbed ‘Randy […]
Bow Street Runners “Bow Street Runners” (Sundazed)
Flushed from Fayetteville, North Carolina-where they thought they could remain comfortably obscure-by our release of their only album, the Runners have recently re-surfaced. Issued in ultra-limited quantity by B.T. Puppy in 1970-and now changing hands for sums more familiar to NASDAQ-this is an other-worldly blend of sweet female blotter acid […]
Fifty Foot Hose “Bad Trips” (Sundazed)
Nobody went full-on electro- rock before Fifty Foot Hose. Before their brief-but-groundbreaking run in the late ‘60s, Bad Trips collects the demos, outtakes, and other rarities that complete the story of a band too far ahead of its time to last. Includes both versions of their multi-speed composition “Bad Trip.” […]
Warhorse “Warhorse” (Purple Pyramid)
Limited edition white vinyl, gatefold jacket reissue of the 1970 debut album of the British hard rock/progressive band formed by Deep Purple bassist Nick Simper!
Ofege “Try And Love” (Tidal Waves)
Ofege was formed in the early 1970s by a bunch of teenagers at the St. Gregory’s College in Lagos Nigeria. They were largely influenced by the guitar solos of Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page while closer to home, they were influenced by the music of ‘BLO’ (Berkley Jones, […]
Purple Image “Purple Image” (Tidal Waves)
In the midst of the musical revolution of 1968, a 24-year old kid named Warren Adams put together an eight-piece band by the name of Purple Image. When most African-American bands in the Cleveland, Ohio area turned to R&B and soul music, Purple Image played mind-bending psychedelic funk rock. The […]
Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Vol. 34 Community War Memorial” (Real Gone)
If the saga of the Grateful Dead is a long strange trip, then we’ve definitely been along for part of the ride! First, we brought you the entire Dick’s Picks series of live concerts on CD, all 36 volumes of it, many of them never before available at retail. Then we began putting out […]
Jungle “Jungle” (Red Lounge)
The first legitimate reissue of this mega rare Californian psychedelic monster. This is one of the best and most sought after psychedelic gems ever recorded, with amazing and fluid heavy fuzz guitars, superb organ, drums and fantastic songwriting. Recorded in New York in 1969 while the band was living in […]
Aphrodite’s Child “End Of The World” (Music On Vinyl)
End of the World is the debut album by Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite’s Child. With their single hit “Rain And Tears” they took their first step in becoming a big act in Europe. By reaching international audiences this classic got some more attention. It’s one of those lost gems of ’60s psychedelic […]
Gravy Train “Staircase To The Day” (Music On Vinyl)
Gravy Train were a progressive rock group active from 1969 to 1975. The British quartet blended the English classic rock sound with progressive movements on their last album Staircase to the Day. Everything was great about this work, the artwork by designer Roger Dean, the fantastic detailed songs and the excellent vocals. Opening […]
Linda Perhacs “Parallelograms” (Sundazed)
What’s all the fuss about? If you’ve read any of the hundreds of articles in music mags and on the net about Linda Perhacs’ sole 1970 LP Parallelograms, you’d be tempted to question its reputation. People talk about Parallelograms in much the same way that they talk about Nick Drake’s Island albums, Swaddling […]
Richard Pinhas “Chronolyse” (Bureau B)
Bureau B presents a reissue of Richard Pinhas’s Chronolyse, originally released in 1978. Pinhas is one of the most important French electronic space-rock musicians. Following five albums with Heldon, his band, he released solo records from 1977 on. His transition to solo material gave the guitarist and synthesist an opportunity to work on […]
Richard Pinhas “East/West” (Bureau B)
Bureau B presents a reissue of Richard Pinhas’s East West, originally issued in 1980. The fourth solo album by French spacerock mastermind Pinhas, East West was his first and only album to be released by a major label (CBS). Some say it is his most commercial but Pinhas doesn’t see it that way. “Signing […]