Archive for the Psych Category
Kollektiv “Kollektiv” (Longhair)
Originally released by famous kraut label Brain in 1973, now reissued on DOUBLE-LP with remastered sound, here is Kollektiv’s legendary self-titled album from 1973. The band’s music is a blend of rock, blues-rock, jazz and pop, electronically alienated by echo, ring modulators, octavoice, vibrators and sound filters. A large, 4-sided […]
All Them Witches “ATW” (New West)
Psychedelic but not hazy. Bluesy but not plodding. Prone to jams but not overindulgence. All Them Witches are all these things, and they push this formula farther than ever before. ATW is their fifth studio album, and every song here exists to be stretched out like an elastic band, taking […]
Kikagaku Moyo “Masana Temples” (Guruguru Brain)
Kikagaku Moyo started in the summer of 2012 busking on the streets of Tokyo. Though the band started as a free music collective, it quickly evolved into a tight group of multi-instrumentalists. Kikagaku Moyo call their sound psychedelic because it encompasses a broad spectrum of influence. Their music incorporates elements […]
Earthless “From The West” (Silver Current)
On the eve of the release of Black Heaven, their debut for Nuclear Blast Records, Earthless turned in this incredible live performance in San Francisco on March 1st, 2018, captured and released on vinyl by Silver Current Records. Since their inception seventeen years ago, this band has become an icon […]
Freeks “Crazy World” (Heavy Psych)
Limited edition purple vinyl version. Los Angeles band The Freeks know that as the Earth revolves the Sun and the universe infinitely expands, it must be shared with as many different kinds of life as there are stars, a bold statement coming from a bunch of Freeks. This is not […]
Nino Ferrer “Metronomie” (Universal)
Killer work from Nino Ferrer – maybe his most soulful album ever, and one that’s filled with loads of hard-jamming funky cuts! Nino got his start in the beat sound of the 60s – but here, he’s working with arrangements by Bernard Estardy, ones that have a trippy jazz approach […]
Warp Transmission “The Process Ultra” (Creepy Crawl)
Creepy Crawl is proud to unleash the second release from Tampere, Finland’s heavy psych overlords, Warp Transmission. The previous release—the amazing Tamám Shud, was a reissue of a demo / rehearsal / whatever cassette—this is their first album proper—recorded and produced by the band themselves and then expertly mastered by […]
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes “No. 2” (Anthology)
Anthology Recordings is pleased to announce the reissue of the long out of print—and never before officially issued in the US—trilogy of albums by CATHERINE RIBEIRO + ALPES, 1970’s N°2, 1971’s Âme Debout, and 1972’s Paix. Anthology’s presentation of these foundational LPs, arguably the group’s finest hours on wax, fills […]
The Rationals “The Rationals” (Rouge)
The Rationals were an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan. After leaving erstwhile mentor Jeep Holland of A-Square Records, the Rationals continued with their exciting blend of rock and R&B, absorbing along the way the heavier influences of the scene surrounding the legendary Grande Ballroom in Detroit. The result […]
Group 1850 “Agemo’s Trip to Mother Earth” (Music on Vinyl)
The Dutch psychedelic rock band Group 1850 was founded in 1964 in The Hague. The band evolved to a acid rock band and now years after their split they can be considered one of the most innovative bands from that era. Their first album Agemo’s Trip to Mother Earth is […]
Thanatopsis “Golden Voice” (Alona’s Dream)
This album was recorded c. 1968 at Golden Voice Recording by JERRY MILAM and unheard until 2018. THANATOPSIS treats us to everything from baroque pop to psychedelic teenbeat garage. This release contains the first and only official reissue of the songs from their sought-after Golden Voice 45 as well as […]
Huinca “Huinca” (Melopea)
Melopea Discos present a reissue of Huinca’s self-titled album, originally released in 1971. The self-titled Huinca album by Litto Nebbia (Los Gatos), in its ten tracks, brings together a peculiar naivety, so typical of the dawn of a new era. This is still more poignant in countries without a tradition […]
Litto Nebia “Melopea” (Melopea)
Melopea Discos present a reissue of Litto Nebbia’s Melopea, originally released in 1974. Melopea is one of most praised works by Litto Nebbia — the title of this album, years later, would become the name of his record label and production company. It is an elegant opus in songwriting, and […]
Litto Nebbia “Muerte En La Catedral” (Melopea)
Melopea Discos present a reissue of Litto Nebbia’s Muerte En La Catedral, originally released in 1973. Muerte En La Catedral, following other four solo Litto Nebbia’s albums, and his then, fifth work under the Huinca alias (LPM 085LP), is a consistent “outing” in his solo career. It has a progressive […]
Petards “The Petards”(Bear Family)
“After the success of their debut album A Deeper Blue in late 1967, The Petards were unstoppable. 1968 was to be another decisive year. Sigi Loch, then young record company boss in Munich, discovered the band and signed them to his label Liberty. The Schrecksbach band consisting of the brothers […]
Camel “Moonmadness” (Music On Vinyl)
Camel is an English progressive rock group formed in 1971 fronted by Andrew Latimer. Moonmadness was their fourth album and the last to feature the original band’s line-up, and was released in 1976. The album has an overall theme but was a loose concept based on the individual personalities that […]
Eiliff “Close Encouter with Their Third One” (Garden of Delig)
Superb live recordings of a heavily underrated early ’70s band from Germany, playing a sophisticated style of progressive krautedelic jazz-rock, mostly instrumental. Eiliff’s guitarist (and sitar playr) Houschäng Nejadpour would later become part of an embryonic line-up of Kraftwerk. This LP is pressed in an edition of 1.000 copies.
Baris Manco “24 Ayar” (Hammer Muzik)
Originally released in 1985, an other great album by Turkish legend Baris Manco.
Baris Manco “Yeni Bir Gun” (Hammer Muzik)
The late 70s found Turkey in an economic slump, and there was a huge rise in political violence. Baris Manco, who so often put out collections of singles, rose to the occasion by spending 6 months holed up with his longtime backing band the Kurtalan Ekspres. The result was this […]
Siloah “Siloah” (Wah Wah)
Coming out of the boiling Munich scene of the sixties that also gave us the original Amon Düül (Thom Argauer had played in a dixieland band with Chris Karrer in the late 60s, actually), Siloah are one of the best kept secrets of the krautrock production. Siloah had a hard […]
Siloah “Sukram Gurk” (Wah Wah)
Coming out of the boiling Munich scene of the sixties that also gave us the original Amon Düül (Thom Argauer had played in a dixieland band with Chris Karrer in the late 60s, actually), Siloah are one of the best kept secrets of the krautrock production. In 1972 Siloah had […]
Various Artists “Down Under Nuggets Vol 1” (Festival)
Collection of rare Australian Garage nuggets from the ’60s. Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artifacts 1965-67 features 29 of the wildest Australian recordings from the ’60s from such outfits as the Missing Links, the Purple Hearts, the Black Diamonds, the Lost Souls, the Wild Cherries, the Loved Ones, the Throb […]
Lavender Flu “Mow The Glass” (In The Red)
The new Lavender Flu album Mow The Glass was recorded in the living room of a small house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. One can hear it in the music: the Oregon coast, the dream life of an Axolotl, the open sound of a band playing to an […]
The Soft Machine “The Soft Machine” (Sundazed)
On gold vinyl. The first two albums by England’s legendary Soft Machine, originally released in 1968 and 1969, remain among the most innovative and influential releases of that musically fertile era. These seminal LPs offered a visionary psychedelic-progressive-jazz-rock mix that helped to make the Soft Machine one of Britain’s first […]