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Out of stockFormed in Blackpool in the late '60s, Heavy Rain was a "heavy progressive blues" band who shared stage with big names like Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, and Caravan In 1973, now reduced to a power-trio (Geoff Carter on lead guitar/vocals, Oggy Hargreaves on bass, and Bernie Worsley on drums), they went to London and registered an album...
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Out of stockPreviously unreleased '72/'74 recordings by this US hard rock band Blind Willie formed in Spokane (Washington) in 1972 and featured terrific guitar player Frank Trowbridge from hard-psych legends Sleepy John They carved out a unique niche in the Northern Idaho/Eastern Washington rock scene in the early to mid-'70s, performing...
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Out of stockTransparent vinyl version First-ever official reissue on vinyl since 1975 Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel It features guitarist Manuel Göttsching with drummer Klaus Schulze and bassist Hartmut Enke Engineered by Conny Plank, it was recorded in March and June 1971 on Ohr...
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September 29th 2023 50th Anniversary Remaster of the debut album from the band's own label, Grateful Dead RECORDS With the recent passing of founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and temporary exit of drummer, Mickey Hart, this 1973 release introduces a fresh lineup that includes newest members Keith and Donna Godchaux on keys...
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Paul Hillery's third compilation in this series of rare and hard to find grooves is as much a geographical journey as it is a musical one With acts, artists and tracks linked to London, Florida, Atlanta, the Netherlands, Switzerland, California, India and Germany and more this compilation is very much proof of the global language...
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Lalalar is back with a new album on Les Disques Bongo Joe! After setting European stages on fire with the release of their first LP in 2022, the mighty Turkish band returns with En Kötü Iyi Olur, an album that reflects their image: edgy, independent, political, and tremendously effective With their roots in Anatolian poetry and...
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"Woo, the project of brothers Mark and Clive Ives, return to Palto Flats for the reissue of Into The Heart Of Love, originally released on cassette in 1990 Formed in the seventies in South London, the duo developed a cult following over the years, with renewed interest in their catalog through 2010s reissues by labels such as Drag...
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Over a period of 12 years from their Westbound debut album to the release of 1981’s “The Electric Spanking Of War Babies”, Funkadelic, piloted by George Clinton, redefined the way that black music was recorded and presented They scored 20 R&B chart hit singles and a dozen chart albums, but their influence was far greater...
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In 1972, left-wing intellectual film critic Uwe Nettelbeck suggested to Anthony Moore that he might write some straight songs (relatively speaking), which in turn prompted Moore to invite his old school friend Peter Blegvad over to Hamburg to form the band Slapp Happy Dagmar Krause, a young singer from Hamburg and Moore's...
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Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, 'Forever Changes' is one of the defining albums of an era Here, Andrew Hultkrans explores the myriad depths of Love's bizarre and brilliant record Charting bohemian Los Angeles' descent into chaos at the end of the '60s, he teases out...
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Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it was composed, executed and recorded--including the history of the...
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Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter Whitehead), John Cavanagh paints a vivid picture of how this remarkable debut album was created He brings to life the stories behind...
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BF Trike was a power-trio from Indiana who evolved from garage band Hickory Wind They consisted of Mike McGuyer on guitar, Alan Jones on bass and Bobby Strehl on drums This is their legendary, unissued at the time studio album from 1971 First released by the Rockadelic label in 1989 and out of print for many years, here's a long...
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The Flow was a psychedelic hard-rock power-trio formed in New York by Pete Fine, Monte Farber and Steve Starer It was the early '70s in NYC, the pre-glam/punk/new wave days, when Flow (who rehearsed next room to a band called Wicked Lester, later known as KISS) decided to start playing music without limits, developing their...
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Led by explosive guitar player Chris (later Christa) Bond, Thunder and Roses was a power-trio from Philly in the best tradition of Cream or the Jimi Hendrix Experience This is their sole album, originally released in 1969 A cult psychedelic hard-rock classic, including "White Lace and Strange", famously covered by Nirvana Thunder...
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Silver Vinyl Real people music recorded at a Quaker Boarding school in the mid-'70s Mixing soft psych, vocal jazz, and sunshine soul, Shira Small and her high school music teacher Lars Clutterham created a peerless artifact of outsider magic Imagination, wonder, the existential dread of Vietnam and math class and getting...
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“This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best”—Tiny Mix Tapes “If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized...
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Banned and jailed under Czech communism THE PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE are a true story of artistic perseverance, Authorities claimed their music would have a "negative social impact", and they were banned from playing for the public having to play secret shows in remote locations they were founded in 1968, influenced by...
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Celeste is an absolute banger of an album From the driving Motoriks to the weird and wonderful pastoral sonics; it is a trip! There's something intangible about ‘Celeste’, The Soundcarriers’ second album, originally released in 2010 It has a light, lucid quality, almost like driving exhausted through a strange city at...
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Out of stockRepress An American rock blues combo hailing from Corpus Christi, a little town in Texas This is their only album originally released on Acorn Records in 1970 The two guitar players, William Grate and Richard De Leon, plays clean and inventive solos, which pay tribute to the best American psychedelic rock Creation A Child by...
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Sophisticated rock with polyphonic vocals, multi-layered structure and frequent rhythm and tempo changes, in the vein of Gentle Giant The LP was released on the Kerston label in 1977, in an edition of 1000 copies, followed by a CD issue In 1992 The vinyl re-release comes with the original gatefold cover artwork and includes a...
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Out of stockA great vinyl-reissue of the sole album by this psychedelic hardrock band from Indiana, originally issued in 1974 Includes bonus tracks Headstone · Still...
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Out of stockIt's the rebirth of Mystic Siva, who are without any doubt one of the ultimate US heavy psychedelic underground bands from the earliest 1970s Finally, this album is now available with a more superior sound than anyone of us could ever have expected The original album release featured guitar overdubs on three tracks, done with the...
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Out of stockOfficial reissue of this album, originally released on the Tangerine label in 1969 Limited to 320 copies A MUST for anyone interested in UK folk/pop/psych! Jamie Rubinstein, 18, leader, lead vocalist and guitarist, wrote all the songs and arranged most of them Robin Sylvester, 18, played bass guitar, piano, organ They were the...
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Joe Peace is a singer/songwriter who recorded and released his only album privately in Ohio in 1972, after being a long time on road Original albums nowadays became very rare and have in the meantime reached cult status among collectors Inspired by Johnny Rivers, Buffalo Springfield but also by his reflections he made on road, he...
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Out of stock'Phantasia' is one of the ultimate heavy psychedelic underground masterpieces from the early 1970s When speaking about inventive and top-rated US psych-underground albums like Cold Sun, Dragonwyck, CA Quintet, Hunger or Mystic Siva for sure Phantasia should not be forgotten The guitar dominated four piece group recorded one full...
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Out of stockIn 1968 in Seattle Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa was in the audience after his sound check, and was listening to Easy Chair, Jeff's group Fascinated by his talent, he was signed for Straight Records Both albums, 'Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up' and 'Naked Angels' were recorded in 1969 The 'Lucille' album was produced by by Chris...
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Out of stockFrom New York City, The Tea Company was one of the early birds from the US psychedelic underground scene, with an LP on the market, originally released on Smash Records in '68 This album stands for the evolution of the 45 rpm psych-garage bands to the upcoming LP-generation with extended improvisation parts Tea Company evolved...
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Trikolon was a gifted trio from Osnabrück As precursor of Tetragon, they played a very varied and strongly influenced progressive rock They were influenced by classic rock and blues Their only LP 'Cluster' was released in 1969 in a run of 150 copies This re-release comes with a 16-page booklet Limited to 1000 numbered...
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Repress! This is one of the most experienced Californian groups in the '60s/'70s, although they were almost disregarded This album was originally released on two different labels, Janus and San Francisco Sound, therefore a lot of confusion has been made about its very first edition Anyway, both of them are rare and expensive This...
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Carol Of Harvest were founded in the Middle-Franconian town of Fürth in 1976 and played folk with psychedelic touch Their only LP was released in the summer of 1978 as a very small edition of only 200 copies, on the sought-after Brutkasten label This reissue on vinyl comes with a 20-page booklet, featuring many unreleased...
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Outside of the world, the second album by Japanese trio Usurabi, is a rare pleasure – a guitar pop album that’s deep with spirit, bristling with energy, melodically rich and precious: full of life It’s even more thrilling than its predecessor, 2021’s Remains of the Light, also released by An’archives, its eight songs...
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From the moment they emerged in the early days of the '80s Tokyo underground, High Rise set themselves apart as radical outliers, shattering the limits of rock and psychedelic music with a ferocity unmatched even in that heady era The group's core duo of Asahito Nanjo on bass/vocals and Munehiro Narita on guitar had an explosive...
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“A pop record for tired times Sugared with bits of shatterproof glass to put more crack in your strap At long last, verse / chorus A weathered thesaurus This is OSEES bookend sound Early grade garage pop meets proto-synth punk suicide-repellant Have a whack at the grass or listen while flat on your ass Heaps of electronic...
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“Telepathic Heights is the first album on Soul Jazz Records for the artist Hawksmoor This incredible new release follows a path along the electronic skyways first created by the German/Krautrock electronic pioneers of the 1970s such as Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel, Roedelius and Michael Rother Hawksmoor is James McKeown He first...
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Originally released February 12, 2022 MANAS -- otherwise known as the duo of iconoclastic guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer extraordinaire Thom Nguyen -- have made tsunami-sized waves in the free jazz and improv scene with their numerous tape and LP releases (drawing praise and support from such luminaries and fellow-travelers as...
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Out of stockFreaked out lo-fi psychedelic noise recordings from 1972 and 1980 by the mythical Japanese psych rockers Les Rallizes Dénudés, including the 23-minute "Guitar Jam" filling the complete A-side, a sort of Stooges riff with Ramones-like drumming ending up in a total feedback noise orgy Recorded on Sept 9, 1980 Side B starts with...
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Re-release of the second album by Annexus Quam, originally released in 1972 Transferred from the original master tapes and carefully remastered by HaGü Schmitz and Dieter Wegner The timing was right: Five years earlier would have been too early, five years later would have been too late But Annexus Quam from Kamp-Lintfort near...
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A sunshine pop delight with equal parts psych, folk-rock, and even a little garage! Taking its title from their mind-liquefying 12 minute psych opus, this expanded edition of Not The Freeze combines the cuts from the coveted sole LP pressing with additional tracks that were previously only available on CD Your spiritual guide...
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ays of late-afternoon sun drip through the rafters of an old barn in Santa Barbara, California It’s early 1975 and three recent transplants from the Midwest sit surrounding a single microphone, acoustic strumming and rapturous harmonies filling the airy space John K Schwab, Larry Dotson, and Carl “Mad Anthony” Richards had...
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Since he made his debut three years ago with sun-soaked first album Warm Nights, Reuben Vaun Smith has grown and evolved as an artist His aims, objectives and musical output have changed, too – something that’s evident from the opening bars of his third full-length, Da Cuckoo Ya Ya, which also marks his first appearance on...
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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label The music had to be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album...
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Out of stockA reissue of the 1971 rock masterpiece “TOO MUCH” is finally here! “TOO MUCH” is the only album released by the four-member new rock band “JUNI & TOO MUCH” The original edition with Rock Age OBI is “TOO MUCH”, which is known for its mega-rare edition, which is rarely seen even in the used market This...
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In 1974, Hiroshi Tanaka and Yoichi Fuwa, the self-proclaimed heirs of the Beatles, crammed into a 75 square foot room and recorded over 50 songs, all without names 19 of those songs would be self released on a record titled “Untitled White Album”, of which only 100 copies were pressed Their music is like a fairy tale...
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Hailing from the seaside communities surrounding Enoshima, a small island located 50 km southwest of Tokyo, Maya Ongaku is a ragtag collective of local musicians whose brand of earthy psychedelia transcends widely beyond the roots of their inner souls The name derives not from any kind of ancient civilization, but rather...
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Out of stockBonnie and Clyde is a compilation of songs of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot released in 1968 to cash on the success of the song "Bonnie and Clyde" which is a duet between the two artists, as well as the turmoil following their affair The compilation is loosely organised, focusing rather on successes of both artists than...