Radioshow “PVHF” on radio Centraal, Antwerp : 2008-01-04 : 800-1000 PM Approaching haunting Japan/Tuvan voices next to improvised/jammed experimental music & psych --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Hark! Hamilton Yarns : Search For The Underwater Town (UK,2007)****' Cdr1: Tr.5, “Eyes at the Window” 2 min Tr.11, “Dog in the distance” 1 min Tr.14, “The Sea was alive” 1 min -5 More tracks will be included in next show. This is a vocal track, and some small experiments to introduce the radioshow. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog18.html#anchor_241 * Locust No Neck Blues Band meets The Clear People with Mystery Gypped Live at Ken's Electric Lake (US,rec.1998,re.2007)**’ Loose communal ritualistic jam. -not mentioned in show- Review : http://www.psychedelicfolk.com/expanding.html#anchor_94 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * A Silent Place Jennifer Gentle : A New Astronomy (I,2005,re.2007)**’ Concept around the mind of a delusion-visionary astrologist. -not mentioned in show- Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog14.html#anchor_176 * Beta-Lactam Ring Martyn Bates : Migraine Inducers / Antagonostic Music (UK,1979,1981,1994,pub.2007)**’/**° Noisy early tape experiments. -not mentioned in show- Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog14.html#anchor_175 * Sedgemore Silver Pyre : ii) (F,rec.2005-2006,pub.2007)*** Musical voices around a nuclear plant.. -not mentioned in show- Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog13B.html#anchor_195 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * Beta-Lactam Ring Soriah : Ofrendas de Luz a Los Muertos (US,2007)***°° Tr.1, 730->1120.. 5 min Tr.2, ->2 min 7-13 Experimental trip with voices of the dead nearby, approaching, while shamanic droning voices seem to protect us in these visions. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog14.html#anchor_184 * Heresie Akira and the Trembling Strain : Dwelling the telescopefish (JAP,1999)? I didn’t receive this in time. Review expected soon. Trembling Strain’s first album might fit here best : * Belle Antique Trembling Strain : Anthem to raise the dead (JAP,1995)***°° Tr.1, “Condolence Alarm” (fragment) ->2 min Tr.8, “What the bird told me” 8 min 10-23 Beautiful, often dramatic concept on a funeral with someone hearing this from the casket. All trembling Strain album are about funeral music concepts. Some tracks are often slightly compared to Third Ear Band. Last track is acoustic chamber-music, Japanese style. * Ah No Bo Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra : If I had a Hi Fi (NL,2007)***°’ Tr.1, “E Ma Ri Khrod” 5 min Tr.11,“Yoyasha” 6 min Tr.12,“Gnossienne in Asia Minor” 5 min 16-41 Two brilliant, beautifully arranged/chamber-orchestrated tracks with Japanese influences. The third track is Satie mixed with a Greek flavour, a clever, greatly understood combination. Review : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/WORLDfusion.html#anchor_92 * Leo Joachim Gies & Lauren Newton : Tenderness Of Stones (D/US,2007)****’ Tr.1, “Coming Rustle” 6 min Tr.10,“Highly Placed” 4 min 10-51 Great, experimental constructed music of free-form sax, electronic textures, vocal experiments and contemporary poetry singing/reciting. Last track is with Koho Mori on vocals & noise. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/jazz.html#anchor_149 * MFP Biosintes : The First Take (RU-TV,1996)****’ Successful, rather calm improvisational experiment with Tuvan singers & musicians ; best to listen from start to finish. Sainkho’s performance is too short to come out well with her essence. Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/tuva.html#anchor_17 * Leo Sainkho Namchylak : Letters (RU-TV,1993)***’’ Also not an album where I can not put tracks easily out of the context. This is an album about letters written to her father, explaining how evolved and learned to participate into urband life and music, with something of an essence taken with her from Tuva. Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/tuva.html#anchor_32 * Leo Sainkho Namchylak : Nomad (RU-TV,2007)***°' Overview of some of Sainkho’s works, as a birthday celebration. Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/tuva.html#anchor_4 * Leo Sainkho Namchylak & Jarrod Cagwin : In Trance (RU-TV/US,2007)***°' Tr.3, “Speaking to the emptiness of the universe” 340->801 5 min Sainkho’s music is best to listen in one take, giving yourself the chance to go in trance with the music and concept. “In Trance” is about such a process, with a story concept about a person meditating on Buddhist cave paintings, which come to life in his imagination, seeking for a meaning in his personal life and creative mind. Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/tuva.html#anchor_23 * Leo Temenos (RU-TV/UK/US,rec.1996/1997)**°° Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/tuva.html#anchor_31 * Leo Sainkho Namchylak & Roy Carroll : Tuva-Irish Live music Project(RU-TV/IR,2007)***°' Tr.4, “Popular poetry” ->3 min -60 Sainkho’s music need in fact a calm set-back trance-listening to fully feel its content. It is less suitable to break apart from is contexts. Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/tuva.html#anchor_18 * Leo Pan-Asian Ensemble : Mujou (RU/JAP,2007)**'’ Tr.3, “Kofuu” (wind of the past)-> 3 min Free improvisations with, on this track, sakuhachi’s (flute), koto (zither) and biwas (plucked/bowed string instrument with resonance chamber body). Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/JAPANreviews3.html#anchor_88 * private Yat-Kha : Aldyn Dashka (RU-TV,2000)***° Tr.11, “The Call” 5 min -69 One of the two albums I have from this original Tuvan folk-rock group. This is my favourite track to take out as the most rocking track of the album. * Beta-Lactam Ring LSD March : Nikutai No Tubomi -2cd- (JAP,2007)**°' Tr.7, “Dance” 3 min -72 One big psych jam track and free experiments with voice and objects. This track consists of a wrong 1-string drone, senile mumbling, nervous tick-tocking and plastic bag wrestling. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/JAPANpsych.html#anchor_105 * URC Kan Mikami : Bang ! (JAP,1974)****°? I couldn’t get this in time. Review expected soon. One of Kan Mikami’s early albums, between emotional song music and free improvisation. * Modern Vajra (Mikami Kan, Ishizuka Toshiaki, Haino Kenji) : Mandala / Cat Last (JAP,2002)**°°' Tr.3, “Monkeys Don't Pray” 9 min -81 Voice hero Kan Mikami’s improvising & experimenting group Vajra released some albums. This is a “normal”, rather emotional song. With avant-guitar hero Kenji. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/JAPANreviews2.html#anchor_76 * Drag City Ghost : Overture : Live In Nippon Yusen Soko (JAP,rec.2006,pub.2007)***° Tr.1, 425->752 5 min -86 Also Ghost included more free (jazz) improvisation into their psychedelic acid live sound. Sometimes in all its quiet evolutions it still has moments of chaos against construction, balancing sometimes a bit between these two. This live recording comes with a bonus DVD. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/JAPANreviews2.html#anchor_73 * NohBo The Bewitched (NL,2007)***°’ Tr.3, “Kuniyoshi” 4 min -90 This album mostly is soft electronica against backdrops of World music ideas, more often Japanese, but also Middle Eastern. This group is an off-shoot of the Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra. This track sounds like a brilliant idea of an exotic experimental chamber interpretation of Eno/lanois’s Apollo soundtrack (however it is not mentioned as such, the musical reference is too relevant). Review : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/EASTERNFUSION.html#anchor_81 * Beta-Lactam Ring Seven that Spells : The Men from Dystopia (CR/JAP,2007)****° Tr.1, 8 min Tr.2, ->1 min 10 -100 Tr.3, ->1200 21 -112 A Croatian group with a heavily Acid Mothers Temple inspiration, inclusive the nude breast ladies, and the communal psych jams. The semi-communal feeling you can hear well on the first part of this psychedelic jam. Later on, this freaks out with tremendous electric guitar by Kawabata from Acid Mother’s Temple. Impossible for me to fade out here ; I showed a large resume of it,.. This is especially “Wow !-“freaky on part 3. Review http://progressive.homestead.com/JAPANpsych.html#anchor_103 * PSF Toho Sara : Eastern Most 1-7 (JAP,1995)* Also described as having Third Ear Band reminiscences, this is much more avant- improvised music. Can’t get a grip on it, find it a bit loose. This features Kawabata and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Psych outro : * World In Sound Obskuria : Discovery Of Obskuria (D/PER/US,2007)**° Tr.11, “The world is gone” 3 min -115 Another rather jam-based psych group, consisting of members of 3 other groups. For me, outstanding, but very different track of the album, a witness of madman when the world did go down, a funky groove track. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog22.html#anchor_281 * Sunbeam The Human Beast : Volume One (UK,1969)***° Tr.1, “Mystic Man” 5 min (shortened) Good psych album, just recently reissued. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog-3.html#anchor_182 * Sunbeam The Habibiyya : If Man But Knew (UK,1991,re.2007)**°° Tr.4, “Mandola” last 3 min Tr.10, “Another Ode” 4 min Combination of Sufi-inspired hippie-ised music, not with Middle Eastern, but with Japanese & western instruments. At times it is a bit Third Ear Band-like. PS. Thanks to a few extra minutes I was able to airplay all chosen tracks. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/MiddleEast3.html#anchor_143 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Homepage radioshow : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/ Previous playlists : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/2007.html Newsletter with new reviews and playlists with some audio links : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psychevanhetfolk/ Subscribe: psychevanhetfolk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com