Playlist “Psyche van het folk” Radio Centraal, Antwerpen : 2005-05-11 New psych related releases (reissues and new releases). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Acme/Lion Prod. The Attack : the complete recordings (UK,1967-1968)***’ Tr.1, “Magic in the air” 4 min Tr.7, “Mr.Pinnodmy’s Dilemma” 5 min 9 Good hard freakbeat. A few tracks are more poppsych driven. Second track in 5/4 is also rhythmically interesting. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/progressive.html#anchor_69 * Birdman The Gris Gris (US,2005)**°’ Tr.2, “Everytime” 4 min Tr.4, “Me Queda um bejou” 7 min 11 Good post-neo sixties, Stones, Animals, Stooges etc, etc... rock, and with many very good elements & ideas, performances etc. lead by singer-songwriter Greg Ashley. It is also partly inspired by the voodoo practices in New Orleans. Second chosen track is more acoustic. Both tracks have its own weirdness. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/progressive.html#anchor_62 * Subl.Sounds The Works (S,2005)**° Tr.1, “Everybody” 6 min -21 Strong straight forward, melodic heavy neo-60’s rock track with Beatlesque vocals, nice arrangements. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/sweden.html#anchor_98 * Subliminalsounds Dungen : Ta Det Lugnt (S,2004)**** Tr.1, “Panda” 5 min Tr.4, “Du E För Fin För Mig» 9 min Splendid & recommended Swedish 70’s styled psych/rock/folkpsych. Could easily have chosen many more tracks for airplay. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/sweden.html#anchor_97 * Finderskeepers Rec. Jean Claude Vannier : “L’Enfant Assasin des mouches” (F,1972)**°’ Tr.2, «L’Enfant au royaume des mouches» 4 min Tr.7, “Les Garde volent au secours du roi” 7 min (slightly shortened) Odd borderline crossover between avant/prog/kitschy adaptations, here also with some Atom Heart Mother kind of ideas without being really completely genre related progressive or psychedelic and with a more very deliberate filmic avant- garde styled part. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/France.html#anchor_47 * Euro Ralph The Residents : Not Available (US,1974)****° Tr.3, “Ship’s a’Going Down” 7 min Fantastic surreal theatre-in-music. One of their classics, now reissued. In style still years ahead it’s time’s perspective, with odd vocals / evolution / chords… Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog8.html#anchor_145 * Silber Rec. Rollerball : Catholic Paws / Catholic Pause (US,2005)**°° Tr.1, “Quench” 4 min Tr.8, “End of Young Birds” 3 min Tr.9, “Mantis Segue” 2 min 11 Rollerball uses elements of special mixtures of styles, from jazzy post-rock to beyond, with some expressive elements. Mostly it’s indie post-rock song orientated with many improvised, somewhat experimental passages. “Quench” has a somewhat surreal sphere and strange vocals. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog12.html#anchor_123 * Mylodon Rec. Earthling Society : Albion (UK,2005)*°° Spacepsych-rock. Prefered not to airplay anything of it. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog10.html#anchor_131 * Acme / Lion Prod. Quad (UK,1990-1997,iss.2005)***' Tr.3, “Improvisation 3” 22 min (shortened to 14 min). Late Sun Dial off-shout with 3 long spacey improvisations. This is a nice spacey track with some spoken word recording. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog10.html#anchor_138 * Materiali Sonori Nihil Project : Samhain (I,2005)**’ Tr.1, “Astronome Siddhi” 4 min -91 Big musical project, slightly chaotic, with lots of cooperators. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog10.html#anchor_127 * World Psychedelia Shin-Jung Hyun and the Men (SK,1973)****° Tr.2, “title ?” 23 min -108 Fantastic welcome psych reissue from South-Korea. One of the better 70’s Korean psychedelic items I know of. Only 3 tracks on this album with incredible, rhythmically (bass and drums) well structured, with long psychedelic improvisations on electric guitar, keyboards and clarinet. Ultimate psych !! Info on Shin-Yung Hyun : http://progressive.homestead.com/SHINJUNGHYUN.html More on this item : http://progressive.homestead.com/KOREA2.html * Secret Eye Urdog : Eyelid of Moon (US,2005)***°? Tr.3, “Ani Nie Ma” 9 min Great psych track with nice fuzz, organ and an improvisational evolution with tribal kind of singing. Will be reviewed soon behind next review : http://www.progressive.homestead.com/prog5.html#anchor_90 Info : http://www.secreteye.org/se/a16.html * Psycho-Path Rec. Jesus With Me (RU/US,re.2005)**** Tr.1, “Silence in the Space of half an hour” (fragment) 9 min -132 Great stoned & completely freaked out jam-psych. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog10.html#anchor_133 * Tractor Ruinzhatova : Close to the Rh (JAP,2005)**°’’ Tr.4, “DNA” 5 min Tr.8, “Wa” 2 min Tr.11,“Close to the edge” 10/18 min ->end A Ruins related project with ideas from Fripp, avant-garde and progressive rock. Not really easy and surely if one starts with the first tracks of the cd, and perhaps not everywhere as perfectly successful, but with interesting and even genius moments, hardly comprehensible for a not advanced/unprepared listener. For the Yes track the singing could have been better, but it’s OK. The music revealed itself for me better after a few listens only. 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