Back in 80`s , Marc Jeffrey
was the leader (singer + guitarist) of New York`s BAND OF OUTSIDERS, a
group that never became well known (even in the underground circuit )
and earned some middling only sympathy from ones explored the american
post punk situation and the psych revivalism of that era . Band Of Outsiders
disbanded before the turn of new decade, leaving behind them few LP`s /
EP`s and a collaboration with CERTAIN GENERAL ( amazing 80`s NY post
no-wave band). Afterwards Marc released "PLAYTIME", an old fashioned psych-folk-art-pop gem, superior than the previous works, but unfortunately, same fated with them.
Its
excellent 60`s-influenced songsmithness places "PLAYTIME" near the most
loving works of psych archetypes like LOVE , SPIRIT, etc. Nevertheless
the inspiration and the whole artistic atmosphere leave no doubts about
the originality of this work. As if predating the lo-fi attidute of 90's
"PLAYTIME" hides its brilliance under a very modest sound profile...
and it definitely worths discovering.
I riped it from my (Nate Starkman & Son Greece) vinyl so you prepare for some...hissing.
Artifacts from the 80s and 90s italian garage revival & psychedelic scene. A LFDJ compilation including -as usual- some rare or obscure stuff.
01 Acid Flowers Sancho Panza
(from "Lucifer's Friends", v/a, 1987)
02 Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party apples & oranges
("Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party", 1987)
03 Effervescent Elephants something to say
("Something To Say", 1987)
04 Birdmen Of Alkatraz dreamin' demon
("Glidin' Off", 1987)
05 Head & The Hares i think i'm going insane
("Head & The Hares", 1993)
06 King Holiday & The Shadowmen the king is back
("Lucifer's Friends", v/a, 1987)
07 The Backwards portrait (of an unbalanced mind)
("Eerie Thoughts Collection", 1990)
08 Not Moving baron samedi
("Strange dolls", 7'', 1982)
09 Birdmen Of Alkatraz sea of shadows
("From The Birdcage", 1989)
10 Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party too much time
("To Make A Romance Out Of Swiftness", 1989)
11 Head & The Hares one against the world
("Autumn Songbook", 1998)
12 The Backwards she stared at her own feet
("Eerie Thoughts Collection", 1990)
13 Kim Squad & Dinah Shore Zeekapers macaibo
("Young Bastards", 1987)
14 No Strange scopro le carte
("L'Universo", 1987)
15 Gli Avvoltoi giardino dei fiori
("Il Nostro E Solo Un Mondo Beat", 1988)
16 Steeplejack and you walked away
("Pow Wow", 1988)
17 Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party peter sellers
("Swiftness EP", 1989 )
For New Jersey's "backward boys" The Cheepskates, it was this third album which made things much clearer. A band, melodically gifted, with a great sense of true, unforced fast-short songcrafting, was ready now to lead its very own path from the faded summers of the previous decades towards the 80's garage-revival lands. And as their east/west-coast breezes perfumed the psych gardens again, refreshing shadows creeped on the power-pop earth.
The started here cooperation with euro-psych label Music Maniac spred them perhaps a little further, The Cheepskates though, after all, they didn't get the attention they deserved.
Few relatively ears witnessed and much less appreciated. But then... that's why, i guess, you have to Remember.
"Remember" line up: Shane Faubert vocals, guitars, keyboards, composition Jeremy Lee drums, percussion, background vocals, composition Tony Low bass, guitar, backing vocals, composition
'Εδρασαν ως Ultraviolets και Psychoviolets στις αρχές της προπερασμένης δεκαετίας, όταν η μόδα της γκαραζοψυχεδελικής αναβίωσης είχε, αισθητικώς τουλάχιστον, φθίνει πλέον για τα καλά. Ο Bob Ramskill και η παρέα του, απ' το Κάνσας, στηρίχτηκαν όπως και άλλοι σε μια εκδοχή του ήχου των 60'ς και της 80'ς επαναφοράς του (Rolling Stones και επιγονοι, Wipers, κλπ..), κατόρθωσαν όμως να ξεπεράσουν σε περιεχόμενο, ερμηνευτικό πάθος και ψυχικό δόσιμο τους περισσότερους απ΄τους ομότεχνούς τους αναβιωτές, αποτυπώνοντας ενα αίτημα ευθύτητας και γνησιότητας μέσα σ'ενα περιβάλλον οδύνης, σημαδεμένο απ' την αλήθεια της ζωής και τα ναρκωτικά. Τρία τα συνολικά τους δισκογραφήματα, γεμάτα άγρια, ηλεκτρικά, μελαγχολικά τραγούδια. Άνθη πανέμορφα, τρομερά, από εκείνα που φυτρώνουν στην πέρα πέρα μόνο άκρη του γκαράζ φάσματος.
Exceptionally good garage-psych band from Kansas, US, (started as Ultraviolets, finished as Psychoviolets) verifying once more the simple rock'n'roll truth: no matter the form, to make a great music, it takes a great soul.
Albums: The Ultraviolets "Changing Times" (Music Maniac, 1990)
The box / A place called hell / Screams / A Better day / D-train / Fade to grey / Now i know / Where are you / Do what you want / In our world / Set me free / Changing times / Life in the real world
The Psychoviolets"Too Little Too Late" (Restless, 1992)
Too little too late / 1000 voices / Stoned / End of it all / Addicted to the thought / Feel like giving up / Think twice / I' m down / On the edge / Come on
The Psychoviolets "Teen Trash Vol.2 (Music Maniac, 1993)
Swear to god / So strange / Can't go back / Time / Welcome Death / Flesh meets knife / Endless Days / I gotta move / What is this / As they do / Addicted to the thought / Too little too late / Stoned / D-train / Screams / Do what you want / Now i know / Life in the real world / The box / I'm down
Folk-acid-space rock stories from psychedelia's home in Nurnberg, Germany.
DISCOLOR thodol dub ("Discolor", 1997) LINUS PAULING QUARTET sunn beta ("Killing You With Rock", 1998) MOOSEHART FAITH STELLAR GROOVE... rah dureh ("Coronal Mass Ejection", 1997) WOBBLE JAGGLE JIGGLE we are the human beings ("It Came From Nowhere", 1999) BREATHE STONE candle, corpse, candle ("Hex Thistle", 2003) FIT & LIMO born in the eleventh month ("Serpent Unrolled", 1998) MOOSEHEART FAITH STELLAR GROOVE.. unconvectional F.O. ("Coronal Mass...") LAMP OF THE UNIVERSE earth, spirit and sky ("Earth, Spirit and Sky", 2005) FIT & LIMOseptember 13th ("A Garland Of Flowers", 2006) DUNLAVY forsaken ("I Ruined America", 1996) PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND temporal landscape ("Yet More Wonders... ", 1994) MOOSEHART FAITH STELLAR GROOVE... the hollow earth ("Hollow Earth", 1996) ADRIAN SHAW & R. GOODWAY(may you) never be thirsty ("Oxygen Thief", 2009) WOBBLE JAGGLE JIGGLE witch in my picture ("It Came From Nowhere", 1999) TEMPLE OF L.I.B. in liquid worlds ("My Name Is Magic", 2010)
Limited Mermaid Records (Germany) CD compilation with a A5 size booklet. 22 small bands carrying the amateurism spirit in early nineties. Indie popers, psych popers, lo-fi janglers, humorists, obscurities armed with tiny melodies and innocense continue the never ending (for them) story of sixties and early eighties.Television Personalities and Deep Freeze Mice are main influences here.
The LaFolieDuJour guide to german garage-punk and neo-psych sounds of 80's. 22 bands under the sixties influence.
a 39 CLOCKS past tense hope & instant fears on 42nd street(1982)
THE LEGENDARY GOLDEN VAMPIRES heartbreak hotel(1987)
DIZZY SATELLITES new devils(1987)
PAINLESS DIRTIES jump out (1986)
MULTICOLOURED SHADES out in the clubs(1984)
WELL WELL WELL leaving town (1986)
WORKSHOP daddy 'n' junior(1990)
YELLOW SUNSHINE EXPLOSION feminine animation(1987)
FERRYBOAT BILL upstairs party(1986)
BEAUTY CONTEST different colours(1984)
THE CHUD under the green sun(1989)
WELL WELL WELL 1000 miles(1986)
LES BLACK CARNATIONS echo flower blues(1985)
BROKEN JUG 2 20 south mitchigan ave.(1985)
b EXIT OUT mrs rye (1985) BLACKBERRY JUG hard to treat (1985) YELLOW SUNSHINE EXPLOSION kaleidoscope (1987) NIRVANA DEVILS hellbound train (1985) DIZZY SATELLITES underwater love (1987) POLITICIANS boulevard (1987) LES BLACK CARNATIONS what time did you say it is in NY (1985) HIPSTERS can't get enough of you (1985) LOVECRAFT hear me and remember (1985) STRANGEMEN can't believe (1986) SHINY GNOMES you' ve done me wrong (1986) LEGENDARY GOLDEN VAMPIRES creeping poison (1984) THE CHUD teenage frustration (1989) LAND OF SEX AND GLORY sunday morning inside (1985) MULTICOLOURED SHADES bleeding in jane manshfield's car (1985)
TESTIFY! is a request. I don't think i 'll say much about it. Formed out of the ashes of THE UNCLAIMED, THEE FOURGIVEN was one of the garage/revival bands, i have listened to a lot in the past. That was long time ago... (and now i'm writing this, Koroviov, looking at me from the other corner of the room, he starts laughing...)
THEE FOURGIVEN main members were RICH COFFEE and RAY FLORES, while drums for this second LP " TESTIFY!", were played by BELA HORVATH.
"...We Could Fly Away, Never Look Back Leave The World Spin Silently In A Suicide Pact And All The Colours And Sounds That Pass Through Us In Space Fall Down To The Earth And Put A Smile On Its Face..."
...early days
...bloomed in France
History of the bristolian space-folk-jazz-funk-dub-psych wanderers, as it is told in their site:
The Moonflowers emerged in 1988 defiantly painted , endowed with puppy fat and a cacophony with antics. Soon showed they had flair and stirred the local scene.
Following the success of indie hit 'Get Higher' in 1990 they were transported to a national then international platform (scaffold), beseeching their audience/ followers to hold hands while they watched the group cavort and leap about in an effort to obtain world peace by the year 1999.
The band started a label and called it Pop God from which they released further efforts from themselves and other bands (Praise Space Electric, ME, Ecstatic Orange, Mammal etc.). They toured and sold produce and artefacts such as home made T-shirts and badges.
Moonflowers maintained constant touring and in 1993 released their second (though first really good) LP called 'From Whales to Jupiter and Beyond the Stars to Rainbohemia' which mixed folk, dub, rock and dance influences.
Yet still they aimed higher and dreamt they could free themselves -and us all- from the bonds of commercial modern existence and so decided to remove themselves from society to create their own utopia, their 'Rainbohemia', a place where days are spent in creativity with music and art a way of life.
The band waved goodbye to their friends and drove away in their yellow bus across the sea and far away...
In 1995 masters for an LP were sent to Pop God offices (from an unknown destination) which was the masterful 'Colours and Sounds' LP.
This record was released and though not well known, very worth tracking down for its incredible range and orchestration.
Fewer performances were reported from across Europe. The group was variously seen busking acoustically across France from a broken down old coach; performing as a three piece in Windsor with the singer, guitarist and a casio keyboard taking it in turn to play the drums, and gigging in Japan.
By mid 1996 the band considered themselves/ the world too far gone for further performances and decided to leave the world/ themselves one more album for now and then concentrate on helping/ growing another generation that may lead the world to more happytivity, healthdum and creatness.
Meantime though they have given their chains to a highly trained music force called the Rainbohemians, to dwell in our lands, play concerts and make records. So these Rainbohemians did as they were bid and played some concerts and recorded an LP but still the waves were breaking upon the spirit of the moonflowers and so this force retreated to Rainbohemia and told what they had seen and done to the moonflowers there, now quite settled and ageing.
Then it came to pass that the moonflowers once again raised their standard (no pun intended), rallied round and made another LP for their most staunch supporters - the Japanese. This record is called "Brainwashing and Heartists Blue Life Stripes" as each member wrote a word and these words were pulled from a hat.
Another two forces were released from the rainbohemia stronghold:
the first, called Morning Star was led by the moonflower with the guitar and he went to the land where the vain but gentle young men, the leonard cohenists and the troubadours dwell. And he did perform with accordion and acoustic instruments and made records also. And this continues unto this day.
The second force has been called Solar Mumuns and is led by the one who was the eye of the little storm known as the moonflowers. Now these mumuns have only been seen once but have left a recording in their wake called "Breaking Waters". They appear and disappear as soon as they are seen, something new is forming, or is it something very old, ancient in fact.
By the end of the millennium one last album occurred. From vaults thought lost to humans but unearthed in the mid-winter storms of late 1999, a new record of moonflowers has been found. With instructions reading 'do not open until 2000' these recordings, complete with cover are now online for release. They have been titled "Dont Just Sit There, Fly!" spectral folkers and contain psychedelic glimpses of their gypsy-like existence and the world as they have seen or imagined it.
On June 1st 2002 a door closed forever for The Moonflowerswhen Toby Pascoe tragically died.
THE MOONFLOWERS - track 14 - Colours And Sounds
some samples from "Colours And Sounds" LP (+ extras):
track 3 - "nopar king" track 5 - "shake it together" track 6 - "revolution" track 15 - "keepers of fire" track 16 - "the world's most famous unknown people" + "morning pipe" (given free from band's site) "silver hair" (given free from band's site)
Compilation with L.A. bands which acted over or under the ground in the early 80's-postpunk-psych-garage revival era. Some good (THE LAST, 100 FLOWERS), some rare (THEQUESTION, CLOCKWATCHERS), some very popular (RAIN PARADE)... and among them all, THE LEAVING TRAINS whose memorable first LP "Well Down The Blue Highway" (1984) we recommend to explorers of that kind of stuff.
THE LAST - try to rise
THE LEAVING TRAINS - leaving train
100 FLOWERS - 100 flowers
EARWIGS - stop the clock
WEDNESDAY WEEK - boy you got me good
RAIN PARADE - i look around
THE QUESTION - brand new world
THE POINT - pothead
100 FLOWERS - from the fire
THE QUESTION - shall be love
RAIN PARADE - this can't be today
WEDNESDAY WEEK - anyone like me
THE CLOCKWATCHERS - mishap at greebsley's
THE LEAVING TRAINS - creeping coastline of lights
THE LAST - brand new drug
A good garagy psych LP, the last of the "pure electric" phase, as SHINY GNOMES will give soon their music more trippy ambient-ethno-acoustic-cosmic directions ("MC CREATRIX", 1994) ... or even will go electronic ("WELTRAUMSERVICE", 1996).
Aussie avant-blues master, Louis Tillett, in some psych-garagy sins with his early outfit. Active till 1987, WET TAXIS remained finally in the shadow of Tillett's brighter soloing days.
L.A. outfit with raw, lo-fi garagy sound and unorthodox style. This third (and last) album captures, into unpolished atmosphere, both the originality of their ideas, and the hypnotic psychedelic primitivism of the band. After PARTY BOYS disbandment, bassist Warnie Webber followed solo songwriting ways, and also involved with several non-music, artistic activities... Recently, she has been playing with Spirit Girls, an all women band.
Melbourne neo-psych outfit formed mid-80's and disbanded late 90's. After a first period of strong garage-punk revival influences, BO-WEEVILS moved to contemporaries psych rock fields, much closer to the sound of DIED PRETTY... and mid-80's "american paisley underground" bands (Dream Syndicate, Green on Red...).
Finest moment and turning point for BO-WEEVILS output was the album "Where Particular People Congregate" (1988). Its predecessor was this 5-track 12'' EP.
tracks:
a1.Have You Been To Mars? / a2.You Know / a3.Wildman
b1.Mr Bo-Weevil / b2.(life on the) Merry-Go-Round
THE TRYFLES were, along with THE FUZZTONES, one of the most important 80`s NY psych garage revival bands. Famous for their live performances, they released only one LP, while their bassist, PETER STUART appeared later with HEADLESS HORSEMEN.
LESYA CARPILOV - guitar, voc, piano, percussion PETER STUART - bass, voc, guitar, percussion JOHN FAY - guitar,voc, harp CELIA FARBER - drums
MIRAGE is the second LP of THE CHUD. Equally good if not even better than its predecessor "SILHOUETTES OF SOUND" (also posted at our blog). It includes garage anthems like 'November Rain'... but all the nine tracks are really magnificent. Reissued with 5 bonus tracks which you won`t find at this post.
Με τον DENIZ TEK στο τιμόνι και όντας, εν μέρει, η συνέχεια των RADIO BIRDMAN όχι για "επισκέπτες", αλλά για τους καθεαυτόν "οικοδεσπότες" του αυστραλιανού 80`s γκαραζόχωρου θα πρέπει να μιλάει κανεις. Εξαιρετικό lp!!
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