Giant Skyflower Band - Blood Of The Sunworm (2007)

Genre: Freak Folk, Psych Folk
Label: Soft Abuse (US)

Similar Artists: Skygreen Leopards

The Press release says all... Glenn Donaldson by the Skygreen Leopards + lots of Sitar Sound:

...Giant Skyflower Band, an exotic, flowery and crumbling new recording project with nods to fruity new age, psych, prog, folk, and pop songwriting.  Donaldson quickly invited multi-instrumentalist Shayde Sartin to “smoke marijuana & make up strange pop songs, ” and thus the band was born. With Gong's seminal Magick Brother as a starting point and a sitar close at hand, the duo created a dark, peregrine pop transmission from their shoddy analog recording studio in San Francisco.  Blood of the Sunworm is the duo’s debut offering.

Giant Skyflower’s purpose is to examine in detail the idiom of Bummer Psych; the strain of damaged Anglo-pop music pioneered by Syd Barrett that arguably reached its apex with The Television Personalities’ Painted Word LP in the mid-80’s, but found new life in Japan via the genius of Tori Kudo and like-minded acts such as Nagisa Ni te and Tenniscoats. Indeed, Blood of the Sunworm consists of depressing pop songs and damaged instrumentals - teeth bared and falling apart as they are cobbled together – on a hazy, cryptic journey through a busted kaleidoscope, behind a dusty mirror & up through the rafters.

Tracklisting

1. Oh Mary Green 
   
2. Starbeams 
   
3. Time Won't Sing A Song For You 
   
4. Feast Of Blood 
   
5. Rainbows And Dreams (With Worms Singing) 
   
6. Bitter Wild Rabbit/Builds The Bone 
   
7. All Of Us (You And Me) 
   
8. Lice Of Rainbows 
   
9. The Arcangel (Hurray For The Beast) 
   
10. Meditations On Christ And The Magi 
    

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