Wizardzz - 2006 - Hidden City Of Taurmond

Genre: Space Rock
Label: Load Records (US)

Synth + Drum Duo, related to Lightning Bolt and Bug Sized Mind. Sailship got a great synthie lead. check this!

...a smooth, dreamy, synth driven album that keeps the listener interested in exploring further...

Tracklisting

1. Disembark 
   
2. Sailship 
   
3. Whispers From Wallface 
   
4. Glimpse Of The Hidden City 
   
5. Jelipper-Lilly Field 
   
6. Do Come In (Tea And Chullwigs) 
   
7. Sea Battle At Orkusk 
   
8. Diamond Mirror 
   
9. Chasing Our Shadows 
   
10. Ambused By Time Quagga 
    
11. The Bubiliad Woods Of Taurmond 
    
12. Ladydragons 
    
13. Rest At The Gate 
    
14. Mimi Vivian Sunrise - (Live) 
    

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Volcano The Bear - 2007 - Amidst The Noise And Twigs

Genre: Psychedelic, Free Folk
Label: Beta Lactam Ring Records (US)

Similar Artists: Grizzly Bear, but on a weird mushroom trip!, Hochenkeit

If all the * Bear bands are cuties and sweeties, this bear will abduct you in a cave inside really deep and dark woods. Volcano the Bear are from Lancaster UK and released on Steve Stapeltons Label United Diaries. That should give you a direction, if not, imagine dark folky soundscapes and surreal ritual music with flutes, horns, percussion and mutiple voices.

The Three Twins close the album and maybe this is your escape from that cave. Play Loud!

Who knew that amidst the noise and the twigs there was music…sweet, sweet music?! This world is Volcano the Bear’s womb. At last, the year that VTB gets a shot at Top Of The Pops, assuming the pops finally snaps out of its vapid trance and embraces the standards of Comus, 3 Hurel, early Residents and 12th century Arabo-Andalusian music. As usual, our heroes are found keeping things stripped to the bone trumpet, but dripping with a juicy, melodic marrow. The record pours slowly and resolutely like a folk-psych dream urn, loaded with full metal banjoes; crumhorns at 12 O’clock; and autoharps at defcon 5. The experimentalism is this time couched in shifting tides of self-spun acidic harvest ballads that noisily well up into proto-Kraut thrums and tribal night trips around the pyre. A rural, squelchy, DIY delicacy which stinks of occidental embouchure so crystal crisp that every skkrrrr, pphaaapph and brrruuuummmm resonates like a small, sound-specific god, intertwined with beautifully skewed notes, voices and rhythms. "Amidst The Noise And Twigs" plays like a recently discovered field recording of some obscured Celtic clan who accidentally stumbled onto psychedelia 600 years ahead of its time. These pipers truly rock the gates of dawn.

Tracklisting

1. The Sting Of Haste 
   
2. Before We Came To This Religion 
   
3. Larslovesnicks Farm 
   
4. Burnt Seer 
   
5. Cassettes Of Berlin 
   
6. Splendid Goose 
   
7. She Vang Moon 
   
8. One Hundred Years Of Infamy 
   
9. The Three Twins 

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Mirza - 1997 - Anadromous

Genre: Free Form Psych Rock, Space Rock
Label: Darla Records (US)

Similar Artists: Hochenkeit, Ash Ra Temple

Mirza is a Free-Form-Psych Rock group with members of Thuja and Skygreen Leopards (Glenn Donaldson).

Trippy Improvisations reminds on german Krautrock stuff like Ash Ra Temple and similar, check it out! More Information

Mirza, which means "royalty" in Persian, are a San Francisco quartet who play ghostly instrumental psychedelic sounds. This is their debut. It's like Magic Hour or Bardo Pond, if either of the aforementioned were from India. Perhaps they are the paisley side Rodan never had. The music is like lying on the grass in Golden Gate Park & watching the sun filter through the big evergreens while Jefferson Airplane blast away at an electric love raga with Ravi Shankar.

Tracklisting

1. Dream of the Fosil Sea 
   
2. Aphasia 
   
3. Bless This Gathering 
   
4. These Are Our Last Days 

(sorry MP3 Tags are Mizra but must be Mirza! ;-))

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Thuja - Ghost Plants (2002)

Genre: Acoustic Freeform Psych Folk Drone
Label: Emperor Jones (US)

Similar Artists: Pete Wright, The North Sea, Skygreen Leopards

Thuja released a lot records, all with untitled tracks and all of them with a beautiful organic athmosphere. For me it sounds always like a recording in a greenhouse.

Improvised dreamscapes with weird freeform freak outs and mantras. This is not rockmusic! Oh, and Glenn Donaldson of The Skygreen Leopards is part of that collective. Wonderful!

Ghost Plants is as savory and involved as improv music gets. It isn’t a sound effects record but should be. There are piano, guitar, percussion, electronics and other shit mingling freely but in a cohesive way.

Tracklisting

• 13 untitled tracks
  

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Hochenkeit - omu4h 4aholab / 400 boys (2000)

Genre: Space Rock, Psychedelic, Experimental
Label: Road Cone (US) 

After the first, more acoustic release I love you (to be found here), this is more rock music in the widest sense. Krautrock jams, drones and space rock by this obscure project.

Tracklisting

1. Seen 
   
2. Two Fish Kissing 
   
3. To Be Born Drunk And Die Dreaming 
   
4. Give Them To The Ants 
   
5. 400 Boys 
   
6. Please Turn Out The Sun 

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Mudboy - This Is Folk Music (2005)

Genre: Drone, Freeform, Minimal
Label: Last Visible Dog

Mudboy do soundresearch on older modified e-organs. Sounds sometimes like the early days of electronic music. Nice!

Tracklisting

1. Solitron Wave 
   
2. Solitron Waves 
   
3. Untitled 01 
   
4. Starlight 
   
5. Untitled 02 
   
6. Untitled 03 
   
7. Lost 
   
8. Running 
   
9. Beirut Dance Party 
   
10. Coming Here Was A Bad Idea 
    
11. Dawn Treader 
    
12. Sailing Song 
    
13. Untitled 04 
    
14. Untitled 05 

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Hochenkeit - I Love You (1999)

Genre: Psych Folk, Freeform
Label: Road Cone

Psych Folk with some Asian ethnic refrences and Freeform Krautrockrumblings. Excellent record!

Tracklisting

1. Ritual Nacirema 
   
2. Help Me/Help You 
   
3. Pios Bori? (Who Can Tell?) 
   
4. Smokin' The Astronaut 
   
5. Frightening Diaspora, Drifting Cranes 
   
6. Fuzzy Rumble Face 
   
7. I Love You 
   
8. Domestic Peace 
   
9. A Roomful Of Sun 
   

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Ashtray Navigations - Tristes Tropiques (1999)

Genre: Avantgarde, Freeform, Noise, Drone
Label: Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, Blackbean And Placenta Tape Club, Rhizome

one-man-and-a-tape-machine-against-the-universe...

The highlight is about ten minutes in when some of the baddest-assed tabla playing I've ever heard comes down the pike with the expected (but still effective) space/drone heaven-rock accompaniment. (Blastitude 9)

Tracklisting

1. Reel (19:07)
2. <...Rail Between> (18:04)
3. Thier Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue (6:26)
4. Bethesda Before The Rain (1:50)
5. Bethesda During The Rain (1:23)
6. Bethesda After The Rain (7:00)
7. <...It Sure Is> (8:23)
8. Theme From ''TRISTES TROPIQUES'' (3:11)

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The Punks - Thank You for the Alternative Rock (2005)

Genre: Freeform Noise Rock with less Rock, Improvisation
Label: 5 rue cristine (US)
Similar Artists: Gang Gang Dance, maybe

This record got everywhere bad reviews, so this seems really bad music to die for. But give them a try. I can't remember any single song when I listen to this CD, but who cares. Random improvised freeform rock

Tracklisting

1. Theme From John Chavez
2. Jean Travolta
3. track 3
4. Rock and Roll Punks Rock Rock and Roll
5. track 5
6. track 6
7. Drop It Like It's Hot
8. Beaches and Canyons
9. track 9
10. Turn Up the Awesome
11. Comida
12. track 12

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Christina Carter & Andrew MacGregor / My Cat Is An Alien - From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 4 (2006)

Label: Very Friendly, Opax
Genre: Avantgarde, Free Folk, Noise

"Brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio split this forth release in the series with the American queen of psych-free-folk music Christina Carter (Charalambides, Scorces), here at her debut as the new duo-project together with Andrew MacGregor (Gown). Harsh yet warm plucking at the strings and her fascinating vocals, accompanied by Andrew’s bass guitar chords and singing, sound as if the listener was called to witness the secret dialogues between two distant lovers’ hearts. The title of MCIAA’s track, “The circle of life & death”, fits as ever before Roberto’s cover painting, where the dark imprints left by a white leaf on the acrylic-colored wooden surface create a circle-like representation of life and death. As the violet color recalls transcendence indeed, so do the opening floating-guitar tunes and Roberto’s wordless-vocal hymn." (label info)

Tracklisting

1. Christina Carter & Andrew MacGregor - We Know When We're Thinking About Each Other (19:30)
2. My Cat Is An Alien - The Circle Of Life & Death (21:50)

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Inquiet - Inq Beyong (2008) + 1st EP

Soundscapes, freeform songs and tribal drumming from Down Under.
If you like Animal Collective and Panda Bear, you may like this too.

Label: Brothersister Records

Genre: Freeform, Freak Folk

Tracklisting:

1. Middle of the world
   
2. Rose rose / Be oftener
   
3. Pestle
   
4. High-p low-d
   
5. Hives and honey
   
6. Fresh flesh
   
7. Death
   
8. Drums as water

contains as bonus the free EP from 2005

Password: dyingforbadmusic.blogspot.com

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