Ganglians - 2007 - Blood On The Sand

Genre: Psych Pop
Label: Captured Tracks

Just a quick post. Ganglians is one of the band from the woodsis/captured tracks swamp - and they release a lot of records this year - and they going to be better with each new.

I am wondering that this 7" didn't go through each blog. I've found it accidently - so I will just link to the source blog.

Enjoy - very good record/7" and buy it with some other nice vinyl on captured tracks.

Alex Fergusson - 2001 - The Essence

Genre: Folk, Pop, Psych
Label: Trisol

Sounds like a man with an acoustic guitar

Oh, I like this record. Maybe it's because Alex Fergussons musical past. He was founder of Alternative TV, an early british Punk Band, worked with Throbbing Gristle and formed Psychic TV with Genesis P-Orridge. I think he was the main musical head of PTV (Listen to Pagan Day from 84 - it's great). In early nineties he started with solo recordings. And here is his second record (I think) - It's a mixture of fine pop songs, british (?) folk influenced music and a bit Beatles, some strange classical parts and more.

I wouldn't compare his records to that so called Apocalyptic Folk of his buddys (like Current 93 and Co). It has more life and charme and less apocalyptic visions, in fact it has nothing to do with that. It's just good music for adults and for autumn time with a cup of tea, hahaha.

Oh I write shit - sorry. Test it for yourself. More will come.

Just a track by Alternative TV below - no myspace

Tracklisting

1. Intro
2. Tomorrow
3. I'm Obsessed
4. Sometimes
5. Whistler
6. Sunday Came Too Soon
7. Wine Dark Sea
8. The Essence Of You
9. Wild Orchid
10. Everyday
11. Hannah
12. Sundown
13. Epilogue
14. There's A Smile
15. Outro

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Ejwuusl Wessahqqan - 1975 - s/t

Style: Krautrock, Improv
Label:Private Press/Garden of Delight ReRelease
Similar Artists:early Tangerine Dream, Amon Düül etc.

One of my favorite Krautrock records. While nearly every german jazzy/blues rock/heavy rock fart, pressed on vinyl from 1970-1978 is labeled as Krautrock, this is the "real" stuff.

Yes, these are completely stoned, improvised sessions recorded in a cellar onto reel to reel tape and pressed in a private edition of 300 records. Shitty rehearsal tracks just on drums, heavy organs and bass/filouphon. Very raw, I love it. Forget the Amon Düül crap ;-).

The rerelease comes with some additional tracks - recorded as Koala Bär (yes, it's maybe one of the first Bear bands ;-)), with some more organ improv, an folky psych song and electronic sequezer lines

Tracklisting

1. Die Geborstenen Kuppeln Von Yethlyreom
   
2. Die Orangefarbene Wüste Südwestlich Von Ignarh
   
3. Thuloneas Körper
   
4. Hobbl-Di-Wobbl
   
5. Passaceety
   
6. AFN
   
7. The Crystal
   
8. La Mer
   

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Physics - 1998 - Physics 1, 1999 - Physics 2

Genre: Post Rock, Space Rock, Electronic, Math Rock
Label: Flapping Jet Records/Gravity records

Similar Artists: AshRaTemple, Tortoise, Trans Am

I think Epitonic.com introduced me to this band nearly 10 years ago.

Well, this Band doesn't exist anymore, but reincarnated into Aspects of Physics, a more electronic, but still outer space project.

Physics 1 is a compilation of live tracks and singles. They play a very spacey Post-Rock in vein of Krautrock groups like AshRaTemple or Can. Lot of synthie-swirrls, that special groovey drums, echoed guitars and endless space rock jams.

Oh and if you wanna see a website from 10 years ago and need more infos about the project, visit the old Bandwebsite

Tracklisting - Physics 1

1. Second 7 - Side 1
   
2. Second 7 - Side 2
   
3. Delayed Drone 
   
4. First 7 - Side 1
   
5. First 7 - Side 2
   
6. Song From Video
   
7. Live At The Casbah
   

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Tracklisting - Physics 2

1. Positive Heterodyne
   
2. Delayed Drone
   
3. Wave File 3 
   
4. Level 2 Part A
   
5. Level 2 Part B
   
6. +⇄−
   
7. Proper
   
8. Neutralogue
   
9. Negative Heterodyne
   

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Greg Davis and Sébastien Roux - 2008 - Merveilles

Genre: Laptop Folk, Electronic, Psychedelic
Label: Ahornfelder (DE)

Greg Davis and Sébastien Roux are back with their second collaborative album following the acclaimed release “Paquet surprise”. “Merveilles”, translated from the French word as wonderland, describes the album very fitting as the songs have a very illustrative quality. Where the previous album relied a bit more on sweet melodies and quick changes “Merveilles” explores different sound worlds in depth and illuminates a terrain of diverse emotional scenarios. Silent passages of field recordings are combined with subtle harmonic layers, interrupted by sudden noise eruptions and contrasted by folk like guitar melodies and very concrete sounds, often leaving the listener wondering what the origin of this tone might be.

Tracklisting

1. Geneva
   
2. London
   
3. San Francisco
   
4. Eugene
   
5. Aalst

Try it - Buy it - MicePays (Greg Davis, Sébastien Roux)

Teeth Mountain - 2008 - s/t

Genre: LoFi, Drumming, Psych
Label: SHDWPLY Records (US)

7 piece band from Baltimore (yes Dan Deacon, Video Hippos, Future Islands ...) with a great blend of fuzzy drones on cello and electronix and polyphonic tribal drumming. Psych-Drone-Ritual of Joy!

"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department

Tracklisting

1. Introduct
   
2. Black Jerusalem
   
3. Keinsein 
   
4. Spirals
   
5. Ghost Science
   
6. Soft Beast
   
7. 13
   
8. Harsh Tanz 
   
9. Malamut
   

Try it - Buy it - See them live with Dan Deacon and get their 12" -> MicePays

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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Woods - 2009 - sunlite 7" - complete disco [update]

This is just a collection of links, because I've got no time to write more right now ;-)

Here is the complete Woods discography, hope you enjoy and buy their records!

• New 7" Sunlite on Captured Tracks
• Songs of Shame
• Ram 7"
• How To Survive In/In The Woods
• Some Shame (Tour Tape 2008 - much rawer (better) version of Songs of Shame (2009)
• At Rear House
• Woods Family Creeps
• From the Horn cs [Fuck It Tapes, 2008]
• VA - 2006 - Mythos Folkways Vol. No. 2: Pre-American Lands (Raccoo-oo-oon & Woods Split) LP 
• Great Liveset here

all from http://aerophonesonaeroplanes.blogspot.com

http://somepeopleridethewave.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/woods/

http://community.livejournal.com/psych_folk/505755.html#cutid1

Titan - 2007 - A Raining Sun Of Light & Love For You & You & You

Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock
Label: TeePee Records

Similar Artists: Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Ashra Temple

Nice classic Psych/Prog-Rock, with that typical heavy guitars and organlines. The last track is more far away from that Prog Rock Sound because it sounds like the german NEU! and that is really refreshing beside that oldschool sound.

Tracklisting

1. Annals Of The Former Work
   
2. Hashishin Ohel Acide Cerveau Fracas Du RAyonnement Uchuu Iv
   
3. Obelisk Orbit Overdrive
   
4. Aufruf Der Pilze 
   

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Volcano The Bear - 1999 - The Inhazer Decline

Genre: Avantgarde, Free Folk
Label: United Diaries (UK)

Similar Artists: Nurse With Wound

Krautrock, Freeform Folk, Freaky, Weird...

When Nurse With Wound's "A Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table.." was first released in 1979, the response was one of bafflement. Volcano The Bear's first album for NWW's United Dairies is just as baffling. Ostensibly following the 70s art-rock damage of Faust (especially 'Tapes') and the willfull eccentricity of The Shadow Ring, Volcano The Bear (Byram refuses to call them anything but BJ and the Bear) plods through disjointed percussive riffs with alien droning, incongruous guitar work, and a crystal clear production which wouldn't be out of place on Too Pure. It's not hard to see why Steven Stapleton sought this group out after their Pickled Egg debut for a United Dairies release. 

Tracklisting

1. Planetary Bethlehem 
   
2. Quarterstone 
   
3. Musima 
   
4. Bowl 
   
5. Ruth Da Moose 
   
6. Worse With Noun 
   
7. Giant Angels 
   
8. Vast Blanket 
   
9. Mung 
   
10. The Queen's Teeth 
    
11. Here Are The Bounds 
    
12. Planetary Bethlehem 
    

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Mike Rock - Psychedelic Renegates (Syd Barrett Photobook)

This is a Photobookscan with more or less well known pictures of Syd Barrett

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The Ivytree - 2004 - Winged Leaves

Genre: Psych Folk
Label: Cat supplate

Similar Artists: Skygreen Leopards, Thuja

Yeah again Glenn Donaldson - similar to Birdtree record, so check it!

Tracklisting

1. Flood
   
2. The Book Of Job
   
3. Winged Leaves 
   
4. Winged Leaves (Reprise)
   
5. Emerald Green, Peacock Blue
   
6. Longleaf Pines
   
7. Churches
   
8. Wind-Bent Grass
   
9. Think On These Things
   
10. She Is The Swallow
    
11. Clay Tablets
    
12. The Old Kingdom 

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The Birdtree - 2002 - Orchards & Caravans

Genre: Psych Folk, Drone, Psychedelic
Label: Last Visible Dog (US)

Similar Artists: Skygreen Leopards, Thuja

Well, here again a great piece of work by Glenn Donaldson. If you read this blog, you stumbled often about his music (the last was this Mirza record). His most well known project are The Skygreen Leopards, but he did a lot of work as the one of the heads behind the Jewelled Antler Collective. You can get an overview about that collective with it's own soundcosmos here and here.

This record is a mixture of Glenn Donaldsons music he do with The Skygreen Leopards, more that song oriented folky stuff and the freeform drone-work of Thuja. If you like their work, check it!

The Jewelled Antler Collective put out a lot recordings, mostly on CD-r, so they are rare - if you like to share some of this stuff, please post comments. Thank you!

Tracklisting

1. White Sundials Faced The Sun 
   
2. Pillar Of Clouds 
   
3. Animals Of The Summit 
   
4. Red Midnight Raven 
   
5. The Marsh 
   
6. Black Rainbows, Part 1 & 2 
   
7. Everyone Of Us A New Leaf 
   
8. Mary Ann 
   
9. Scorpions & Lions 
   
10. The Bluish Vapor Of Tall Eucalyptus Trees 
    
11. The Lost Sun 
    
12. Raven Returns/The Uppermost Forest 
    
13. Sleeper Under A Tree 
    
14. Leaffish 

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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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Larry And The Lefthanded - 1996 - Diabolika

Genre: Space Rock, Surf, Twang
Label: Jupiter / Texicalli

Larry and the Lefthanded was a Space Rock group from Finland. This is more Surf/Twang than Space Rock (compared to And the Lefthanded ) but it's really good, so check it!

Tracklisting

1. Teenspy Theme 
   
2. Hellfire 
   
3. Flat Out 
   
4. Shecome 
   
5. Babe Is Getting Better 
   
6. Point Blank 
   
7. Moonbase Ball 
   
8. Helsinki Nocturne 
   
9. Secrets 
   
10. Give Me Out 
    
11. Wheel Of Fortune 
    
12. El Fantasma Del Italpark 
    
13. Hideous You 

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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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We Are Wolves - Non-Stop Je Te Plie En Deux (2005), Total Magique (2007)

Genre: Post-Punk/Rock, Space Rock
Label: Dare To Care (CAN)

Similar Artists: Trans Am

Energic Post Punk with heavy analogue synthie/organ, a bass player and a drummer. No guitar needed! Superb!

A gang of three, four including rock. We are Wolves imposes a music that's both free and honest, like the celestial lightning on the mystic mountain. It's a post-punk landscape filled with analogue trees. It's like rock after the post-modern explosion.

Tracklisting - Non-Stop Je Te Plie En Deux

1. Little Birds 
   
2. L.L. Romeo 
   
3. La Nature 
   
4. Snare Me 
   
5. Namaï-Taïla-Cambodge (Go-Tabla-Go) 
   
6. Non Stop 
   
7. Moi, Rythme Magique 
   
8. Vosotros, Monstruos 
   
9. T.R.O.U.B.L.E. 
   
10. We Are All Winners 
    
11. Glazé, Blazé (Glazed The Blazed) 
    

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Tracklisting - Total Magique

1. Fight & Kiss 
   
2. Magique 
   
3. Some Words 
   
4. Coconut Night 
   
5. I Wrote Your Name On My Kite 
   
6. Vietnam 
   
7. Walk Away Walk 
   
8. So Nice, So Cold 
   
9. Psychic Kids 
   
10. Teenage, Bats & Anthropology 
    
11. Vamos A La Playa 
    
12. The Piper 
    
13. Total Solide 

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And The Lefthanded - In The Kingdom Of Shadows (2004)

Genre: Space Rock
Label: Lefta Records (FI)

Space-Rock from Finlandia. Related to Op:l Bastards and follower of Larry and the Lefthanded.

Synthie Swirrls, eastern melodies, fuzz. Great Record!!

(write request in comment section if you interested in Larry and the Lefthanded! It's more less Space Rock and more that Lounge, sixties Spy&Agent Movie soundtrack style)

Tracklisting

1. Love Me Now 
   
2. Disturbing You 
   
3. Yin & Yang 
   
4. Rocket Rock 
   
5. Two Masters 
   
6. L.V.K.M. 1972 
   
7. Cheap Cigar 
   
8. Carnival 
   
9. Monday Boy 
   
10. 5 ½ 

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A Broken Consort - The Shape Leaves (2006); Crow Autumn (2007)

Genre: Drone, Freefrom, Psych Folk
Label: Sustain-Release (UK)

Similar Artists: Thuja, TwinSisterMoon, Nature Snow Buildings

Shimmering freeform mantras on violin and sparkling guitar pickings. Very organic sound which make the time stands still. Checkout the labelwebsite to see the full beauty of his releases.

The music consists of long-spun acoustic soundscapes - drones and melodic repetitions, but with a great depth of sound. Most prominent are guitars, percussion, and various other bowed and strummed strings. The result is at the same time familiar, rooted in the earth, but also far from everyday experience. A wonderful musical depiction of the mystic depths contained in natural landscapes with only a hint of cultivation.

Tracklisting - The Shape Leaves

1. In The Hanged Air 
   
2. A Momentary Sun 
   
3. And All Their Silver & Gold 
   
4. For Nothing 
   
5. The Longing Day 
   
6. Untitled
   

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Tracklisting - Crow Autumn

1. Crow Autumn 

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