James Blackshaw - Miscellania

 

Self made compilation 2017

01 No Ghosts
02 River of Heaven
03 Spiralling Skeleton Memorial (Live)
04 The Broken Hourglass
05 Cross
06 Are You Alright? (Chump Change)
07 Between Tides

Here's a round up of hard to find, non album Blackshaw tracks. Makes for a good 30 minute EP. The tracks are from:

No Ghosts - taken from the Various Artists album 'Gold Leaf Branches', Digitalis Recordings, 2005.

River of Heaven - taken from the Various Artists album 'Imaginational Anthem (Volume Two)', Tompkins Square, 2005.

Spiralling Skeleton Memorial - taken from the Various Artists album 'A Raga For Peter Walker', Tompkins Square, 2005.

The Broken Hourglass - taken from the Various Artists album 'The Garden of Forking Paths', Important Records, 2008.

Cross - taken from the Various Artists album 'Young God Amazon Sampler',  Young God Records, 2010.

Are You Alright? (Chump Change) - by Blackshaw, Wood, Wood & Tomlinson. Taken from the Various Artists album 'Benefit For The Recovery In Japan', Antiopic, 2011.

Between Tides - by Roger Eno, remix and collaboration with Blackshaw. Released on 'Greater Lengths', All Saints, 2014.

Spectrum - Undo The Taboo

 

Silvertone Records 1994

01 Undo The Taboo
02 In The Fullness Of Time
03 Turn The Tide (Sub-Aqua)
04 Go To Sleep

The first (and only) single release from the 'Highs, Lows And Heavenly Blows' LP. This period also marks the end of Sonic's / Spectrum's time with Silvertone Records. 

Various Artists - Autumn 2020

 

01 James Blackshaw - Gate of Ivory
02 Brigid Dawson and the Mothers Network - Ballet of Apes
03 Pye Corner Audio - Magnetic Acid Part One
04 Country Joe & The Fish - Section 43
05 Valium Aggelein - Triumph Of The Metal People
06 Sandro Brugnolini - Vortice
07 Saffron - Vision is a Lonely Word
08 Robert Hermel - Industrie Spatiale
09 Craven Faults - Deipkeir
10 Bulbils - New Island
11 Andrew Wasylyk - Dreamt The Breakers Spill
12 Zbynek Vostrak - Scales Of Light
13 Ennio Morricone - Bambole

New mixtape for your pandemic times.

Country Joe And The Fish - Country Joe And The Fish E.P.

 

Rag Baby Records 1966

01 Bass Strings

02 Thing Called Love

03 Section 43

I don'y always like the music of Country Joe, but I've always been interested in their idea of using records as propaganda and promotion of counter culture ideas.

This E.P. (their second release) became legendary in San Francisco and was sold for $1 a copy. Despite it's cottage industry origins, it appeared in underground record shops in New York and London.

Moving away from folky protest, the band move into bay area psychedelia.

Spiritualized Electric Mainline - Lay Back In The Sun

 

Dedicated 1995

01 Lay Back in the Sun
02 The Slide Song
03 Spread Your Wings (Instrumental)
04 Lay Back in the Sun (Instrumental)

The final release from the Pure Phase / Electric Mainline period of Spiritualized.

The Byrds - Ideas As Maps

 

Self Made 2017 (Recorded 1967)

01 So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star
02 Have You Seen Her Face?
03 C.T.A. - 102
04 Renaissance Fair
05 Time Between
06 Everybody's Been Burned
07 Thoughts and Words
08 It Happens Each Day
09 The Girl With No Name
10 Mind Gardens
11 My Back Pages

The Byrds re-imagined alternate history continues. This time, it's 1967 and the album 'Younger Than Yesterday'. 
To be fair, the original album is one of the band's finest and it hasn't been altered too much. 
The track 'Why?' has been removed, an earlier (in my opinion better) version was recorded the previous year and I used that on my own 1966 version 'Byrds '66'. The outtake 'It Happens Each Day' has been added, it's a complete mystery why this Crosby original was left unreleased. 'Mind Gardens' has been substituted for an earlier take and finally, the original single version of 'My Back Pages' has been used with it's lovely Leslie Speaker lead guitar for extra psych.

Albert Marcœur / This Heat - Untitled (Split Cassette)

Free cassette given away with Tago Mago magazine 1982

01 Albert Marcœur - Deux Lions Au Soleil

02 This Heat with Mario Boyer Diekuuroh - Various Cassette Recordings 1978-79

French magazine Tago Mago gave away a split cassette with a 1982 issue. On side one, we get excerpts from a soundtrack by Albert Marcœur.

Side two has my interest; exclusive material by This Heat. Together with new buddy Mario Boyer Diekuuroh they make a 16 minute collage of near world music style jams.