ANGEL OLSEN - LADY OF THE WATERPARK

2010 Love Lion LL02

01. My last Date (With You)
02. I Couldn't Wait Forever
03. You Don't Know
04. Halfway To Paradise
05. Cry Baby
06. B.I.T.C.O.M.T.L.H.


Angel Olsen has just released her second full length album. Here's the first release from 2010. Cassette only, originally limited to 100 copies. A set of cover tunes all previously sung by female vocalists.

LET AIRPLANES CIRCLE OVERHEAD

CDr 2006

01. Untitled #1
02. As An Enemy
03. Two Spent Swimmers
04. I Laughed Until I Stopped Laughing
05. Untitled #2


Let Airplanes Circle Overhead were a post rock band from Carlisle, active between 2003 and 2007. This CDr was handed out to fans and friends a few months before their debut (and only) release on the Motive Sounds label. While that release was good, this recording comes closer to how the band were live. The band played a lot during 2005-06 and I sometimes provided video collages as a backdrop. The CDr had no artwork, picture is the authors own.

NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK - CANDOR OF NIGHT

Self Release 2011

01. Candor Of Night


One of my favourite pieces of music from the last couple of years. Beautiful, glacial, ambient drone. The third release in Szczepanik's 12-CD "Ante Algo Azul" series.

KALACAKRA - CRAWLING TO LHASA

Self Released 1972

01. Nearby Shiras
02. Jacueline
03. Raga No.11
04. September Full Moon
05. Arapahos Circle Dance
06. Tante Olga


Self financed and released in 1972, this is real dark, ritual style psych kraut folk. Really heavy dark jamming with tons of flute, guitars and bongos. Golden.

'Nearby Shiras' featured on Lammas Night Laments Vol.1.

MR. PINE - REWILDING

Self Release 2008

01. Ace of Cups I
02. Streets of York
03. Set Piece
04. Blue Onyx
05. Glass Petals
06. Sleep of Ondine
07. The Enclave
08. Cymbeline
09. Robin's Breast
10. Dirge
11. Ace of Cups II


More music on a Lammas tip now. Mr. Pine are a (now defunct) band from Canada who released this gem a few years ago. It's acid folk predominantly and the band are obviously well versed in the Lammas series. Touches of Mellow Candle, Principal Edward's Magic Theatre etc.

Download guilt free with permission from the band!

L.S.D. - A DOCUMENTARY REPORT

Capitol 1968

01. Initial Statistics-The New Adherents-Evolutionary Notes
02. L.S.D. Missionary - Timothy Leary
03. Availability and Dosage-Experiences
04. Personal Confusion
05. Brian's Boast-Voyage 34 Pt 1  Departure-Voyage 34 Pt 2  Crash Landing
06. Down An UP Staircase-Opponents and Proponents-Style Over Substances
07. Ginsberg
08. The Acid Test
09. Is This Trip Really Necessary?

"This album is not designed to entertain."

From acid folk to acid now. This 'documentary' album was designed to inform the masses about the effects of L.S.D. It ended up being sampled on dozens of psyche records.

"...ask yourself...is this trip really necessary?"

FORESTEPPE - NO TIME TO HURRY

Self Release 2013

01. Goodbye Lalaland
02. Little Bird Cherries
03. Radonitsa
04. Pink Shorts
05. Veselka
06. Homewood
07. No Time To Hurry


This is probably my favourite music from last year. Piano, guitar, tape manipulation and found sounds. Strange, esoteric and beautiful. Imagine if Boards of Canada were a folk band from Russia.

From Bandcamp :

"Straddling these two domains - a rural, removed faith and troubled modernity - we find the barely audible music of Foresteppe (Egor Klochikhin). His most recent recordings - "No Time to Hurry" depict the faraway streets of Berdsk with an air of humbling gratitude. These are introspective instrumentals from the edge of a very welcoming Siberian forest." 

Check it out, the download is free, or pay if you wish.