ARTHUR - IN SEARCH OF

Bootleg 1969

01. Armstrong Tourist Resthome
02. Tea Gardens
03. Sunspots
04. Dimensions/Plain Talk
05. Tea Gardens
06. Plain Talk
07. Warm Traitor's Breath
08. Armstrong Tourist Resthome
09. Mille Tragedy
10. Untitled
11. Confessions

I've been meaning to post this one for a long time.

Arthur is Arthur Gee, a singer songwriter from Canada. In 1969, he recorded a one sided demo L.P. for the Two:Dot label, which sadly never got a release. Those demos were collected together with other tracks from various sessions, plus a rare 45 rpm.

This is excellent downer acid folk. Don't be put off by the 'singer/songwriter' tag, these stoner poems are lonely, out there and slot right in next to your (more mournful) Donovan, Perry Leopold et al.

VARIOUS ARTIST - LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 14

01. Unknown - Blood of the Curious
02. Bill Fay - Garden Song
03. Mary Hopkin - Lord of the Reedy River
04. Michael Chapman - Rabbit Hills
05. Foggy - She's Far Away
06. Keith Christmas - The Fawn
07. Roy Harper - Forget Me Not
08. Jackson C Frank - Milk & Honey
09. John Martyn - Road To Ruin (Part 1)
10. Mick Stevens - Burning
11. Kathy Smith - The Blackbird & The Pearl
12. Hedgehog Pie - The Green Lady
13. Famous Jug Band - A Taste of Salt
14. Lazy Farmer - Love Song
15. Faraway Folk - Coming Home To Brixham
16. The Move - No Time
17. Queens Nectarine Machine - Gypsy Lady
18. The Five Reivers - Summer's End
19. Jim Alan - Everlasting Song
20. Nico - Frozen Warnings
21. Chrysalis - Lacewing
22. Tea and SymphonyDangling (Introduction)

Well, here it is; the final Lammas Night Laments. Thank you to everyone who has followed this blog for this series, I hope you can find more to keep you returning.

Enjoy.

DRAGONFLY - 4 CELESTIAL SONGS E.P.

Phillips 1968

01. Celestial Dreams
02. Desert of Almond
03. Celestial Empire
04. Prince of Amboyna

This E.P. collects the two Phillips singles released by Dragonfly in 1968, it's also their entire recorded output. Heavily influenced by Hendrix and The Doors etc. This band doesn't really sound like the other Scandinavian psych releases available here. It is dead good though, a little bit of fuzzy, bummed out psych.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - HALLOWEEN 2015 - THE MARK OF SATAN

01. The Ritual Chamber (Inside the Church of Satan) - Joshua P. Warren
02. Halloween III (Main Theme) -  John Carpenter
03. The Witch - Mark Fry
04. Lullaby - Paul Giovanni & Magnet
05. Be Forewarned - Macarbre
06. Requiem Pour Satan - Camille Sauvage
07. Season of the Witch - Donovan
08. The Fairy Dance - Ash Ra Tempel
09. The Devil Always Shits in the Same Graves Part 1 - Sylvester Anfang II
10. Witch - The Sonics
11. Poet and The Witch - Mellow Candle
12. The Litanies of Satan - Ruth White
13. Great Divine Rectors Call - Elizebeth Clair

VARIOUS ARTISTS - LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 10

01. Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Gently Johnny
02. Oriental Sunshine - Mother Nature
03. Saffron - All your Ambition
04. Natural Acoustic Band - Someday Cinderella
05. Dando Shaft - River Boat
06. The Spikedrivers - Portland Town
07. Wendy & Bonnie - By the Sea
08. Sally Angie - Love in Ice Crystals
09. Dr Strangely Strange - Jove Was at Home
10. Darius - Warm
11. Changes - Sweet Eve
12. Gallery - The Wind That Shakes the Barley
13. Silver Birch - Flower and Young Man
14. Mountain Ash Band - Who Knows
15. Magna Carter - Widwinter
16. Marcus - The Colour Song
17. Simon Finn - Patrice
18. The Folklords - Jennifer Lee

Thanks to Al, I'm finally posting the missing Lammas Night Laments. Next month I shall post Volume 14, which is the last LNL to date (although it's unlikely there will be anymore).

December and 2016 will see a new various artists series posted every month; 'Esoterica Britanica', more news on that to follow.

VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS

Tchantinler Recordings 2010

01. Open Lighted Doorway
02. Kommune
03. Out of the Smoke
04. Third Transition
05. The Burning Mountain
06. Dry Leaves
07. Dalälven
08. Cylinders
09. Set Fire To The Forest
10. Disappearances

Here, as promised, is another record of psych, Eastern tunings and general air of heaviness from Rick Tomlinson. I do like a slight name change for specific releases (Spiritualized Electric Mainline). Voice of the Seven Woods was changed to Voice of the Seven Thunders. I don't know why, but it's ace.

RAGTIME RALPH - VOLUME 4

Bootleg 1983/Empty Square Records 2009

01. Badlands Blake
02. Texas Tomatoes
03. Desert Rat Blues
04. Cast Your Fate to the Wind
05. Cloudburst
06. White Christmas
07. Travis McGee on the Ice Road
08. The Serpentine/Nico Meki Rivers Flood Plain Blues
09. Ragtime Piece in G
10. Walk on the Tracks
11. Radiation from the Station
12. The Going Away Song

Ragtime Ralph is Ralph Johnston, and 'Volume 4' would of been the title assigned had it been released as originally intended; on Takoma. That would place it after 'The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites' and before 'The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party And Other Excursions'.

I'm not sure why it was unreleased at the time, I suspect however, that like the message on the inside of the L.P. reads, that if John Fahey could of (released this record), he would of.

It's a shame, this is some top class finger pickin' and slide American primitive.

A bootleg saw it's way out in 1983 and Empty Square records in Canada put out a limited edition in 2009.

Essential for Takoma, Fahey and primitive guitar fans.