VARIOUS ARTISTS - ESOTERICA BRITANNICA NUMBER 9

01. Kate Tempest - Picture a Vacuum
02. Tristram Cary - Divertimento (Start)
03. The Beta Band - Dogs Got a Bone
04. Fovea Hex - The Golden Sun Rises Upon the World Again
05. The Advisory Circle - We Cleanse this Space
06. Cate Le Bon - Wonderful
07. David Bowie - Come and Buy My Toys
08. Delia Derbyshire - Blue Veils and Golden Sands
09. Julian Cope - Sunshine Playroom
10. Goldfrapp - Utopia (Genetically Enriched)
11. Basil Kirchin - The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 1)
12. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
13. Joachim Ngol et Les Troubadors De Roi Baudouin - Missa Luba-Sanctus
14. Belbury Poly - My Hands
15. Virgina Astley - Love's a Lonely Place to Be
16. Tristram Cary - Divertimento (Performance Tape Section 2)
17. Television Personalities - Diary of a Young Man
18. Micachu and The Shapes - Calculator
19. The Focus Group - Danse & Atoms
20. Young Marble Giants - Cakewalking
21. The Beatles - Revolution 9 (Mono Version)


Another volume of the Esoterica Britannica has arrived.

Courtesy of original curator, David Thompson.

THE FREE SPIRITS - OUT OF SIGHT AND SOUND

ABC Records 1967/Sunbeam Records 2006

01. Don't Look Now
02. I'm Gonna Be Free
03. LBOD
04. Sunday Telephone
05. Blue Water Mother
06. Girl of the Mountain
07. Cosmic Daddy Dancer
08. Bad News Cat
09. Storm
10. Early Morning Fear
11. Angels Can't be True
12. Tattoo Man

bonus track

13. I Feel a Song (B-Side of 'Tattoo Man')


This album is a lost jazz psych great. The Free Spirits are from New York and they mixed psychedelia, jazz and freak out. They supported the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Doors and The Velvet Underground.

Apparently lumped with a jazz producer that disliked rock music, the songs here are not the double figures freak outs they became known for. The compositions are tight and most are a mix of free jazz and psych.

Sometimes sounds like two records playing at once, I love it.

GOATHERDER - SOOTHER OF GRIEF

TOR55. 2017

01. Soother of Grief I
02. Short Term Memory Loss Replaced by Nostalgia that Never Existed
03. Soother of Grief II


Between late 2014 and early 2017, I archived any recordings I made; field recordings, demos,
experiments and so on. I put them to one side, unsure of what to do with them.

Occasionally I would review an experiment or refer to a demo. It occurred to me that most of these
recordings would go nowhere, so I decided to give them a home.

In February and March of this year I 'performed' collages of these tracks, the live mix being the
performance.

The end result is like an aural mind diary; ideas and sounds all together. It makes some kind of
sense to me.

As always, there is a free download over at Bandcamp.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - WARP RECORDS VOLUME FIVE

01. Cul de Sac - I Remember Nothing More
02. Vincent Gallo - Honey Bunny (Mono Version)
03. Plaid - Rakimou
04. John Callaghan - You've Got Your Memories, I've Got My Dreams
05. Savath & Savalas - Um Girassol da Cor de Seu Cabelo (A Sunflower the Colour of Your Hair)
06. Tim Exile - A Little Bit More
07. Prefuse 73 - Perverted Undertone
08. DM & Jemini - The Only One
09. Nightmares On Wax - Know My Name
10. Red Snapper - One Legged Low Frequency Guy
11. Slum - Twilight Mushrooms
12. Broadcast - Message from Home
13. Jimi Tenor - Sugardaddy (Radio Edit)
14. John Callaghan - Give Me Some Air
15. Stereolab - The Brush Descends the Length
16. Vincent Gallo - So Sad
17. Gravenhurst - Cities Beneath the Sea


'I Remember Nothing More' taken from the 2004 soundtrack Dead Man's Shoes, WARPCD126.

'Honey Bunny (Mono Version)' taken from the 2001 promo-only 7" Honey Bunny, 7261-WARP01-7.

'Rakimou' taken from the 1997 album Not For Threes, WARPCD54.

'You've Got Your Memories, I've Got My Dreams' taken from the 2000 10" You've Got Your Memories, I've Got My Dreams, 10WAP137.

'Um Girassol da Cor de Seu Cabelo (A Sunflower the Colour of Your Hair)' taken from the 2004 album Apropa't, WARPCD115.

'A Little Bit More' taken from the Recreated volume of the 2009 compilation box set Warp20, WARP20°.

'Perverted Undertone' taken from the 2003 album One Word Extinguisher, WARPCD105.

'The Only One' taken from the 2004 soundtrack Dead Man's Shoes, WARPCD126.

'Know My Name' taken from the 2002 single Know My Name, WAP159CD.

'One Legged Low Frequency Guy' taken from the 1995 album Reeled and Skinned, WARPCD33.

'Twilight Mushrooms' taken from the 1999 7" Twilight Mushrooms, 7WAP117.

'Message from Home' taken from the 1997 album Work and Non Work, WARPCD52.

'Sugardaddy (Radio Edit)' taken from the 1997 single Sugardaddy / Take Me Baby (and modified slightly), WAP93CD.

'Give Me Some Air' taken from the 1998 7" I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind, 7WAP110.

'The Brush Descends the Length' taken from the 1998 compilation Aluminium Tunes, WARPCD59.

'So Sad' taken from the 2001 single So Sad, WAP149CD.

'Cities Beneath the Sea' taken from the 2005 album Fires In Distant Buildings, WARPCD132.

SPACEMEN 3 - BIG CITY/DRIVE (REMIXES)

Fire Records 1990

1. Big City (Remix)
2. Drive (Remix)

Released shortly after the original 'Big City/Drive' single, this was the last Spacemen 3 release during their lifetime.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - SPRING 2017

01. Sonic Boom & Delia Derbyshire - Synchrondipity Machine
02. Sun Ra - Halloween in Harlem
03. Vince Taylor - My Baby Left Me
04. Robert Hermel - Apesanteur
05. The Advisory Circle with Hong Kong In the 60s - Seasons Change
06. The Gosdin Brothers - Tell Me
07. Cybe - Painting No. 8
08. The Feed-Back - The Fed-Back
09. Jean-Claude Vannier - Le Roi des Mouches et la Confi
10. Damon Lane - I Wonder Why
11. Jacques Lasry - Maneche (Picture Box Theme)
12. Children of the Mushroom - August Mademoiselle
13. The Strawberry Alarm Clock - Pass Time with the Sac
14. The Ambrosia Singers - Children of the Stones Theme
15. Rusalnaia - The Sailor and The Siren
16. Brown, Gabo & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - It's a Vanity
17. The Beatles - Sour Milk Sea
18. Ash Ra Tempel - Le Songe d'Or
19. Pye Corner Audio - Toward Light

New comp. Proud of the flow on this one.

SPACEMEN 3 - BIG CITY/DRIVE

Fire Records 1991.

01. Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)
02. Drive
03. Big City (Waves of Joy Demo)
04. Drive (Demo)

'Big City'/'Drive' was released ahead of the final Spacemen 3 album 'Recurring'. Sporadically recorded and mixed throughout 1990, relations between Kember and Pierce had completely broken down during the sessions. The result was that each composer had a side of the record each for their own compositions.

The music didn't suffer however; 'Big City' was a ten minute acid house pulse and 'Drive' was acid bluesy and hymnal, pointing toward each artists future solo career.