Taj Mahal Travellers - Live Stockholm July, 1971

Drone Syndicate 2000

01 Live '71, Pt. 1
02 Live '71, Pt. 2


The third and final available album from improvisational drone ensemble Taj Mahal Travellers.

Released a few times throughout the 2000's, this recording pre-dates the two official contemporary TMT albums.

Wonderful abstract drone.

Various Artists - September 2011

01 Dominic Frontiere - The Invaders - Main Title Theme

02 Damon - Don't You Feel Me

03 Gandalf - Can You Travel In The Dark Alone

04 Bread, Love & Dreams - Brother John

05 Flames - Solitude

06 Lula Cortes & Ze Ramalho - Nas Paredes Da Pedra Encantada, Os Segredos Talhados Por Sume

07 Can Am Des Puig - The Cauldron Of Regeneration

08 Mike Tingley - It's Time To Leave Her

09 The Golden Dawn - My Time

10 Michael Yonkers Band - Boy In The Sandbox

11 Fuchsia - Shoes and Ships

12 July - The Way

13 Principal Edward's Magic Theatre - Sacrifice

14 Dominic Frontiere - The Invaders

Another old mixtape. Still holds up well, with a lot of rare psychedelia. 

It pre-dates this blog and along with other early mixtapes, is the inspiration for the start of all this.

Cover star is Soledad Miranda.

Dillard & Clark

Bootleg 1969

01 No Longer a Sweetheart of Mine

02 Why Not Your Baby

03 Wall Around Your Heart

04 Through the Morning, Through the Night

05 So Sad

06 Dark Hollow

07 Kansas City Southern

08 Four Walls

09 Polly

10 Don't Let Me Down

Another fan made Gene Clark album, this time, re-arranging the second and final album from Dillard & Clark.

1968's 'The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark' was a classic from start to finsh. A little confusing coming after the psychedelic, beat and baroque 'Gene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers' (clues can be found in unreleased recordings), but collaborating with banjo player Doug Dillard produced a beautiful album of folk, country and bluegrass.

Unfortunately most critics agreed that 1969's follow up 'Through The Morning, Through The Night' was a bit of a come down. More cover versions, less Gene originals and vocals and the introduction of Donna Washburn as a further vocalist all contributed to this.

There is however, some wonderful songs on the released album, as well as some songs that weren't.

I retained 'No Longer a Sweetheart of Mine', 'So Sad', 'Kansas City Southern', 'Four Walls', 'Polly', 'Don't Let Me Down' and the title track from the original album. I added two outtakes from the album sessions; 'Dark Hollow' and 'Wall Around Your Heart'. Finally I included the wonderful non-album single 'Why Not Your Baby'.

The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)

Reprise 1967

01 I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)

02 Bangles

03 Onie

04 Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoy It Less)

05 Train For Tomorrow

06 Sold To The Highest Bidder

07 Get Me To The World On Time

08 About A Quarter To Nine

09 The King Is In The Counting House

10 Luvin
11 Try Me On For Size
12 The Toonerville Trolley


The Electric Prunes were a psychedelic garage rock band from L.A. and this is there debut album from 1967.

There seemed to be no end of absolutely terrible contracts given out to bands throughout the 1960's. The burden for The Electric Prunes was they were contractually bound to record the songs of songwriting team Annette Tucker and Nancie Mantz. On this first album, the band only had one original they wrote themselves.

There are a couple of songs that sound out of place and the band made no secret of their frustration with having to record these compositions. Some tracks though, like the title track and 'Get Me to the World On Time' are garage classics.

The real highlight is that the band were allowed to apply their recording ideas and experiments to these songs. They employ fuzztone, tremelo, sound effects and electronic composition.

The Electric Prunes had a strange career and we'll be looking at their other releases in the coming months.

Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974

CBS Japan 1975

01 I

02 II

03 III

04 IV

The Taj Mahal Travellers entered Nippon Columbia Studio No.1 in Tokyo to record their second album. The final album released in the groups lifetime, it was a mammoth 88 minute double of improvised abstract and drone.

Brocken Spectre - Drive By Election

Treehouse Orchestra Recordings 2018

01 Drive By Election

The first release in over a year from TOR. 

The re-formed Brocken Spectre (in which I play guitar) release this single ahead of a new album which is due in the Autumn.

Stream or free download at Bandcamp.

Various Artists - Summer 2018

01 Frankie Seay & The Soul Riders - Soul Food

02 Bruno Nicolai - Pursuited-Jennifer's Recall

03 Augustus Pablo & King Tubby - Keep On Dubbing

04 Indian Puddin And Pipe - Hashish

05 Nils Frahm - All Melody

06 Talk Talk - Stump

07 Sachiko Kanenobu - Anata Kara Toku E

08 Blues Magoos - I'll Go Crazy

09 Satya Sai Maitreya Kali - Ice and Snow

10 Colin Stetson - Spindrift

11 Art - Love Is Real (Unreleased Version)

12 Thane Russal & Three - Security

13 Goat - Let It Burn (Radio Edit)

14 Gu - Marianne

15 Modesty Blaise - Carol Mountain

Time for another mixtape. It's a double helping this month, soundtracking this beautiful sunshine.