Gila - S/T

 

BASF 1971

01 Aggression

02 Kommunikation

03 Kollaps

04 Kontakt

05 Kollektivität

06 Individualität

Haven't had any Krautrock in a while. Gila Füchs came from a Stuttgart political commune and this, their debut album (sometimes referred to as 'Free Electric Sound', was released in 1971.

Psychedelic German space rock, with jamming and sound effects. For fans of Agitation Free.

"HERE IT COMES THE BIG WAVE OF AGGRESSION!"

Dave & Toni Arthur - Hearken To The Witches Rune

 

Trailer 1971

01 Alison Gross

02 Tam Lin

03 A Fairy Tale

04 The Fairy Child

05 Broomfield Hill

06 The Standing Stones

07 The Cruel Mother

08 Alice Brand

Rare cult folk with a bizarre back story. Dave and Toni Arthur could be found presenting and writing songs for Play School and Play Away; two staples of BBC childrens television programming.

They had spent the last few years as a recording duo, with this album being a witchcraft folk oddity.

There are connections to Alex and Maxine Sanders (the imagery of whom can be found in certain parts of this blog) and the wiccan movement in the U.K.

The story is told far better and in depth here.

Repressed only once, in 1975.

Nightjrrs / Heartwood / Goatherder - De​-​Cadere

 

Treehouse Orchestra Recordings TOR081. 2021.

01 De-Cadere Part One

02 De-Cadere Part Two

03 De-Cadere Part Three

04 De-Cadere Part Four

More music with my own involvement. Recorded and released this month.

Nightjrrs:

John Chambers - Guitars and vocals.

Andy Hopkins - Guitars and vocals.

Nicci Reed - Keyboards and vocals.

Heartwood:

Jonathan Sharp - Buchla Music Easel Command, Soma Labs Lyra 8 and Eowave Quadrantid Swarm.

Goatherder:

Stephen Benson - Guitars and drones.

Recorded live at Cakes and Ale, Carlisle, October 4th 2021.

Mastered by Jonathan Sharp.

Cover art by Stephen Benson.

The Proseed art group in Carlisle ran an Autumn exhibition entitled 'De-Cadere'. The exhibition opened at the Intro gallery and the after party was held at Cakes and Ale cafe. The cafe displayed selected art works and live music.

Heartwood is the slight pseudonym of The Heartwood Institute when improvising more experimental modular sets.

Nightjrrs performed music from their new album 'Interregnum'.

Heartwood joined Nightjrrs, along with Goatherder for a 45 minute improvisation to end the evening and the recording of that improvisation is presented here.

Various Artists - Halloween 2021 - Cam's Halloween Psychedelic Murder Cult Scare/Chill Vibe Mixtape

 

01 Joshua Warren - The Ritual Chamber (Inside the Church of Satan)

02 Donovan - Season of the Witch

03 Robert Hermel - Industrie Spatiale

04 Pete Fine - Revelations/Prelude/For Sam

05 Alessandro Alessandroni - Suor Omicidi (Killer Nun) Sequence 4

06 The Shaggs - It's Halloween

07 Strawberry Alarm Clock - Curse of the Witches

08 Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Willow's Song

09 Bobby Beausoleil - Movement The Second

10 The Manson Family - Is There No One In Your World But You?

11 Macarbre - Be Forwarned

12 Barbera, The Grey Witch - Witch's Love Song

13 Mark Fry - The Witch

14 C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell (Part 2)

15 Barbera, The Grey Witch - Excerpt from 'Gray Responsibilities'

A new mixtape for Halloween, although this time it was a request. 

Good pal Camille wanted a mixtape for a Halloween party that has the commission in the title.

Ultimate Spinach - Behold And See

 

MGM Records 1968

01 Behold & See (Gilded Lamp Of The Cosmos)

02 Mind Flowers

03 Where You're At

04 What You're Thinking Of (Jazz Thing)

05 Fragmentary March Of Green

06 Genesis Of Beauty (In Four Parts)

07 Fifth Horseman Of The Apocalypse

This is the second L.P. by Boston's Ultimate Spinach. West coast sounding, downbeat psych.

Grouper - Wide

 

Free Porcupine Society 2006

01 Make Me Over

02 Little Boat/Bone Dance (Audrey)

03 Imposter In The Sky

04 Giving It To You

05 Agate Beach

06 They Moved Everything

07 Black Blood

08 Shadow Rise, Drowned

09 Wide

With the imminent release of a new Grouper album, I thought I'd share another harder to get release from a few years ago.

Originally a CD release on Free Porcupine Society in 2006, this album has been re-issued (in very limited runs) several times:

Weird Forest Records L.P. Test Pressing (2006)

Grouper self released L.P. (2010)

Gene Clark - The Lighthouse

 

Bootleg

A1 The American Dreamer

A2 She's the Kind of Girl

A3 One in a Hundred

A4 Here Tonight

A5 She Darked the Sun

A6 Outlaw Song

B1 Back to Earth Again

B2 The Lighthouse

B3 The Awakening Within

B4 Sweet Adrienne

B5 Walking Through this Lifetime

B6 The Sparrow

B7 Only Yesterday's Gone

Another Gene re-imagining; this time I'm trying to make sense of the 1970 recordings. 

During this period, Gene embarked on a series of one off sessions, I've made these the basis of Side 1. 'The American Dreamer' and 'Outlaw Song' are both short solo pieces Gene wrote and recorded for 'American Dreamer', starring Dennis Hopper. 

'She's the Kind of Girl' and 'One in a Hundred' were intended to be released as a 'reunion' Byrds single in 1970 and features all five original members. Far superior to anything on the 1973 reunion album, it's a mystery as to why this single was cancelled.

'Here Tonight' and 'She Darked the Sun' were recorded by Gene and The Flying Burrito Brothers. It's tantalising to think about a Gene Clark led Burritos after the departure of Gram Parsons, all we have is this (again aborted) single.

The two unissued singles eventually ended up the European only release 'Roadmaster'. However, they sat uneasy with new recordings from 1973, which made for an unbalanced listen.

The second side features half an albums worth of songs that finally saw the light on Sierra Records 'The Lost Studio Sessions 1964–1982'. Again recorded in 1970, it's unclear what these were being recorded for. They are solo performances and a little too professional to be demos. 

This would of made a great Gene Clark album of contrasting styles and makes sense of this period before Gene once again set about making an album proper the following year.

Other Gene Clark re-imagined albums on this blog:

Back Street Mirror b/w Don't Let it Fall Through (1967)

The Gene Clark Group E.P. (1968)

Dillard & Clark (1969)

The Lighthouse (1970)

Mendocino (1971)