Friday, 21 April 2023

Agitation Free - Live

 



















Bootleg 1974 

01 Through The Moods
02 First Communication
03 Dialogue & Random
04 Laila
05 In The Silence Of The Morning Sunrise

Agitation Free at their kosmiche jamming best; first issued as the bootleg 'At Last ... Is Alive (WDR-Radio Broadcast)'. 

This has been issued several times, the artwork above is from 'At The Cliffs Of River Rhine' released on the great Garden Of Delights.

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Cosmic Circus Music - Wiesbaden 1973

 




















Garden of Delights 2013

01 Sternenmaskerade, Teil 1
02 Sternenmaskerade, Teil 2

Originally recorded in the Wiesbaden Wartburg-Auditorium, on Saturday, 14th July, 1973. This tripped out German jamming was originally only available on a promotional cassette.

Re-issued on Garden of Delights in 2013.

Messol featuring Amy Tweddle - Rome in Fall / Autodidact

 




















Treehouse Orchestra Recordings 2023

01 Rome in Fall
02 Autodidact

First new release of 2023 from Cumbria label Treehouse Orchestra Recordings. This one is a collaboration between Marc Gillen (Brocken Spectre, The Nightowl Sings) and Amy Tweddle (We/Are/Quasars).

Marc Gillen - Drum machine, keyboards, samples and vocals.

Amy Tweddle - Guitar and vocals.

Mixed and arranged by Alastair Popple at the Kitchen Sync.

Recorded at home 2022-23.

Words by Marc Gillen.

Artwork by Stephen Benson.

'Rome In Fall' contains a modified extract from "Night on the Docks - Sax" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License - creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Film dialogue on 'Autodidact' from 'Human Desire' [Fritz Lang 1954).

TOR091.

Spacemen 3 - Live at The Black Lion Pub, Northampton, 03/08/85

 




















Live Recording 1985

01 Intro
02 2.35
03 These Things Have Got to Be
04 Little Doll
05 Things'll Never Be The Same

Very early recording of Spacemen 3 now. It was very well documented, with plenty of photographs and tales of the evening reproduced online. Great early snapshot of the band already sounding huge.

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

The Stone Roses - The Paul Schroeder Mixes

 




















Unreleased 1994

01 Breaking Into Heaven
02 Driving South
03 Begging You
04 Daybreak
05 Good Times
06 Tears
07 Ten Storey Love Song
08 Love Spreads
 
I was recently reading about The Stone Roses 'Second Coming' and I remembered all the 
cassettes that floated around before the albums release. It's an album I admittedly
haven't listened to in years, but these (and future) alternate versions offer an 
interesting listen for a fan.

After nearly two years of stopping and starting and very little recording, producer
John Leckie quit. Engineer Paul Schroeder became the new producer (he too would later 
quit) and assembled these mixes of the tracks they had. Generally rougher, these 
mixes were made for the tons of overdubs John Squire would apply over the coming 
months.

I prefer several of these versions to the album proper.

Blues Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop

 




















Fontana 1966 / Repertoire Records 2005

01 (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
02 Love Seems Doomed
03 Tobacco Road
04 Queen Of My Nights
05 I'll Go Crazy
06 Gotta Get Away
07 Sometimes I Think About
08 One By One
09 Worried Life Blues
10 She's Coming Home

Bonus Tracks
11 Tobacco Road
12 Sometimes I Think About
13 (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
14 Gotta Get Away

Garage psych classic. This is the Repertoire Records re-issue from 2005 with singles and b-sides as bonus tracks.

Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes - Uganda

 


















Toshiba Records 1972

01 Wanyama Na Mapambazuko
02 Na Tu Penda Sana
03 Vita
04 Pygmy

A right mash up of Japanese prog jazz and Ugandan rhythm.