Mar 13, 2015
Sep 23, 2014
juma's sultan's aboriginal music society
While musician’s recording their own music is not uncommon, it would be hard to imagine anyone matching the recording tenacity of Juma Sultan, who has recorded thousands of hours of material from the late 1960’s through the 1970’s. And not recordings of any old song but material that is historically important in regards to the evolution of (for the lack of better word) “Jazz”. What we have here now is a collection of handpicked tracks from the vast collection of Juma Sultan and in particular is his Aboriginal Music Society, comprised of likeminded musicians. The dates and personnel vary from track to track as the Aboriginal Music Society was consistently evolving as musicians came and went over the years. This ever changing line-up lead to a diversity of emotions that let the band explore a multitude of styles that included elements of, African music, jazz, spiritual-jazz, free-jazz and even soul music. Fortunately, some thirty years after the music was recorded, it is now reaching an eager and appreciative audience.
Oct 12, 2013
bobb trimble
Bobb Trimble “The Flying Spiders in Brooklyn” out on burger cassette! Live NYC performance from legendary outsider psych-folk rock n roller Bobb Trimble being backed by the prefab messiahs! 12 tracks recorded at rose live music on June 25, 2009!
Y la única palabra posible es emoción. Burger records acaba de editar un cassette con unas grabaciones en directo de 2009 de ese maravilloso enigma que aún hoy es Bobb Trimble. De cuando en cuando es inevitable regresar a esos nombres que sientes que siempre estarán ahí como el folk y la psicolidea, tan lo-fi, evocadora, subterránea y traviesa de Bobb. Quizá la nostalgia estimule estas sensaciones, pero además escucharlo completo en bandcamp a mi me ha hecho feliz.
May 12, 2013
gianni giublena rosacroce
Stefano Isaia's Gianni Giublena Rosacroce is back with new recordings: the great first cassette, "La Piramide di Sangue" released by Yerevan Tapes one year ago, laid the foundation of the kraut-psych rock ensemble La Piramide di Sangue (with the "Tebe" LP out on Boring Machines / Sound Of Cobra).Now he's back with his solo project, few nice mates helping (Dedalo666, Vernon, Jena) and two Tuareg girls reading Isaia's poetries in fulfulde (fula language).The setting of La Mia Africa is a psych mid-eastern landscape, desert at sunset, ancient temples and a far far shore. GGR keeps us in these atmospheres with a mysterious clarinet, tenebrous acoustic guitars, dreamy voices talking in a language that sounds far but fascinating and simple rare percussions give us the beat for a walk on the sand dunes. Following this charming music, we'll find the oasis in this desert...
Tengo que reconocer que el proyecto paralelo de Stefano Isaia es con el que más conecto de todas la nueva psicodelia ocultista italiana en la que me he ido surmegiendo tras las primeras grabaciones de Sounds of Cobra, y que sigo de cerca pues siempre está el kraut en el horizonte. Las latitudes, afortunadamente, siguen siendo las mismas, pero aquí todo es más sugerente, tribal y polvoriento. Hipnóticos trances a baja fidelidad cruzando el desierto rumbo al middle east, viajo acompañado con la percusión de un solitario tuareg. Veo espejismos a los lejos trazados por un clarinete que evoca a Third Ear Band, no sé si encontraremos un oasis, pero seguro que Maurice McIntyre ya está en el.
Feb 25, 2013
the lone garage massacre
Healing music to change your head space by way of trance induced astral
traveling and devic beings. Ethereal psychedelic folk music channeling
spirits from the dark land and influenced by Native American rituals, shamanism and Americana. 80 copies. sloow tapes
Regreso con un preferido del año que ya se fue. Sloow tapes continúa editando cassettes imperdibles, miniaturas que no deberíamos dejar escapar. De primeras 'nag-khung-sa-cha' podría habitar en un dimensión paralela a la psicodelia ocultista italiana de reciente implosión (cannibal movie, gianni guiblena rosacroce) aunque más folkie y éterea. Un disco para recorrer los montes appalaches con la hipnotizante 'rain comes' y el psych-folk de 'the land of the spirits'. Podrían ser feathers desde un aquellare. Siguiendo los senderos empiezo a levitar con la meditativa 'almis to the birds' y la ensoñadora ' live no more die no more' de efectos rendetores y sanadores. Lo cierto, es que al final del camino, me viene a la mente el siempre especial nombre de jens unosson (the spacious mind).
Dec 27, 2012
ibliss (rare earth XXIX)
ibliss - supernova (spiegelei-aamok, 1972)
Borne out of the confused Kraftwerk history, and taken under the wing of Conny Plank, Ibliss were one of the most remarkable one album wonders. Featuring Basil Hammoudi (from Organisation) and Andreas Hohmann (one of the two drummers on the first Kraftwerk album) augmenting a trio of no less talent, Ibliss created a logical jazz-fusion diversion on the Organisation sound, heavily featuring flutes, saxes and an overdose of percussion. All this in a typically Teutonic cosmic concoction, kinda Kraftwerk meets Miles Davis and Rocksession era Embryo, and also hinting at the later Kollektiv. It's a great shame they only released the one album! the crack in the cosmic egg
Al rastrear en los primeros y geniales Kraftwerk y, en sus electrificantes y experimentales sesiones es recurrente recuperar el mágico 'Tone Float' de Organisation. Entre aquellos restos (Andreas Hohmann, Basil Hammoudi) también quedó uno de los tesoros mejor escondidos del krautrock, que dejaría sorprendido al explorador de ideas preconcebidas, pues si hubiéramos de situar su contenido serían Annexus Quam, Ikarus, Niagara o Embryo símiles de excepción. Percusiones repetitivas y tribales con exploraciones de saxo y guitarra en la infecciosa 'Margah', el trance ya ha comenzado. Sigue el interludio cósmico de 'Drops', puro y sinuoso jazz cósmico sobre el que levitar de la mano del saxo de Rainer Buechel. 'High life' continúa por esa senda evocadora, dominada por una eterna línea de bajo e improvisaciones flautiles. La mántrica 'Athir' supone el despertar, veo la India a lo lejos cuando el chamán nos invoca de vuelta a la quietud de la noche y a sus extraños moradores.
Dec 6, 2012
erkki kurenniemi (rare earth XXVIII)
One of the undeniable pioneers of Finnish electronic music is Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), who founded The University of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio in the early 1960's. Kurenniemi built his own series of synthesizers, named as DIMI, which are nowadays mostly possessed by Swedish collector and electronic musician Ralph Lundsten, and published some of his experimental compositions like 'Dance of the Antropoids'. Alongside such Finnish pioneers as Eino Ruutsalo (for whose short films Kurenniemi composed music), Kurenniemi also did some early work on the field of Finnish media art and contributed to Finnish video art and happenings. These days Kurenniemi works as an independent researcher, specialising in such subjects as artificial intelligence. finnscene
A former nuclear scientist who composed computer-based music and designed his own instruments founding the University Of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio in 1962. Kurenniemi's pioneering work included microprocessor-based digital synthesizers built in the early 1970's. discogs
Siempre he sentido una especial atracción hacia los primeros aventureros de la música electrónica, más allá incluso de sus propias grabaciones, sólo el hecho antropológico de indagar en sus técnicas, instrumentos y creaciones ya me fascina. Desde visionarios creadores y académicos como Stockhausen, Moondog, Morton Subtonick o el propio Erkki a inefables exploradores del underground como Brucke Haack o Silver Apples, estos nombres son fiel reflejo de la libertad creativa del momento y de su desarrollo al margen de la industria y sus tendencias. Esta recopilación de grabaciones del finlandés nos tranpsortará a un solitario collage sónico lleno de sugerentes improvisaciones y cintas maniupaladas en 'hana', 'antropoidien tanssi' o ' mix master universe 2' y hasta alguna melodía presa de inteferencias en 'invention'.
Para los curiosos, en el siguiente paper encontraréis una revisión de los sintes y secuenciadores que Erkki construyó durante este período y que llegó a utilizar en sus grabaciones o directos, tales como su mítico Dimi.
Oct 28, 2012
sir irchard bishop
Intermezzo parades this variety in its myriad forms. Bishop has always been a capable purveyor of the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink “genre” as exemplified in Sun City Girls’ many albums. We recognize strains as disparate as Spaghetti Western soundtrack, flamenco, long-form epic, Southern-fried folk, and delay-laden shambolic noise. If you need your dose of transcendental acoustic glory, you’ll find it on “Inner Redoubt.” If you’re looking for a front porch stomp with a little bit of Spanish flavor, check “Hump Tulip.” Want a dusky raga with a tense mood? The next track “Dhumavati” will provide. Those who see the solo guitar as reaching its limits must be turning deaf ear towards Sir Richard.
The puzzling thing about this work is not the differences in its tracks, but the title. Each of these pieces can stand on their own merit, and none of them feel like an interlude between the two songs that surround them. There seem to be two options here: either Intermezzo is a threshold between Bishop’s other works, or each of these pieces stands on its own as a bridge between experiences, connecting what came before it with what comes after (...) Intermezzo displays Bishop in top form, and if this is an interlude, the next act should be spectacular. tiny mix tapes
The puzzling thing about this work is not the differences in its tracks, but the title. Each of these pieces can stand on their own merit, and none of them feel like an interlude between the two songs that surround them. There seem to be two options here: either Intermezzo is a threshold between Bishop’s other works, or each of these pieces stands on its own as a bridge between experiences, connecting what came before it with what comes after (...) Intermezzo displays Bishop in top form, and if this is an interlude, the next act should be spectacular. tiny mix tapes
Sep 26, 2012
Sep 8, 2012
peter howell & john ferdinando (rare earth XXVII)
peter howell and john ferdinando - alice through the looking glass (uk, 1969)
Alice... is a charming, ornate slice of English whimsy with an appeal that surely extends beyond the limited audience at which it was aimed back in 1969. Much of the attraction obviously delves from Lewis Carroll's surreal poetry, but some of the musical templates are genuinely inspired, end the project is clearly coloured by the more melodic English psychedelic acts of the late 1960s such as the Moody blues and the Pink Floyd (indeed, Alice has been compared else were to a more pastoral equivalent of "Piper At The Gates of Dawn"). There are numerous highlights scattered throughout the album, but pride of place must go to Jabberwocky, an impressive melange of treated vocals and backward tapes that is worth the price of admission alone. With its drowsy atmosphere, myriad sound effects and languid organ-based sound, Alice certainly invokes the spirit of the psychedelic age, albeit from the perspective or photogenic Middle England rather than hallucinogenic Middle Earth. Rarely can an album or book have ended with a more apposite line. Life - what is it but a dream?". David Wells - psychedelic folk
Han sido muchas las veces en que he pensado hablar Ithaca o Agincourt pero que mejor que empezar la historia de peter y john desde el princpio. No creo que muchos nombres representen mejor el espíritu de estos rare earth que el dúo surgido de la pequeña villa de Ditchlinf en Sussex. Hasta la reedición y recuperación de las cintas orginales a mediados de los ochenta con 'A game for All Who Know', sus grabaciones no fueron más allá de, en el mejor de los casos, prensajes privados de 100-200 copias, quedándose su debut en unas 70. Más tarde fueron llegando las reediciones de acme,
background o
lion.
Psych-folk desde la inglaterra medieval en clave naif y con el aroma inconfudible a home recording, la magia imperfecta que el dúo imprimió a todas sus grabaciones se combina con la poesía surrealista de Lewis Caroll. Además se intercalan fragmentos hablados que rompen la estructura de canciones, dejándome sensanciones al estilo de Mayo Thompson. Así es difícil describir que se siente con 'the march of the chessmen', 'dam and dee' o 'jabberwocky', quizá sea eso, un sueño. Para los curiosos el sinfín de instrumentos que desfilan en 'alice through the looking glass' son: órganos, chirimías, mandolinas, glockenspiel, guitarras, bajos, pianos, auto-arpas, varios instrumentos de percusión extraños y un número de técnicas peculiares de grabación.
Psych-folk desde la inglaterra medieval en clave naif y con el aroma inconfudible a home recording, la magia imperfecta que el dúo imprimió a todas sus grabaciones se combina con la poesía surrealista de Lewis Caroll. Además se intercalan fragmentos hablados que rompen la estructura de canciones, dejándome sensanciones al estilo de Mayo Thompson. Así es difícil describir que se siente con 'the march of the chessmen', 'dam and dee' o 'jabberwocky', quizá sea eso, un sueño. Para los curiosos el sinfín de instrumentos que desfilan en 'alice through the looking glass' son: órganos, chirimías, mandolinas, glockenspiel, guitarras, bajos, pianos, auto-arpas, varios instrumentos de percusión extraños y un número de técnicas peculiares de grabación.
Jul 21, 2012
la piramide di sangue
The sound of the band is builded on two guitars, two basses, one clarinet, one synth, several effects, drums and percussions. The songs are a mosaic of meditative and restless sounds that could remind Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, ballads with north-african taste, kraut rock rides under the sign of Agitation Free and Neu! Their first 12″ comes out in a 500 copies red vinyl limited edition, in coproduction with our friends of Boring Machines.
buy: soundofcobra@gmail.com
Jun 23, 2012
snails
Bristol based Snails is basically a duo, consisting of Dan Weltman (aka Hollowbody) and Mog Fry (The Wraiths / Ukeytronica). They mentioned that Basil Kirchin, Clive Palmer and Moondog influenced them. “With tips of the hat to Francoise Hardy, The Left Banke and The Pastels.” At first they wanted to “soundtrack a budget slasher movie involving a homicidal nun”. This led to more than one lost soundtrack. It is hard to tell the range of their inspirations, because both songs from the single are already somewhat different, although both have that lovely English countryside flavour in them rooted in folk, with free and fresh new inspirations. The loveliest track with no doubt is “She’d like an hour”. Here we hear fast moody pickings, glockenspiel and layers of texturing strings/brass and flute arrangements and percussion, led by a melancholic sweet female lead voice. The arrangements evolve further and change into a kind of old music dance-folk flavoured tune led by two guitars and hand percussion, with some moody acid folkish progressing on the rhythms with several vocal and flute arrangements ideas. “Daylight ends” is in a lighter happier mode, a song by dual vocals, picking guitars and electric (some kind of string instrument or) guitar, violin and some mouth harmonica, like a softened and sweetened countryside/Appalachian folk flavoured lullaby.
Edition of 300 numbered green vinyl records. psychedelic folk
Apr 8, 2012
least carpet
If you listen to Least Carpet the first time it will remember you of something you do already know, but it’s blurry and then you get pictures. Pictures of sitting on a hill top in the fresh blooming meadow. You smell the weed and maybe yourself, you listen to the birdsongs and hear tiny bells ringing. On the left side, downhill you get a glimpse of some small village, on the right side: your sheep. You pickup your self carved flute and whistle with the birds (...) Least Carpet play Eastern European influenced psych folk in vein of Hala Strana or Thuja. It makes you feel sitting on a bench in front of an old shack, surrounded by nature with sun in your face, daydreaming. Dying for bad music
Feb 9, 2012
ryley walker & daniel bachman
It’s hard to fathom what the Appalachian musical landscape must have been like in the early 1900s when musicians would sit on their front porch surrounded by family and friends while they picked away, but we here at Plustapes have long extolled the virtues of that missing link in guitar wunderkid Ryley Walker. It was thanks to a chance encounter while Daniel Bachman (a.k.a. Sacred Harp) was on tour through the Midwest that their collaborative effort, Of Deathly Premonitions, came to be. Walker was excited to meet this fellow fingerstyle guitar traveller of comparable age and equal ability – the first thing they talked about was a shared love for Loren Connors and Sandy Bull. Not long after, they were talking record collections and collaborations. Of Deathly Premonitions is the result, four songs birthed from a relaxed session in the middle of the week during a trip Walker made to Bachman’s hometown of Fredericksberg, Virginia this past spring. With a few beers and a bit of ambition, the pastoral past meets the fingerstyle future. 100 copies.
No puedo más que confirmar las sensaciones del año pasado. Daniel Bachman se ha convertido ya en uno de esos imprescindibles fingerpickings de esta aldea y las doce cuerdas de Ryley Walker ayudan a ello.
Jan 16, 2012
savaging spires
Enchanting from the off, their eponymous debut is set to become a real cult classic, crossing secret paths between pastoral psych collaging and knowingly meticulous folk composition in the flicker of a hare's whisker. Wicker Man references abound, but there's something far more wyrd at play here, an instinctively organic flow between seemingly improvised jamming and full blown choral harmonies bound to take your breath away. critical heights
Savaging Spires play improvised lullabies and outro jams with here and there a song context but mostly the vocals are with nananas and lalalas in very nice group harmonies, girls and boys in separate choirs. The instruments remain somewhat steady as instant found percussions and hand claps, acoustic guitar strums and pickings, banjos, flute and glockenspiel, here and there a cello texture. This is a staring at a nice forest and environment at a doorstep, a celebration to a time standing still place. Themes like songs are only repetitions of just one sentence. The sound of their improvisations are really nice, which is psych-folk/acid folk minded, performed by new hippies with a forest mind, but it is getting a bit long and limited for a full release doing only that outro, intro, intermezzo, and lullaby jam stuff. psychedelic folk
Oct 23, 2011
john terlazzo (rare earth XXVI)
No sé que más añadir, sólo la poesía de 'Avalanche' de Leonard Cohen o 'Things Behind The Sun' de Nick Drake se acerca a 'Honour Among Thieves' o 'The Older Code'.
Sep 15, 2011
the family elan
Fusion is a dirty word, implying clinicism and a dry sense of conscious matchmaking. “Bow Low Bright Glow” is a more a communal excavation and re-presentation of buried European folk and sufi-hearted music than any form of experiment. Family Elan are alone in their field. Here, Chris Hladowski has put together a collection of original numbers, visions created from lost/found tapes and traditional pieces (including a absolutely gorgeous “The BlackPlanets Of Her Eyes”) that are a fitting companion to Family Elan’s “Stare of Dawn” debut.
Alongside Hladowski’s voice, there’s the vocal input of Nalle’s Hanna Tuulikki – a voice as easily capable of gentle Qawwali as it is folk song. This is a record of heavy treble intricacy, Hladowski’s saz and bouzouki playing encompassing drones, folk, dervish progressive work and a woozy shimmer over and through the entwining melodies. Family Elan are more than just a project or a band, Hladowski has endowed the music here with a such a unique voice that shaky shorthand comparisons would be pointless and a short sell. Music that hints at the devotional rarely feels as inclusive, as communal and as enjoyable as this.
Abandonado Locust y tras tres años de larga espera, el proyecto de Chris Hladowski y Hanna Tuulikki, una debilidad personal, regresa al traditional-folk del Eastern Europe y lo rodea de múltiples referencias, drones, una sensibilidad más propia de Clive's Original Band e intricadas melodías al saz y al bouzouki que revolotearán sin cesar en tu subconsciente.
Sep 3, 2011
georgia's horse
This five track EP features the skewed and magnetic vision of singer/songwriter Teresa Maldonado but her brittle and skeletal songs are fleshed out by multi-instrumentalist Tiziano Hernandez (bass/guitars), Brad Thomason (drums) and Melly Rose (cello). But thats not to say that this recording sounds like it was handled by some kind of your mothers your brother, lives in a barn hillman. Their recent collaboration with hotly tipped Pitchfork favourites and electronic/dub step pioneers Various Productions (As It Stops Raining, Fire Records) has certainly influenced the group the title track and Snake & Sparrow, creak and echo as if recorded in a haunted house, on haunted equipment. From the most basic of set ups, a deeply affecting and subtle beauty is achieved.
Aug 22, 2011
bonifrate
bonifrate - um futuro inteiro (cloud chapel, 2011)
‘Um Futuro Inteiro’ is a marvel of home recording. Accurate arrangements built by the bard himself with contributions of his gang formed by Filipe Giraknob, Alexander Zhemchuzhnikov, Diogo Valentino, Augusto Malbouisson and Digital Ameríndio (...) Its the album 'Um Futuro Inteiro' (A Whole Future) by a guy who calls himself Bonifrate, a kind of rural psychedelic fella who was born and raised in Paraty, a small coastal city between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Jun 25, 2011
adam bleckley
adam bleckley - reverse (self-released, 2011)I'm an musician from Birmingham in the U.K. I create hypnotic music using different sources of sound. The aim is to make music where the listener can lose themselves in the different textures of the noise. When I made the record I was hoping to create something which drew its listeners into a sort of trance state. I'd say that I wasn't focusing on a particular emotion but rather the ability to make listeners and myself apply their own feelings and ideas on to the music. The naming of each song is just based upon how I felt when listening to each song over and the events around me at the time. Adam
Hay ciertas cosas que pese a todo te hacen buscar un momento y volver. Sumergirse de primera mano en 'Unleashed, you spoke' o 'Revere' y perderse en ese viaje pastoral de drones de baja densidad e hipnóticas soundscapes, bien lo merecen.
Hay ciertas cosas que pese a todo te hacen buscar un momento y volver. Sumergirse de primera mano en 'Unleashed, you spoke' o 'Revere' y perderse en ese viaje pastoral de drones de baja densidad e hipnóticas soundscapes, bien lo merecen.
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