Mini Profile
jason on 05/05/2010 at 04:00PM
5/5/2010 Psychedelic Blend
a mix of psychedelic sounds ranging from funk to shoegaze to folk to sitar-laced spacerock, by artists hailing from across the USA (Bay Area, Ohio, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Florida) to the UK, Russia, and Turkey.
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Won James Won (pictured) hails from Saint Petersburg / Moscow, Russia, active since 2003. This comes to us from the Russian Association of Independent Genres (R.A.I.G.). Cinwaves are a duo from Deerfield Beach, Florida Mark Nicholas and Alison Cotton are The Left Outsides from South London, and it's no surprise they've got fans all across the UK -- everyone from Uncut to BBC 6 to Terrascope. This stunning track reminds me of a folkier Broadcast. It can be found on Dead Bees sampler #8. Flowerheads sing in Portugese, and we found this on Jamendo but we don't know every much about the group. If anybody does please share! Moon Duo is the stripped down drum-machine-laden incarnation of Ripley from Wooden Shjips, joined by keyboardist Sanae. The duo recently rocked the WFMU / aQuarius Records SXSW showcase, and this track was recorded live at KEXP. The original can be found on Moon Duo's Escape 12'' EP (Woodsist 2010). |
Big Troubles is the shoe-gazin' duo of Alex Craig and Ian Drennen from Ridgewood NJ. They're bringing the 4-piece live band to my radio show Talk's Cheap on Tuesday May 11th. This comes off a Various Deficiencies Volume 1, free compilation from Blackburn Recordings that also features music from Cursillistas, Metal Rouge, City Center, Cloud Nothings. (Cover art for Big Troubles' debut 7'' at right)
5unday5essions is an online collaborative project (that you are encouraged to take part in!) with all sorts of interesting results this this song about swallowing mustache hair.
The Vocokesh hail from New Berlin, Wisconsin. This sitar-laden jam is one of three tunes available via Strange Attractors Audio House, along with many more instrumental "out" sounds from the likes of Kinski, Cul de Sac/Damo Suzuki, Glenn Jones, Tsurubami, and Steffen Basho-Junghans.
Hayvanlar Alemi are a contemporary psych-rock band from Turkey inspired by the first international wave of psychedelic music. Here's an article I wrote about their dub album Visions of a Psychedelic Ankara.
Tommy Jay (pictured at left) is the not-so-secret weapon of the Harrisburg, Ohio collective revolving around musicians like Mike Rep (he of "lovingly fucked with by-" fame), T.A. Lafferty, The General, Nudge Squidfish, Jim Shepard, Don Howland, and Ron House. This 1974 basement recording can be found on Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma, one of many collections just now being put to vinyl courtesy of the good people at Columbus Discount Records.
