“Psych” (Used 14 times)

Roger McGuinn of The Byrds is not only a folk-rock legend, but a web pioneer and folk archivist. He started the Folk Den Project in 1995 to share his own original performances of public domain folk music. Originally using 8-bit mono .wav's in the pre-mp3 era, he still posts one song every month.

"Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" is a folk standard that originated in the Appalachias and has been covered by the likes of The Carter Family, Peter Paul and Mary, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. This version was recorded at New York's Bottom Line while McGuinn was on an acoustic tour with fellow Byrds founder Gene Clark. "Gene was playing his beautiful Martin D-45 and I was finger picking my Rickenbacker 370 12-string – dripping with compression," Roger McGuinn writes at the Folk Den. "This arrangement could easily have been on a 1965 Byrds record." (Read More | Chords/Lyrics)

Roger McGuinn on FMA |  Folk Den HQ  |  Folk Den 4xCD  |   Gene Clark Sundazed Reissues

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Hey all. This is Colin L. (USAISAMONSTER, CSC Funk Band, Bullroarer, MassDist) and this is what I’m doing…

I’m working on my 2012 album entitled COL. That’s taking up most of my time. I’m thinking about it and working on it a lot. Its all getting planned in my head. And all the moves are getting made. I’m handing it off in December. Gonna take that long.

But I’m also making another album, more like a cassette, but neither. I’m gonna mix these out there outtakes and side jams and whatever new recorded gems. Weirder, maybe more noisy, less focused, not COL, looser, random, more, but just plain fun jams. Whatever I want. Having fun with our Tac board and our studio. Sorta a song a month, on the side. Sorta another record. Its all exciting to me.

NSPY is gonna release these jams digitally, systematically, and periodically on the internet for free and for ya’ll.

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Last year, we shifted the focus of the New Weird Australia compilation series away from a free-for-all approach to something that would have a sharper curatorial focus. Something you could put handles around (so to speak).  Something you could clearly identify as “a compilation about X or Y or Z”. “We Are After All Here”, volume eight in our compilation series, does have a theme and identity of sorts, but defining it becomes increasingly problematic. Let me explain:

Throughout 2009 and 2010, we were listening to a heap of bands and artists that were clearly starting to coalesce into some form of vague and abstract grouping. Either through sound, technique, image, a reverence for the past, or just a common, skewed take on a hauntalogical notion, there was a broad church emerging that would count these artists among their flock.

Fortunately, no one dared to define it. If you speak of the devil, he’s sure to appear, thus keeping quiet and refusing to conform to definition worked well for all concerned. Having no such definition, and thus having artists co-opted or excluded based solely on the whims of the individual listener, was the perfect scenario.

But, of course, someone had to define it, and in doing so, they killed it. Hipster Runoff dropped ‘chillwave’, The Wire started talking about ‘hypnogogic pop’.  Then followed glo-fi, witch house, drag, screw gaze and so on and so on. (Our favourite remains ‘crunk shoegaze’ – meaningless, yet somehow quite endearing).

The list of artists lumped together under these various microgenres was often contradictory and bafflingly random – they were subsumed to the will of the writer, desperate to force round pegs into square holes. And once this grouping was anointed with such dubious definitions, the scrutiny began – spotlights were shone in all manner of places, and backlashes naturally came thereafter. The edifice soon crumbled.

We, on the other hand, are (after all) here – ‘down under’ – doing our own thing, far removed from such recklessness. We have our own obliquely connected and amoebic group of similar artists, remaining unaffected by trend, hype or weak stylistic interpretation. And it is to this group that we turn for this compilation. If, by virtue of their geography, they had birthed their projects in North America, they might well have all been raped and pillaged by now – raked over the blogeratti coals for their part in an ill-defined ‘scene’.

Although our upside-down location can often be a curse, in this case it’s a blessing – all these artists survived unscathed, their mission no more or less impossible, living another day to ‘fight the good fight’. And we shall leave this group unnamed, for all our sakes. Suffice to say, it’s another new, weird slice through the unsung underground of abnormal Australian music.

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Sample tracks from the release:

Golden Pavilion Records reissues fully-licensed late 60's and 70's psychedelic, progressive, acid-folk & art-rock music. They specialize in high quality vinyl and limited editions, explaining that "our goal is to make this music available to the discerning listeners, as close as possible to its original format."

To help spread the word about these rare and often overlooked recordings, Golden Pavilion Records joined the Free Music Archive this week, where they now offer free, high quality, blog- & pod-safe mp3s off of six of their releases. These include

Yves Rakotomalala's Ce matin encore, originally released in a private pressing of 200, shades of After The Gold Rush with the A side in English, B side in French

Mellotron-laden Belgian '76 prog from Dragon, as heard on Tony Coulter's WFMU radio program (which should mean something to anyone who's into rare psychedelic music of the 60s and 70s, private pressings, thrift store finds, etc).

Mario Garcia's Sr. Cisne has been described as "an attempt to play 80s afro-brazilian prog fusion" by the great record shop Weirdo Records.

Panta Rei's 1973 self-titled album sure has some weird cover art...

Univeria Zekt's Unnamables is apparently a 1971 Magma album in disguise?!?

Stoned Wall by the Austrian band Art Boys Collection delves into prog, folk freak-beat and a whole range of psychedelic styles

If you're looking to procure yourself some of these limited vinyl pressings, better act now, because some (like the Panta Rei) are already sold out!

Homemade Lo-Fi Psych might be a musical style, yes... but it's also an awesome blog "dedicated to the mystical or psychedelic aspects in art, especially music. And a platform for artists & musicians with high ideals but lofi equipment." They've recently released Vol 5 of their HLFP sampler series -- the Sun Ra inspired Space is Still the Place. And soon we hope to bring this to the FMA so yall dont have to use megaupload to get it.

For now I'm still catching up on Vol 4 and its 34 Sound Explosions. Literally! Every track delivers on its promise; HLFP proprietor Mike-Floyd has tapped in to a wide world of psychedelic home recordists. Take a listen to "Apokalypsen" by Another World of Beasts -- a band who claim to be from Antartica but I think are actually from Sweden -- and dig in to the full comp here.

>> Homemade Lo-Fi Psych v4: Sound Explosions (FMA)
>>> homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com