What albums did you listen to today?...continued

Anthony Phillips - The Meadows of Englewood
Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch
Hawkwind - Space Bandits
Maxophone - Maxophone
Gong - I See You
Magic Mushroom Band - Pictures in my Mind (2CD)

Yeah, I find that too, mate. In fact, I don't even like the opening track off `Riot' all that much, it kind of seems `heavy metal'? Wish it had started with that infectious second track!

Hey Gary, no, it was the Slivovitz, Serge Bringolf and Tohpati Bertiga ones I was specifically thinking of in this instance! I do listen to Message's `From Books and Dreams' a few times a year, it's easily their best album, although I actually listen `The Dawn Anew is Coming' much more often. I love both of these ones, although the second album is clearly their most dynamic and inspired work.

Tonight's choices, with a couple of long-neglected favourites given a nice dust-off:

Tohpati Bertiga – Riot
Electric Sandwich – s/t
Message – From Books and Dreams
Slivovitz – Bani Ahead
Magma – Felicite Thosz
Serge Bringolf - Strave/Vision - Stone-cold Zeuhl classic, been FAR too long since I spun this.
Setna – Guerison
Phlox – Vali
Steve Hackett – The Night Siren
Goblin – Roller – I always forget how damn funky this is!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - April 05 2017 at 08:57

Heh I know that feeling. It's all about finding the right moments where music transforms into small birds in the brain. Chirp chirp? Now we're talking.

Yo Samuel - how did you get along with Invisible's sophomore release? May just be my fave.

Guldbamsen wrote: Saucerful of Secrets meets library music is a fair parallel Tymon. Really love that early raw and unfiltered type of psychedelia. When psych gets too polished it loses it's meaning and soul.

Exactly. I was listening to "Amboss" from Ash Ra Tempel's debut today morning and these were exactly my thoughts. Although it's much different from Catharsis' music, I think it shares that freshness and unpolished quality. You find a lot of it in those virtually unknown recordings of bands that say home-pressed 300 albums of theirs in 1968 and their members went on to become furniture dealers or had a restaurant in North Dakota.

Saucerful of Secrets meets library music is a fair parallel Tymon. Really love that early raw and unfiltered type of psychedelia. When psych gets too polished it loses it's meaning and soul.

I think I've made those kinds of 'hand' drawings with kids before...with much success! The trick is to go for odd colour combos, which often is what (certain) kids bring to the table.

Love that Campo di Marte. What a great anti-war record - even if the lingo escapes me.
Been a while since I last heard the Alphataurus debut. My fave used to be Il Mente Vola. The Italian Bruce Springsteen attack of the vocals are more toned down to deliver something vastly more sensuous and soft, which imo suits the singer immensely.

Me yesterday:
Runddans - Runddans (May just have to bump my rating up a notch. This album is brilliant!)
Samuel Cadima - Cascado
Catharsis - Les Chevrons (Pseudo French krautrock with Battiato-like organs)
The KLF - Chill Out (Bahahahaha like a sheep)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
Magazine - Real Life (one of my high school loves - and it still packs a punch. Really appreciate how the organs and other such exotic instruments are implemented in the music. Art-Punk.)
Organisation - Tone Float
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (such a great come-back album)
Thundercat - Drunk (I can't help myself - I'm addicted!)
Parliament - Osmium (Psychedelic funk at it's finest)