Like everything else in life, this didn't turn out how I expected. It's not the abstract ambient psych psuite I originally intended, nor is it the simple comp of unaltered tracks that took its place when the whole thing got All Too Much. It's something in-between, tracks edited and merged into a pseamless psych flight. There's nothing throat-slashingly obscure here, and a couple that peek through the fractal fringe into the bustling marketplace. How many do you recognise?
The whole thing floats by in an iridescent bubble you can climb into for a while. Keeping it to thirty minutes (I have so many massive comps I never listen to) meant leaving out [YOUR FAVORITES]. And a couple of mine. There's nothing remotely heavy, no surprise mood breakers, but enough variety to keep you from nodding out (unless that's what you want to do). Nothing camp or ironic or exploito-fake, no "referencing" or "chanelling", and nothing recorded since way back then. The super-saturated color, the patchouli shimmer, the dumb beautiful optimism, these are authentic manifestations of the times. As live as you want them to be.
If you've forgotten the sun, don't worry, he remembers you ...
This post made tangible thru the agency of certain small, blue, metallic-tasting pills I ingested back in '68
One more tweak, and it's a deliverable ...
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DeleteThanks Babs! The global tsunami of kudos greeting this epochal release has inspired me to *cough* curate the next in the series, Thirty Minutes Thru Th' Looking Glass, which will be more guitar-centric tho' still eschewing throaty stoner headbanging.
DeleteI'm gonna float away soon!! Thanks Farq!!!
ReplyDeleteThe way I see it, Steve, is that if you have half as much fun listening to it as I had making it, then I had twice as much fun as you, which sounds about fair.
DeleteHow many do you recognise? well none actually (the first with the female vocals is very intriguing), I'm not a religious man, but feeling all spiritual now. Ommmm.
DeleteThat's Linda Perhacs, whose album Parallelograms is an absolute masterpiece. High quality downloads at uloz.to
DeleteUloz no longer seems to be readily searchable to little old freebie me.
DeleteIt's changed, and not for the better.
Delete> uloz.to
> type linda perhacs (whatever) in search field, click magnifying glass
> hover over "Další" under new search field, click "arcivy" in drop-down menu
> click on album of choice from new page
> click "Stáhnout pomalu" turtle
Thank 'ee, Babs! I'm interested in the live stuff, but il faut dire que I wasn't that impressed by her "out of retirement" album.
DeleteAgreed on the "out of retirement" disc.
DeleteModerna Museet, Malmö, Sweden, November 20, 2013
https://workupload.com/file/V8CRpSeDjq7
Linda from various dates in 2011 and 2013
MEXICAN SUMMER, PIONEER WORKS, BROOKLYN, NY, October 12, 2013
McCABE'S GUITAR SHOP, SANTA MONICA, CA, April 10, 2011
NACARUBI MUSIC FESTIVAL, June 29, 2013
JAZZHOUSE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, November 22, 2013
https://workupload.com/file/432tBZwXvdd
Amoeba Music, Hollywood, CAMarch 9, 2014
https://workupload.com/file/hFeXuZmuv5R
May your perineum be as a scented bower of delight and haven for the spiritually confused.
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Deletemust...join...cult...must .....join.....cult. Oh wait, it's W... in the W... with Debbie H. Male vocalist holding off key note just knocks me out. Thanks for making me listen to this, I knew it existed but needed to be pushed to persist, to 'open my mind' as we used to say.
ReplyDeletePlease empty your wallet into the Sacred Repository (life-size zircon-encrusted statue of Alfred E. Neuman) as you wave "aloha" to th' Isle O' Foam©, Mr. Kirshner!
Delete(Any more ethnomusicologists out there who can name and shame the guilty parties? I'm guessing there's a couple that nobody except sitarswami will recognise.)
It's A Beautiful Day
DeleteThat's another one. Any more? Special No-Prize for spotting The Lovin' Spoonful ...
DeleteThe one that stunned me... I wanted to hear more of that "don't fear the dark side of you" stuff.
DeleteImagine my surprise when I found it was from an album many of us already know - but an outtake only included on a much later expanded re-release version of that album.
Gotta say... that particular expanded version would make a really good post all on its own. Neither of the other previous CD re-issues of the album had that track or the song after it or the alternate version of the Atomic Enchiladas song. And the original release didn't have the second Harry Nilsson song.
No one seems to have mentioned the one song I recognized. Perhaps because it was so obvious it went without saying? It's by the open-minded American holders of the internationally most popular psychedelic band name.
ReplyDeleteObvious or not, you win a fabulous weekend for one (1) at Irv n' Morty Finklestein's Mystic Trailer Grotto© (Pork Bend, WIS).
DeleteAnd right before the song by one of multiple bands with the same name, there's a song by a band named after someone with multiple names (e.g. Olórin, Mithrandir).
ReplyDeleteYour second winning spin of the Wheel-O'-Foam™ garners you a romantic dinner for one (1) at Irv n' Morty Finklestein's Land-O'-Lard© (Pork Bend, WIS).
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