Wooden Shjips - Vol. 2

Wooden Shjips (sic) is a vital and refreshingly inspired quartet from San Francisco playing loud rock ‘n’ roll in a style heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism and garage rock excess. Started as an experiment in rhythmic primitivism and group improvisation, the current lineup brings a more structured rock approach to its performances, utilizing a traditional lineup of drums (Omar Ahsanuddin), bass (Dusty Jermier), organ (Nash Whalen), guitar (Erik “Ripley” Johnson) and vocals.

Its songs sound something akin to the icy garage rock of early Echo & The Bunnymen crossed with the sun-bleached tremolo-punk of The Scientists. There are hints of krautrock, the trance-inducing organ haze of Suicide, Deerhunter style dance-drone, classic desert-fried garage psych and the mysterious, obscure Japanese lysergic-rock band Les Rallizes Denudes all mixed into one explosive whole on Wooden Shjips self-titled Holy Mountain debut.

The experience of Wooden Shjips has been equated to that of the Japanese phenomenon called maboroshi, which is somewhat similar to seeing a mirage or hallucinating in time. In the context of imagination/dreams, maboroshi is attributed to past occurrences and can take on a meaning like “phantoms.” The group’s songs seem to exist in a dream state in which anything is possible.

Wooden Shjips released two acclaimed records in 2006, beginning early in the year with the self-released 10” EP Shrinking Moon for You.

(Read all at Last.fm)

Hell yeah some psyched out experimental rock for you. This is their 2010 album which has been released earlier this year. Enjoy!

[ Midheaven / 2010 / Experimental/Psychedelic / CBR@320 ]

Tracklist

01. Loose Lips (06:40)

02. Start to Dreaming (04:38)

03. Vampire Blues (04:37)

04. Death's not your Friend (Live) (06:57)

05. Contact (08:22)

06. I hear the Vibrations (E-Z Version) (07:20)

07. Outta my Head (04:31)

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Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit

Motorpsycho is a band from Trondheim in Norway, formed in 1989. Their music can generally be defined as psychedelic rock, but they also mix in elements from metal, jazz, rock, noise, pop and many other musical styles. The members of the band are Bent Sæther (bass/vocals) and Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan (guitar/vocals). Håkon Gebhardt (drums) left the band in March 2005 to concentrate on solo projects (as Gebhardt) and his other band HGH.
Kenneth Kapstad, drummer, joined Motorpsycho as a full member late in 2007.

(Read more here)

 

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Tracklist

1. Starhammer

2. X-3 (Knuckleheads In Space) # The Getaway Special

3. The Bomb-Proof Roll And Beyond (For Arnie Hassle)

4. Close Your Eyes

5. W.B.A.T

6. Gullible's Travails (Parts I-IV)

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Farflung - A wound in Eternity

Supersonic Space Rock in its own field. This band wears its influences well, but also creates its own cosmos within the genre to somewhat create a sub genre whatever that would be called. Faflung has now become Americas legendary cult Space Rock band with 6 LPs under the belt, and stellar voyages near and afar. The new LP, a Wound in Eternity is their latest greatest offering, and is available on MeteorCity Records. It is indeed the heaviest and most far out venture to date.

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Unborn Planet

2. Endless drifting Wreck

3. Like it has never been

4. Stella Volo

5. Ix

6. Silver Shrooms

7. Invincible

8. Precognition

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The Devil's Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore

Crawling out of the scattered ashes and smoking remnants of his former bands, S.L. decided it was time to finally start writing his own songs. He started to write as his whole life seemed to burn up besides him, as if his life and sanity depended on it. In the flames, however, he found a new and surprisingly comfortable niche. No longer content with being second man in anyone else’s band or project he wanted to channel the power of darkness and choas directly through himself and into his fellow musicians. This tight coven of friends, satanists, heretics and iconoclasts was formed in late 2007 and…

…anno 2008 THE DEVIL’S BLOOD is ALIVE!!!


THE DEVIL’S BLOOD are currently getting ready to start playing shows and to record an album. They will perform their first ever live ritual on the Roadburn festival on the 17th of April 2008 alongside names as Down and Grand Magus.

Be prepared as well for the limited 7“ with a new recorded version of „The Graveyard Shuffle“ and the new chant „A Waxing Moon Over Babylon“ banned in bloodred vinyl and to be released on Roadburn Pre-Heat, the 17th of April!

(from Last.fm)

The fantastic new album of this band, which could reach my personal top 5 of 2009. Enjoy!

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Tracklist
1. The Time Of No Time
2. Evermore
3. I'll Be Your Ghost
4. The Yonder Beckons
5. House Of 10.000 Voices
6. Christ Or Cocaine
7. Queen Of My Burning Heart
8. Angel's Prayer
9. Feeding The Fire With Tears And Blo
10. Rake Your Nails Across The Firmamen
11. The Anti-kosmik Magick

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The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap

Crawling out of the scattered ashes and smoking remnants of his former bands, S.L. decided it was time to finally start writing his own songs. He started to write as his whole life seemed to burn up besides him, as if his life and sanity depended on it. In the flames, however, he found a new and surprisingly comfortable niche. No longer content with being second man in anyone else’s band or project he wanted to channel the power of darkness and choas directly through himself and into his fellow musicians. This tight coven of friends, satanists, heretics and iconoclasts was formed in late 2007 and…

…anno 2008 THE DEVIL’S BLOOD is ALIVE!!!


THE DEVIL’S BLOOD are currently getting ready to start playing shows and to record an album. They will perform their first ever live ritual on the Roadburn festival on the 17th of April 2008 alongside names as Down and Grand Magus.

Be prepared as well for the limited 7“ with a new recorded version of „The Graveyard Shuffle“ and the new chant „A Waxing Moon Over Babylon“ banned in bloodred vinyl and to be released on Roadburn Pre-Heat, the 17th of April!

(from Last.fm)

Just an awesome EP by an awesome, new psychedelic rock band. Maybe hyped, but worth it! Enjoy!

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Tracklist
1. Come, Reap
2. River Of Gold
3. The Heavens Cry Out For The Devil's Blood
4. White Faces
5. Voodoo Dust


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13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sound of the 13th Floor Elevators

Hailing from Austin, Texas, the members of 13th Floor Elevators were quite possibly the first artists to describe their music as psychedelic. Their lyrics and sleeve notes openly and religiously endorsed the use of drugs (particularly LSD) to alter human consciousness for the better.

The band rattled to the middle of the Hot 100 in 1966 with You’re Gonna Miss Me, anchored by Roky Erickson’s unforgettable yelping vocals, Stacy Sutherland’s guitar, and Tommy Hall’s jug runs. According to myth, Tommy’s jug was tuned by the amount of marijuana stored in it.

The group pioneered some of the first garage psychedelia on its albums The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators 1966, and the followup Easter Everywhere 1967.

However, Texas at that time was an extremely conservative area that still hadn’t come to terms with 50’s rock ‘n’ roll. The authorities and the police set out to bust the entire band for pot (and—not surprisingly—succeeded).

Stacy Sutherland was jailed. To avoid a prison term, Roky pleaded insanity—a misguided ploy that landed him in Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane for 3 years. That turn of events spelled the end of the band, although there was a posthumous 1969 LP, Bull of the Woods.

(from Last.fm)

Maybe one of the most famous psychedelic rock album all time. "You're Gonna Miss Me" is an all-time classic in music. Enjoy!

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Tracklist
01.You're Gonna Miss Me
02.Roller Coaster
03.Splash 1
04.Reverberation (Doubt)
05.Don't Fall Down
06.Fire Engine
07.Thru the Rhythm
08.You Don't Know (How Young You Are)
09.Kingdom of Heaven
10.Monkey Island
11.Tried to Hide
12.Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
13.Before You Accuse Me
14.I'm Gonna Love You Too
15.You Really Got Me
16.Roll Over Beethoven
17.The Word
18.Gloria
19.She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)
20.We Sell Soul [The Spades]
21.You're Gonna Miss Me [Live; The Spades]


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Roky Erickson & the Aliens - The Evil One

Roky Erickson (born Roger Kynard Erickson on July 15, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Austin, Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators, who are considered to be the first band to ever use the word “psychedelic” to describe rock music.

In 1969 the band were all arrested for possession of marijuana and Roky was incarcerated in Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane where he reportedly underwent electroshock therapy and was placed on Thorazine amongst other controversial treatments. Many claim he has never been the same since. Sadly in the intervening years record execs and managers displayed the bad side of the music business and took full advantage of his condition often leaving him living in poverty while they hoarded all the cash.

In 2001 Roky’s youngest brother, Sumner Erickson (ex-tuba player for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra), was appointed his legal guardian and an improvement in Roky’s faculties has been reported since, leading to a return to live shows.

An excellent documentary on Roky, “You’re gonna miss me” (2005), chronicled his troubled life - his schizophrenia, incarceration for possession of a joint, and talented and eccentric family.

(from Last.fm)

Nice Psychedelic Rock, The Devil's Blood did a cover of the song "White Faces". This music is very similar to The Devil's Blood. Must-have for psychedelic fans. Enjoy!

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Tracklist
1. Two Headed Dog [Red Temple Prayer]
2. I Think Of Demons
3. Creature With The Atom Brain
4. The Wind And More
5. Don't Shake Me Lucifer
6. Bloody Hammer
7. Stand For The Fire Demon
8. Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play
9. If You Have Ghost
10. I Walked With A Zombie
11. Night Of The Vampire
12. It's A Cold Night For Alligators
13. Mine Mine Mind
14. Sputnik
15. White Faces


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Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls

The best-known band named Coven is a psychedelic rock band, composed of vocalist Jinx Dawson, bassist Oz Osborne (not to be confused with Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath) and drummer Steve Ross. They had a top 10 hit on Warner Brothers Records with a cover of Original Caste’s “One Tin Soldier”, which was used as the theme song to the 1971 movie Billy Jack.

Jinx Dawson , Ross, and Osborne formed Coven in Chicago in the late 1960s. They were signed to Mercury Records, where they put out their first album, Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls in 1969. The music on the album was, for the most part, standard pop psychedelia; what made it distinctive was the heavy emphasis on diabolical subject matter, including songs such as “The White Witch of Rose Hall”, “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”, and “Dignitaries of Hell”. The album concluded with a 13 minute track of chanting and Satanic prayers called “Satanic Mass”.

Unwanted publicity came to the band in the form of a sensational Esquire magazine article entitled “Evil Lurks in California,” which linked counterculture interest in the occult to Charles Manson and the Tate-La Bianca murders. As a result, Mercury withdrew the album from circulation.

(from Last.fm)

One of the best psychedelic rock bands out there. The first album in which you can hear a full satanic mass. Absolutely cult album. Enjoy!

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Tracklist
1. Black Sabbath
2. White Witch of Rose Hall
3. Coven in Charing Cross
4. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
5. Pact with Lucifer
6. Choke, Thirst, Die
7. Wicked Woman
8. Dignitaries of Hell
9. Portrait
10. Satanic Mass


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