"When the Compact Disc first emerged in the 1980s, it participated in the undermining of one of our most long-held assumptions. With the C.D., the whole distinction between Side A and Side B of the old vinyl record was collapsed. With the C.D., all the tracks are on the one side." - Gyorgy Scrinis, from the essay "CDs & Other Things". 1. Kraan - Young King's Song (Flyday, 1978) 2. D.R. Hooker - Weather Girl (The Truth, 1972) 3. Marcos Valle - Voo Cego (Vento Sul, 1972) 4. Kraan [...]
H.L. Mencken said,"I reserve the right to be a lonely man." I don't crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to [...]
"Widely cited as one of the most important private press releases in all 1970s psychedelia, D.R. Hooker's The Truth might actually be one of those obscure lost gems that's worth the customarily inordinate amount of interest such period pieces are afforded. "D.R. Hooker was a man slightly askew with his time: from the robes he wears on the cover to the quasi mystical lyrics, he's very much connected to the hippy era, and given that this album was recorded in 1972, in a time post-Charles Manson, he was brave to associate so strongly with all the [...]
Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974 (Now-Again, October 2009)
Here's a phenomenal, classic private press LP that has been on my "want" list for some time now. I bought a really nice hand-numbered European re-issue last year at the WFMU Record Fair from the godfather of private press records, Paul Majors. The brilliant minds at Guerssen have since re-issued the quintessential UFO-inspired masterpiece, giving it the proper restoration and packaging that it deserves: originally intended cover art, gatefold cover, in-depth liner notes by Douglas Mcgowan and never-before-seen photos capturing some of the mystique of the album. It's a little too polished for me to call this a [...]
farewell and adieu to you fair spanish ladies, farewell and adieu to you ladies of spain, for we've received orders for to sail back to boston, and so nevermore shall we see you again. croaked old quint in jaws. and now dear readers it's time for me to take out my teeth, flash my scars one last time and go hurtling knife in hand towards the gaping maw of that deadly great white… interesting as this writerly venture has been (mostly…), consider it somewhatofa psychological barometer of the past few years. for me anyway. [...]
Compilations collecting genre obscurities have become ubiquitous in the decade since the re-release of Nuggets by Rhino in 1998. From Soul Jazz Records' expert retrospectives to idiosyncratic reissue labels like Subliminal Sounds, the average trip to the (proverbial?) record store promises not only the latest contemporary releases, but also a definitive sampling of once-obscure genres like Italo Disco and African Highlife. Stones Throw imprint Now-Again has assembled Forge Your Own Chains with this market saturation in mind. The 16-track survey of "Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges" recorded between 1968 and 1974 forgoes loyalty to a specific country or style of [...]
I've always found it odd that Christianity had some popularity amongst countercultural artists. Or maybe that goes the other way round as it seems that though mysticism and occult were popular enough as dabblings for the hippy community some chose to merge their familiar upbringings in Christian households with their newfound love of freedom of expression. Creating a new outlet for religion and a new form of Christian rock in the process the first few definitely teetered on the edge of what it was to be both a religiously based artist and a psychedelic artist. [...]
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