TURKISH PSYCHEDELIC #2

explore more of turkey’s 70s psychedelia with this mix

with sounds of early electronic, pop, folk, funk, and psych and a bit of beat r'n'r

here!

No Artist - Le Allucinazioni 1968

an eerie cuban-esque rhumba record lots of chilling sound effects simulating the thoughtless but flowing process of the psychedelia through shifting moods and paints auralgraphic scenes of unexpected wonder of mondo psi idealistic psychopsychedelism pulp scenes gunbattles, megaphone distortion and contortions glockenspiels chanting jazz babies crying and parrots whistling this is a totally flamingo chasing dreams of my kind of record where the idea was to make music that makes fun of you sort of like this

fun,
but in a kind of twisted way i.e a day in life-ism quotidian freakout session way
and also liner reads ‘Un documento formidabile : la registrazione vera del viaggio LSD.

IRAN REVISITED 

Tehran (Iran): Royal Puppet Show 1900s

listen here!

in high christmas season, my second look into sounds of Iran (pre-revolution) mainly of the beautiful oiced divas of the era, folk elements! and arrangements sometimes together a perfect soothing sentimental celebration for the holidaze with the bouncing 6/7 rhythms and unique instrumentation along with inventive compositions that are of exemplary Persian music especially of roya tapes and ahangrooz

enjoy!

Rock N' Roll Yesterday Today & Forever!

rock and roll yesterday today and forever!

i think the best part other this album being entirely unknown is the idea of imaging the tracklist being performed by the the very people on the album cover....

they have transcended tribute and taken on the mission of promoting rock ’n roll is which i also stand for also this was not on the internet

the varying mood and good demonstration of variety in this compilation presents us with something to listen to that’s pretty timeless

elvis tribute from chicago plus beatles covers plus santana 

a side and both b side are full of grooving moments laced with understated guitar work 

from covers to lounge to straight dad rock

this record definitely rockin’

also features 80s micheal jackson tribute who has been slightly featured in a panasonic commercial for batteries on japanese tv

the mentioned ad is also provided in the link below provided by the same user torrey mcclinton who is on the album doing lead vocals on b4 and b5

which are featuring a very just billie jean and human nature covers by the mysterious person on the commercial and along with that, imaging how the album was literally made listening to the copious effects of vocal delay

and def falls under the rightfully bizarre category due to the record has changes from elvis tribute to unintentionally psychedelic shindig music

enjoy!

Milford Graves - Babï

milford graves is a percussionist, acupuncturist, herbalist, martial arts renegade, programmer and professor.

in 1964 after meeting the new york art quartet began playing the drums, also playing john coltrane’s funural that year. 

he has collaborated with albert ayler and sonny shrrock as well as paul bley and don pullen.

in 1972 he invented a new martial art called ‘yara’ based on the movements of the praying mantis, african ritual dance and windy hop.

in 2000 he won a guggenheim fellowship and began to study human heart vibrations to better understand music’s healing potential.

he is a professor emeritus at bennington college where he taught for forty years. 

an icon of avant-garde jazz with kaleidoscopically varied interests, milford graves remains one of the most influential living figures in the evolution of the form.

milford graves' recorded output is downright scarce in relation to the imposing reputation his drumming holds amongst adherents of free music. in particular, his work during the 1970s rages with a distinctive fury matched by few before or since. the album "babï", released in 1977 on graves own imprint ips, is the best authorized representation of this innovator operating at peak intensity. it features wild, superhuman saxophone playing by longtime cohorts arthur doyle (still in the scene, but now operating from his homebase in alabama) and hugh glover. recorded live for wbai-fm on march 20, 1976, this unique, rough-hewn recording brims with excitement. often, the horn players are very far off microphone, wailing away like hellishly agitated spectres in the background while graves' drums remain front and center, heavily focused on the ancient traditions of deeply resonant one-headed toms and eschewing the traditional rattle of the modern snare drum completely. graves' signature vocal punctuations help underline the ritualistic aura of his group's frenzied rites.

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Gay Vaquer - Morning Of The Musicians

excellent library jazz record with touches of blues, psychedelia and brazilian music recorded by the american guitarist gay vaquer (later jay vaquer) that played with the master raul seixas in several concerts and recordings.



the album features his wife jane vaquer (later jane duboc) in the vocal, who later was lead singer of the first album of progressive rock group bacamarte and a solo career more drawn to mpb of very success and also counts on the samba jazz singer of the time as paulo moura and luis eça, but the sound is more drawn to traditional american jazz and pro jazz fusion with the exception of the penultimate track (fantastic realism) that has this touch more brazilian.

Christian Vander - Tristan et Yseult

here's a live bit from magma playing in nyc @ le poisson rouge in 2015

a Magma album disguised as a christian vander solo album

Magma is a diverse french ‘zeuhl’ prog band singing in an ‘invented’ language, 

Christian Vander being the main pillar in the band, the band write songs in a percussively and rhythmically engaging ritualistic kind of blurring the lines between prog and modal jazz and even chamber music (as far some orchestration) 

this album is a great way to get into the band magma because it really showcases their style in a more little more easy to digest way, it reveals the band’s true zeuhl aura.

this is a magma album entitled  -  "wurdah ïtah", despite the fact that it's issued as a Christian Vander solo album; 

if you are also familiar with magma’s mythology; this album is about how in the saga of the kobaïan people, ẁurdah ïtah tells the events before mëkanïk dëstruktïẁ kömmandöh, and while my knowledge of kobaïan is not strong enough to give me an idea of what is going on, my guess is that lots of things are happening in a pretty short time - much of the music is hectic, urging forward, extremely dynamic, the title of song 7, "ẁaïnsaht!!!" actually describes the whole album pretty well. at the same time, it's nowhere near as dark and grim as its follow-up, indicating perhaps some kind of hope for the kobaïans.

other than a bit of a quiet mix - there are incredible melodies on this album with impeccable drumming and skilled piano playing 

this album has a long and exceptionally fascinating story. in 1972, Vander and his band, magma, made some practice tapes. some movie producer no one has ever known about got hold of the tapes and utilized them as the soundtrack for his cutting-edge film adjustment of Tristan and Isolde with heaps of ponies. Vander by one way or another got some answers concerning this (who knows how, since no one has seen cover up nor hair of the motion picture since) and separated a guarantee from the movie producer that he would be permitted to record an official soundtrack on the movie producer's dime in return for him not suing. 

indeed, the financial plan for the collection, decently well enlighten, turned out to concern a dime, since it's a greatly stripped down and negligible magma collection, done by a group of four with simply piano, bass, drums, and three vocalists. given that magma was (and is) best known for their exaggerated, exceptionally ranting music, this impromptu game plan wouldn't appear to exhibit the best side of magma's music. be that as it may, what turned out was no not exactly vander's own nebraska. all things considered, aside from the part about it being the center piece of a three-collection idea cycle sung in a totally made-up dialect, however other than that, no doubt, practically equivalent to nebraska. instead of the meager instrumentation uncovering vander's shortcomings as a musician,

the charm of this album may hit you abruptly!

San Ul Lim - Laying Silks and Satins on my Heart Vol. 2

a band that I’ve actually been hyped about since middle school (ha it’s time I gave away my age I suppose)

san ul lim are three Korean brothers who claim that they have never really gotten acquainted with garage rock and psychedelic sounds, their first sold five hundred thousand copies in the first week that it was released

the brothers picked up their instruments in college, the eldest playing guitar meanwhile fronting the band, the second eldest the bass guitar and the youngest playing the drums.

they were born out of a rich family in Seoul and it was because of this that they were able to acquire the necessary instruments for the music they made.

the band’s name literally translates to (that, oh the mountain echo(es)  was made by kim chang wan -

this album (their second album) was instrumental on defining their signature sound. 

the sounds are of a trio with catchy but good psychedelic songs full of spacey, more experimental passages and transitions 

ranging from folky moody bits to garage numbers fuzzy guitars and swirling organ and tasty phasers 

the band is always melodic and these songs will get stuck in your head!

Yvette Mimieux & Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ‎– Baudelaire’s Flowers Of Evil (Les Fleurs Du Mal)

an album of a unique collaborative work



in 1968, the connoisseur society released an lp entitled "baudelaire's flowers of evil (les fleurs du mal)" as the "first of a series of recordings featuring the brilliant american actress, yvette mimieux, in  collaboration with ustad ali akbar khan, greatest living musician of india." the genesis for the lp was a meeting between miss mimieux, alan silver (the record's producer), and ali akbar khan. miss mimieux said that she had always wanted to record baudelaire, and ali akbar khan said, "if you tell me the mood and meaning of each poem... i can produce a raga that fits the mood of each poem. noted jazz critic nat hentoff said in the liner notes that "it is like no other recording of poetry that has ever been released.”



bend your mind accordingly to this one!

White Heaven - Out

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The roots of Japanese neo-psych legends White Heaven date back to 1980. Originally called by the band Living End, the group was formed through a series of jam sessions helmed by singer/guitarist You Ishihara, its sprawling, ever-revolving lineup of musicians eventually crystallizing in 1984 around You, guitarist Tetsuya Sakamoto, bassist Takayuki Nakagoshi, and drummer Ken Ishihara. After a handful of gigs, Living End added guitarist Ken Matsutani, and in late 1985 the quintet adopted the name White Heaven. Matsutani exited in mid-1986 to form his own outfit, Marble Sheep & the Rundown Sun's Children, and after adding ex-ONNA guitarist Michio Kurihara, the group issued Electric Cool Acid, a self-released cassette documenting a live appearance in Tokyo. A series of lineup changes plagued White Heaven over the next few years, and when in the spring of 1991 the band finally issued its first official LP, the P.S.F. label release Out.

Recorded at Studio J

Out being the bands only officilal LP remains to be a limited  piece of recent japanese rock history with only 500 copies ever made

Erkin Koray - Live in Nazilli 1974

Erkin Koray is a legendary composer,  also - one of the last remaining  og 'psychedelic rock warriors' and guitar virtuoso who has made a name for himself in the early on in the 70s in Turkey he is regarded as the 'Godfather of Rock' and often referred to as Erkin Baba

He is definitely a uniquely interesting individual in the course of rock 'n roll history.

Erkin Koray at the time had been aware of his influences, and motivations and was studying music  since his youth in the early 60s but he has always one way or another remained true to his 'hard rock' rocker roots while always having a kind of spiritual understanding of the world.

He sometimes wrote and performed songs that were usually outside the singer-songwriter norm of his time and performed in a different number of ways sometimes performing solo.

As an innovator of a new kind of 'rock' sound that hadn't been heard before, Erkin Koray kept striving to invent these sounds with his own personal musical preferences to merge his western influences garage rock with elements of raga and ethno-folk to make a (new) kind of music that is still fresh and innovative today..


The following recording is from a live concert in a small movie theatre in rumor has it that this recording only exists because the drummer Nihat Örenel (ex-Bunalımlar) had hit 'record' on happenstance following a conversation with Erkin Koray who was a bit curious about what he sounded like live..

Truly a seminal moment in the course of global psychedelia and rock 'n roll history


We're lucky enough that this piece of history is within our reach


He is said to be working on a new album which will be his 27th














Long live The Baba!