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Originally released in 1972, Vento Sul (translation 'South Wind') was a rewarding collaboration with Brazilian progressive rockers O Terço.

Dreamy bossanova, baroque-jazz, fuzz guitar, psychedelic flute, wide and panoramic themes sung by the heavenly Edda Dell'Orso, and arranged by her husband Giacomo (a.k.a. Oscar Lindok). And furthermore, kriminal beats, spy-exotic flavours, and dreamlike suspense, as well as the unmistakable voices of I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni.
Recorded in 1972, but previously unreleased on any format, THE LONG ARM OF THE GODFATHER, a.k.a. RAFFICA, embodies the essence of the best Italian soundtracks from early 70s. Pure class and top-quality sounds, played by some of the best Italian session musicians of the time.
After the amazing discovery of the terrific and esoteric score to SORTILEGIO, Silvano D'Auria shines once again as a talented film composer. Groove, elegance, and sensuality are all brilliantly represented on this record. Limited Edition of 500 copies with a bonus CD included.

'it's a phantasmagoric full EP album! A high-end bedroom studio offering, with tangled sounds and colours from the synthesized and digitized world.'
- Give It A Spin

'Evokes a super natural world of beauty and melancholy.'
- Odiotropik Discos

CATHEDRAL ECHO is Lefteris Tsourapis' personal neo-psych project from ATHENS, Greece. Lefteris started recording music at an early age, until ultimately releasing his music under the name CATHEDRAL ECHO in 2017, which culminated in the project's first performance "an evening of experimental sitar music" paying tribute to Spacemen 3 and La Monte Young.

After two private press punk singles, an indie pop LP on Anti Fade Records, we bring you an Italo Disco inspired LP from Suburban Boy Jake 'Alien Nosejob' Robertson.
Jake spent six months bedridden with crippling psoriatic arthritis, watching the Vivien Vee 'Higher' video on YouTube, mimicking the rhythms, the melody and wishing he could mimic the dance moves.
Two songs about love and two songs about hyper-intelligent extra-terrestrial beings.
This record is a trend-punk poison.

Cardinal Fuzz and Lovers & Lollipops are proud to bring to you the new magnum opus from Black Bombaim titled 'Zone Of Resident Bodies'. Black Bombaim approached their latest creation with the mindset of pushing the boundaries of their musicianship by working with three different electronic composers in three unique recording settings -an old workers auditorium, a huge empty space on the postal office building and on a reverberation room on the university of engineering. Working with Jonathan Saldanha, Luís Fernandes, Pedro Augusto helped Black Bombaim break free of the constraints of a band in a recording studio as each new recording environment and composer brought new textures and ambiance to the music created. It really is rather special to hear.
'this is an amazing album of collaborations that I am sure has taken the participants outside of their respective comfort zones to produce a set that is innovative and explorative. You really will need to hear it all to fully appreciate its strength and breadth because it is outside those zones of familiarity where true expression can flourish... and flourish it certainly does here.' Psych Insight

UK psych-pop group Plastic Penny released this, their debut LP, in 1968 on Kinks' manager Larry Page's Page One label. The opening track, 'Everything I Am' - written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and originally recorded by Alex Chilton's group The Box Tops - was a #6 hit on the UK charts in early '68. While that was the extent of most of the world's exposure to Pretty Penny at the time, the rest of the album is a glorious slice of orchestral psych-pop with light progressive touches, and in the intervening years it has become a highly sought-after collector's item. Fetching three figures on the online market, Two Sides Of A Penny has moody arrangements, killer guitar work, swirling organ, and hooks galore, along with vocals reminiscent of the aforementioned Kinks' Davies brothers as well as a taste of Joe Cocker. Members of Plastic Penny would go on to greater fame in groups like Cochise, Procol Harum, Chicken Shack, and UFO, while drummer Nigel Olsson went on to be one of the UK's most popular session musicians playing with Elton John, The Troggs, and Rod Stewart, among others. This beautiful piece of late '60s psychedelic pop is reissued in a limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl.

This release brings together two true originals in a raw and brilliant live set from Irving Plaza in New York City in 1984. The Fuzztones were one of the most innovative of '80s garage revival groups, a truly deep and weird group in a sea of imitators. Meanwhile the legendary Screamin' Jay Hawkins needs no introduction. This wild and raw live set features four Hawkins classics in an updated fuzz drenched '80s garage style, a perfect fit for his raucous vibe. Released on a limited edition splatter vinyl 12".

There's a symmetry to be had here: duo's name translates to 'Skygod' and 'heaven', duo provides soundtrack for 'aural hang-gliding'. What looks to be a simple equation becomes far more immersive and lush as you soar in and out of the grooves of 'Segye'. Your guide this time out: Tengger.

In '05, itta (voice, Indian harmonium, toys) and Marqido (analogue synths) began a new, shifting musical life as 10 in Seoul, South Korea. To mark the massive March '11 earthquake in Japan, 10 took a step in their evolution by becoming (((10))). The ground moved in a much different way when son RAAI arrived in '12. Not missing a beat, or a good sign, (((10))) expanded to become Tengger. itta and Marqido, now with RAAI, incorporated all the adventures their self-described traveller family might have into their immediate lives and the sounds being being generated as Tengger. Touring the US, Asia and Europe, Tengger assimilate audience reaction and the myriad experiences of exploring and turn those elements into pillars of their sound, raw material for both foundation and take-off. It's no surprise, and absolutely fitting, that 'Segye' ()-Korean for world-encompasses the mind, time and space.

'Segye' began taking shape in '16 at Slow Slow Quick Quick (Seoul) during the demonstrations against President Geun-hye Park. Then, during the candle demonstration, artist Beck Jeajung made his voice heard and seen. Tengger, picking up on the synchronization, asked Jeajung to bring his art to the album taking shape. This environment, this bigger picture of family and community—this 'Segye'—feeds the album as much as Tengger's own inner circle and outbound adventures. Their lush electro/drone psych may be the product of knobs, wires and electricity, but it's made from the experiences that only the real world can provide, both immediate and distant. These inner and outer dynamics, often at odds with each other, fuse to give the pulsing of 'Segye' a subtle luxuriance that celebrates the humanity inherent in their music. itta's voice melds and dances with the sonic patterns and processes, to continually layer, move and build on each other to not only lift the listener upwards, but to take them to places to take off again; destination to be determined.

What kind of band would choose a double vinyl, gatefold LP for their first release The Hare and Hoofe. Their eponymous first release consists of two discs. Disc One rounds up their 'hits' so far - 2018's smash hit White Blindness, the space gregorian
chant that is Voyager, and the pastoral tale of Appledore Fayre. The second consists of their rock opera, The Terror of Melton. Time-travelling scientists. Giant laser-eyed robots. A rock opera to end all rock operas...

Pitched somewhere between The Who, The Stooges, ELO, Sparks, Pink Floyd, Voivod, Pete Townshend, Brainiac, Bowie and Judas Priest, The Terror of Melton is a headspinning,
ambitious journey. In turns stomping, tear-jerking, full-on rocking and dreamlike, it will transport you. Prog Magazine's Dom Lawson described it as 'absurdly entertaining and deliciously weird... An unmissable trip for fans of the fuzzy and farout'.
2018 saw the band recording a BBC6Music Marc Riley session before even releasing a physical record. In addition, they've had plays on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone. The band have also gained a monstrously good live reputation, playing an instantly
legendary set at Hastings' Beatwave festival, as well as headlining Tannerfest, Pitch Fest, playing with Focus and The Fierce and The Dead, and the John Snow Society's annual celebration of the eminent epidemiologist.
Some describe them as 'educational psych', others prefer 'polytechnic beat', still more as 'a seventies garage band'. There's certainly primeval drums, fuzz bass, lashings of guitar and synth noises from another planet.
Formed from a gang of friends from Folkestone, Hoofe members have played in groups including The Heliocentrics, The Priscillas, Ye Nuns, Jail Cell Recipes, The Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band, Chalet and Hyperglo.

Athens Andover is The Troggs' 1992 album featuring ¾ of R.E.M. The collaboration came about serendipitously as R.E.M. had been covering The Troggs' 'Love Is All Around' during their 1991 tour in support of their classic Out Of Time album, and when The Troggs' found out about it, their manager suggested they work together. With the assistance of R.E.M.'s Bill Berry, Mike Mills and Peter Buck, as well as The dB's Peter Holsapple, who spent a lot of time on the road with R.E.M. as a tour musician, and recorded in Athens, GA, this is The Troggs finest post-'60s album. Featuring numerous Troggs originals, a tune written by the three members of R.E.M., one by Holsapple, as well as a great cover of Chip Taylor's 'Crazy Annie', Athens Andover is a great late period release from UK rock legends The Troggs, the name a combination of the two groups' respective hometowns. Reissued in a limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl.

Merriam-Webster definition of supergroup: a rock group made up of prominent former members of other rock groups, also: an extremely successful rock group. While the definition of 'extremely successful' may differ, there can be no arguing that Wolfmanhattan Project are a supergroup. This three piece features Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Lydia Lunch's Retrovirus), Mick Collins (Gories, Dirtbombs) and Kid Congo Powers(Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Pink Monkey Birds) and their collective track record beats Blind Faith, West, Bruce & Laing and The Power Station's resumes combined! All three members write, sing and play in this band and, for anyone familiar with the member's other bands, this stuff is as twisted and great as one can hope for. Everyone involved brings flavors from their past efforts and it's all mixed together into one unholy rock 'n' roll gumbo. It's sleazy, swampy, trashy, no-wavey, weird and rocking! Lydia Lunch even makes an appearance, which makes this album that much more super!
Wolfmanhattan ProjectSmells Like You / You Are My Glue(ITR277) 7' IS STILL IN STOCK!!

Originally released in 1968, and selling less than 500 copies - according to Robert Fripp's royalty statements -- The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles, & Fripp is, of course, the pre-cursor to King Crimson. Drawing its influence from folk, pop, classical, and religious music, the album is a masterpiece on par with the greatest records that the British psychedelic and progressive movements had to offer.

Tasmania is the brand new album from the Australian psychedelic-rock adventurers POND, a dejected meditation on planetary discord, machismo, shame, blame and responsibility, love, blood and empire, wrapped in

luxurious, funky prog-pop. Once again produced and mixed by Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) and POND, Tasmania encourages us to celebrate the fruits of our planet, frolic in the

ocean, kick up the dust, roll in the grass and enjoy the feeling of being in love - while we still can. Tasmania follows the release of 2017's critically-acclaimed record The Weather,

which saw the band tour the globe extensively, performing the biggest headline shows of their career thus far with a string of sold out dates. Lauded for their raucous and unpredictable live shows, they have already been confirmed for

Primavera Sound Festival 2019, with further dates to be announced soon. Hailing from Perth, Australia's POND formed in 2008 after good friends Joseph Ryan (Mink Mussel Creek), Nick Allbrook (Mink Mussel Creek, Allbrook/Avery,

Tame Impala, Peter Bibby & His Bottles of Confidence), and Jay Watson (Tame Impala) hit upon the idea of an all inclusive, ego-free collaborative, so the boys immediately recorded their debut album Psychedelic Mango with a little

help from good friend Kevin Parker (Tame Impala). Tasmania is released 1st March 2019 via Marathon Artists (Courtney Barnett, Jagwar Ma).

Official video for 'Daisy': https://youtu.be/Ap2gStsDZZo

'Pond, an Australian rock band, toppled the stateliness of Britpop anthems into psychedelic turbulence, melting down grandiose riffs or pushing them toward screaming tantrums.' - New York Times

'Pond celebrated the announcement by sharing the album's opener, 'Daisy.' It's a six minute psychedelic epic, starting with a melancholic string section before heading into alt-pop disco territory.' - Stereoboard

'A meditation on unease, ''Daisy'' finds Pond introducing new sonic elements, while pushing their lyricism into different places.' - Clash

From the opening notes of Never Decide, the RidingEasy Records debut album by Athens, Greece quartet Bus The Unknown Secretary (aka B.U.S.), you'll know it's going to be a wild funhouse ride. It doesn't sound like just four people, it sounds like a mob of wild-eyed lunatics on the expressway to your skull. And, you're not gonna know what the band's name means, don't worry about it.
Never Decide is a multifaceted album in the vein of classic hitters like The Hellacopters, Alice Cooper Band, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Orange Goblin.
"The story of the album expresses the psyche of a person in a dead end and his life is introduced into obsessive rhythms, more personal and random," explains vocalist/guitarist Bill Politis. "There is no happy end here, but the questions remain: Door A or Door B Time to change or time to die, Never Decide!"
The album opens as if we're in the studio with the band listening to playback for the first time. There's a chirping test tone and someone starts counting in, "one, two, three..." before it suddenly grinds to a halt. Then suddenly the swirling guitar riff of the pummeling anthem "You Better Come In, You Better Calm Down" launches everything into the stratosphere. The guitars march in lockstep as swinging drums keep it all rolling at furious pace as the vocal chant of the song's title grows into a massive group chant in harmony. Think Uriah Heep's "Easy Livin'" meets Kiss' "Rock and Roll All Night" -- here's another big, blazing anthem for the ages. "I Buried Paul" is the sort of fun, theatrical album track no one makes anymore, not since the days of the Alice Cooper Band. "Lucifer" takes things several shades darker, turning in a dramatic ballad launched by haunting piano chords and led by sinister, sneering vocals sounding something like Ozzy meets Johnny Rotten slowly building to its epic conclusion in double time with ringing harmony guitar leads. "Evil Eyes" and "Moonchild" return the proceedings to the anthemic, pop-laced vibe, replete with major-minor chord shifts and vocal/guitar harmonies galore.


Never Decide was recorded in just 5 days in February 2018 with multitalented engineer and band's beloved friend John Vulgaris at Electric Highway Studios in Athens, Greece. The entire band -- drummer Aris Fasoulis, bassist Spiros Papadatos, and guitarists Fotis Kolokithas and Politis --recorded the instrumental tracks live in 3 days, reserving the last 2 for vocals. Over the 2 months that followed Vulgaris and the band fine-tuned the mix into the subtle and clever masterwork you have before you. BUS formed in Athens in 2011, releasing two EPs and a full length The Impious Tapes, followed by The Cross EP (2014), and The Unknown Secretary LP in 2016. During that time the band has toured extensively throughout Greece and in neighboring nations. The release of Never Decide will see them expanding that touring radius considerably.

Melbourne psych-rockers Money For Rope release their second studio album Picture Us. Spawned from the same fertile Melbourne music scene which has fostered not only Courtney Barnett but also other friends including King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, The Goon Sax and Rolling Coastal Blackouts Fever amongst others, Money For Rope release Picture Us on the back of a dogged touring habit which has kept them on the road near constantly for the last four years. Entirely self-produced, mixed and mastered by the five piece, Picture Us was recorded over the course of a single summer in Victoria, Australia in a beach house next to the Southern Ocean.

Throughout, Picture Us is shaped by the volatile stretch of coastline next to which it was written and recorded. Evidence of Aboriginal middens discovered nearby inspired the track Trashtown - with a sound landing closer to psychobilly, it explores the wrestling of the area from its indigenous people and the changes wrought by the dominance of sea-freight and commercial fishing industries on the Southern Sea coast. Elsewhere, the slow-burn of bruised album opener, Hold, was built around a percussion track the band created by feeding the rattling sound of a box of old sailing boat parts through an old tape machine.

Whilst everything Money For Rope does is buoyed by a freewheeling 'Why not' attitude - including a mini tour across India, and McKenzie honouring various live commitments following a motorbike crash by performing from a wheelchair - don't be fooled by that derisive band name. 'Picture Us' thrums with the promise of one of Australia's most hard-working and charismatic new bands.

*SHIPS FOR FEB 15TH*Holiday Ghosts are back with their second LP West Bay Playroom, the follow-up to their acclaimed self-titled debut album from 2017. Originally starting out as a solo project from The Black Tambourines' Sam Stacpoole the band evolved into a partnership with Katja Rackin, before turning into a full band with the debut album - showcasing a primitive rock 'n' roll sound that's been compared to The Modern Lovers and The Velvet Underground alongside current garage rock acts, and praised by the likes of The FADER, Stereogum, BrooklynVegan and KEXP. For West Bay Playroom the band's refined their sound, offering a cleaner and more focused set of songs while breaking new ground and experimenting with influences from country, blues, spaghetti western soundtracks and more.

'A Thousand Strands' is the debut long-player from The Dandelion Set, a new collaboration between Glyn 'Bigga' Bush (Lightning Head, Rockers Hi Fi) and PK Chown (James Beige, Mr Liquorice). The album travels back to their formative years in the mid 1970s, with sleevenotes, lyrics and vocals by cult writer Alan Moore (V For Vendetta, Watchmen) and passes through a cavalcade of musical landmarks en route to the present day.

B-movie junkies, gather round and prepare yourselves for what could only be described as a cinematic speedball. Take a combined hit of two of the most potent strains of toxic cinema, dress it up in ritualistic robes and make it dance to the beat of a stoned, motoric, country commune soundtrack. Like an exploito double bill where both films merge into a single feature, this directorial debut by an ex-Roger Corman protege and future Russ Meyer art director (another heady cocktail) is the product of one writing duo's fleeting time in the driving seat as the moviedrome marathon approached its dwindling finish line.

Werewolves On Wheels emerged in 1971 in a climate where the B-movie genre of the previous two decades began to make way for the early glimpses of imported slasher films and video nasties. Entirely out of popular context in 1971, the soundtrack music of Don Gere would perhaps reveal him as the most versatile actor involved in the whole production. Until this point, Don Gere had been a pop folk songwriter and a country music devotee, but while riding with the werewolves, Don Gere became a disjointed psych rock stoner making ritualistic commune country with more coincidentally in common with Germany's emerging Krautrock scene or the more localised stoner psych of Skip Spence (whose radically ahead of its time LP OAR was recognised by Columbia Records as their lowest selling record in the company's history). Imagine guitarist Sandy Bull jamming with Munich's Amon Duul 1 or some Swedish prog outfits like Trad, Gras och Stenar or a sedated Kebnekaise. In comparison to the Curb/Allan scores, for films like Wild Angels, Devil's Angels, Thunder Alley, and Born Losers (often released on Curb's own Sidewalk or Tower records), the new music made by Don Gere, only three years down the line, sounds like it's from an entirely different generation...

"Pre-certified biker psych from the hillbilly Haxan. Amazing!" - SEAN CANTY (DEMDIKE STARE)

NYL's 1976 sole release is curiously still very much under the radar despite it being one of the most intriguing French psychedelic/prog albums from the 70's. The music is highly creative and energetic with a definite space-rock feel in the style of Hawkwind, but also a clear krautrock edge reminiscent of Amon Dull II and Agitation free. Michel Peteau's guitar is the driving force around which all other elements create a whirlwind of sonic psychedelic infusion veering between loud psychedelia and irreverent pulsating rock groove a la' Gong. Features Ariel Kalma (flute and sax), as well as Janick Top (From Magma) and Bernard Lavialle (from Ame Son). Originally released on Richard Pinhas "Urus Records", this fully licensed album is released in high quality heavy paste-on gatefold cover, limited to 500 copies in black vinyl

Originally available only in sex shops in the Netherlands, this is one of the rarest psychedelic LP's ever to be recorded in Europe. Consisting of only two long tracks, one covering side A and one covering side B, this album is probably the most mind-bending stuff we've heard from around this time. Side A starts with fast-paced free-jazz-rock with intense drumming and Anita's growing involvement (first giggling, then moaning and finally screaming in all sorts of terrifying ways) Most instruments gradually drop leaving only fierce drumming in the background, leading up to a guy repeating the words num-num-num' inter-twinned with joyful screaming, somewhat reminiscent of Can's Tago Mago. This then move's on to another psychedelic jam that culminates with more screaming and crazy cosmic stuff that sounds like out of Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain'. Side 2 is another deadly blast of Krautrock delight, similar to Brainticket's Cottonwoodhill' again with an absolute crazy vibe, addictive guitar riffs, Pink Floyd-sounding organ atmospheres and several crescendos of insane horror screaming backed by raw organ and drumming. Highly recommended to fans of Can, Agitation free, Brainticket, Magma, J.a.Caesar, Ceremony People', Vampyros lesbos, Staff carpenborg & the electric corona & Hairy Chapter.

Quality pressing by SONY Austria.

- 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
- GATEFOLD SLEEVE
- 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, APHRODITE'S
CHILD 2ND ALBUM FEATURING VANGELIS,
DEMIS ROUSSOS AND LUCAS SIDERAS
- LIMITED PRESSING OF 1.000 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON SILVER VINYL

It's Five O'Clock is the second album by the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child. After settling down in London the trio consisting of Vangelis Papathanassiou, Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras starting recording a follow up to their debut album End of the World. The title track reached the charts in The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. It's one of those song classics which is pretty straightforward with some psychedelic pop melodies. 'Wake Up' is a cute little singalong track drenched in key changes. Demis Roussos' unique voice blends perfectly with the impressive keyboard and piano movements and Sideras' percussions. It's definitely a record worth discovering sparkling with multiple gems.

The Greek band Aphrodite's Child was an important name in the psychedelic and progressive movement. They recorded three albums and after they disbanded in 1972 the band members Vangelis Papathanassiou and Demis Roussos started an successful solo career.

It's Five O'Clock is available as a limited pressing of 1.000 individually numbered copies on silver vinyl.

'Legendary drummer, Ikuro Takahashi played in most of the important bands of the psychedelic underground Japanese scene : Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha, Seishokki, High Rise, Che´-Shizu, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Kousokuya, LSD March and Nagisa Ni Te, but also with Junzo Suzuki, Tamio Shiraishi, Akiko Hotaka and many others, making it difficult to write a comprehensive list. Ikuro does not make a distinction between the young musicians with whom he collaborates, and the big names of the underground behind whom he brings an enveloping rhythm, like the wind blowing through a bamboo forest.

A native of Hokkai¨do, born in 1957, exiled in downtown Tokyo, Ikuro Takahashi lived there for a while before settling back in Sapporo with his partner, dancer Yoko Muronoi, starting the Anoyonodekigoto project together. All pieces gathered here were composed for their duo shows. Yoko Moronoi was reunited with the shadows of her ancestors in 2017, leaving Ikuro alone in the world of the living. This record appears as the last flower laid at the shrine of her dance.
This album gathers 7 tracks, most of which were built from an overlay of oscillators, music boxes and metronomes. Sometimes it recalls Takehisa Kosugi's pieces, a common way of unfolding time and space, of making our perception float. Takahashi is like a weaver trapping our listening in his electric wires, dragging us in a flux of rhythmic, fluid, circular patterns. Like shamans summoning our shadows, our ghosts, to make the living core within us sing.

Psychedelic-Country-Garage-Soul oddities from the Sixties and Seventees. The tunes on this album are as good as those by famous artists like Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tom Jones, or Jack Hammer.

Produced By Tim Green (the Former Guitarist Of Punk Iconoclasts
Nation Of Ulysses, Who Has Worked With Sleater-kinney, Bikini Kill,
Joanna Newsom And Jawbreaker, Among Others), 'post Earth' Is A
Call To Arms, Interspersed With Frustration And Hope.
'it Wasn't Intentional To Write A Politically Charged Record,' Says
Bassist Amy Allen, Who Constitutes Feels With Laena Geronimo
(guitar/vocals), Shannon Lay (guitar/vocals) And Michael Perry
Rudes (drums). 'but The Way The World Is Functioning Right Now
Made It Impossible To Write About Anything Else. We All Need To
Figure It Out; We're Running Out Of Time. The Golden Age Is Over.'
Maybe Feels Did Not Start Their Second Album With A Conceptual
Agenda But They Definitely Intended To Speak Out: 'if You Have Any
Kind Of Platform, You Should Use It For Good,' Lay States. Geronimo
Continues, 'if Our Wildest Dreams Came True, The Album Would
Sound Exciting To People While Also Inspiring Awareness And Action
Against Hate, Prejudice, Greed, The Destruction Of Our
Environment... Apathy's Not Cool And Toppling Oppression Could Be
Fun If We Do It Together!'
With A Steadfast Proportion Of Heavy And Light, Post Earth Never
Completely Wallows In Despair: Disillusionment Is Met With A Heady
Helping Of Defiance; Hard Work Battles Against Apathy; And There
Are Even References To The Simpsons, Courtesy Of Superfan Lay.
Feels Also Strike A Perfect Balance Musically Between Noise And
Energy, Breath And Space With A Mix Of Angular, Interweaving
Guitars, Lush Vocal Harmonies, Heavy Bass And Pummeling Drums -
At Times Hearty And Loud And At Others Stunningly Harmonic And
Calm. These Newly Emphasized Dynamics Highlight The Subtler,
Weirder, And Sonically Interesting Elements Of 'post Earth' And
Allowed The Four Friends (who Have Played Intermittently In Bands
Together Since High School) Room For Experimentation.
Lp Includes Digital Download Code.

'South Of Reality', The Claypool Lennon Delirium's
epic sophomore album, might be just the antidote
this sick world needs.
Music so potent it could repel an asteroid impact
from space, these seasoned warriors of
psychedelia have crafted timeless songs that may
as well be chiselled in stone.
The monolithic dream team's new record was
produced by Les Claypool and Sean Lennon
themselves and engineered and mixed by Les
Claypool at his own Rancho Relaxo studio in
Sonoma County, California.
Grab your goggles and a month's supply of Kool
Aid because The Claypool Lennon Delirium are
about to take you for a ride on a rock 'n' roll rocket
ship and frankly you may never come back.

Noctorum haben kürzlich die Veröffentlichung ihres vierten Albums The
Afterlife bekanntgegeben. Noctorum sind Gitarrist, Sänger und
Songwriter Marty Willson-Piper und der Produzent Dare Mason.
Marty Willson-Piper schreibt und spielt seit über 35 Jahren international.
Er ist vor allem als langjähriges Mitglied der australischen
psychedelischen Rockband The Church bekannt, mit der er über 30 Jahre
zusammen war. In den 90er Jahren trat er All About Eve bei,
veröffentlichte zwei Studioalben und 6 Soloalben. Er agiert in mehreren
Nebenprojekten. Dies ist seine erste Veröffentlichung seit über 7
Jahren.

Outrageous Cherry kombinierten Psychedelia-, Folk Rock-, Art Rock
und Bubblegum-Musik in mehr als 12 Alben und über fast drei
Jahrzehnte. Sie entwickelten einen internationalen Kult und waren seit
ihren ersten Auftritten im Jahr 1991 ein fester Bestandteil der
Rock'n'Roll-Szene in Detroit. Meet You In The Shadows ist das letzte
Studioalbum, das vor dem Tod des Gründungsgitarristen Larry Ray
fertiggestellt wurde. Einige der Songs wie Lies Feel Good und Creeps
Retreat sprechen aktuelle gesellschaftliche und politische Unruhen an,
während The Beginning of the End of the Night und Complicate Me eher
psychologische Spielwiesen sind. Der Titelsong Meet You in the Shadows
vereint all diese Dinge in sich

Das bereits dritte Album des ehemaligen Delta Spirits Frontmanns ist eine Mischung aus Balladen und
seinem typischen Southern Rock Stil.
Aufgenommen wurde es in Wimberley, TX und gemastert in seiner neuen Heimat Oslo. Nach der
Veröffentlichung des vierten Delta Spirit Albums Into the Wide (2014), das von Kritikern hoch gelobt wurde,
begann Matthew am Material für seine neue Soloveröffentlichunge zu arbeiten. Daraus entstand die Austin EP,
auf der Vasquezjedes Instrument selbst einspielte. Sie war stark Psych-Rock beeinflusst und erschien im Jahr
2015. 2016 folgte sein erstes Album Solicitor Returns. Im April 2017 veröffentlichte er sein zweites
Studioalbum Does What He Wants, welches komplett im eigenen Home Studio aufgenommen wurde. Die EP
Texas Murder Ballads dient daraufhin als Überbrückungsrelease zum nun erscheinenden Album Light'n Up.
Vasquezist außerdem Mitglied der beiden Indie Supergroups Middle Brotherund Glorietta.

The Spacelords sind eine deutsche Space- und Psychedelic-Rock-Band aus Reutlingen.
Laut Selbstbeschreibung spielt die Band - instrumentalen Space- / Psychedelic-Rock mit
Stoner-, Kraut- und Prog-Rock-Einflüssen'. Die Reutlinger Band The Spacelords zählt
mittlerweile zu den bekanntesten Bands der europäischen Psychedelic / Space Rock Szene.
Seit vielen Jahren aktiv, hat sich das Trio einen exzellenten Ruf als Liveband erspielt. So
ist es nur konsequent, dass nach den letzten beiden erfolgreichen Studioalben Liquid Sun und
Water Planet nun ein Live-Album, welches die volle Wucht der Bühnenpräsenz, mit
herausragenden Sound, veröffentlicht wird. On Stage ist ein mitreißendes Live-Album
für alle Fans von modernem Psychedelic und Space Rock

- First time available since its original release.
- Includes the story behind the album as told by the artist and MP3 download card.

- Expect an interview in upcoming Ugly Things Magazine, along with reviews in other magazines.

- Think the likes of LOVE, THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, THE LEFT BANKE, BARRETT, BOWIE



Guy from Southern California packs up his life and guitar to follow a Swedish exchange student back to her home land in 1967. It doesn't work out. He goes as far as he can with whatever funds he has left, guitar in hand. It's Holland.



Having never performed outside his bedroom, he plays coffee shops for tips. Spotted by a member of prominent Dutch band, BLUES DIMENSION who brings his label's A&R guy, he's asked it he wants to record an LP. He records a lush, baroque, orchestral pop sike album. It's released on a Decca in Holland. He appears on national TV and radio, along with supporting on a few tours.

With royalties earned on the album he returns to Southern California and heads to Hollywood with the imminent release scheduled on Decca Records in the USA. It doesn't happen. Not the plot of a new movie. This is the abridged story of the lost, barely known treasure that is MIKE TINGLEY The Abstract Prince.

Der Nachfolger des im Jahr 2016 von Kritikern als Meisterstück gefeierten Albums »The Similitude Of A Dream« wird das neunte Studioalbum mit Morse, Portnoy und George werden und das dritte Album als echte Kollaboration in dieser aktuellen Konstellation. Morse und Portnoy haben gemeinsam vier Bands gegründet, doch die Gruppe, die am längsten überstanden hat und daher den größten musikalischen Ertrag erbrachte, ist The Neal Morse Band.

Die abschließende Zeile von »The Similitude Of A Dream« - »Let the great adventure now begin...« (Das große Abenteuer kann nun beginnen) - hat sich kurioserweise als Prophezeiung herausgestellt. Denn das neue Album ist genau das: ein perfektes Pendant zu TSOAD!

The Neal Morse Band führt ihre Fans mit ihrem neuesten Doppel-Konzeptalbum »The Great Adventure« auf ein großes Abenteuer. Es wird in drei Formaten erhältlich sein: als Doppel-CD, als Special Edition mit zwei CDs/DVDs inklusive Videoclips von hinter den Kulissen während der Albumaufnahme und als drei Vinyl-LPs.

Der Nachfolger des im Jahr 2016 von Kritikern als Meisterstück gefeierten Albums »The Similitude Of A Dream« wird das neunte Studioalbum mit Morse, Portnoy und George werden und das dritte Album als echte Kollaboration in dieser aktuellen Konstellation. Morse und Portnoy haben gemeinsam vier Bands gegründet, doch die Gruppe, die am längsten überstanden hat und daher den größten musikalischen Ertrag erbrachte, ist The Neal Morse Band.

Die abschließende Zeile von »The Similitude Of A Dream« - »Let the great adventure now begin...« (Das große Abenteuer kann nun beginnen) - hat sich kurioserweise als Prophezeiung herausgestellt. Denn das neue Album ist genau das: ein perfektes Pendant zu TSOAD!

The Neal Morse Band führt ihre Fans mit ihrem neuesten Doppel-Konzeptalbum »The Great Adventure« auf ein großes Abenteuer. Es wird in drei Formaten erhältlich sein: als Doppel-CD, als Special Edition mit zwei CDs/DVDs inklusive Videoclips von hinter den Kulissen während der Albumaufnahme und als drei Vinyl-LPs.

Hawkwind's debut album is an extensive mix of
psychedelic and progressive rock, resulting in the so
called space-rock. As one of the pioneers in this genre
they recorded a bunch of deep soundscapes, combining
the best of different genres. The sound of the band is
original and the approach is naive in a good sense.
This debut can be seen as the highlight of their career,
capturing the true spirit of this raw and communal
musical movement. The Pretty Things guitarist Dick
Taylor produced the debut album by Hawkwind, after
he had left his former group.

A mythical and misplaced masterpiece of lost soft rock and acidic folk funk by a one-hit wonderer lost in the wilderness for four decades. From the producer of Margo Guryan, writer behind Wool, Gerry Mulligan collaborator, Tarantino soundtracker and Wendy & Bonnie confidant, Paint A Lady now emerges from folkloric obscurity, to bring a wash of soft psychedelic colour to your vinyl collection and quench the repeat requests of a thirsty new found audience waiting for the rain.

Within certain record collecting circles, especially those who gather under the umbrella that covers fragile niches like 'acid folk' and 'soft rock', it's difficult to imagine a time when the legendary Susan Christie album didn't exist. When Finders Keepers Records first shared the unheard 60's songs like Paint A Lady, For The Love Of A Soldier and Echoes In Your Mind with a wide-eyed audience thirsty for organic soul and festival friendly acoustic funk, Susan's new found fan base instantly felt like they had known these songs all of their lives, and with a single needle drop we saw the birth of what could rightfully be described as an 'instant classic'. Which is why it's hard to believe that the music on this lost 60s acetate was only pressed 12 years ago. As our lucky seventh release in an international discography that now surpasses the 100 mark (and one of a small clutch of English language recordings on the label) Paint A Lady has slowly become one of our most requested re-releases, and with this 2018 edition it is technically accurate to say that this pressing is the first-ever reissue of this elusive and essential LP.

The oft over used term mythical applies to this album on many levels. Perhaps it's the woozy nostalgia found within the pop craft of Paint A Lady that has led to false rumours that original 1960's copies used to exist on the collectors market, or the bizarre claim that songs like the head-nodding title track, and the acid-drenched sound effects on Yesterday Where's My Mind were just a product of a contemporary studio band trying to create a fake folk funk red herring. As a result Susan Christie and her producer and husband of 40 years, John Hill have happily taken the repeat phrase 'unbelievable' as a compliment to their songwriting skills and foresight. In all fairness, with a decade to ponder, the original 1969 song titles alone do seem custom-built for the nostalgia market... No One Can Hear You Cry might lament the unrequited yearning for a record deal which never quite followed Susan's won one-hit wonder novelty hit I Love Onions; similarly When Love Comes might allude to the subsequent 35 year wait for the right label to eventually come along. Echoes In Your Mind and the aforementioned Yesterday... could easily allude to the haunting melodies that sat in the can on John Hill's studio shelf while his projects for Margo Guryan, Wool and Pacific Gas & Electric sat proudly in record racks before benefitting successful French cover versions or making their way on to Quentin Tarantino soundtracks. The track Paint A lady itself, complete with it's future-proofed sample-worthy rhythm section, seems like the perfect title for a mock rock pseudo psych contender - at which point you eventually step back and see the bigger picture. These guys were simply one drop too far ahead of their time; a family force of experimental pop perfection that late 60's America simply wasn't ready for. It is just over 12 years since champion record rustler Keith D'Arcy (who you'll meet on the inside sleeve) stumbled upon one of the original acetates that led to the final release of Paint A Lady, and it's almost a longer 50 years since Susan and John added their final touches to these recordings which tragically went into hibernation for over four decades.

Whether this album has been on your wish-list for what seems like a lifetime, or you are taking a plunge into this deep puddle for the first time, when the needle drops on the first track you'll find that Susan Christie, John Hill and Finders Keepers have been saving up for a very rainy day.

The acclaimed 2016 summer hit album from the UK Art Rock stars. the band's first record to feature the King Crimson / Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison.

'It's atmospheric and even moving.' - Q Magazine

'Prepare to fall in love.' - Kerrang!

'Wonderful Prog Rock album with great guests and guaranteed goosebumps' - 6/7 Metal Hammer (DE)

The Pineapple Thief reissue their breakthrough 2016 album 'Your Wilderness' on 180g vinyl ahead of their second headline Europe & UK tour in February / March and following the new heights reached with their 2018 album

'Dissolution'. Their efforts on 'Dissolution' earned them their highest UK album chart entry to date at #36 and also #1 in Rock and Metal, as well as reaching #22 in the German album chart, #4 in the Netherlands Platomania album chart

and #14 in the Finland album chart. They also embarked on an ambitious 16-date headline Europe and UK tour in September / October culminating at their biggest ever show at a packed

London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire. This success was in part due to the groundwork laid by 'Your Wilderness', which has so far produced 4 million+ album streams and a collection of fan-favourite songs, including 'In Exile',

'Tear You Up' and 'The Final Thing On My Mind'. For the first time, TPT brought in several guest performers for 'Your Wilderness', alongside Gavin Harrison: a four-piece choir, Geoffrey Richardson (Caravan),

who arranged and recorded string sections, Darran Charles (Godsticks) contributed additional electric guitar work, and Supertramp's John Helliwell performed some beautiful clarinet parts that bring the album to a poignant close.

Featuring conceptually sympathetic Carl Glover artwork, lyrically 'Your Wilderness' follows the journey of a parent and child through love, estrangement and reconciliation as their lives unfold. This edition of 'Your

Wilderness' is presented on heavyweight 180g vinyl in single sleeve packaging.

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory is the fifth studio album by American progressive metal/rock band Dream Theater. Originally released in 1999, it was recorded at BearTracks Studios in New York, where the band had previously recorded their second studio album Images And Words and the EP A Change of Seasons. The album is the sequel to 'Metropolis-Part I: The Miracle And The Sleeper', a song previously featured on the band's 1992 album Images and Words. It was the first album to feature Jordan Rudess on keyboards. In 2012, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory was voted as the number one all-time progressive rock album in a poll conducted by Rolling Stone, beating Rush's 2112 and Close to the Edge by Yes.

Dream Theater is one of the most successful bands in the progressive metal industry, having sold over 12 million records.

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory is available as a limited edition of 5.000 individually numbered copies on coloured (solid orange & gold mixed) vinyl.

Debut solo album from the psychedelic visionary and founder of the legendary Ozric Tentacles.

A visionary, a prodigal symphonist, one of the UK's leading influential musicians: Ed Wynne is undoubtedly a gifted instrumentalist. He is credited as one of the

linchpins of the UK festival scene's re-emergence along with his band Ozric Tentacles, who formed at Stonehenge Free Festival 1983 and became staples of the Glastonbury Festival, with their most recent performance at Glastonbury

in 2016 on the Glade stage. With an incredible flair for creating masterful tapestries of sound, and for having sold over a million records worldwide, Ed Wynne's debut solo album on

Kscope will be quick to take a hold on fans of psychedelic synth and rock music. 'Shimmer into Nature' was recorded and inspired by the different locations Ed Wynne travelled to over three years, from deep in the Colorado Mountains,

to the coastlines of Cornwall and South Devon, before being completed on Scotland's East Coast by the Firth of Forth. 'The idea is to transport the listener to a place where the everyday ups

and downs of the world dissipate, leaving the mind free to wander through a colourful, omnidirectional guitar and synth driven musical landscape for a while, landing eventually, hopefully freshly charged, with a smile and a calmer spirit.'

The music was written, programmed, mixed and performed by Ed, with mastering by Adam Goodlet at Re:Creation studios, with artwork designed by prolific English psychedelic illustrator John Hurford.