After having heard the interesting compilation of Floralia vol. 4 with various groups that were of my interest or were reviewed before on my webpages, I decided to dig all these volumes. Because with vol 4 it seemed we had very common interests. I decided to dig the releases of Mizmaze, make a separate webpage with links to all the pages of the groups I already mentioned before.
It seemed the range of interest was still a bit different. Varying from underground pop to neo 60's and Pink Floyd like pop towards psych folk and soft psych to avant garde pop.
The name 'Floralia' comes from the homonymous archaic pagan festival dedicated to the goddess Flora.
First volume are all Italian bands, with various neo Pink Floyd like or serious pop sound bands, and some neo psych. Good compilation to browse some Italian (urban) underground psych bands. All bands are really ok, none of them stand out. Aalso worth to mention here are 'Sunscape', psych band and 'Agnus' as "the Italian Bevis Front". After having heard the interesting compilation of Floralia vol. 4 with various groups that were of my interest or were reviewed before on my webpages, I decided to dig all these volumes. Because with vol 4 it seemed we had very common interests. I decided to dig the releases of Mizmaze, make a separate webpage with links to all the pages of the groups I already mentioned before.
It seemed the range of interest was still a bit different. Varying from underground pop to neo 60's and Pink Floyd like pop towards psych folk and soft psych. Second volume contains mostly neo psych bands. Last volume is the most interesting one for my personal taste.
Groups airplayed in the show :
(Most chosen tracks are *** very good upto ***° perfect like they are ;
some tracks have the tendency to be very good **°; * means ok, ** means just good).
FLORALIA VOL 1 (I)*°:
Neo end 60's psych pop :
* MIRABILIA (Firenze,I)
Tr.1, "The econmy of thinking" 6 min
Serious neo 60's psych pop with funny texts, sounds :
* GLI ACIDI TONANTI (The Thundering Acids) (Lecco,I)
Tr.5, "Cathedral di Luce" 4 min
Soundscape with guitar and its effects :
* OLOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPES (solo work by Fausto, bass player of Kryptästhesie)
Tr.7, "solo 17" 2 min
Folk psych :
* HOWTH CASTLE (Torino,I)
Tr.14, "The Golden Lotus" 5 min
No webpage or contact known
FLORALIA VOL 2 ** :
Middle eastern prog :
* Tr.7, ZEN (Istanbul,Turkey) : "Spaghetti Eastern" 4 min
Oriental psychedelica, labelled after their first release "Suda Balýk", 1995 as "Turkish psychedelic electric and eclectic folk music in a dervish trance state". Some found that first release a Faust like release. Other releases are a ZeN on Father Yod's label,Exstatic Peace, which I think is the same as "Derya" (private,1996), "Tanbul" (Kodmuzik,1999), "Bakirköy Akýl Hastanesinde" (Kodmuzik, 2001). Soon reviews of Zen's items at
Hard acid rock (Humus offshoot):
* Tr.12, FROLIC FROTH (Mexico) : "Karmic Controled Planets" 3 min
Psychedelic guitar rock :
Tr.11, BAG (I?) : "The last restort" 5 min
No webpages/contact known
Folk Ethno-psychedelica :
* Tr.13, OLE LUKKØYE (RUSS) : "Children" 6 min
"Ole closes your eyes" is a character from a famous Danish fairytale famous in Russia. The group was founded in 1989, and released "Zapara" (1993), "Toomze" (1996), "Doo-doo-doo" (1998), "Crystal Crow Bar" (2000),..
Ethno-trance psych folk, earth folk
* Tr.14, ATMAN (PL) : "Theatre of Mist" 7 min
FLORALIA VOL 3 (var)**:
* Tr.1, COSMIC GARDENERS (D) :"Moment opens moment" 4 min
Stoned and dreamy psych with sitar, organ, guitars, drummzachine, voices.
I personally like the most the first album by Riff & The Madhatters Garden Band Machine (folk psych with lots of acoustic instruments).
- Bonus :
Stono Rec. 
Riff & The Madhatters Garden Band Machine :
Dream Miniatures (2000)*°
° Tr.11, "Bongpsalterbizzibazzi" 3 min
° Tr.13, "Dream Miniatures-Smiletrial" 4 min
Earth psychedelics, ethno trance psych :
* Tr.3, KORAI ÖRÖM (HU) : "Sound & Visions" 8 min
Composed, relaxed prog with Indian/Middle Eastern influences :
* Tr.6, IN THE LABYRINTH : « Sagarmatha » 5 min
(-Also related is the group the Orient Squeezers-).
Heavy and crazy psych :
* Tr.9, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. (JAP):
"Psycho Karman" 7 min
- Bonus :
Squeeler MusicAcid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO :
* Tr.1, 200-5 min 3
Experimental trance pop / voice/ contemporary music :
* Tr.14, ALQUIMIA (MEX/UK) : "Floralia" 7 min
They released so far "Coatlicue", "Wings of perception", "Dead Tongues", "A separate Reality".
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- Bonus :
More free styled ethno trance acid underground style.
Fly MusicThe Magic Carpathians Project : Ethnocore 3 : VAK (2002)
° fragment track 2, "Hard Time" 3 min
FLORALIA VOL 4 ***
The best compilation so far. Strange there are a few singer songwriter tracks on it too.
Psych folk (on this track) :
* Tr.1, SOLAR MUMUNS (UK) : "An Angels egg lays in your mind" 4 min
Psych folk ISB inspired (in a living room version):
* Tr.2, FIT & LIMO (D): "When the world began" 6 min
P.S. The Mizmaze label released the third Discolor (trance psych, loop inspired ? /trance folk psych )
A Fit/ Riff from Cosmic Gardeners related item :
Mizmaze Discolor III (D)**
° Tr.3, "As light as a feather" 4 min
* Tr.3, EKTROVERDE (FIN): "Older" 5 min
Bonus :
Ambient textured fusion like trance psych
Mizmaze Rec. Ektroverde : Integral (FIN,1999)**
Tr.1, "Harvest" (100-end) 5 min
Modern music :
* Tr.6, BABA ZULA (Turkey): "Dep" 6 min
Modern 3D-sound / psych electronics :
* Tr.7, GROUP 2012 (RU): "8 mm" 5 min
Urban psych/pop (rock) :
* Tr.8, SCHWARZ (SP): "Punkadelic" 5 min
Modern pop (with some electronica, violin, percussion) :
* Tr.14, TROTTLE MONODREAM EXPERIENCE (HU):
"The house of the wytches" 7 min
* Tr.15, REPLIKAS (TÜ): "Royal March from the soldier tale" (Strawinski) 4 min
Bonus track :
Modern prog rock/pop
Ada MüzikReplikas : Dadaruhi (TÜ,2002)***°
° Tr.7, "Deli Halayi" 4 min
° Tr.1, "Kemir Beni" 4 min
° Tr.2, "Kör Tasin Kivisinda" 5 min
Urban psych pop ; this track good experimental folk/psych folk pop :
* Tr.16, LAZILY SPUN (UK) : "3 eyed monster" 6 min
- Bonus track : Lazily Spun : demo (UK,2002)*
° Tr.13, "Psyreality Psong" (fragment) 3 min
Avant Garde pop (not always easy, but with a few beautiful fragments) :
Mizmaze Rec. TSUKOR : Bila Smert' (RU,1999)*°
Tr.1, "In The Madleen" 3 min
Tr.14, "The great hen-yuan'river antinoy is leaving part II" 3 min
Tr.17, "Hunting" 3 min
Hearing this group I thought at first this was a Polish group but they aren't.
Avant underground pop :
