Radioshow “PVHF”, radio Centraal, Antwerp, 106.7 FM, live on air with stream : http://streaming.radiocentraal.org/ 2010-07-03 : from 8-10 PM European Time. new progressive/ethnopsych/psych/Fusion/R.I.O. releases (new and reissued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- grading in reviews for gradings of sum of individual tracks… *** vg **** perf ***** must have heard/can’t get better +°some tracks better +‘ possibly better, according to opinion/vision ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro 3 min PART 1 : FINE RETRO 60S: * Sown Open Vaus : The Floating Celebration (US,pub.2010)**° Tr.1, “Teraphim” 4 min Notice some Barrett influences in this album. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.com/vaus.html#anchor_281 * Warp Broadcast & The Focus Group : Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (UK,2009)**°° Tr.1-2, “Intro/Magnetic Tales” 5 min 12 Some really good retro 60s music mixed with some chaotic collage elements. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/sixties6.html#anchor_346 * SeeMonkeyDoM. The Keys : Fire Inside (UK,2010)**° Tr.1, “Fire Inside” 3 min 15 Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/sixties6.html#anchor_340 PART 2 :6OS REISSUES : INDONESIA: * Sublime Freq. Dara Puspita (="Flower Girls"): 1966-1968 (IND,comp.2010)**°° Tr.2, “The Lone Traveller” 4 min 19 All girl 60s garage/psychpop band. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/INDO60S.html#anchor_113 * Sublime Freq. Koes Bersaudara: Koes Bersaudara 1967 (IND,1967,comp.2010)***° Tr.6, “Poor Clown” 2 min Tr.10,“My Song” 3 min 5 -24 One of the most popular garage/psychpop bands from Indonesia. First two albums. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/INDO60S.html#anchor_103 * Sublime Freq. Koes Plus : Dheg Dheg Plas & Volume 2 (1969 & 1970,comp.2010)***° Tr.3, “The Black Cloud” 4 min Tr.15,“You left me” 2 min Tr.23, “Why were you sad” 4 min 10 -34 Very good psychpop with nice psych organ. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/INDO60S.html#anchor_131 OUTRO: * Sublime Freq. V.A. : Ecstatic music of the Jemaa El Fna –LP- (MO,rec.2005,pub.2010)**’ Tr.6, Troupe Mazjidi : “Khlili (Lemchacheb)” 5 min (shortened) 39 Primitive electrified string of new urbanised ethno-folk. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/morocco.html#anchor_234 PART 3 : 70S REISSUES: GERMANY: * Sireena Efendi's Garden (D,1979,1989,re.2010)***° Tr.2, “The Garden” 7 min Tr.1, “Lazy Man Crazy” 3 min 10 -49 Fine off-going standard rocker album with odd vocalist. The Garden includes the interpretation of an Arab song and is a strange oddity and might be the bands most progressive idea. Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/EfendisGarden.html#anchor_300 * Finderskeepers V.A. : Cloud Cuckooland (D,comp.2010)**** Tr.7, Ernst Schultz : “10 Finger Blind” 2 min Tr.16,Lied Des Teufels : “Nichts” 3 min 5 -54 Very good compilation of Kuckuck label. This track is a type machine idea. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/germany.html#anchor_91 PART 3 : 50S REISSUES: * Trunk Kenny Graham and his Sattelites: Moondog and Suncat Suites -LP/CD- (US,1957,re.2010)***’ (Tr.3, “Two Four” 1 min) Tr.5, “Three Four” 1 min Tr.12,“Sunbeam” 3 min 5 59 I wonder if “Sunbeam” is not one of Sun Ra’s tunes from which I remember a similar tune. Review : http://psychefolk.com/moondog.html#anchor_55 PART 4 : (ETHNO)JAZZ EDGES * Now Again The Whitefield Brothers : Earthology (D,2010)****' Tr.2, “Safari Strut” 3 min Tr.4, “Toisho” 3 min Tr.8, “Pamukkafe” 5 min Tr.10,“Breaking Through” 5 min 16 -75 Brilliant at times DJ-sort of jazz hopper band. Track 2 is Ethiopian jazz-funk, and also track 5 is Ethiopian. Love it. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/spiritualjazz.html#anchor_246 * Flowfish Larry Porter : Silk Road Blues (US,2010)****° Tr.1, “Raga’n Roll” 6 min -82 Great Afghan/Indian/Jazz-Fusion, a renewal of this in the traditional sense. Heaviest track on the album. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/World2.html#anchor_70 OUTRO: * Warp Flying Lotus (US,2010)*** Tr.4, “Intro/A Cosmic Drama” 2 min -84 Heavy modern beats based project mixed with elements from spiritual jazz and soul. Now it sounds pretty loud compared to other examples I heard today. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/CONTEMPROCK.html#anchor_242 PART 5 : SOME NEW CUNEIFORM RELEASES * Cuneiform Fast'N'Bulbous -The Captain Beefheart Project- : Waxed Oop (US,2009)**' The inspiration of the Beefheart heritage sound like having become lazier. No tracks chosen for airplay. Review : http://psychemusic.org/prog9.html#anchor_191 * Cuneiform Soft Machine : NDR Jazz Workshop -CD+DVD- (UK,1973/1983,re.2010)****’ Tr.9, “Stanley Stamp’s Gibbon Album” 5 min Tr.10,“Chloe and the pirates” -> max. 2 min Tr.16, “Riff II” 2 min 9 -93 Live recordings from around the forming of ideas for Soft Machine Seven. Soft Machine were one of the greatest jazz-rock bands, of course. Great complexity mixed with improvisational skills. Review : http://psychemusic.org/softmachine2.html#anchor_81 * Cuneiform Mats/Morgan Band : The Music or the money ? -2CD- (S,1997,re.2010)***°' Tr.14, “I wanna” 5 min -98 Great technical interesting track and song. A favourite moment. Review : http://psychemusic.org/sweden2.html#anchor_203 * Cuneiform Cheer-Accident : Fear Draws Misfortune (US,2010)***’ Notice the Zappa influence. Heavy. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/prog24.html#anchor_338 * Cuneiform Algernon : Ghost Surveillance (US,2010)***' Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/chambermusicrock.html#anchor_338 * Cuneiform Miriodor : Avanti! (CAN,2009)***’?? Review soon : http://www.psychemusic.org/prog3.html#anchor_92 * Cuneiform Univers Zero : Archives 1984-1986 (B,re.2009)***° Tr.4, “Ligne Claire” 4 min 102 Archived live recordings made between two albums from this great dark chamber-rock band. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/belgium2.html#anchor_178 * Cuneiform Univers Zero : Clivages (B,2010)**** Tr.2, “Warrior” 13 min 115 Latest release of this band whose first album dates from 1977. Review : http://www.psychemusic.org/belgium2.html#anchor_185 A few more Cuneiform records later. OUTRO : * Fading Ciccada : A child in the mirror (GR/I,2010)**** Tr.1, “Ciccada” 5 min 120 Very good symphonic-progressive rock album with small folk influences. 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