Friday, 30 December 2011

Daevid Allen with Hugh Hopper & Pip Pyle – Brainville Live In The UK

Released in 2004 as number 2 of the limited "Bananamoon Obscura" series & mixed by Hugh Hopper. The band started out as a quartet with Kramer on keyboards/producer & released the Children's Crusade album on Shimmy Disc in 1998. Brainville Live In The UK takes in everything from psychedelia, progrock & avant improvisation as you'd expect from founding members of Soft Machine, Gong, Henry Cow, Art Bears and apparently the name of the group was inspired by a Sun Ra tune.
Daevid Allen with Hugh Hopper & Pip Pyle – Brainville Live In The UK
1. Fohat digs holes in space
2. Who's afraid
3. Flowers gone
4. Shadow
5. Thinking thoughts
6. Hope for happiness
7. Bullshit & be

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Archbishop Kebab - Beyond Ma Ken

Second album from scottish avant hardcore collective,although the lyrics are still firmly rooted in protest, their bass heavy sound has developed to embrace elements of dub, afrobeat and ska to their no wave frenetic post jazzcore. Beyond Ma Ken was recorded in the studio of hungarian label Trottel in 1993 after extensive european tours with the ex, dog faced hermans, badgewearer, dawson, stitch and the stretchheads.
( 320 Plus booklet)
Archbishop Kebab - Beyond Ma Ken
01. Scenic (1:38)
02. Headrunrunaround (1:55)
03. Jesus Sends Hate Mail (2:28)
04. Altruist (2:09)
05. Another Black Eye (3:28)
06. Rotating (2:07)
07. Finding Our Voices (2:18)
08. Bronze Mountain Rise (2:33)
09. Pride (2:53)
10. Too Drunk Too Punk (1:43)
11. Tarnished (2:06)
12. Humosection (2:53)
13. Get Wise (4:21)
14. Animal Song (3:46)
15. Telethon (2:49)
16. Total Bodyswerve (3:29)
17. Old Souls (2:20)
Duncan – drums
Bud – bass, guitar
Neil – guitar, bass, voice
Angela – saxes
Karen – voice, sax, melodica
Debut album here

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

V/A - A Trip Inside (10 years of Magick Eye)

An excellent compilation that reveals itself across four discs that span the first ten years of Magic Eye records, a label originally set up to release the early ambient experimental techno of Astralasia (a side project of the Magic Mushroom Band ). A Trip Inside includes many hard to find compilation tracks and a few exclusives from Another Green World, CHILDREN OF DUB, Spiralhead, Magic Mushroom Band and of course Astralasia
CD1
1. CYBERNAUT - Califrae
2.CHILDREN OF DUB-Loving Is Easy
3.ASTRALASIA-She Does
4.SPIRALHEAD-Beyond The Blue 2
5.UNDER THE HONEYTUNNEL-DMT-The Remedy?
6.CHILDREN OF DUB-Herb (Raw Ganja mix)
7.ASTRALASIA-God Forms On The Astral
8.SYT-Images
9.ANOTHER GREEN WORLD-Another Green Waltz
10.CHILDREN OF DUB-Reefer Madness
11.ASTRALASIA-Madam
12.BLACK HOLE-Jupiter’s Child
CD2
1.SYT-Global Drift
2.UVX-Party State
3.ASTRALASIA-Rhythm Of Life
4.ASTRALASIA-Guruuve
5.MUSHROOM BAND-Denmark Elephant Grey
6.UVX-Shape Of Life (Spiralhead rmx)
7.MAGIC MUSHROOM BAND-Squatter In The House
8.ASTRALASIA-Genesis-The Spark Of Life
9.ASTRALASIA-Ursa Major Cowslip
10.MAGIC MUSHROOM BAND-Bunk
11.ASTRALASIA-The Politics Of Ecstacy
12.MAGIC MUSHROOM BAND-Turban Paranoia
CD3
1.ASTRALASIA-Aloo
2.UVX-Mandrax
3.MUSHROOM-Aaravinda
4.UNDER THE HONEYTUNNEL-The Remedy
5.NOZMO-Sands
6.CHILDREN OF DUB-Bliss
7.BLACK HOLE-Undercurrent
CD4
1.SPIRALHEAD-Drifter
2.ANOTHER GREEN WORLD-Shaman
3.SYT-Nu Dawn
4.UVX-Billy Whizz (Mungus mix)
5.MUSHROOM BAND-Halfway Down And About To Fall
6.ASTRALASIA-Unveria Mekanik