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Deeply dug up, Numero-approved folk and rock covers of songs impossible to delete from the collective unconscious of Pop (however hard you hit the button).
Done-over Boz Scaggs, War, Redbone, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Diamond, John Denver,Glen Cambell, Smokey Robinson, The Carpenters, Joe Cocker, and something ostensibly from Willy Wonka.
‘Their vividly definitive statement: haunting tones from an unusual combination of instruments, filtered through multiple layers of reverb and delay. Their music has strong stylistic affinities with the trippy ambience of cosmic and psychedelic rock, but the Taj Mahal Travellers were tuning in to other vibrations, drawing inspiration from the energies and rhythms of the world around them rather than projecting some alternative reality.
‘The electronic dimension of their collective improvising was coordinated, as usual, by Kinji Hayashi. Guest percussionist Hirokazu Sato joined long-term group members Ryo Koike, Seiji Nagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Michihiro Kimura, Tokio Hasegawa, and the renowned, enigmatic electric violinist Takehisa Kosugi.
‘Films of rolling ocean waves often provided a highly appropriate backdrop for their lengthy improvised concerts. This is truly electric music for the mind and body.’
The guitar pioneer with his groups the Bunnys and The Blue Jeans: hard surf to groovy 60s instrumentals, fuzz freak-outs to funk rock, from 1966-74.
The engrossing solo debut of the Animal Collective singer. Introspective, spooked psych — artful electronica and vintage American pop tangled deep underwater. The LP has a beautiful die-cut inner-sleeve.
Exclusively tailored in places, planes, hotel rooms and at home — fifteen bespoke songs and instrumentals from the Hot Chip.
Besides the debut single She Is Beyond Good And Evil adding the ten-track album Alien Blood and Y Live.
Alien Blood unearths revelatory, never-before-heard material, including the studio recording of Kiss The Book, a gloves-off version of We Are Time (Ricochet) and Words Disobey Me (Dennis The Menace Mix). It exposes the raw skeletons of iconic tracks such as Thief of Fire (Bass Addict), at its original velocity.
Y Live captures all the fierce urgency of the group’s live performances at the time, at a variety of locations including New York, Manchester and — on a bill with William Burroughs and Joy Division — Brussels. It bottles what was so thrilling about The Pop Group.
Too experimental for their label International Artists, back in 1967.
A third album of luscious sampladelic pop magic. Catchy, laid-back Beach Boys-esque pop and Laurel Canyon-bedsit-style loveliness.
