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Warm, comfy and loose — unashamedly inchoate — for Capitol in 1967.
Nice Percy Mayfield version.
Uproarious mix-up of Molam pop, Thai acid-rock, Javanese dangdut, default TwoTone and Cambodian instro-drama from the Oakland CA seven-piece including Sublime Frequencies’ Mark Gerghis (with Alan Bishop guesting).
Charged garage-rock from Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1970. Championed by the innumerate Enjoy The Experience: ‘Amongst my favorites, the sincerity and verve in the performances remain fresh to the ear and heart thirty years later.’
At the harmonium; bleak and utterly captivating. Terrific arrangements by John Cale.
A stone-cold classic.
Sexy and ardent, this is great fun.
Lavishly presents previously-unreleased and new material from Sonic Youth, Sun City Girls, Bardo Pond, Comets on Fire, Eternal Tapestry, Steve Gunn, Mouthus, D. Charles Speer and Wooden Wand.
Her third Columbia, from 1970.
With Muscle Shoals crew on side one — Roger Hawkins, Eddie Hinton, Barry Beckett and co — and a lineup convening the Armenian oud-plyer Ashod Garabedian, Duane Allman and Alice Coltrane, on side two.
‘I love my country as it dies in war and pain before my eyes. I walk the streets where disrespect has been. The sins of politics, the politics of sin, the heartlessness that darkens my soul… on Christmas.’
Rie Nakajima and Keiko Yamamoto (co-founder of Cafe OTO in East London) are joined by violinist Billy Steiger and percussionist Marie Roux in a dozen deconstructions of Japanese folk music, for this pacy, intimately engaging debut album.
Rie’s baby orchestra of rice bowls, toys, clock workings, balloons and motors is by turns haunted, teased, adorned and laid waste by Keiko’s chanting, rumbling, whispering and stamping on the floor. The production by David ‘Flying Lizards’ Cunningham deepens and spooks the mix, which sparks with energy and wit, grace and mystery.
Terry Ork was an absconder from Warhol’s Factory. Starting in 1975, his label issued the debut 45s of Television and Richard Hell, as well as landmark recordings by The Feelies and Lester Bangs, not to mention Big Star’s Alex Chilton and the dBs’ Chris Stamey, and such acts as Marbles, Prix, Mick Farren, Cheetah Chrome, the Idols, the Erasers, the Revelons, Student Teachers etc etc.
The deluxe 190-page hardback book is stuffed with terrific photos. The exquisitely sleeved bonus 45 features two previously unreleased tracks by The Feelies — The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness from 1978, and a cover of Bacharach and David’s My Little Red Book, recorded live at CBGB, late 1976.
‘A Squeeze-meets-XTC vibed track that will appeal to fans of the Rangers, as it sounds like a half-remembered lost classic from an ‘80s infomercial beamed onto a thrift-store VHS.’
From 1976, the first of the two albums by the Asocial Associates, led by Philippe Doray of Rotomagus.
‘Psychedelic pop, voodoo rock, wrong krautrock, woozy swing… bringing to mind as much Hendrix as Areski, Ash Ra Tempel as Berrocal. No wonder that Nurse With Wound lists Philippe Doray between the Doo-Dooettes and Jean Dubuffet. One of the best albums of experimental song ever recorded.’