Forgotten_Jewels Formed around '67 / '68 when Martin Briley and Brian Engel met at Art School in Walthamstow, London[UK psychedelic rock/197Mandrake Paddlesteamer made one, now legendary, psychedelic 45 which inevitably interests collectors. The original release of Strange Walking Man is now very expensive to purchase but aside from the disc's reissue by Bam-Caruso in 1988, the 'A' side, Strange Walking Man has also been heavily compiled. It's unusual for a tempo change towards the end where the vocal parts end and the song culminates with an instrumental passage. The track also features some great understated guitar work, and superb trippy lyrics. The flip side, Steam, is a pretty decent keyboard-driven instrumental. Enjoy:http://rapidshare.com/files/315016085/1971_-_Forgotten_Jewels.rar
Galliard is a sextet formed in the summer of 68, and developed a psychedelic type of brass rock, fronted by twin wind players Caswell and Smith and singer Geoff Brown. They recorded two albums on the Deram Nova label (the subsidiary prog label of Decca records) around the turn of the 70’s decade, when brass rock was the rage. Their first album Strange Pleasure By Galliard, released in 69, was quite eclectic, ranging from Medieval to Flamenco/Spanish music. For their second album New Dawn, wind player John Smith was gone, but the group adjoined a mega brass section of four player, plus keyboardist Morton. This second album sounds a bit different, but we are still roughly in the same realm even if the spectrum is enlarged to folk and Indian raga. Enjoy:http://rapidshare.com/files/137109190/1969_-_Strange_Pleasure.rar
Mike Absalom was a genuine oddity on the late-'60s/early-'70s U.K. scene, a singer/songwriter with a bent sense of humor that seemed to be driven as much by a heavy load of illicit pharmaceuticals as by a skewed worldview. Unlike the contemporary Syd Barrett, however, Absalom did not become an acid casualty. He recorded one album for Saydisc in 1969, a disc that escaped under the title of Save the Last Gherkin for Me, and he set out on a career of busking and living hand to mouth. Producer/A&R man Patrick Lyons (of Nirvana [U.K.] fame) found his attention engaged by Absalom's music when the singer/songwriter was playing for small change in a London Underground station, subsequently signing him to Vertigo Records. Enjoy:http://rapidshare.com/files/245330217/1972_-_Hector_and_Other_Pecadillos.rar
US pop rock/1964 Contrary to what the exploitative title might have you believe, this was not recorded during a Beatles tour (though Jackie DeShannon was an opening act on their 1964 North American tour), or even a live album. Instead, it was something of a grab bag of a dozen tracks that had already been released on Liberty singles between 1962 and 1964. Enjoy:http://rapidshare.com/files/343827606/1964_-_Breakin__It_Up_on_the_Beatles_Tour_.rar
Marie "Queenie" Lyons is a mystery girl, a Southern enigma. Like a kind of black Bobbie Gentry, after just one album ("SOUL FEVER") Queenie vanished. Following its 1970 release, she disappeared off the soul map forever, like a roman candle floating off into the warm Southern night.
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AQUELARRE (meaning witches nocturnal meeting with the devil) was formed after the dissolution of the band ALMENDRA in 1970, as its bass player Emilio del Güercio and drummer Rodolfo Garcia joined up with guitar player Héctor Stark and keyboard player Hugo González Neira joined up. They performed in B.A.Rock II festival 1971, and their first studio album "Aquelarre" was released in 1972. It's cover was drawn by the band's bass player, who became graphic designer later. Their music is sophisticated psychedelic rock'n'roll with very impressionistic moments, artistic arrangements, surrealistic themes and they have a jazzy rhythm section. During next years they released three more albums, "Candiles" in 1973, and it's cover is a painting of Goya, which name is the same as the bands name!
Dreamy, sunshine-infused pop psychedelia with a folk bent, originally released by independent Canadian label Allied Records in 1968. Release the Sunshine - 1968 Enjoy:http://rapidshare.com/files/404306161/T_Folk.rar.html
BLONDE ON BLONDE (taking their name from BOB DYLAN's 1966 album) were formed in Newport, South Wales in 1967.
Mark Spoelstra: Five and Twenty Questions (1965) Elektra EKS-7283 Mark Spoelstra was an old friend of Joan Baez; they dated in high school. Fariρa met Spoelstra at the Big Sur Folk Festival where Richard & Mimi performed their first professional gig in June of 1964. In these liner notes Fariρa recalls his meeting with Spoelstra at a "seminar on the how-comes of New Folk Music" that attended the Festival, and he praises Spoelstra's political and musical integrity.
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An early seventies folk-rock album from the collaboration of Phil Pickett and Georg Kajanus before they form the successful pop band Sailor. Enjoy:http://rapidshare.com/files/337822149/1972_-_Hi_Ho_Silver_.rar
A tripped-out batch of tracks from Brazil! These guys mix together a bit of funk, a bit of psych, and touches of Jorge Ben-like soul -- into a blend that's really groovy all the way through, and which will be sure to please any fan of the Samba Soul groove! Jorge Ben's influence is all over the set -- filtered through some garagey production that makes the tracks sound rawer than any of Ben's own work, and which give the guitars a nice fuzzed out edge. The whole thing's almost psychedelic at times, but has a fair bit of soul as well.
Bobbie Gentry remains one of the most interesting and underappreciated artists to emerge out of Nashville during the late '60s. Best-known for her crossover smash "Ode to Billie Joe," she was one of the first female country artists to write and produce much of her own material,.jpg)
Willie McKinley Hutchison, known professionally as Willie Hutch (December 6, 1944 — September 19, 2005) was an American singer, as well as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown record label during the 1970s. Enjoy:http://rapidshare.com/files/106393670/Willie_Hutch_-_Seasons_For_Love__1970_.rar
This album is of interest for Flower Pot, a long fifteen minute psychedelic suite which takes up the whole of Side Two. Complete with sound effects, phasing, screams, echo loops and bird noises, the track was recorded in one take, with the voices overdubbed later. The group formed in Las VegasThe groups energy in live performance could never really be captured on record. The horn sound created by the Trumpet, Trombone and Sax with the funky rhythm section was truly incredible.
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The band formed in 1966, with the members coming from Westminster, California, and Tustin, California (both in Orange County). Jim Quarles invented the name "because it had a mystical and otherworldly ring", and the father of one of the band members (Jim Foster) served as their manager. The two then began writing songs for the new band: "I didn't know what I was doing at the time. I just wrote the songs with Jim Foster. I didn't have any prior experience."
Clem Alford was a classically-trained sitar player who spent time in India to enhance his knowledge of Indian classical music prior to joining the interesting but short-lived Magic Carpet in the early seventies. Upon their demise he recorded two solo albums of sitar music which are not easy to track down. The first is now a collector's item, and has been reissued on CD with additional material. The second, which is even harder to find, was recorded exclusively for use in music libraries. Prior to this in 1972 he'd recorded an album under the name Sagram.
Charles Wright (born in 1940 in Clarksdale, Mississippi) & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band is a pioneering soul and funk band. Formed in the early 1960s, they had the most visibility from 1967 to 1973.