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Rainbow Ffolly Sallies Fforth 1968 uk beautiful orchestrated swinging psychedelia 2005 remaster

Rainbow Ffolly Sallies Fforth 1968 uk beautiful orchestrated swinging psychedelia 2005 remaster Spectromorphic Iridescence from a Tube of Smarties For years, Rainbow Ffolly Sallies Fforth, PMC 7050 (stereo PCS 7050), has been the ultimate mystery album for collectors. Mint copies change hands at upwards of �120, an Italian bootleg has been issued, and yet the group members have remained anonymous. Time to unffold the tale of the Rainbow Ffolly, a band influential on the careers of the Moody Blues, possibly the Who and even the Beatles. The Ffollys story, with its incredible string of ffirsts, is unique amongst groups of the time. Only when it reaches the part where the band is forced to split through lack of income does the tale become the sadly-familiar Sixties shot-at-stardom that failed. Rainbow Ffolly, an art college band, evolved in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, from a group called Force Four. Jonathan Dunsterville picked the new name to conjure up the eye-searing colours associa...

The Bleu Forest A Thousand Trees Deep 1968 us tremendous garage psychedelia 2016 reissue

The Bleu Forest A Thousand Trees Deep 1968 us tremendous garage psychedelia 2016 reissue In late 1965, drummer Jack Caviness was recruited by guitarists and vocalists Michael Cullen and Gary Heuer. All were from the same small town, Moorpark, CA. The three of us worked on original songs written by Michael for 6 months. At that point we added Ed Steele on bass guitar and spent time bringing him into the fold. When ready we began playing small gigs around Moor parkand surrounding areas and received a good reception on the original music. Then we were booked into an open mic night at the Troubadour in Hollywood. That is where we were discovered by future music icon Jimmy Haskell. Mr. Haskell immediately scheduled us to record a demo at his home studio which we did. We could never have believed what happened next. Both Gary and Michael were drafted were drafted into the armed service as Vietnam war was going strong. Both evacuated themselves to Canada, they were there several months prior ...

The Crazy People Bedlam 1968 canada intense experimental theatrical multi psychedelia 2011 remaster

The Crazy People Bedlam 1968 canada intense experimental theatrical multi psychedelia 2011 remaster Little is known about this late-60s band other than they were Canadian, recorded their sole album Bedlam on the Burnaby, British Columbia-based Condor exploit label (home to a wide diversity of bands, among them Latin Holiday, Blues Train, the Surf Riders, and the Jimmy Cole Unlimited), and were intensely weird even for the era. From there, perhaps appropriately enough, everything gets a bit fuzzy. Much of the Crazy People legend is couched in mystery and subject to various rumors and speculation. It is thought, because of the label it is on, that the band was actually an exploitation studio project rather than a proper combo. The most plausible theory is that it is the brainchild of Johnny Kitchen, whose name may seem terribly arcane to the casual music fan but is well-known among 60s collectors despite the fact that his identity remains a complete enigma. What is known about Kitchen is...

PSYCHEDELIC PERNAMBUCO Brazil Psychedelia Rare Mr Bongo Compilation

PSYCHEDELIC PERNAMBUCO Brazil Psychedelia Rare Mr Bongo Compilation PSICODELIA EXCELENTE BRASUCA DA MELHOR ESP�CIE!! A GRAVADORA MR. BONGO EM CONTATO COM A GRAVADORA ROZEMBLIT (AQUELA MESMA DO DISCO PAEBIRU) E AINDA COM COLECIONADORES BRASILEIROS REMASTERIZOU V�RIOS ALBUMS DA PSICODELIA PERNAMBUCANA E RELAN�OU TODOS ELES!! AQUI A MR.BONGO FAZ UMA COLET�NEA GENIAL E CAPRICHADA DO MELHOR DO PSYCH PERNAMBUCANO!! UMA OBRA PRIMA DO ROCK PSYCH BRASUCA!!! VENENO ALTAMENTE RECOMENDADO!! Musical strangeness from mid-Seventies Brazil thats as essential as it is psychedelic!! In 2011 the label, fully in synch with its baseline essential world cinema and music, started producting films and soundtracks such as Rio Breaks, and re-issuing 1970s Brazilian beauties such as Cravo & Canela mid-70s M�sica Popular Brasileira masterpiece Pre�o De Cada um, some beautiful South American folk-psych-raga thing from Lula C�rtes & Lailson, and a introductory compilation to the sound of the hedonistic psy...

The End From Beginning To End 1964 70 uk brilliant sparkling bright psychedelia 2015 four discs box set

The End From Beginning To End 1964 70 uk brilliant sparkling bright psychedelia 2015 four discs box set One thing you learn, sleuthing for obscure psychedelic music from the sixties, is that for every �White Rabbit� there is a �Night Sounds Loud.� And a �Crystal Forms.� And God knows how many other brilliant songs grown out of the same protoplasm, but forgotten to history. There is just no shortage of mind-exploding songs that have long ago slipped away into The Nothing � standout songs from bands less consistent, or just less lucky than Jefferson Airplane. Even knowing that so much great overlooked music is out there, buried deep in record stacks and on YouTube, I was unprepared for �Introspection� by The End. Ironically, seeing that it was produced by Bill Wyman and engineered by Glyn Johns actually lowered my expectations. Let me explain. For an album with such a pedigree � produced by a Rolling Stone in 1968 � to have completely fallen between the cracks, it couldn�t actually be an...

The Millennium Voices Of The Millennium 1965 68 us bautiful sunshine psychedelia 2013 Blu Spec issue third part of eight discs box set

The Millennium Voices Of The Millennium 1965 68 us bautiful sunshine psychedelia 2013 Blu Spec issue third part of eight discs box set The Voices Of Millennium are actually telling us about how some of the band members were spending their time after The Millennium break-up (if there ever was one) towards the end of the decade. Though it might not be as adventurous as it was while they were only just �begin-ining�, these sessions show that they were still spending some quality time together. Some of the tracks, with an almost baroque country feel, with the kind of a Wilson-ian touch too, like I Still Can See Your Face and Will You Ever See Me, as well as the chamber-psych The Blue Marble, later surfaced on Gary Usher�s sophomore Sagittarius release of the same title, while another easy country piece, Share With Me, graced the sunny side of Curt Boettcher�s Together single. Along with the Spector-ized opener Come To Me Baby, the ones contributing to the more cheery side of the album, are...

The Griffin The Worlds Filled With Love 1968 us fabulous colorful beat psychedelia vinyl edition

The Griffin The Worlds Filled With Love 1968 us fabulous colorful beat psychedelia vinyl edition Griffin was an obscure flower power pop psych band  with their 1968 ABC label album, optimistically titled �The World�s Filled With Love.� And anyone with a sweet tooth for the first two Strawberry Alarm Clock long players, or the mystical but still pop-centrific later Monkees albums, or anyone who still believes the world is filled with bunnies and pink cotton candy clouds, will find Griffin �s na�ve but surprisingly trippy outlook on life pretty reassuring.   Griffin summoning up their inner Kahlil Gibrans when they sing �Know thyself is just a phrase, till some have passed through the haze. I�ve figured out the maze, in my other life.� As Ravi Shankar�s dad, I�m guessing, since they surround it with the same kind of floaty, mystical sitar and tabla head zones that George did on his passages to India , all bellydancing rhythms, snakey sitar lines and om-like chanting background v...