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  • Zalla (Piero Umiliani) - Paesaggi Zalla (Piero Umiliani) - Paesaggi

    Paesaggi in Italian means ‘landscapes’ (I checked on Alta Vista Babel Fish translator). With a dull cover and very non descript name, I’m not sure what I was thinking in shelling out almost $80 for this record on Eb*y. Boy was I pleasantly surprised. Seems as if (almost) everything Umiliani touched turned […]

  • Mill Run Band -- Pilot Meets Stars Mill Run Band — Pilot Meets Stars

    This album reminds me of the time in college when the whole crew and I gathered some 40s, some blunts and headed to Lizard’s Rock to watch the meteor shower. I believe a few of us even brought little hand drums. I was a bit too neurotic to not approach this whole […]

  • Corvina: S/T Corvina: S/T

    Yet another pretty mediocre Hungarian rock record for your viewing/listening pleasure. I couldn’t help but get excited when I found this cause the cover is so foreign and cool, but it’s mostly sorta jaunty lightweight pop with some flutey sheep-herder moves. There are a couple pretty cool tracks that rock a bit harder though, so […]

  • GRAVELPIT: SnowGlobe ~ Rockadelic RRLP36, 1999 GRAVELPIT: SnowGlobe ~ Rockadelic RRLP36, 1999

    This record certainly affirms the boundless parameters of the Rockadelic Records label and it’s “open to all those worthy” release philosophy. The group GRAVELPIT were a very talented group whose single Rockadelic album release seems to project equally in lyric and song, an ample dealing of post damage recovery vibes. In short, victory despite it’s […]

  • Simple Image - Spinning Spinning Spinning Simple Image - Spinning Spinning Spinning

    One of those frustrating LPs where the music can never live up to the awesome cover art. The Simple Image were a band from Wellington, New Zealand that formed in the mid 60s. This album is their debut from ‘68 and the title track was a local number one single. There were […]

  • The Avengers - Electric Recording The Avengers - Electric Recording

    The Avengers were a local New Zealand pop band of the late 60s. This was their first LP & was released in 1967. They came from Wellington & had the good fortune to hook up with US hippie hitch-hiker Chris Malcolm who went on to write over half of the songs on this record, playing […]

  • Euclid: Heavy Equipment 1970, Amsterdam (Flying Dutchman Subsidiary) Euclid: Heavy Equipment 1970, Amsterdam (Flying Dutchman Subsidiary)

    Euclid’s one and only album is among the very best of it’s type, which is most certainly Heavy Rock at it’s best. The musicians themselves were of an excellent caliber & very experienced, coming from a diverse New England Garage & Psych Rock background. Groups from which they haled prior included the noteworthy Psych tinged […]

  • Think - Variety Think - Variety

    This album makes for great and somewhat sophisticated psychedelic nutrition for those hungry heavy heads with a predisposed preference for multi-colored musical edification. Don’t get the wrong idea though, this is NOT just some over rated, useless & busy cerebral background filler of an album. Neither is it one of those that has every possible […]

  • Orang-Utan: (same) 1970, Bell Records Orang-Utan: (same) 1970, Bell Records

    The group Orang-Utan consisted of an amalgamation of talent. The best musicians from several other notable dissolving bands, that had been playing in the North of London in the late 60s, were to be the contributors in combination. The story behind this group is just as interesting as the music they played itself. This group […]

  • The Tree People s/t The Tree People s/t

    Here’s one of my favorite northwest private folk records. It came out of Eugene Oregon in 1979, all the songs are composed by Stephen Cohen. Stephen has a nice fragile voice that compliments his acoustic guitar nicely. About half the songs have vocals and the other half are instrumental and kinda remind me of Robbie […]

  • Happiendo - Kazemachiroman (~Happy End - Windy Street　Romance) Happiendo - Kazemachiroman (~Happy End - Windy Street　Romance)

    Many consider Happy End the first true rock band from Japan. This is due to the fact that they were the first to make rock albums sung entirely in their native Japanese. They are very well known in Japan, however Im not sure of their popularity in the Western World so I hope this mini-review […]

  • Cincinnati Joe and Mad Lydia Cincinnati Joe and Mad Lydia

    Here’s an obscure but not very expensive album that should appeal to anyone whose ears are shaped in a Waxidermian kind of way. The rather unlikely couple came together in the fair town of Cincy, where they released this LP as well as a couple of non-LP 45s. As suggested in my Acid Archives review, […]

  • Troyka - S/T Troyka - S/T

    URGENT: If you have any information on the whereabouts of MICHAEL (MIKE) RICHARDS drummer of Troyka and member of Edmonton, Alberta’s rock-and-roll group The Royal Family, please contact Rob Edwards or Ron Lukaweitski (of Troyka and Royal Family) through the comment page below.

  • Rodriguez - Cold Fact Rodriguez - Cold Fact

    This is definitely one of those “what was the record company thinking” scenarios.  Sixto Rodriguez was a songwriter & musician based in Detroit in the 70s and he recorded this album for a label called Blue Goose at Tera-Shirma Studios.  The weird thing isn’t that this LP is awesome psych/folk/rock with loads of drug, political […]

  • Roger Rodier - Upon Velveatur Roger Rodier - Upon Velveatur

    I had high hopes for this record when I finally found a copy, and upon first needle-drop I was slightly disappointed. I just wasn’t ready. He was so gentle. So dreamy. I found myself tip-toeing around my apartment, worried I might shatter this fragile vibe issuing out my speakers, leaking into my apartment building, and […]

  • Flight: S/T Flight: S/T

    It seems you could look through records weekly for the rest of your natural life and you’d still be finding these one-off obscurities on Capitol as you keeled over and died. As an example I present: Flight. Definitely walking the line between goofy and great, but there is something I like a whole lot about […]

  • Fargo: I See It Now Fargo: I See It Now

    In the late 60’s RCA was really putting out some interesting one-off winners. Gotta love what swill like the Door$ opened the… uhhh, door to. For example I present Fargo. I have absolutely no clue about these guys, and I doubt anyone who wasn’t on top of things at this special moment in Salt Lake […]

  • The Lewis And Clarke Expedition: S/T The Lewis And Clarke Expedition: S/T

    Really dope 2nd tier Buffalo Springfield-esque folk-rock lp on the RCA subsidiary Colgems. At times this gets just a tiny bit too cheesed out for it’s own good, but the solid tracks more than make up for it. These guys handle folked out trippy sitar stuff and straight ahead fuzzed out rockers equally well. Top-notch […]

  • Illes: Illesek Es Pofonok Illes: Illesek Es Pofonok

    While poking around online looking for info in english on this group I came across something that said they were “The Beatles of Hungary!”… I have no idea how true this statement is, but it does remind me how vulnerable one is when trying to buy/get into foreign records. Cause yeah, these guys are not […]

  • CKUA Presents: The ACME Sausage Company CKUA Presents: The ACME Sausage Company

    This is a private compilation put together for a community radio station (CKUA) in Edmonton, Alberta circa 1972 in a run of 1,000. The compilation was produced by then musical enthusiast Holgar Peterson. Holgar went on to form Stonyplain Records and become a local celebrity, his label still quite active. I was a little skeptical […]

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