Monkey-Pockie-Boo

Well, this is really intense. The avant-guard and influential Sonny Sharrock lays down some spazzzzzzz distorted guitar in lieu of the usual skronk horn lines weaving solos in free jazz while his wife Linda lays down some waaaiiiiling vocals "aye - ya - ya - ya - la la la la - eueueueueu - ayayayay", Ben Guerin lays down bass (nothing too special) and Jacques Thollot plays drums.



The LP is called Monkey-Pockie-Boo and it came out in 1970. I just bought the reissue put out by BYG Records on 180 gram vinyl
I am just now starting to explore free jazz. I can't say I know anything about it (i wasn't even fucking born when it was happening, let alone around to hear it in clubs).
All I can really say is that the intensity is beyond compelling. And the deal breaker is Sonny's serious guitar playing.

check it out Here, put on some headphones, and dig it.

Acid Mothers Guru Guru Invasion

Mani Neumeier is the drummer from the classic kraut or prog or whatever band from the seventies. He fits tremendously well with the Acid Mothers. In fact, his performance makes this disc stand out from the discog of the hyper prolific Acid Mothers.

Even further, I just saw Acid Mothers Guru Guru live, and Mani's energy, skill, and intuition were a pleasure to experience. He had the entire room entranced. This collaboration is a killer psychedelic set. I call it a collaboration because Kawabata and Atsushi tailor their playing to Mani's jazzy, kraut drum playing so expertly. It is a great merging of styles. Hopefully, if you enjoy this, you will search out some of Guru Guru's seventies long players to catch Mani in his youth with his original band. Or maybe I'll have to post a Guru Guru album next.
from important records website:

Acid Mothers Guru Guru features Mani Neumeier from the legendary and influential German Krautrock group Guru Guru as well as Kawabata Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan's holy Acid Mothers Temple. The result is a fiery fantasy filled, loud/soft, colorful trans-generational psychedelic collaboration.

The Acid Mothers Guru Guru started in a spontaneous session in March of 2006 in Nagoya, Japan. When the improvisation commenced the passionate excitement was clear to all in the room and it was then that this special psychedelic trio began. A Japanese tour was planned, an album was recorded and this recording is the fruits of this mutual musical admiration.
While all involved will admit that this is a dream collaboration, it was the Acid Mothers Temple guys who were worshiping Guru Guru in their teens. The Acid Mothers Guru Guru is two generations of psychedelic rock joining forces for the 21st century.

download here

Musique Des Grenouilles

This album is breathtaking, sensual, and cool. Its sexy, provocative, and complex. Gainsbourg's voice and style are present, but its Jean Claude Vannier's subtle and original fusion of rock, funk, and jazz in the arrangements that make this LP a masterpiece.

To download the album, go to the comments page. You can do that by clicking the title of this post. Then copy and paste the link into your web browser. Just follow directions and you will eventually have it.

Here is a little summary on the artist:
"Serge Gainsbourg was the dirty old man of popular music; a French singer/songwriter and provocateur notorious for his voracious appetite for alcohol, cigarettes, and women, his scandalous, taboo-shattering output made him a legend in Europe but only a cult figure in America, where his lone hit 'Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus' stalled on the pop charts -- fittingly enough -- at number 69."

Here is a professional review of the album:
"You don't need to speak a word of French to understand Histoire de Melody Nelson -- one needs only to look at the front cover (with its nearly pornographic portrait of a half-naked nymphet clutching a rag doll) or hear the lechery virtually dripping from Serge Gainsbourg's sleazily seductive voice to realize that this is the record your mother always warned you about, a masterpiece of perversion and corruption. A concept record exploring the story of -- and Gainsbourg's lust for -- the titular teen heroine, Histoire de Melody Nelson is arguably his most coherent and perfectly realized studio album, with the lush arrangements which characterize the majority of his work often mixed here with funky rhythm lines which underscore the musky allure of the music. Perhaps best described as a dirty old bastard's attempt to make his own R&B love-man's record along the lines of a Let's Get It On (itself still two years away from release), it's by turns fascinating and repellent, hilarious and grim, but never dull -- which, in Gainsbourg's world, would be the ultimate (and quite possibly the only) sin." by Jason Ankeny

here are the translated lyrics to the first song:
http://www.eggparm.com/gainsbourg/melody.html
Its about Serge and his Rolls Royce running into the subject of the album, Melody Nelson, while she is riding her bike.
You can read the rest of the translations here: http://www.eggparm.com/gainsbourg/monproprerolecontents.html#Melody

Enjoy!

sunburned hand of the man

Sunburned Hand Of The Man is an incredible band. They are incredibly prolific too. I count something like 35 or so albums since late nineties. That is a whole lotta music. I don't know a ton about the band and haven't gotten a chance to see em live, but they're brand of funky psyche tribal free jazz drone spit is beyond infectious. It is absolutely spell binding. It makes you feeeeel like your heads a balloon man - isn't that what psyche is supposed to do? They are sometimes described as part of the new weird america or free folk. Both these terms sort of make me cringe. They are irrelevant and not quite an appropriate or poignant label for an expansive expression such as that of the sunburned hand. They have their own label called Manhand which puts out all their records and those of their collaborations.




The album I want to share with you is called Anatomy Vol. 1
It was released as a CDR in 2005. This is one of my favorites. It begins with a spoken word sort of thing that plays throughout the album. A man's voice, in warped fashion, tells you to "close your eyes, I'm going to teach you to concentrate, listen very very carefully & follow the instructions". The voice leads you in a far out exercise in concentration & self-awareness that makes me smile evry time. The sounds that follow are like an incredible glass of whiskey. You'll feel warm and you'll start to feel loose.

I really dig what this band does. I also dig the bands that are doin the same kinda things: no neck blues band, jackie-o motherfucker, starving weirdos, avarus, et cetera. I will start to share stuff from these bands in the future. I hope you enjoy this though.
Love, tickle polyester

check the comments for the link to download

Surf!

I'm really enjoying this album, so I figured I had to share it with you. I hadn't heard of Tamam Shud previously, probably because this is the first time an album of theirs had been reissued for the ol' compact disc.

EM records of Japan are the weirdos responsible for this reissue along with a bunch of other obscurities. This is part of the Under Water Series of four or five surf albums that they reissued. They've also dug up and reissued saw music from the twenties, a krautrock gem from the 70s (Moolah - I will post this later), minimal electronic wizardry, experimental tape music + etcetera.

check the comments for a link to download!

Here is the website: http://www.emrecords.net/

and here is their blurb about this album:
"Featured the songs for another classic Australian surf movie "EVOLUTION" filmed by Paul Witzig in 1969, played by Australian group called TAMAM SHUD. This surfer quartet featured Lindsay Bjerre and Tim Gaze, both of them were successful for their solo career.

Tamam Shud was one of the most original and innovative Australian groups of the late 60s and early 70s. They played a very important part as pioneers of acid-rock and progressive music. For many years after they split they were something of a cult, and their original recordings were (and still are) very hard to obtain. But thanks to a gratifying 'comeback', and some commercial success with their 1994 album Permanent Culture, and the driving, bluesy single Stay, there has been a significant revival of interest in this outstanding and original group, and it sparked interest in this classic band with younger listeners as well.

The evolution of Shud was typical of many groups of the era, beginning as an instrumental band, through 'beat' pop group and psychedelia, to progressive rock.. From the original line-up (The Sunsets), through to Evolution, Goolutionites, Morning Of The Earth and Permanent Culture line-ups, the lingering "surf band" tag linked them with Sydney's northern beaches surf culture. In reality, they established their major fan base on Sydney's university and college dance circuit, and with the 'hippy' audiences at inner city underground venues like the Mandala Theatre in Darlinghurst and the Beacon Theatre in Newtown.

A bonus track, Bali Water (M-12) is featured Richard Lockwood (from Tully) and played his ethernal flute for this aesthetic & mystic psychdelia instrumental tune which became one of highlights of this CD.

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Evolution burst explosively on the surfing world in 1969, heralding a period a dynamic change which has never been repeated. The raw energy of the film, the surfing and the music came together to blow away old film & surf music styles, & seeded a youth culture which has swept the world
..... Paul Witzig
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TRACKS:

"EVOLUTION" album (1969)
1. (a) Music Train (b) Evolution *
2. I'm No One *
3. Mr Strange *
4. Lady Sunshine *
5. Falling Up
6. Feel Free
7. It's a Beautiful Day
8. Jesus Guide Me
9. Rock on Top
10. Slow One And The Fast One
11. Too Many Life

(* feat. on Evolution movie)

-BONUS TRACKS- "BALI WATERS e.p" (1972)
12. Bali Waters
13. Got A Feeling
14. My Father Told Me"

X-Ray!

Here is the latest set of tunes around which to wrap your soon-to-be-melting-and-dripping-out-of-your-ears-onto-the-floor brain. You will find yourself taken back to the days when garage bands ruled the world of rock & roll with their brand of raw, blues-based songs played dirty & distored & loud & aggressive. You can call it punk, pre-punk, british invasion, rockabilly, etcetera but the name or label matters not (and I know I don't have to tell you that dear reader). You know that its the soul that counts. Bands on this mix don't come from one era, instead they come from bands from the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, and present because garage is still alive and flourishing today (The White Stripes are all over the damn place).

The mix starts out with a tune by Link Wray whose Rumble is oft considered to be one of the first garage songs, or at least the first song to use distortion so perfectly. There are a couple songs by Hasil "The Haze" Adkins who is reputed to have created over 9000 songs in the backwoods of West Virgina . I put on a Monks track that is actually used in the movie The Big Lebowski (playing when Walter breaks his piece out on the lanes). The band were a sort of anti-Beatles group made up of American GIs based in Germany during the sixties with music as heavy as the times. Radio Birdman made it on the mix, a band credited as being the first punk band out of Australia. There is a lot more worth mentioning but you gotta get listening.

Download the songs HERE and either burn the songs to a CD or play 'em on your computer. You're going to have to unzip the file, so hopefully you can figure that out.

Here is the track list and a shiiiiiitload of information to go along with it.
Click the Artist's name (the one on the right) to read about the artist.
Click on the track name to read about the album.

1| The Shadow Knows| Link Wray & His Wray Men
2| I Wish You Would| John Hammond
3| Can't You See I Do| The Astronauts
4| Help You Ann| Lyres
5| Little Latin Lupe Lu| Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
6| Hard Headed Woman| Wanda Jackson
7| Chocolate Milk Honeymoon| Hasil Adkins
8| The Devil's Rumble| Davie Allan & The Arrows
9| Death Cab For Cutie| Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
10| Breathless| Jerry Lee Lewis
11| Caribou| April March
12| Stop & Listen| The Dwarves13| I Hate You| The Monks
14| Roadrunner| The Modern Lovers
15| Super X| Supercharger
16| Descent Into The Maelstrom| Radio Birdman
17| Whittier Blvd| Thee Midniters
18| Scratchy| Davie Allan & The Arrows
19| Mindrocker| Fenwyck
20| Losing Touch With My Mind| Spacemen 3
21| Boo Boo The Cat| Hasil Adkins