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Nice Yillara Gülüm (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:00:00 +0000

Third album by Turkish psychedelic singer Edip Akbayram, originally released in 1982. This later 3rd album really ramps up the silly synthesizers. You’ll hear whooshy 80s Rolands, vocals run through a harmonizer, and tons of totally tubular bass popping, and it all makes it darned easy to hear just where the western intros and breaks stop.

Ever wish Knight Rider’s Kitt could drive to Istanbul? Take a ride on cheesy synthesizers with Edip at the wheel!

Tracklist: Nice Yillara Gülüm – Aman Kerem – Darmadagin – Kibar Gelin – Sinesine Vura Vura – Degmen Benim Gönlüme – Hasretinle Yandi Gönlüm – Bitliste Bes Minare – Cana Kurban – Sirin Nar

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Black Sun Ensemble (Transparent Purple)

GuerssenAdmin — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Their first album, reissued for the very first time with the tracks exactly as they were on the original 1985 issue on Pyknotic.
“It is difficult to think of a band that has ever produced psychedelic music that sounded even remotely like the original Black Sun’s” –Byron Coley
“ABSOLUTELY stunning psych LP, first released in limited edition in 1985 on Pyknotic label and reissued on CD in 2000 by Camera Obscura (instantly sold out). Stunning fuzzy guitar, Eastern tunes, chanting, some horns here and there…. absolutely spacey psychedelic music.” –Mutant Sounds
“Black Sun Ensemble offers sensual, aerial, sonic magic carpet rides laced with the steady flavor of India that will take you high above the Himalayas in your head. But this isn’t plinky, incense-burning, catatonic hammock music, nor does it smell of hippie backwash and flashbacks (thought the music can be hypnotic and psychedelic). You can see forever with the Black Sun Ensemble.” -CMJ New Music Report
“Jesus Acedo was the quixotic leader of Black Sun Ensemble who, on the basis of his enigmatic recordings, has been hailed by critics as one of the most innovative guitarists of our time. Born on Christmas Eve, 1962 in Tucson, Arizona, to Mexican immigrant parents, Acedo was one of eight children, the only one with an interest in music. After the death of his father in 1975, Acedo grieved by immersing himself in music. He spent most of his early adolescence at the Tucson public library listening to Ravi Shankar and Led Zeppelin records. At this time, Acedo bought a guitar. In high school, he began experimenting with the unique tunings of his guitar that give his music what one reviewer reverently called “peculiarly mystical, twangy, meditative, Middle Eastern rock sound”. Muze, in describing his style, said he can “spit blasts of dragon fire or conjure the exotic, iridescent mystique of peacock feathers with a single stroke.”A self-titled debut album was released by Tucson’s Pyknotic Records in 1985. Its extraordinary qualities led Acedo to sign a five-year contract with England’s Reckless Records, and in 1988 the label released “Black Sun Ensemble” (1988), “Lambent Flame” (1989) and “Elemental Forces” (1991). These records were a critical and commercial success. At the time, Offbeat exclaimed that BSE was “possibly, the world’s coolest band.”
“Documenting the first incarnation of the Black Sun Ensemble and the only album with the group as a trio, the music hovers like buzzards in the desert over the dehydrated body of psychedelic rock, encircling their prey, waiting to feed on the corpse and draw new strength. A resulting mergence of melodic acoustic/Latin folk, Middle Eastern, raga, acid rock, and woolly feedback is given propulsion by a steady backbeat of rock bass and drums… A solemn peace envelops the mind, like peering out at the warm glow of the morning sun, heavy lidded, after a peyote-soaked night in the sweatlodge which invoked Shamanic visions and healing revelations… Solo electric guitar pyrotechnics, Arabian scorched landscapes, iridescent ragas on just electric or acoustic guitar and hand drums, and solo acoustic guitar rapture are all spices used in a tremendously savory trans-global stew.” — Chris Scofield, fakeJazz website
*150 hand-numbered copies on Transparent Boris Purple vinyl
*Comes with a 8-page booklet, with notes by Byron Coley, BSE bassist Mike Glidewell, Rich Hopkins (songwriter, Sidewinder, and founder of San Jacinto Records), and a reproduction of a poetry volume by BSE’s Jesus Acedo.

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Black Sun Ensemble (Volume 2) (Black)

GuerssenAdmin — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:00:00 +0000

Black vinyl version is a Return to Analog International exclusive
“The music here still sounds as gorgeous to me as it did when I first stumbled across it. The magnificent weight of Jesus’ guitar work is always a surprise. From the midst of the most gently-drawn sand waves, he rises with his scimitar gleaming black in the hot desert sun to fulfill a mission whose orders only he can hear. What more could you ask for? I mean, really?” –Byron Coley
Lion’s second volume of the Black Sun Ensemble’s recordings for their classic first album contains an alternate version of that album, including the tracks from the Camera Obscura label CD (c. the year 2000) version of that album — well, sort of.

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Echoes of love’s reality

GuerssenAdmin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:00:00 +0000

“Most would probably agree that this is one of the very best psych-style LPs from the 1980s. Not retro at all but (like Bobb Trimble) a piece of the late 1960s preserved from time’s rust.
Male/female vocals lament and serenade the quest for knowledge of love and beauty in an appealing soundscape, with lyrical guitar leads throughout, good use of mellotron, occasional tablas, flute and bells.

The recording has a definite 1981 sound but (again, like Bobb Trimble) this somehow becomes an advantage. There’s not a questionable song on this album, recommended to anyone open for a soft, dreamy trip inside the melancholy and bliss of an acid-tinted romance.” (The Acid Archives).

High-quality reissue in 180g vinyl, nice carton with original artwork, unbeatable remastered sound quality and also including the huge 16-paged booklet with lyrics and drawings.
500 copies limited release.

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Clear Memory (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Thu, 28 May 2020 22:00:00 +0000

Formed in 1978, Bomis Prendin is a collective of experimental “noisicians” from Washington DC, pioneers within the DIY, Industrial, cassette culture and experimental electronics scene.

Using cassette recorders, mutated musical toys, electric guitars, bass, rewired circuitry, analog pedal effects & cheap keyboards, they recorded and released in the late 70s a couple of astounding flexi-discs (Test and Phantom Limb) which led to them being included on the infamous Nurse With Wound list.

“Clear Memory” was originally released in 1984 only on cassette (50 copies) and it’s an incredible example of DIY mutant psychedelic pop and homemade electronic weirdness which sounds years ahead of its time.

Here’s the first ever reissue.

*Master tape sound
*Four-page insert with liner notes by Klemen Breznikar (It’s Psychedelic, Baby)
*Includes digital download card
**File under: unfathomable & unpredictable**

” ‘Clear Memory’ reveals a wonderland of sense-expanding psychedelic potentiality lurking below the surface.” – Mutant Sounds

“Their music features an incredible variety of sounds, images and structures that places it somewhere between slightly mutated rock and roll and pure experimental composition.” – Gary Indiana (Modern World)

RIYL: RESIDENTS, CHROME, CABARET VOLTAIRE, FAUST, THROBBING GRISTLE, CLUSTER, OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL…

Tracklist: 01. First Light – 02. French Passport – 03. Respect The Road – 04. Street Without Lunch – 05. Why Blondes Eat – 06. I Don’t Want – 07. Hell’s Little Ransom – 08. Forced Delight / Debris Factory – 09. Jumpstart – 10. Robop – 11. Keep The Letters – 12. Busy – 13. I Walk The Lawn – 14. The Big Horizon – 15. Integers

CD / Digital Bonustrack: 16. Endocircumventual

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Dogs’ Ears Are Stupid (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Originally released only on cassette in 1983, “Dogs’ Ears Are Stupid” by Chicago trio Care of the Cow is a fascinating blend of psychedelic folk, minimal electronics and post-punk weirdness. Acid fuzz guitar, incredible vocal harmonies, drum machines, analogue synths…

One of Chicago’s best kept secrets, Care of the Cow’s history goes back to 1974. A trio formed by Victor Sanders, X Baczewska and Sher Doruff, they had a very unique and eclectic sound, experimental yet very melodic, mixing psychedelic folk-rock with art-rock and DIY / post-punk. Their influences were very diverse: Beatles, Fripp, Eno, Joni Mitchell, Carla Bley, Pauline Oliveros, Eric Dolphy…

Care of the Cow debuted in 1975 with a 10” followed by their first LP album in 1981. By 1983, the band was adding drum machines and synths to their sound, highlighted by Victor’s amazing guitar playing and X & Sher’s perfectly blended vocal harmonies, resulting in “Dogs’ Ears Are Stupid”, the second Care of the Cow album, released only as a tiny cassette edition in 1983.

For us, this is a lost gem from the ‘80s underground which really deserved a LP/CD reissue. Here it is, done in collaboration with Steve Krakow of Plastic Crimewave / Galactic Zoo fame.

“Experimental folk-rock music into minimal synth depths. What a gem!”
-Archaic Inventions

“An absolute unique psych/folk/new music/post-punk blend. Strongly recommended to all open-minded listeners”
–Tony Coulter (WFMU)

*First ever LP / CD reissue

*Remastered from the master tapes

*Booklet with liner notes by Steve Krakow (Plastic Crimewave) and photos

*One previously unreleased bonus track.

Tracklist: 1. Chinese Food Part I – 2. Cemetery – 3. Like Me – 4. Chinese Food Part II – 5. Oceans In My Ears – 6. Dogs’ Ears Are Stupid – 7. Australia / The Sleepwalker Bites Herself In French – 8. European Trains – 9. No Beethoven – 10. Dancing Partners (bonus track)

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Chacalón y la Nueva Crema (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000

100% Peruvian psychedelic chicha from 1981!

Lorenzo Palacios Quispe “Chacalón” is a myth. More than a musical star, he is both a religious and secular phenomenon for the masses. Every year on his birthday, his tomb becomes a place of fevered pilgrimage where devotees pray, make wishes and ask for miracles, all done over songs, cases of beer, dancing and toasting. In Peru, his figure and music erases the distance between the holy and the profane, the hero and the lumpen. Chacalón is, for many Peruvians, the people’s angel, the messiah of the poor, the marginalized ‘Inkarri’.

“When Chacalón sings, the hills come down”, was one of his favorite phrases and with it he referred to the migrant masses that invaded the hills and beaches that surround Lima like a “ring of fire” (José María Arguedas dixit). It was the early 80s and while bombs and a dirty war exploded in the Andes, in Lima, the new and ever-growing population of migrants “climbed down” from their precarious homes and filled venues to dance “chicha” music and to celebrate who they saw as their redeemer.

Despite being a model messianic figure, Lorenzo Palacios had very humble origins. The son of a music dancer from Huancayo and a singer of huayno music (Andean folk) from Ayacucho, Chacalon was born in Lima in 1950. As a teen, he had his debut on stage as the singer of huayno band “The Indios Quechuas”. The main requirement to sing that genre of music was to have a powerful ribcage and young Lorenzo seemed to have the needed lung capacity for “guapeos”, thunderous voice blows that the genre required.

Chicha music is neither a replica or a copy, despite using Western instruments, such as the electric guitar, bass, drums and organs, and mixing them with cymbals, congas and tropical Guiros. Chicha music has indomestizo elements (like Huayno music) tucked deep in his blood. Listen to the powerful cries of Chacalon and you will hear the heartfelt music of Huancayo; listen to his delicate voice breaks and you will hear the sweet music of Ayacucho. The mix of delicacy and strength and rural and cosmopolitan elements, is part of the secret of seduction that chicha music has had over the masses.

Aside from use of electric instruments, rock music has influenced chicha music in other ways. Chacalón’s band was called New Cream as a tribute to the British band Cream. Their use of powerful fuzz tones and wah wah pedals for acid riffs and catchy solos, are the echoes of a rebellious music that wanted to silence the noises of a marginalized and exploitative city atmosphere debased by the most savage capitalism. “I seek a new life in this city / where everything is money and there is evil,” reads “Provinciano”, Chacalon’s most famous songs.

It’s because lyrics like these that people saw Chacalón as a messianic figure who sang about the promise of a new life. He sang about pain, alcohol and betrayal, but also about solidarity, love and hope. Chacalon sang to the most marginalized part of society, the lumpenproletariat, and not the middle class or the wealthy. Lorenzo Palacios did not see differences between those who complied with the law or those who transgressed it, because in marginality, survival is the only rule and the boundaries between good and evil become very subtle. “Eat first, then morals,” said Chacalon.

RIYL: Los Destellos / Los Mirlos / Roots Of Chicha / Los Shapis / Juaneco y Su Combo

* Remastered from Master Tapes
*Booklet
* Rare Photos

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The Shrine Auditorium. L.A. 24 January 1975 (Grey)

GuerssenAdmin — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:00:00 +0000

Recorded live during “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” tour at the Shrine Auditorium, CA, USA on 24th January 1975. Soundboard recording.
Tracklist:
Side A
1 Introduction 00:34 2 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 05:13 3 Fly On The Windshield 04:39 4 Broadway Melody Of 1974 00:34 5 Cuckoo Cocoon 02:15 6 In The Cage 07:59 7 The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging 03:14
Side B
1 Back In NYC 06:12 2 Carpet Crawlers 05:45 3 The Chamber Of 32 Doors 06:02 4 Lilywhite Lilith 03:48 5 The Waiting Room 06:15

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Indo-Arabic Variations

GuerssenAdmin — Wed, 18 May 2022 22:00:00 +0000

First-time vinyl reissue of an essential Egyptian recording, a truly unique album in the Arabic music world for its fusion with Indian music. Baligh Hamdi shouldn’t sound unfamiliar to anybody who’s remotely interested in Arabic / Middle-Eastern music. File this one right next to the best recordings by Fairuz, Omar Khorshid or Elias Rahbani.

Unique fusion of the Indian and Egyptian music cultures devised by Baligh Hamdi, the most prominent of all modern composers in the Arab-speaking world. Hamdi, who penned dozens of hit compositions for Umm Kulthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Warda and Sabah amongst others, also shaped the future of Arabic music in a way that’s difficult to overestimate.

Directed by Hamdi, the renowned Indian sitar player Magid Khan joins the Egyptian musicians of Abdel Halim Hafez’s orchestra in re-reading some of Hamdi’s compositions from a new perspective – here sitar and tabla dance together with arghoul, ney and other Arabic instruments.

An east-meets-east masterpiece in which Hamdi once again pushed the boundaries of Arabic music in his tireless quest for a broader, more global reach.

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Nasil? Ne zanam?

GuerssenAdmin — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 23:00:00 +0000

Turkish import. Reissue of the legendary debut album by progressive group Hardal, originally released in 1978 (or 1980 according to Discogs?). One of the best Eastern progressive albums from the golden era.
Original artwork, fantastic remastered sound from the analog tapes!!!

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