ELLIS - RIDING ON THE CREST OF A SLUMP 1972 / WHY NOT 1973

Digitally remastered edition that combines the tracks of 2 original LP classics on to a single compact disc. Former Love Affair vocalist Steve Ellis (who recorded the original version of "Everlasting Love") formed this band that took his last ... name as their moniker with Zoot Money, Nick South, Andy Gee and Dave Lutton. "Riding On The Crest...." was originally released in 1972 and produced by The Who's Roger Daltrey. Their second album "Why Not?" was released in 1973 and produced by Mike Vernon.









Tracks :

Riding on the Crest of a Slump: Good to Be Alive
El Doomo
You're the Only Reason
Tune For Brownie
Your Game
Three Times Corner
Morning Paper
Wish I Was Back Home
Angela
Why Not?: Goodbye Boredom
Opus 17
Future Passed
Loud and Lazy Love Songs
Open Road
All Before Leaving in the Morning
Mighty Mystic Lady
We Need the Money Too
Gyupp

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BENT WIND - SUSSEX 1969

Bent Wind was formed in 1969 in the Toronto, Ontario area of Canada . The original band consisted of Gerry Gibas( Guitar & vocals) Marty Roth (rhythm guitar, vocals) Sebastian Pelaia (bass) and Eddie Thomas (drums).
While only together for a short time the band recorded and released an album entitled, Sussex, in 1969 on the Trend label in Canada . The album was pressed in a very limited quantities and today there is believed to be less than 500 copies world wide.

The album quickly became one of the most sought after pieces of Canadian music and the album is now considered one of the rarist collectable albums in the world with original pressings fetching thousands of dollars on the collectors market.

In 1989 the band, now under the control of Marty Roth, reformed with new members and recorded an album called, The Fourth Line is...You Will , that was released in a very limited independent pressing. That album has also became a collectors item because of its limited availability.

In 1996, Bent Wind released their first CD, Shadows On The Wall, which is another limited edition release of only 1000 copies.

Tracks :

Riverside
Going To The City
The Lions
Hate
Touch Of Red
Look At Love
Sacred Cows
Mystify
Castles Made Of Man (Bonus)
Riverside (Bonus)
Bent Wind (Bonus)
The Chant (Bonus)

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GINHOUSE - GINHOUSE 1971

A hard rock trio from Newcastle whose album is now rare. They had a good reputation as a live act and wrote some strong material on their album, with the continuous track "The House"/"Sun In A Bottle" the highlight, alongside a cover version of  The Beatles' "And I Love Her". Geoff Sharkey had earlier played in Sammy.

Taken from The Tapestry of Delights - The Comprehensive Guide to British Music of the Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras 1963-1976, Vernon Joynson   ISBN 1 899855 04 1

Tracks : 

   1. Tyne God

   2. I Cannott Understand

   3. The Journey

   4. Portrait Picture

   5. Fair Stood The Wind

   6. And I Love Her

   7. Life

   8. The Morning After

   9. The House

  10. Sun In A Bottle

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ARTHUR - IN SEARCH OF 1968 / 1969

Psychedelic/acid folk masterpiece from the North. This first ever official release includes his complete demo LP,unreleased sessions and a mega rare 45. The music can be described as a mixture of Perry Leopold, William C.Beeley and early Pink Floyd (his 45 is particularly trippy and phased into weirdness).The album is cetainly one of the top five best ever LP's in the US acid folk/singer songwriter genre! Arthur was a Canadian musician who recorded this unique masterpiece as a demo-only one sided album on the "Two Dot" label in Colorado in 1969. Only a hand full of demo copies were released and sent out to labels to get a record deal. Later he signed with Tumbleweed Records and released two albums as Arthur Gee. Simply a record for the Isle, and housed in one of the best hippie psychedelic covers ever...Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard with stunning paste-on sleeve and full colour insert. A beauty.

Tracks :

Armstrong Tourist Resthome
Tea Gardens
Sunspots
Dimensions/Plain Talk
Tea Gardens
Plain Talk
Warm Traitor's Breath
Armstrong Tourist Resthome
Miller Tragedy
Untitled
Confessions

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UNDER MILKWOOD 1970

First legit issue of this good-to-pretty-good-to-almost-great underground rock album from 1970 (previously bootlegged as just "Milkwood" by the ever-doomed Fanny organization). Beautifully presented in one of Arkama's new LP-styled mini gatefold jackets. "Reissue of a fantastic Californian psych-based only released in 1969 as test pressing (was planned to be released on A&M label but never came out); it had this real 'west coast' guitar-sound like Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, some folkrock passages ala Fairport Convention but also some exotic hippie atmospheres ala Traffic Sound; great alternate male/female vocals not unlike Balin/Slick but also crystal vocal passages ala Sandy Denny."

Tracks :

1. Empty Room
2. Changing Seasons
3. Tell Me
4. Forgotten Bridge
5. Parade
6. Sandwiches Rock 'N' Roll
7. Lost Youth
8. Ballad Of The Spirit Of The World
9. Final Song

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CROSBY & NASH - WIND ON THE WATER 1975

Wind on the Water" was the second album that David Crosby and Graham Nash recorded together, coming after the first CSN&Y reunion tour tour (how many have there been now?). This 1975 album is on a par with their self-titled first effort, but is not quite as good as the stellar solo albums each produced during that time. Crosby and Nash always had the virtue of bringing out the best in each other and that is the case here. Their two-part harmonies work, from the opening track "Carry Me" to "Homeward Through the Haze" and "Naked in the Rain." Of course, there are also background vocals from the likes of James Taylor, Carole King and Jackson Browne, which just goes to prove the more the merrier. "Wind on the Water" is nicely bookended by the two most substantive songs in terms of the lyrics, "Carry Me" and "To The Last Whale: A. Critical Mass and B. Wind on the Water." This is just a solid little album of rich melodies and solid vocal harmonies.
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)

Tracks :

# Carry Me
# Mama Lion
# Bittersweet
# Take the Money and Run
# Naked in the Rain
# Love Work Out
# Low Down Payment
# Cowboy of Dreams
# Homeward Through the Haze
# Fieldworker
# To the Last Whale Suite: (i) Critical Mass

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LINDA HOYLE - PIECES OF ME 1971

While Affinity is instrumentally a masterpiece and Linda's voice perfectly fits into it (Affinity is heavy and more moody jazzy rock with the voice of Linda at its most heavy. Similar voices and energy can be heard in Jefferson Airplane, but even more in Julian's Treatment, Analogy, Delivery, but also Sandrose, Curved Air, Earth and Fire,Heart,... I like it very much, even "all along the Watchtower's" 12 minutes more freak out version I find it splendid), her solo album has a different approach and mood. It gives more attention to the singer, with various more soul driven songs, bluesrock, most of it very orchestrated. With songs from Nina Simone and Laura Nyro, it's clear that the area is different here. Never the less there has been (too) much studio work on the songs, making them more heavy and a bit more difficult to consume. The freak-out guitars and organ on the title track come somewhat unexpected. The album is varied, and time is needed to fully comprehend its full range / content. Participating are Chris Spedding and Soft Machine members John Marshall and Karl Jenkins. The album is fine but is more difficult to appreciate and understand immediately after having heard Affinity first. Therefore it's better to compare it with solo albums from other female singers from around these days / times

Tracks :

Backlash Blues
Paper Tulips
Black Crow
For My Darling
Pieces of Me
Lonely Women
Hymn To Valerie Solanas
The Ballad Of Marty Mole
Journey’s End
Morning For One
Barrel House Music

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MARK FRY - DREAMIN' WITH ALICE 1972

Recorded in 1972 by teenage Englishman-in-exile (re: British art student in Italy) Mark Fry, Dreaming With Alice has long been a Grail to vintage psych-folk enthusiasts. That’s hardly a unique distinction; it seems like anything tracked between 1966 and ’75 by hirsute dreamers with acoustic guitars inspires big bidding among collectors.

Sunbeam Records is known for their loving reissues of the lost sides of yesteryear, but not all of them deserve such royal treatment. That isn’t the case with Dreaming With Alice, which is a thoroughly enjoyable slice of pastoral psych. Yet the disc’s most attractive quality is also it’s chief flaw — namely, Fry’s cloying credulity in matters metaphysical.

Through all the will o’ the wisp poetics and the fluttery arrangements, Fry maintains an honest likeability, which makes you wonder why he never managed to hitch his Glimmering Chariot to a Morning Star. (The answer to that query is revealed in the voluminous liner notes, which were penned by Fry himself).

The record rests somewhere between Donovan’s erotic mysticism and the woodsy romps of Comus. At the time of the album’s recording, there was a renewed interest in surrealism in Italy, and this influence can be felt throughout the record. Although it pretty much stays within the conventions of psych-folk, trace elements of prog can also be discerned. In fact, it’s not difficult to picture Goblin finding inspiration in Dreaming.

Fry was a handsome and talented lad, and it’s no wonder the Italian art cognoscenti took a shine to him. His boyish croon goes a long way towards selling the fantastical twaddle that makes up his lyrics. It’s gotta be tough to sound earnest while crooning about an albino albatross, but Fry somehow manages.

The finest song on the album comes early. “The Witch” covers all of the psych bases, employing flute, sitar, hand percussion and a minor key modality. “The witch is looking through my window / Her cold breath on the window pane,” Fry sings in what sounds like a hushed invocation to a summer’s eve succubus.

The esoteric musings continue apace. “Did you ever stumble on Satan’s smile or a Catholic saint’s confession / And life is like walking on an endless mile, each step another lesson,” he sings on the title track, which is split into eight sections and spread across the entire album. Each return is framed by gentle fingerpicking that sounds appropriately phantasmal.

It’s debatable whether or not the world needed another psych-folk reissue, but if so, Dreaming With Alice might as well be it. Rumor has it that Fry — who currently lives a painter’s life in rural France — will be recording again soon. Must be the season of the witch.

By Casey Rae-Hunter

Tracks :

Dreaming with Alice (Verse 1)
The Witch
Dreaming with Alice (Verse 2)
Song for Wilde
Dreaming with Alice (Verse 3)
Roses for Columbus
A Norman Soldier
Dreaming with Alice (Verse 4)
Dreaming with Alice (Verse 5)
Lute and Flute
Dreaming with Alice (Verse 6)
Down Narrow Streets
Dreaming with Alice (Verse 7)
Mandolin Man
Dreaming with Alice (Verse 8-9)
Rehtorb Ym No Hcram

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BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY - A MESSAGE FROM 1968

Originally released as a test pressing only, in 1968, on All American Recordings. Coming from Nevada, The Birmingham Sunday play an excellent folk rock with echoes of Jefferson Airplane. 30 years later, the sounds come out fresh as new, and the ten tracks go by fast, leaving a sweet and pure message. Highlighted by the psychedelic cuts You’re Out Of Life”, Egocentric Solitude” and Medieval Journey”. A superb album.

Tracks :

Egocentrick Solitude
Wondering what to Feel
Prevalant Visionaries
Your'e Out Of Line
Medieval Journey
Mr.Waters (The Judge)
Fate and the Magician
Peter Pan Revisited
Time to Land
Don't Turn Around

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MAXWELLS - MAXWELL STREET 1969

At the end of 1969 two things happened that would later trigger the beginning of the end of Maxwells:

All the band members were attending university. Lasse and Jørgen studying Law, Børge and Svend Åge Medicine, Lars Biology, Torben Literature and French, Kjeld Music at the Royal Conservatory and Niels Nuclear Physics at the Ørsted Institute, while Bent, 10 years older than the others, had finished his studies in English and History.
Everything had been going smoothly as they were able to adapt their studies to suit the band's activities but then Niels had to move to the Max Planck Institute for Radiology in Mülheim and stay there for more than a year. Furthermore Kjeld was told to stop his professional work immediately or he would be expelled from the conservatory and miss his degree as a first class solo trombonist.

The band never recovered from the loss of these two versatile members and although they tried with different additional personnel it never really worked as well as it had done before!
In 1970 the rest of Maxwells played a final concert at the Music and Light Festival in Skovlunde, North-West of Copenhagen, joined by Dan Nedergaard (trumpet) and Frankie Jackman (congas).
In these 7 years Maxwells changed from being a very popular pop rock band with all the trappings to a band that experimented with all the new things that appeared in these years. The long cascades of dada poetry mixed with absurd snippets taken out from conversations in daily life were never recorded. Neither were the long collective improvisations of up to 45 minutes as played at the "Montmartre" Mondays.

Reactions to the band ranged from raving, delirious enthusiasm to wrath and anger over psychedelic art, twice resulting in smashed furniture and the band getting beaten up. Being a forerunner always has its price - just think of Stravinsky, who had to escape through a window to flee the threatening mob at the first performance of "Le Sacre de Printemps" in Paris in 1911! But it was worth it!

Today, Jørgen Werner works as a chartered accountant/counsellor of law, Børge Mortensen is a parish clerk at the Royal Church of Holmen, his brother, Svend Åge, is the chief anaesthetist of the heart transplantation centre at Rigshospitalet, Lars Bisgaard is a school teacher, Niels Harit is a professor of Nuclear Physics at the Ørsted institute and still plays in big-bands and occasionally as a soloist on records. Torben Enghoff is a composer and leader of a quartet playing classical and contemporary repertoire. Kjeld Ipsen has been touring the world with various artists such as Gloria Gaynor and still works in big-bands. Since 1970 Lasse Lunderskov has been working as an actor with growing success. He played a strong character as Onkel Leif in the Danish dogma film "The Celebration" and has appeared in many TV programmes. Lunderskov still plays guitar in his own band "Rootbeat" and works as a theatre and film composer and as a songwriter. Bent Hesselmann has toured Europe with Rainbow Band and Midnight Sun and Denmark with various groups and theatres as a band leader and occasionally as an actor. He mainly works as a theatre and film music composer. Together with Lunderskov he has written two books on the electric guitar and electric band equipment: "Beat Guitar" and "The Book on Electric Instruments". Lunderskov and Hesselmann are also both board members of the "Danish Songwriters Guild".
(http://www.longhairmusic.de/maxwellsenglish.htm)

Tracks:

Esther
Free to Be
Make It Brake It
- Beni Riamba
Maxwell Street
What's a Smock
What Did She Do ?
Flower Powder
Memories Of Lorca
Biafra

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