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Think I'm Going Weird: Original Artefacts From The British Psychedelic Scene 1966-68 - 2024 Repress

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A definitive overview of the British psychedelic scene, an epic five - CD/book set that includes more than 50 minutes of previously unreleased music from the halcyon period 1966 - 68.

Including the major acts of the era ( The Who, Traffic, Small Faces, The Move, Procol Harum, Incredible String Band, Family, Crazy World of Arthur Brown etc), ‘Think I'm Going Weird: Original Artefacts From The British Psychedelic Scene 1966 - 68’ features many bands who also played London's underground dungeons during the Summer Of Love.

Featuring studio demos from the likes of Tintern Abbey, The Soft Machine, Mabel Greer's Toyshop, Genesis, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, Dantalian's Chariot and others plus numerous cult 45s ( July, Caleb, Vamp, Blossom Toes, Sweet Feeling , etc) and fascinating album cuts from such scene stalwarts as T omorrow, Fairport Convention, Kaleidoscope, The Deviants and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera .

Perhaps most enticingly of all, the collection includes a number of hitherto - unknown recordings by bands who are only now gaining their first public exposure including Eyes Of Blond, Tinsel Arcade, Crystal Ship (whose contribution features lyrics from Pete Brown ) and the semi - mythical 117 , such a legendary name from the era's handbills and posters that they even had a UK psych fanzine named after them in the ‘90s.

A dazzling feat of licensing and research, ‘Think I'm Going Weird...’ comes in a 60 - page A5 book format with 25,000 - word track - by - track annotation with some extraordinary and rare photos and memorabilia.

For anyone even remotely interested in British psychede lia, it's simply an essential purchase.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE:
1 THINK I’M GOING WEIRD – Art
2 MY CLOWN (single Mix) – July
3 THE VIEW – Gary Walker & The Rain
4 UTTERLY SIMPLE – Traffic
5 A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION – Caleb
6 LIKE THE SUN, LIKE THE FIRE – Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
7 LAZY OLD SUN (alternative Version, Stereo) – The Kinks
8 PLASTIC DAFFODILS – Atlanta Roots
9 PSYCHEDELIA – Ron Geesin
10 DREAM STARTS – Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera
11 TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE IN ME – Strawbs
12 FUNNIEST GIG – Manfred Mann
13 SUNNY CELLOPHANE SKIES – The Status Quo
14 MRS GRUNDY – Plastic Penny
15 BUFFALO BILLYCAN – Apple
16 CHARLES BROWN – Sweet Feeling
17 ROSIE CAN’T FLY – Sleepy
18 I KNOW, SHE BELIEVES – The Picadilly Line
19 THE LOBSTER – Fairport Convention
20 YELLOW BRICK ROAD – The Mindbenders
21 THE STORY OF DAVID – Granny’s Intentions
22 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT – Icarus
23 IS ANYBODY HOME? – The Mirage
24 WHY – Eyes Of Blond*
*previously Unreleased

DISC TWO:
1 WORLD WAR III – Dantalian’s Chariot
2 SEE THROUGH WINDOWS – Family
3 SALAD DAYS (ARE HERE AGAIN) – Procol Harum
4 THE TRUTH IS PLAIN TO SEE – Freedom
5 SUN SING – Force Four
6 MR SMALL THE WATCH REPAIRER MAN – Kaleidoscope
7 IMAGE BLOWN OUT – Genesis
8 LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING – The Creation
9 TAKING OUT TIME – The Spencer Davis Group
10 THAT MAN – Small Faces
11 YOU’RE HAUNTING ME – The Hi-Fis
12 MRS GILLESPIE’S REFRIGERATOR – Sands
13 PLEASE RETURN – Rust
14 LAST MINUTE – The Nashville Teens
15 ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER – The Alan Bown!
16 THE TOUCHABLES (ALL OF US) – Nirvana
17 HALLIFORD HOUSE – The Virgin Sleep
18 CATHERINE’S WHEEL – Denny Laine
19 GIRL IN THE MIRROR – Christopher Colt
20 ELEVATOR (single Mix) – Grapefruit
21 WORLD IN MY HEAD – Mike Stuart Span
22 UFO – Neo Maya
23 THE LAUGHING MAN – John Carter & Russ Alquist
24 FLOATIN’ – Vamp
25 LIFE DOES NOT SEEM WHAT IT SEEMS – Tinsel Arcade*
26 SCENE OF THE LEMON QUEEN – One Step Beyond*
*previously Unreleased

DISC THREE:
1 HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO – The Yardbirds
2 HAVE SOME MORE TEA – The Smoke
3 WALK UPON THE WATER – The Move
4 JABBERWOCK – Boeing Duveen And The Beautiful Soup
5 THE MAD HATTER’S SONG – The Incredible String Band
6 SHOPLIFTERS – Ivor Cutler Trio
7 LOOK OUT THERE’S A MONSTER COMING – The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
8 SARA, CRAZY CHILD (extended German 45 Version) – John’s Children
9 BEYOND THE RISING SUN – Tyrannosaurus Rex
10 HEY GIRL – JP Sunshine
11 MR SUNSHINE (film Version) – Barclay James Harvest
12 TICK TOCK – Shyster
13 CHEADLE HEATH DELUSIONS – Felius Andromeda
14 THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF TIMOTHY CHASE – Tomorrow
15 THE BIRTHDAY – The Idle Race
16 HOW CAN WE HANG ON TO A DREAM? – The Moody Blues
17 YES IS A PLEASANT COUNTRY – Circus
18 SUMMER SUN SHINES – The Fresh Windows
19 THE BLUE MAN RUNS AWAY – Crystal Ship*
20 WHAT’S HAPPENING? – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
21 MOTHER’S MAGAZINE – Mother’s Pride*
22 FLYING MACHINE – Turquoise
23 IN THE PARK – The Cortinas
24 HUNG UP ON A DREAM – The Zombies
25 WE ARE THE MOLES PART 1 – The Moles
26 WE ARE THE MOLES PART 2 – The Moles
*previously Unreleased

DISC FOUR:
1 ARMENIA CITY IN THE SKY – The Who
2 FREDEREEK HERNANDO – One In A Million
3 FLOWERMAN – The Syn
4 I CAN HEAR COLOURS – The Motives
5 GREEN – The Lion & The Fish
6 I’M SO LOW (aka JET- PROPELLED PHOTOGRAPH) – The Soft Machine
7 JEANETTA – Mabel Greer’s Toyshop
8 COME OVER STRANGER – Canto
9 CHILDREN OF THE SUN (demo Version) – The Misunderstood
10 BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
11 (I’M SO) SAD – The Magic Mixture
12 YOU’VE GOTTA HAVE LOVE BABE – The Graham Bond Organisation
13 RUMBLE OF MERSEY SQUARE SOUTH – Wimple Winch
14 COSMIC TRIP – Third Ear Band
15 I BRING THE SUN – John Bryant
16 POLICE IS HERE – A New Generation
17 SPICKS AND SPECKS – The Bee Gees
18 DEATH OF THE SEASIDE – The Human Instinct
19 BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER – Friday’s Chyld*
20 CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE – Jason Crest
21 TOYMAKER’S SHOP – Louise
22 PLASTIC AEROPLANE – Medium Rare*
23 VENUSIAN MOONSHINE (live At Middle Earth) – 117*
*previously Unreleased

DISC FIVE:
1 PATH THROUGH THE FOREST – The Factory
2 FREEDOM FOR YOU – The Attack
3 WALKING THROUGH MY DREAMS – Pretty Things
4 DON’T GO ‘WAY LITTLE GIRL – The Shame
5 MY PRAYER – Tintern Abbey*
6 PHANTOM I – Jade Hexagram
7 COVER GIRL – Perfumed Garden
8 ROSE COLOURED GLASSES – The Tickle
9 AMY PEATE – The Orange Bicycle
10 DREAM IN MY MIND – Rupert’s People
11 SPIDER – Downliners Sect
12 WHAT ON EARTH (single Mix) – Blossom Toes
13 BUILDING UP A DREAM – The End
14 THE CAT – The Merseys
15 PANDEMONIUM SHADOW SHOW – Mandrake Paddle Steamer
16 WATERWAYS (demo Version) – East Of Eden
17 WHICH WAY – The Sorrows
18 BUN – The Deviants
19 ANOTHER VINCENT VAN GOGH – The 23rd Turnoff
20 SMILE AT THE SAD SUN – Champagne*
21 TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES – The Zany Woodruff Operation*
22 SITTING ON A BLUNESTONE – Tales Of Justine
23 BRAIN – The Action
*previously Unreleased

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When The Alarm Clock Rings: A Compendium Of British Psychedelia 1966-1969

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Limited edition 2LP vinyl compilation of original artefacts from the first British psychedelic era.

30 essential 1966-1969 nuggets from major names and cult acts alike.

After 14 years and nearly 150 CD releases, Cherry Red's psychedelic imprint Grapefruit finally produces its first-ever vinyl issue. A 90-minute, 30-track anthology, ‘When The Alarm Clock Rings’ is an all-encompassing overview of the late 60s British psychedelic scene.

The set features major underground names (Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Blossom Toes, Dantalian's Chariot, John's Children), cult 45s (The Voice, Paper Blitz Tissue, The Syn), future legends (Alex Harvey, Genesis, Greg Lake's early venture The Shame) and pop groups who occasionally turned dayglo (The Merseys, Plastic Penny, Picadilly Line).

Limited to 1000 copies and containing Grapefruit's trademark combination of photos and annotation on stylish 12” x 12” inserts, ‘When The Alarm Clock Rings’ is an essential purchase for vinyl aficionados and a tantalising taster of further plastic platters!

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1. Magic In The Air - The Attack
2. The Madman Running Through The Fields - Dantalian's Chariot
3. Magic Horsemen - Tintern Abbey
4. Maybe Someday - Alex Harvey
5. In The Beginning - Genesis
6. The Wall - The Fruit Machine
7. The World Goes On Around You - The Mirage
Side Two
1. Dream In My Mind - Rupert's People
2. Mary Jane (single Version) - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
3. Midsummer Night's Scene - John's Children
4. I Hope You're Happy - The Merseys
5. Teagarden Lane - Jason Crest
6. Pools Of Blue (advision Studios Version) - Barclay James Harvest
7. Leave Me Here - The 23rd Turnoff
8. I Unseen (ibc Studios Version) - The Misunderstood
Side Three
1. The Train To Disaster - The Voice
2. Remember The Times - Mike Stuart Span
3. Jane - Living Daylights
4. Wake Me Up - Plastic Penny
5. Don't Go 'way Little Girl - The Shame
6. Spontaneous Apple Creation - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
7. Created By Clive - The Syn
8. Mr. Second Class - The Spencer Davis Group
Side Four
1. The Laughing Man - John Carter And Russ Alquist
2. Mr. Universe - Episode Six
3. Things You Cannot See - The Action
4. The Otherside - Apple
5. Rosemary's Bluebell Day - Picadilly Line
6. Grey Man - Paper Blitz Tissue
7. When The Alarm Clock Rings - Blossom Toes

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Peter Jefferies

Closed Circuit - 2023 Reissue

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Peter Jefferies, a living legend of New Zealand underground music, from his seminal bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind Of Punishment, to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal Grind and Two Foot Flame, is perhaps best known for his solo work on masterpieces such as The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World (1990) and Electricity (1994), as well as Elevator Madness (1996). All of these albums came out on vinyl but one of the best was the singular Closed Circuit (2001) which, unfortunately, only came out on compact disc and was somewhat lost to time until now.

After Grapefruit released his collection of singles and unreleased songs called Last Ticket Home in 2019, Jefferies mentioned he’d always hoped one of his personal favorite solo albums could someday be heard on vinyl as it was intended. Grapefruit is proud to finally be able to highlight Jefferies’ last album of lyric-based songs by releasing Closed Circuit on vinyl, remastered and with new artwork and insert. This album features all of Jefferies’ signature tense and dark, piano-driven rock and moody balladry, along with themes of personal isolation and domestic ambivalence. It’s a tour-de-force that has remained in the dark too long.

TRACK LISTING

1. Time And The Singular Man
2. Crocodile
3. Whatever You Want
4. Closed Circuit
5. Line In Tail Out
6. Age For The Innocent
7. Dryest Month In 100 Years
8. Coming Home With You
9. Red Sky
10. King In The Clowns New Clothes
11. State Of The Nation
12. Won't Be Long
13. Talkin' Bout Nothin'
14. Ghostwriter

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75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band

Live At Tubby's

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NYC’s 75 Dollar Bill began its prolific career in 2012, after percussionist Rick Brown – a veteran of the indie underground (Fish & Roses, Run On, V-Effect) – and noise scene guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Che Chen – connected via MySpace. Since that initial jam session, when Brown began experimenting with his signature plywood crate drum rhythms, they have released 3 LPs and a clutch of self-released cassette and digital releases. Last year’s 2xLP I Was Real received serious critical acclaim – The Wire calling it 2019’s Album of the Year.

On their first live album, Live at Tubby’s, 75 Dollar Bill assembled a unique “little big band” [Sue Garner on bass, Cheryl Kingan on sax, Steve Maing on guitar, Jim Pugliese on percussion and Karen Waltuch on viola] for the small Kingston, NY club show. Recorded on the last day of their spring tour, the record puts a new perspective on themes from their body of work: a little more intimacy, a little more freedom, a little more controlled chaos. Brown’s idiosyncratic rhythms are all the more hypnotizing in Tubby’s cozy setting, and Chen’s furious guitar work cuts and hums with sounds seemingly only attainable on stage. It's an album both challenging and immediate. The expanded 75 Dollar Bill's affinity for improvisation and the avant-garde even leads to a rousing take on the Ornette Coleman classic, 'Friends and Neighbors' that feels right at home in their own repertoire. The listener can't help but feel present and part of the communal joy and catharsis being shared here in this room. This performance at Tubby’s turned out not only to be the last show of their tour, but the last show possible as the pandemic hit. Originally offered as a digital-only release on 75 Dollar Bill’s Bandcamp, Live at Tubby’s now documents a highlight and closure of sorts; this kind of musical improvisation and community interaction being on hold for the foreseeable future. The double LP on Grapefruit will have to tide us over until it can all happen again.

From Rick Brown:
75 Dollar Bill has always been a duo of Che Chen and myself, but many of our most satisfying and just plain fun experiences have involved some (or almost all) of our great crew of friend musicians who've worked with us for years and who play on our studio recordings, like 2019's I Was Real (Thin Wrist/Glitterbeat). Live at Tubby's presents a couple of sets recorded just as Spring and the coronavirus were arriving on the scene. We didn't plan for this as a “Little Big Band” concert, but we took advantage of timing and geography - as well as the fact that “everybody knows how to play WZN #3” - and sent out a call for any who could make it to come to Kingston, NY for the night's blowout, the last gig of a short tour we'd done as a duo. The material comes from I Was Real and its predecessor Wood, Metal, Plastic, Pattern, Rhythm, Rock plus a cover of the great and inspiring Ornette Coleman's song “Friends and Neighbors.” Hopefully, you'll agree it turned out pretty good – at the very least, it should be obvious that we had a good time! We sure do miss playing music with our friends and for our neighbors.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Beni Said
A2 I'm Not Trying To Wake Up
B1 Like Like Laundry
C1 Friends & Neighbors
C2 Every Last Coffee Or Tea
D1 WZN#3 / Verso

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Roy Montgomery

Island Of Lost Souls

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Island Of Lost Souls is the first of four new albums by Roy Montgomery coming out in 2021 to commemorate Montgomery’s forty years in music. His debut release was also Flying Nun’s first, the Pin Group 7-inch from 1981.

Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest album for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he’s managed to navigate disparate genres, scenes, and atmospheres, always at the forefront of experimental independent music.

Island Of Lost Souls follows his acclaimed 2018 LP Suffuse—a novel departure in which he consigned all vocal duties to ambient / experimental peers Liz Harris (of Grouper), Julianna Barwick, Purple Pilgrims, Haley Fohr (of Circuit des Yeux), Katie von Schleicher, and She Keeps Bees. But the veteran evolves again. On this release Montgomery creates resounding, aerial compositions for guitar. Where some might be inclined to relax and lean into their legacy at this stage in a sprawling career, Montgomery’s new music continues to seek and challenge, moving like the eye of a storm.

This latest album cries out like a chorus, though there are no vocals on the record. Its tracklist instead builds upon the lonesome and polyphonic dimensions of guitar in order to express universal feelings of communion and isolation, resisting conclusion but never resorting to fatalism. Life is all about navigating these contradictions and everyone is with Montgomery on this island whether they’d like to admit it or not. Here, the artist has created a work of wisdom and grit, a searing beauty, a new masterpiece for an uncertain and restless time.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cowboy Mouth (For Sam Shepard)
2. Soundcheck (For Adrian Borland)
3. Unhalfmuted (For Peter Principle)
4. The Electric Children Of Hildegard Von Bingen (For Florian Fricke)

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Peter Jefferies

Last Ticket Home

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Peter Jefferies, a living legend of New Zealand underground music, from his seminal bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind Of Punishment, to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal Grind and Two Foot Flame, is perhaps best known for his solo work on masterpieces such as The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World (1990) and Electricity (1994), as well as numerous other albums of his singular songcraft.

Grapefruit is proud to be releasing Jefferies’ latest, Last Ticket Home, which leaves the station early in his career when The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World left off and takes us on a guided tour of a fascinating side street via rare singles, both released and unreleased, radical live interpretations, and a wealth of never released material dating from 1991-2019. Last Ticket Home redefines Jefferies’ artistic journey, giving us a song cycle narrative which scorches, blisters and eventually heals on its relentless, ragged way home.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crossover
2. Lassitude
3. Guided Tour
4. Wined Up
5. Westgate Exit
6. Ghostwriter
7. Electricity (Live)
8. World In A Blanket (Live)
9. Cyclone Dawn
10. Fallaway
11. Last Ticket Home

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Love, Poetry And Revolution: A Journey Through The British Psychedelic And Underground Scenes 1966 To 1972

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Embracing psychedelic pop (The Mirage, Jason Crest, Shy Limbs, Crocheted Doughnut Ring etc), the burgeoning progressive rock scene (T2, Czar, Fat Mattress) and acid folk (the likes of Simon Finn and Mark Fry), Love, Poetry and Revolution draws on a number of catalogues, including Beacon (The Fut, Information, pre-Damned act Taiconderoga), the Vic Keary stable and various collector labels (Sunbeam, Acme, Tenth Planet/Wooden Hill) to give a fascinating, all-embracing overview of what was a tumultuous few years in British pop/rock history.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE:
1. DEEP FEELING - Pretty Colours
2. THE MISUNDERSTOOD – Find The Hidden Door
3. THEINCROWD-AmIGladToSeeYou?
4. THE DRAG SET - Day And Night
5. TUESDAY’S CHILDREN - A Strange Light From The East
6. THE MIRAGE - The Wedding Of Ramona Blair
7. THE HI-FIS - Tread Softly For The Sleepers
8. SPENCER DAVIS GROUP – Mr Second Class
9. TINTERN ABBEY - Busy Bee
10.BLOSSOM TOES - I’ll Be Late For Tea 11.THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN - Devil’s Grip
12.SANDS - Mrs Gillespie’s Refrigerator
13.THE SHAME - Don’t Go ’Way Little Girl
14.THE PICADILLY LINE – Rosemary’s Bluebell Day 15.CROCHETED DOUGHNUT RING – Two Little Ladies (Azalea And Rhododendron)
16.THE MIKE STUART SPAN – Second Production 17.FELIUS ANDROMEDA – Cheadle Heath Delusions
18.NEON PEARL - Just Another Day
19.JOHN’S CHILDREN - Jagged Time Lapse
20.ONE IN A MILLION - Man In Yellow
21.JADE HEXAGRAM - Crushed Purple
22.DENIS COULDRY & THE NEXT COLLECTION - I Am Nearly There
23.THE ALAN BOWN! - Story Book
24.SIMON’S SECRETS - Naughty Boy
25.THE CORTINAS - Phoebe’s Flower Shop
26.THE DEVIANTS - Child Of The Sky

DISC TWO:
1. THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP - Morning Sun
2. THE MIRAGE - Ebaneezer Beaver
3. WEST COAST CONSORTIUM - Amanda Jane
4. JASON CREST - Teagarden Lane
5. THE FLIES - Winter Afternoon
6. THE DEVIANTS - You’ve Got To Hold On
7. THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN - Nightmare
8. SUN DRAGON - Peacock Dress
9. PETER HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO - Jabberwocky
10.FOREVER AMBER - Bits Of Your Life, Bits Of My Life
11.PLEASE - Strange Ways
12.THE LIVERPOOL SCENE - We’ll All Be Spacemen Before We Die
13.SERENDIPITY - Castles (full- Length Version)
14.THE SORROWS - The Makers
15.SECOND HAND - A Fairy Tale
16.INFORMATION - Oh Strange Man
17.SHY LIMBS - Love
18.HARDIN-YORK - Tomorrow Today
19.INFINITY - Venetian Glass
20.MIC READ - What The Dickens
21.RESPECT - Santa Lucia
22.FAT MATTRESS – Iridescent Butterfly

DISC THREE:
1. THE OPEN MIND - Magic Potion
2. PHIL CORDELL - Red Lady
3. TAICONDEROGA - Whitchi Tai To
4. HAWKWIND ZOO – Hurry On Sundown
5. PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATRE - Lament For The Earth
6. CZAR - Ritual Fire Dance
7. THEFUT– Have You Heard The Word
8. PAPER BUBBLE - Fillin’ A Gap
9. THE FOX - Butterfly
10.COMPLEX - Images Blue
11.OCTOPUS - Rainchild
12.T2 - Careful Sam
13.SIMON FINN – Laughing ’Til Tomorrow
14.BEAU - Creation
15.BILL NELSON - End Of The Seasons
16.MARK FRY - The Witch
17.KEVIN COYNE - Evil Island Home

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Gathered From Coincidence: The British Folk-pop Sound Of 1965-66

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By 1965, the folk-pop nexus was at its glorious peak. That was particularly true in Britain, which saw many variations on the basic pop-meets-folk theme (in America, folk-rock had a relatively homogenised sound). • Across three CDs and 79 tracks, Gathered From Coincidence examines every aspect of the British mid-Sixties folk-pop boom, incorporating Dylan-inspired singer/songwriters with a commercial pop sensibility, the more introverted beat groups, Marianne Faithfull-inspired female chanteuses and R&B hoodlums in newly-pensive mode, all bound together by the 6 or 12-string thrum or Rickenbacker clang. • Ranging from massive chart hits to records that barely sold in double figures, Gathered From Coincidence includes the true believers, the musical dilettantes, the young wannabes, the cash-in merchants, the old guard looking to resuscitate a fading career and, of course, the earnest protest singers – and, just for good measure, we’ve also rounded up a handful of folksploitation discs from those positioning themselves for roughly three minutes as anti-protest protesters. • With a significant number of tracks making their CD debut and even a couple of previously unissued cuts, Gathered From Coincidence is a fascinating, even revelatory overview of a still largely-neglected stitch in pop’s unending tapestry.

TRACK LISTING

1. TAKE ME FOR WHAT I’M WORTH – The Searchers
2. MORNING’S CALLING - Peter & Gordon
3. COME AND STAY WITH ME – Marianne Faithfull
4. FOLLOW ME - The Tony Jackson Group
5. IT’S YOUR TURN TO CRY – Terry Kennedy & John Carter
6. REJECTED - The Fenmen
7. I LOVE HER STILL – The Poets
8. FROSTED PANES – The Kytes
9. GOLDEN LIGHTS - Twinkle
10. I WON’T BE ROUND YOU ANYMORE – The Chosen Few
11. ABSOLUTELY SWEET MARIE – The Factotums
12. HEY WOMAN - Kenny Bernard
13. HEY MAMA YOU’VE BEEN ON MY MIND - The Caravelles
14. DON’T GO AWAY – The Zombies
15. NOW THE SUN HAS GONE – The Beatmen
16. THINK ABOUT THE TIMES – The Times
17. PENNY ARCADE - Michael Leslie
18. BEYOND THE RISIN’ SUN – Marc Bolan
19. TILL YOU SAY YOU’LL BE MINE – Olivia Newton-John
20. GO AWAY - The Mirage Featuring Graham Nash
21. IT’S ALL LEADING UP TO SATURDAY NIGHT – The Knack *
22. YOU’VE COOLED - Five Steps Beyond
23. THERE’S JUST NO PLEASING YOU – The Epics
24. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS – Gullivers People
25. MR. SMITH - The Foresters
26. IT’S ALL OVER NOW BABY BLUE – The Cops ‘N Robbers
* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

1. LIKE A ROLLING STONE - The Other Side
2. WELL, HOW DOES IT FEEL? – Barbara Ruskin
3. LOVERS OF THE WORLD UNITE – David & Jonathan
4. CATCH THE WIND - Donovan
5. AGE OF CORRUPTION - Alan Klein
6. BLESSED – Guy Darrell
7. THAT MAN’S GOT NO LUCK – Gary Benson
8. IT’S GOOD NEWS WEEK – Hedgehoppers Anonymous
9. BELLS - Dave Helling
10. VERY LAST DAY – The Hollies
11. SOMETIME NEVER DAY – Bill Fay
12. DON’T YOU CRY OVER ME - The Slade Brothers
13. WHEN THE SHIP COMES IN - Folk Blues Incorporated
14. WAKE UP MY MIND – The Uglys
15. PLEASE DON’T SWITCH OFF THE MOON MR. SPACEMAN - Nicholas Hammond
16. THE PROTEST SINGER - Micha
17. SQUARE PEG - The Four Pennies
18. GOTTA MAKE THEIR FUTURE BRIGHT - First Gear
19. THE BELLS OF RHYMNEY - Murray Head
20. DON’T TALK TO ME OF PROTEST - Jonathan King
21. DEJECTION (DEMO VERSION) - Five’s Company
22. THAT’S NOT MY KIND OF LOVE - Mick Softley With The Summer Suns
23. DON’T SING NO SAD SONGS FOR ME – The Sorrows
24. RATTLE OF A TOY - Tommy Yates
25. TALKIN’ DENMARK STREET – John Cassidie *
26. THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ – The Ian Campbell Folk Group
* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

1. YOU’VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY – The Silkie
2. WAIT TILL THE SUMMER COMES ALONG – The Kinks
3. DON’T MAKE PROMISES (YOU CAN’T KEEP) - Peter Nelson
4. CHERYL’S GOING HOME – Adam Faith
5. IF YOU GOTTA GO, GO NOW – Manfred Mann
6. I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU – Davey Graham
7. NIGHT COMES DOWN - Jon-Mark
8. EARLY MORNING RAIN – The Settlers
9. SADNESS HIDES THE SUN - Greta Ann
10. THANK YOU BOY - Dana Gillespie
11. LOVE MINUS ZERO NO LIMIT – The Compromise
12. DAY MUST COME - Justin Hayward
13. THE CLOWN IN THE ALLEY - Meic Stevens
14. I’M ON YOUR SIDE - The Frugal Sound
15. LONDON TOWN - The Pretty Things
16. PICKING UP THE SUNSHINE (AKA BERT’S BLUES) - Beverley
17. CORRINA CORRINA - The Nightshift
18. LISTEN PEOPLE – Sarah Jane
19. FOUR STRONG WINDS - Chad & Jeremy
20. SO SAD (TO WATCH GOOD LOVE GO BAD) - The Greenbeats
21. DON’T THINK TWICE IT’S ALRIGHT – Heinz With The Wild Boys
22. TODAY IS THE HIGHWAY – The Ramblers
23. LOVE IS STRANGE - The Overlanders
24. SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES – Chas McDevitt & Shirley Douglas
25. MARY ANNE – The Shadows
26. THE CARNIVAL IS OVER – The Seekers

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Looking At The Pictures In The Sky: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1968

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It goes without saying that 1968 doesn't have the same kind of cachet as 1967 - a year that, in musical terms, will always be indelibly associated with the Summer of Love, Sgt Pepper and the emergence of psychedelia.

But although the major players turned away from the excesses of the previous year in favour of a back-to-basics musical approach, there were arguably a greater number of psychedelic records made in 1968 than during the preceding twelve months.

Vital, lysergically-inclined 45s emerged from a whole host of younger groups, with The Factory, Mike Stuart Span, Fleur de Lys, The Fire, The Barrier, Boeing Duveen, Rupert's People and numerous others all releasing singles that have long been widely regarded by psychedelic collectors as genre classics.

All these and more are gathered on Looking At The Pictures In The Sky, which provide a fascinating overview of the group scene in Britain (and Ireland!) in 1968, shining a light on unreleased gems, cult classics, choice album cuts, neglected B-sides and alternative versions.

As with its 1967 equivalent Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds, the four-hour, 78-track, 3CD anthology Looking At The Pictures In The Sky is housed in a striking clambox that contains a 44 page booklet crammed with biographical information and rare photographs of the featured acts.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1. PATH THROUGH THE FOREST – The Factory
2. FATHER’S NAME IS DAD – The Fire
3. GONG WITH THE LUMINOUS NOSE – Fleur De Lys
4. MIND’S EYE – Ramases & Selket
5. SPONTANEOUS APPLE CREATION – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
6. LULLABY (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) – Grapefruit
7. I WILL NOT BE MOVED – Circle Plantagenet
8. SUNDAY BEST – Turquoise
9. MY SON JOHN – The Onyx
10. THE FANTASTIC STORY OF THE STEAM- DRIVEN BANANA – Legay
11. MR. PARTRIDGE PASSED AWAY TODAY – Fortes Mentum
12. JABBERWOCK – Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup
13. HAZE WOMAN – Anan
14. TALKING ABOUT THE GOOD TIMES – The Pretty Things
15. SUNDAY MORNING – Guy And David – The Five Day Week Straw People
16. ANIMAL MAGIC – Graded Grains
17. SHE – Tuesday’s Children
18. MR. LION – The Marmalade
19. UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS – Graham Gouldman
20. FESTIVAL OF THE HARVEST MOON – Joker
21. SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROCK’N’ROLL STAR – Sun Dragon
22. NEVER CARE – Eyes Of Blue
23. NIGHTMARE – The Gass Company
24. IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF SIXPENCE – Procol Harum
25. DID YOU DIE FOUR YEARS AGO TONIGHT? – The Web
26. FREDERICK JORDAN – The Glass Menagerie

DISC TWO
1. CHILDREN OF TOMORROW – Mike Stuart Span
2. DAWN BREAKS THROUGH – The Barrier
3. MR PINNODMY’S DILEMMA – The Attack
4. TRYING TO GET A GLIMPSE OF YOU – The Freedom
5. I CAN SHOW YOU – Rupert’s People
6. LOCKED IN A ROOM – The Poets
7. BLUEBELL WOOD – Wimple Winch
8. TECHNICOLOR DREAMS – The Status Quo
9. MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE BREAST – The Spectrum
10. HEAD FOR THE SUN – The Movement
11. MIDNIGHT LOVE CYCLE – The Klubs
12. LOVERS FROM THE SKY – Contact
13. JAMIE’S SONG – The Deviants
14. SYDNEY GILL – The Smoke
15. BIRTHDAY – Peter & The Wolves
16. LOVE IS A TOY – Jon Ledingham
17. YESTERDAY WAS SUCH A LOVELY DAY (ELSIE) – Sadie’s Expression
18. OMNIBUS (EXTENDED VERSION) – The Move
19. I GET SO EXCITED – Real McCoy
20. MR. GOLDEN TRUMPET PLAYER – Junior’s Eyes
21. YELLOW RAINBOW – The Picadilly
22. TIME SELLER (LP VERSION) – The Spencer Davis Group
23. PANTOMIME – Tony Rivers & The Castaways
24. GO AND SAY GOODBYE – Katch 22
25. CORNFLAKE ZOO – Andy Ellison
26. FOR YOUR THOUGHTS – The Alan Bown!

DISC THREE
1. HOLD ON – Jason Crest
2. GIRL OF INDEPENDENT MEANS – Honeybus
3. RAINMAKER – Rhubarb Rhubarb
4. HELLO ENID – The Mirage
5. LUCKY SUNDAY – Episode Six
6. WHAT’S THE RUSH, DILLBURY? – Paradox
7. CAVE OF CLEAR LIGHT – The Bystanders
8. ROUND AND ROUND – Skip Bifferty
9. COME ON DOWN – Motivation
10. COUNTRY LIFE – Blonde On Blonde
11. VIRGINIA WATER – Cats Pyjamas
12. AEROPLANE – Jethro Toe (Tull)
13. RAMBLING BOY – Timon
14. ICE MAN – Ice
15. NOW AND AGAIN REBECCA – The U (Don’t) No Who
16. FELICITY JANE – Writing On The Wall
17. SYCAMORE SID – Focal Point
18. DO YOU DREAM? – Circus
19. MAXWELL FERGUSON – Brass Tacks
20. PAWNBROKER (DEMO VERSION) – Barbara Ruskin
21. SOFT WINDS – The Orange Bicycle
22. WITHOUT YOU – Coconut Mushroom
23. HAUNTED – Peter Thorogood
24. WHICH DREAMED IT – Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup
25. TURNSTYLE – Trot
26. PICTURES IN THE SKY – Orange Seaweed

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Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk And Singer-Songwriters 1966-73

Grapefruit

Notwithstanding one or two isolated exceptions, it wasn't until the mid-Sixties that independent female voices really began to be heard within the music industry. The feminist movement naturally coincided with the first signs of genuine musical emancipation. In North America, Joan Baez and Buffy Sainte-Marie emerged through the folk clubs, coffee-houses and college campuses to inspire a generation of wannabe female singers and musicians with their strong, independent mentality and social compassion, while the British scene's combination of folk song revival and the Beatles-led pop explosion saw record company deals for a new generation of pop-folkies including Marianne Faithfull, Dana Gillespie and Vashti Bunyan.

Within a year or two, the burgeoning counter-culture saw the arrival of psychedelia and folk-rock as the likes of Pentangle and (in the US) the Linda Ronstadt-fronted Stone Poneys emerged from the clubs and into the charts. But in America at least, burnout soon set in, and the era's excesses duly gave way to a quieter, more reflective musical and lyrical style. The LA rock and folk communities decamped to Laurel Canyon, in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, to chill out in bucolic, soul-searching introspection, with sixties stalwart Jackie DeShannon's 1968 album Laurel Canyon leading the way.

Over the course of four hours and sixty tracks, Milk Of The Tree focuses on the music made in the late Sixties and early Seventies in both Britain and North America by either female solo artists or acts with featured female vocalists. Along the way, we encounter San Franciscan psychedelia, LA folk rock, Swinging London pop-folk, electric folk, progressive folk and even folk club folk as well as (of course) a plethora of singer- songwriters (including various ladies of the Canyon) from the movement's golden age. As well as featuring most of the leading figures from both sides of the Atlantic, Milk Of The Tree includes many performers who received little attention at the time but who now have a cult reputation amongst collectors. A significant number of tracks were unreleased at the time, while the set also includes the first-ever appearance by pioneering female rock duo Emily Muff, two American girls who were based in England during the period in question but failed to land a recording contract.

With a 44-page booklet crammed with rare photos and details of the various acts featured, the clambox-housed Milk Of The Tree is not only a fascinating social document but, we hope, a hugely entertaining snapshot of a particular time, place and frame of mind that produced some enduring, spellbinding music.

TRACK LISTING

Disc One:
1. Do You Believe - Melanie
2. Blessed Are... – Joan Baez
3. Light Flight – The Pentangle
4. Foolish Seasons – Dana Gillespie
5. Someone To Talk My Troubles To – Judy Roderick
6. Auntie Aviator - John & Beverley Martyn
7. Flying Away – The Serpent Power
8. It Could Have Been Better – Joan Armatrading
9. Morning Morgantown - Jude
10. If Not By Fire – Mandy More
11. Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp – Laura Nyro
12. I Thought I Knew The Answers – Susan Pillsbury
13. Give Her The Day – Jaki Whitren
14. By The Sea – Wendy & Bonnie
15. Come And Stay With Me – Jackie Deshannon
16. Something Better - Marianne Faithfull
17. An Everyday Consumption Song - Spirogyra
18. The Milk Of The Tree – Polly Niles
19. Chelsea Girls - Nico
20. Reverie For Roslyn – Mary- Anne

Disc Two:
1. Different Drum - Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt
2. Please (Mk. Ii) – Eclection
3. Five Of Us - Jade
4. Who Has Seen The Wind? – The Simon Sisters
5. Jesus Was A Cross Maker – Judee Sill
6. January's Snows – The Woods Band
7. In My Loneliness – Trader Horne
8. Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) – Janis Ian
9. I Was - Lily & Maria
10. Feeling High – Mellow Candle
11. Tomorrow Come Someday - Tomorrow Come Someday
12. My Silks And Fine Array – Julie Covington
13. Red Wine And Promises – Norma Waterson
14. Mr Fox - Mr Fox
15. The Dream Tree - Buffy Sainte-Marie
16. Munching The Candy - The Academy Featuring Polly Perkins
17. Late November – Sandy Denny
18. Tomorrow Your Sorrow - Hendrickson Road House
19. Mornings - Chuck & Mary Perrin
20. Mr Rubin – Lesley Duncan

Disc Three:
1. Come Into The Garden - Chimera
2. Early Morning Blues And Greens - Diane Hildebrand
3. Rainy Day – Susan Christie
4. Autumn Lullaby - Bridget St. John
5. Ballad (Of The Big Girl Now And A Mere Boy) - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
6. Windy - Ruthann Friedman
7. The Lonely - Design
8. Mirage - Shelagh Mcdonald
9. Aderyn Llwyd (Sparrow) – Mary Hopkin
10. Love Song - Vashti Bunyan
11. Winter's Going – Bonnie Dobson
12. Sandman's Song – Anne Briggs
13. When Will I Be Loved – The Bunch
14. The Lady And The Well – Carolanne Pegg
15. Think Of Rain – Margo Guryan
16. Story Of Our Time/Beneath This Sky - Ithaca
17. Murdoch - Trees
18. Banquet On The Water – The Sallyangie
19. Pass The Night – Emily Muff
20. Morgan The Pirate - Mimi Fariña

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Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds

Grapefruit

Housed in a clambox that includes a lavishly annotated and illustrated 44-page booklet. As that noted hipster Plato once observed, when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. And there was certainly a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in 1967. As the year progressed, it seemed that more or less every element of the British pop world had been swept up in the blissed-out UFOria. Beat boom survivors, R&B stalwarts, sharp-suited mods, Swinging London soul revues, earnest acoustic folkies, Denmark Street hustlers, traditional pop acts… all abandoned or refined their previous identities to make music that reflected the ubiquitous influence of psychedelia in its myriad paisley-patterned guises. Across four hours and eighty tracks, Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds anticipates the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love to chronicle a tumultuous twelve-month period of music within the British Isles. The dizzying breadth of the set incorporates everything from key names such as The Move and Procol Harum, both represented with less obvious choices, to the likes of mondo obscuro West Country quintet T. J. Assembly, who pressed a mere 25 copies of their self-penned November 1967 album as a strictly personal memento of their time together.

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I'm A Freak Baby

Grapefruit

Housed in a clambox featuring a lavishly illustrated and annotated 36-page booklet. Although vintage British psychedelia is viewed by many these days as an Alice In Wonderland-style enchanted garden full of beatific flower children innocently gathering flowers or chasing butterflies, there was always a more visceral element to the scene. Pointedly free of such fripperies as scarlet tunic-wearing gnomes, phenomenal cats and talismanic bicycles, the power trio format that was popularised by the likes of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience spawned a host of imitators.

Across three discs and four hours of music, I’m A Freak, Baby investigates that largely under-documented period, incorporating everything from some of the biggest names in the burgeoning hard rock/proto-metal firmament all the way down to a significant number of provincial semi-pro bands who gigged extensively but were unable to land a recording contract during their lifetime.

We feature some of British rock’s pioneering acts (The Yardbirds, The Move), a handful of bands who travelled far beyond their blues boom roots (Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, The Groundhogs), the infamous Ladbroke Grove scene (The Deviants, The Pink Fairies, Hawkwind, The Edgar Broughton Band), a smattering of inspired, where-the-hell-did-that-come-from one-shots like The Velvet Frogs and the mighty Egor, and a clutch of previously-unreleased recordings (The Kult, Hellmet, The Phoenix).

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