Best Releases of 2012 (Part II)

Best Releases of 2012 (Part II)

VARIOUS/RE-ISSUES/EP’s/SINGLES
in alphabetical order:

* BENT WIND - Sussex

(Re-Issue LP + 7” Anazitisi Records)
* CRANIUM PIE & THE RESEARCH STATION - A Visit To Newport Hospital (7” FdM Records)
* GROUP 1850 - Their 45’s

(2LP Pseudonym)
* HEAD MUSIC

(Various 2LP FdM Records)
* LEVIATHAN - Unleashed

(2LP Record Collector)
* LUCID DREAM - Hit’s Me Like I’m Stoned

(7” FdM Records)
* MAGNETIC MIND - Maybe The Stars, Maybe The Sun

(7” Heavy Soul Records)
* PERMANENT CLEAR LIGHT - Higher Than The Sun

(7” FdM Records)
* PSYCHIC ILLS/MOON DUO

(SPLIT 7” Sacred Bones Records)
* BENNY SOEBARDJA & LIZARD 1975

(Re-Issue 2012 Strawberry Rain)
* STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK - Wake Up Where You Are (Global Recording Artists)
* THE STRYPES - Young, Gifted and Blue

(7” EP Heavy Soul Records)
* THE WHITE EP

(Various 2x7” FdM Records)
* UNCLE BRAIN - s/t 

Nasoni Records)
* VIBRAVOID - Void Vibration 10th Anniversary Limited Deluxe Edition (2LP Krautedmind Records)
* WICKED LADY - The Axeman Cometh

(2LP Guerssen)

PERMANENT CLEAR LIGHT – Higher Than The Sun/Afterwards (2012)

PERMANENT CLEAR LIGHT –

Higher Than The Sun/Afterwards

2012 (7” FdM Records)

www.myspace.com/permanentclearlight

I believe that it is the luck of sun in the Scandinavia area (Finland) that forces/inspires people/artists to create such sunny, joyful euphoric melodic tunes! Permanent Clear Light introduced themselves 2 years ago taking part on FdM’s compilation “A Phase We’re Going Through” with Who’s “In The City”. Having occupied another 4 FdM comp releases, now the time has come for a 7” single of their own! On Side A, there’s their own composition “Higher Than The Sun”, so sunny but so full of melancholy simultaneously. Question: What the hell Bowie’s Space Oddity is doing inside Floyd’s Dark Side? Answer: It’s just Permanent Clear Light’s mystic formula to drag us Higher Than the Sun, maintaining our Molecular Structure in its entirety! On Side B, they cover Peter Hammil’s “Afterwards” (originally on Van de Graaf’s Grey Aerosol Machine), a cool version, thrifty but lightly space effected in the middle with beautiful vocal harmonies, makes me think that this one could have been recorded back in the early 70s. Versions like this, explains why the band happen to be one of FdM’s favorites! After all, don’t forget that – as someone used to say back in the 80s – It’s Always The Sun… and nothing but the Sun… TimeLord Michalis

try it here: fruitsdemerrecords 

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Keep Off The Grass (2011)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Keep Off The Grass
2011 (LP Fruits De Mer Records FdM21) 
www.fruitsdemerrecords.com

If you aren’t familiar with the releases of Fruits de Mer Records, and if you’re somehow new to this complicated psychedelic fuzz n’ flower “genre” then this 19-track double LP compilation is the perfect way to start digging the glorious underground psych past of the late 60s early 70s era. On the other hand if you happen to be a truly aficionado of the psych-past, then these ‘reinterpretations’ will make the admiration to these new bands become much stronger. What we have here, is a bunch of “revivers” hailing from the UK, USA, France, Spain and Finland, paying the dues to “classic” 60s Psychedelia by the likes of well-known names (Pink Floyd, The Byrds, Sky Saxon, Jefferson Airplane, Beatles, Traffic, Chocolate Watch Band, Amboy Dukes, Tomorrow, Thunderclap Newman) and also less-known names (The Godz, Skip Spence, John’s Children, Aquarian Age, Nazz, Gemini, Good Feeling’s, Marc Brierley). It’s really hard to pick favorites, but versions like Sendelica’s “Journey To The Center Of The Mind” or Permanent Clear Light’s “Cymbaline” or Sky Picnic’s “Revolution” could re-start the “carrier” of each one of these songs into the nowadays “bored” charts! The year is 2012, and we are experiencing a lack of color. This compilation, these versions, are so god damn colorful! So old but so new! So psychedelically fresh! Just play the vinyl records and try to smell the incense coming straight from the record’s grooves… This is the Best Compilation album of 2011, An Absolutely Fully Mind-Blowing Expanding Psychedelic Experience! Besides, the color vinyl, besides the amazing gatefold sleeve, besides the 19 lil’ pieces of modern-re-arranged-psychedelia, there’s another great surprise. Album comes with a wonderful packet of joss-sticks! Fruits de Mer’s special Blend designed to enhance your listening pleasure! So, after all, it wasn’t so hard to keep off the grass, right Sam? TimeLordMichalis

TimeMazine New Issue #7

Dear Friends,

This is TimeLord Michalis from Greece

for our “annual” psychedelic rendezvous.

New Issue (#7) of psychedelic Fanzine “TimeMazine”

is almost Ready-To-Go,

and it’s time for you to reserve a copy, at your wish.

Prices are without Postage.

There would be 3 editions of Issue #7.

1. TimeMazine #7 (96 pages) + 17track CD comp
2. TimeMazine #7 (96 pages) + 17track CD comp + 7" Vinyl Single (Black)
3. TimeMazine #7 (96 pages) + 17track CD comp + 7" Vinyl Single (Blue)

edition 1

edition 2 / edition 3

Due to a workload at the vinyl-factory,

estimated time (for shipping to your place) is 20 to 25 December 2012.

There would be ONLY 250 Black Vinyl Singles and 250 Blue.

So, First Come, First Served!!!

If you wish to have any other of the Back Issues, let me know.

Feel free to ask any question.

Respectfully Yours

TimeLord Michalis

mtimelord@gmail.com

TimeMazine #7 (Autumn ’12)

Psychedelic Greek Fanzine,

96 pages (A4-not photocopied) full of psych, all in English,

with 17track FREE CD compilation PLUS a 7” Split Vinyl Single

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS:

- KEITH LAW (Jardine / Velvett Fogg)

- NICK SALOMAN (The Bevis Frond)

- MYCHAEL JOHN THOMAS (Felt)

- ADAM BUFANO & ELIAS SCHUTZMAN (The Flying Eyes)

- RON MATELIC (Anonymous / J.Rider)

- MARK WEITZ & GEORGE BUNNELL (Strawberry Alarm Clock)

- LORENZO WOODROSE (Spids Nøgenhat)

- ROB & TIMOTHY (Cranium Pie)

- EVI HASSAPIDES WATSON (No Man’s Land / Echo Tattoo)

ALSO:

- The 60s Mind of Johnny Echols [LOVE]

- Jay Tausig - The Trip Around The Sun

- Full Circle with the REDONDOS (by Ray Doern)

- Chan Laughlin AKA TRAVUS T. HIPP (by Evelyn Kerr)

- Benny Soebardja (Indonesia’s best kept secret revealed) (by Bryan O’Keefe)

- Ultimate 60s Time Songs - “Making Time” by THE CREATION

- ... tons of LP/CD/EP/7” reviews...

CD Compilation:

01. FELT II – 1970 (The Legend of Felt) (2012)

02. STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK - Sit With The Guru (2011)

03. THE LUCK OF EDEN HALL - This Is Strange (2012)

04. PERMANENT CLEAR LIGHT - And The Skies Will Fall (2012)  UNRELEASED

05. JARDINE - Blackbirds Of Jardine (1969)

06. CRANIUM PIE - The Wrong Sun (2010/11) UNRELEASED

07. ELECTRIC MOON - The Pop Art Accident (2011)

08. SMOKING TREES – Calling (2012)

09. THE BEVIS FROND – Devil Doll (2008) UNRELEASED

10. RON MATELIC & FRIENDS - Moon Horizon (2008)

11. ECHO TATTOO – Love Is Free (2008)

12. SPIDS NøGENHAT - En Alrune Rod 1998 (UNCUT VERSION)

13. NIRVANA - Habemus De Loca (mid 70s)

14. SENDELICA - Not The Time For Salads (2010) UNRELEASED

15. THE FLYING EYES - Done So Wrong (2011)

16. THE REDONDOS - I Know How It Feels (Version #2) (1965)

17. TRAVUS T. HIPP – Radio Excerpt (2006) 

Artwork CD Covers

7” Split Single:

Side A:
GOLLY McCRY & JOHN MORTON featuring WIM OUDIJK – Workshop (originally by Hunger!)

Side B:

PURPLE OVERDOSE – FireDance (UNRELEASED)