Kevin Ayers - Bananamour (1973)

"Internotional Anthem" (sic) is basically a 43 second burst of backing vocals which lead into the drone of "Decadence". This is possibly the best track here (definitely the longest), with a repeated guitar figure over the monotone drone. "Oh! Wot A Dream" is a light-hearted tribute to Syd Barrett and is the only song I know which features a duck as part of the percussion!. "Hymn" is a gentle number featuring Robert Wyatt over some gently strummed guitars. The whole thing ends up with "Beware Of The Dog", which is the dramatic finale. It's a short number with a great ending. (Progarchives)


1.Don't Let It Get You Down (4:04)
2.Shouting In A Bucket Blues (3:45)
3.When Your Parents Go To Sleep (5:47)
4.Interview (4:43)
5.Internotional Anthem (0:43)
6.Decadence (8:05)
7.Oh! Wot A Dream (2:48)
8.Hymn (4:35)
9.Beware Of The Dog (1:27)

Bonus tracks on CD re-release
10.Connie On A Rubber Band (2:56)
11.Decadence (Early Mix) (6:57)
12.Take Me To Tahiti (3:37)
13.Caribbean Moon (3:02)


- Kevin Ayers / Guitar, Vocals
- David Bedford / Keyboards, Orchestral Arrangements
- Howie Casey / Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Brass
- Dave Caswell / Trumpet
- Tristan Fry / Percussion, Cymbals
- Steve Hillage / Guitar
- Lyle Jenkins /Saxophone, Baritone, Brass
- Archie Leggett / Bass, Vocals
- Ronnie Price / Piano
- Mike Ratledge / Organ, Keyboards
- Barry St. John /Vocals
- Eddie Sparrow / Percussion, Drums
- Liza Strike / Vocals
- Doris Troy /Vocals
- Robert Wyatt / Drums, Vocals

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Os Mutantes - O A e o Z (1973)

The masterpiece of Arnaldo Baptista, crazy, genial, pretentious and every other adjective you may ever think of. And many more.


1 - A e o Z
2 - Rolling Stone
3 - Você Sabe
4 - Hey Joe
5 - Uma Pessoa Só
6 - Ainda Vou Transar com Você

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Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

Some psychedelic art from the 1960s to get you in the mood. The artwork from Trips Festival is especially crazy.

Grace Slick wrote "White Rabbit" while on LSD tripping about Alice in Wonderland. Again, psychedelic and spaced-out sounds shooked charts and made path for next trippy tunes to come. I think it's also one of the best psychedelic tunes ever written. Bass groove with guitar trippin' around is just so mindblowing. Grace's voice seems so dominant, like it's leading your mind into a rabbit hole.  (...)

I would like to hear "Comin' Back To Me" also in my dreams, because that track is brilliant. I know I sound so "this track is best track ever" on every tune I reviewd on this album, but it's true. Things like "perfect albums" doesn't happen so often. Nice and cool guitar captures so well carefree and beautiful life in '67 in the Haight, and lyrics - oooh, lyrics are the top thing here. Balin said about this song this : "the song was created while he indulged in some primo-grade marijuana given to him by blues singer Paul Butterfield". Now you know where that dream-like feel comes from. "

(review from blog Vibrant Sound of Acid)

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Os Mutantes (1969)

With admirers such as Kurt Cobain, Os Mutantes was a Brazilian psychedelic band in a time when a military dictatorship kept the country from having a real Summer of Love or something like that (though there were some Brazilian hippies, mostly in the 70s), it's amazing how they could produce such a pschedelic masterpiece with technical and social restraints that the Beatles and Pink Floyd couldn't dream of. Their first album is the best known, but later they moved on to longer, quite progressive music that is ridiculously pretentious, yet spectacular. Oh yes and later on Arnaldo Baptista would spend time in a nuthouse, try to kill himself and be seen by some as the South-American Syd Barrett.



"Panis Et Circensis" (Bread And Circuses), the album opener, is a production tour de force which is the peer of other psych production masterpieces such as "Good Vibrations" and "Strawberry Fields Forever." Impressively, where the Beach Boys and the Beatles spent weeks to months perfecting their iconic tracks, Os Mutantes (with the help of Rogerio Duprat) got "Panis Et Circensis" down in a day. Starting with a short fanfare, the tracks shifts through several worlds of sound. It's very much in the 'pocket symphony' mold with seemingly unrelated parts actually working together. For me the highlights are the strange mid-song tape drop out and the almost too busy horn parts punctuating the melody.
(Dr. Schluss)

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Infected Mushroom presents: The Doors Remixed (1997)

I'm not sure if this album was released, or if it's just a treat for fans, or something else. I do know, however, that it shows the many similarities between the 1960s psychedelic rock and today's electronic music scene, both in terms of music and ideas.

When Jim Morrison sings much higher, in the famous hit Light My Fire, in this version he repeats it: higher, higher, higher, spiralling and fading out until we notice how explicitly The Doors talked about drugs.

To anyone bitching about how the DJs messed up with holy old music (as if "classic rock" wasn't an oxymoron), check this video where Jim Morrison predicts the future of music:

"I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes and electronics set up, singing or speaking while using machines”


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Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (1975)

Omma-Dawn is a feeling
For his third album, Mike Oldfield chooses a middle path between the naïve excitement and anger of "Tubular Bells", and the more continuous, generally softer "Hergest Ridge". The result is a very satisfying, highly melodic work with many highlights, and a continuity which demands that it be heard as a complete piece.

"Ommadawn" was far from a solo album by Oldfield. While the composition credit is of course entirely his, he called upon the talents of many fine musicians to enhance the sound. Notable among these are Paddy Moloney on Uillean pipes and Bridget St John and Oldfield's sister Sally on vocals.
(Review by Easy Livin, on Progarchives)

A good album for chilling out in bed...


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Miles Davis - Agharta (1975)

Now that's a crazy album. Miles got more and more eccentric throughout the 1970s, and this album shows the total madness that was his concert at that time. 

Miles has often pointed out in interviews that the ensemble on this album was his favorite band. Playing rock with jazz musicians (Bitches Brew) served it's purpose for a while, but Miles wanted a band that could really rock, as well as play jazz, avant-garde and world music as well. The icing on the cake for Miles is that he finally found a guitar player who could do what the departed Jimi Hendrix could do, plus so much more.

This album finally brings together all the influences that Miles had been trying to bring together for years; Stockhausen's Asiatic suspended musical moments in time (moment form), Sly Stone's dramatic take it to the streets call to action world revolutionary party funk, searing acid rock guitar, Sun Ra's disciplined approach to group improvisation, Herbie Hancock's futuristic fusion and timeless classical music from Africa.
(js (Easy Money), Progarchives)




If you are captivated by free jazz, Can circa Tago Mago, early Tangerine Dream, spacey Sun Ra, Matching Mole or Zappa's more atonal extravaganzas, you may well be in hog heaven with this album but failing that, these air miles won't even refund your fare.
(ExittheLemming, Progarchives)

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