[1970] Wizz Jones - America

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This is a rare track that only showed up once on the "Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 7"
compilation. Not much is known about it at all, but the Sitar sound and the Loner Folk lyrics tell
their very own story.

At the Norwich Folk Festival

[1971] John Renbourn - The Cuckoo

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This is one of the delightful british-folk songs, that are merged with psychedelic sitar play. The gentle
 vocals of John Renbourn add their cream to it! This reminds a bit on the "Basket Full of Light"
album by Pentangle, what's no wonder, since he was a member of the band.

[1970] Meic Stevens - Yarric

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Raga-blues? Sitar drechned psych folk? Well, this song is prtobably something inbetween. Released
in 1970 on the album "Outlander", this is the most outstanding track on the whole album, although it's
been a while since I last heared it. Sitar, guitar, flute and cosmic feelings are mixed to a mindblwoing
potion... I'd even go so far to consider this as a pure masterpiece! Enjoy!

[1970] Agincourt - Though I May Be Dreaming

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Gentle vocals, soft acoustic guitar and flute. It's all about beautiful, dreamy psych folk. My friend
Klemen from the It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine, did an interview with bandleader Peter Howell.
Check it out as well:

[1971] Witthueser & Westrupp - Orienta

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Withüser & Westrupp were a German acid folk and kraut duo, singing songs
with dreamy psychedelic lyrics. This song is about, well, find it out yourself:

Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Wech
klopfen wir an die Himmelstüre
ein Mann names Petrus öffnet ganz sacht
und er fragt: "Seid ihr es, die da kommen sollen,
uns den Shit zu bringen?"

Wir streichen aus, alle die wir kennen, uns eingeschlossen
und wir treten ein, in den Ewigen Frühling
wir sehen die himmlischen Heerscharen
mit den ewigen Joints auf ihren Wolken sitzen
und ihr Gesang steicht unaufhaltsam in den Händen der Sonne

Die sieben Erzengel bringen unsere ewigen Joints
und gemeinsam schweben wir zu den immer-grünen Liebewiesen
und wir stimmen ein in den Lobgesang der Engel auf Lordid Drack(?)



I will try to translate:
On the search of a new way
we are knoking on heavens door
a man named Petrus opened very gently
and he asked: "Are you the guys, that should come,
and bring us the shit?"

we scratch out, all we knew, even us
and we enter, into the eternal spring
we see the heavenly host
with their eternal joints, sitting on their clouds
and their singing rised inexorable in the hands of the sun

the seven archangel bringin' us our eternal joints
and together we floating to the indeciduous love-meadow
and we join in into the canticle of the angles on Lordid Drack(?)



...great guitar play, a lot of small instruments, stoned, in a trance - a whole chor. Enjoy!

[1971] Broeselmachine - Schmetterling

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Well, Peter Bursch's Bröselmaschine; I think, a lot of you may know the band, and maybe you know
this song too. It's one of the great Krautrock songs, that is full of droning trance sounds, trippy and
spacy. A bit like Witthueser und Westrupp concerning the lyrics. Great Sitar sound, although I've
heared from professional sitar-players, that the instruments is played pretty infantile and naive,
however, accompanied by tabla and flute this song is just aweseome. Also the virtuosely accoustic
guitar played by Peter Bursch compenses the sitar play again. Enjoy this mind blowing song!

Lyrics:
Ich, Huang Ju, träumte einst, ich sei ein Schmetterling, ein hin und her flatternder Schmetterling, 
ohne Sorge und Wunsch, eines Menschenwesens unbewusst. Plötzlich erwachte ich, und da lag ich, 
wieder ich selbst und weiß ich nicht war ich da ein Mensch, der träumte er sei ein Schmetterling, 
oder ein Schmetterling, der träumt er sei ein Mensch. Zwischen Mensch und Schmetterling ist eine 
Schranke, der Übergang ist Wanchel genannt.

[1971] Rainbow Band - Now is the Time

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Great US Acid Folk performed by The Rainbow Band. Although this is not the same as the Rainbow
Band (a.k.a. Midnight Sun) from Denmar, it's quite a mystery to me, why this LP didn't make it more
to the top than it actually did. This is the typical kind of "late-60s-krishna-sai-baba-cult-hippy-
commune-pot-smoking-meditating" album, like Sadhu Brand, Kali Bahlu, The Comfortable Chair etc.
... Groovy mind blown voices, singing about cosmic matters, let them take you away on a journey...

[1967] The Unfolding - Prana

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This is an extrem example of Kali Bahlu alike psychedelia. It takes your mind and put it into a garden
of joys, where sitar sounds fill the air, surround your mind and changes into sparkling colours..

[1970] Linda Perhacs - Chimacum Rain

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In 1970 Linda Perhacs created a wunderful album called "Parallelograms".
'Chimacum Rain' is only one of many awesome tunes on this LP. Soft psychedelia &
Acid Folk tingles along accompanied by trippy femal vocals and soft guitarplay. Enjoy!