The beginning of this terrific track could be like the soundtrack of a surreal and strange movie in the vein of Holy Mountain or El Topo. But for you all, who are familiar with psychedelic folk music, this will be tagged as freaky acid folk ;-). All in all you can compare this one to a mix of Hanna Tuuliki's Nalle and Susan Duncan-Smith's masterpiece for the soundtrack of Keoma. If you wondered, what this duo called "The Sun Also Rises" did on the rest of their debut, I think it's the best to quote my friend Mad Hatter's words: "The husband and wife duo from Cardiff have captured moods by patterns of sound and words. Totally influenced by the Incredible String Band, the album offers whimsical, acoustic acid folk, with weird, disjointed hippie lyrics about a fantasy world of mythological beings such as fairies, elves and dragons. It’s a charming period piece."
Georg Deuter established himself in the early 70's and is known to most of you for his involvment in the Krautrock genré. His early recordings are mostly built up of Acid Folk elements, eastern influences and experimental music. Today he is living in the staates and earns his money with recording meditation CD's that are related to practice and points of view teached by Osho. sadly those are the albums I can't get into. they consist of this "all-is-peaceful-and-happy-if-you-clean-this-ashram-and-visit-your-familiar-esoteric-shop-regularely-to-buy-new-age-stuff"-vibe. that doesn't mean necessarily that I think he is not authentic, but there is too much commerce about angels, tarot, gurus, ... these days it's maybe harder than ever to deal with this contents as there are too much dodgers and moneymakers out there. another issue of this new age scene is, that it's hard to dive deeper into the material by consuming all those goods that are praised to give you the "ultimate-enlightment-trip" ... you see, I'm very careful about stuff thats directly associated with this commerce. and it's probably the easiest to move out into the forest, climb a tree, prais mother earth, and be flashed by spirituality gleaming through the cosmos.
gladly this track is not as flat as the other ones he later did.... the album "D" where this song is taken from can be tagged as a real psychedelic record I think. a weird mix of Acid Folk, Psychedelic Rock and Experimental Jams will await you on it. so just forget about everything and let you take away by this swirl of mind expansion...
Paul Parrish released this song along with 11 others 1969 on his first LP "The Forest of My Mind". trancy Psychedelic Folk with sitar and Acid Folk influences. Sweet flute and dreamy lyrics. If you enjoy this track, than check out the rest of the album here(with dllink). greetings, amadeus :)!
Jan & Lorraine are a British duo (Jan Hendin and Lorraine Lefevrereleased), that released this song on their 1969 album "Gypsy People". Sitar and a mix of british acid folk and american psychedelic folk with those sweet female voices. It's great and I would say, enjoy it, go out in nature and let it play again in your mind and connect with the universe, ... greetings, amadeus :)
this song was released 1967 on the album "Happens". It has something mystical, it's a mix of acid folk, psychedelic folk and cosmic. Sounds like a fairytale from far magic lands. Enjoy! greetings, amadeus :)
In 1967/68, Big Jim Sullivan from the Middlesex, UK managed to record three very groovy Sitar albums. Sadly this was not meant to hold on. He played as a session-musician and did every sucking job he could get. Well, he played for the Hermint's Hermint's and the Kinks in studio, but it looks like that was only a job for him, nothing a idealist would be happy with. So it came that he even played 9 years for James Last, what is really strange while thinking back of those three first Sitar-Psych LP's. Anyway, this song is just a damn good piece of Acid Folk, enjoy!
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!
Soft Acid Folk with a mystic feeling floating into your mind. Enjoy a sunday afternoon in the Garden Of Delights. Well, the title is saing it already. Enjoy! greetings, amadeus :)
as promised, the second side of the single "Jabberwocky/Which Dreamed It" (Parlophone R 5696, A - May 1968). This one sounds not as the other song, it's really fine acid folk. Sitar, flute, water and soft male voices, sounding a bit like Amber. well, I just can say, get that song and the single, listen to it and fall into a deep trip in mind! Get it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XTYTAK4D
Enjoy! greetings, amadeus :)
"Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup was the mastermind of Sam Hutt (later; Hank Wangford - more info's...), known by the British sixties counterculture as a "rock & roll doctor" who administered to musicians and practiced homeopathy and holistic medicine. He also dealt with drug casualties at rock festivals." ~"Tapestry of Delights Revisited by Vernon Joynson
about 4 years ago, I started this blog with the intention to share psychedelic art with all of you, adding some thoughts here and there, recommend some stuff, ... Yet it have been only songs - (mostly) - that I posted. For the future I'm planning A.) to post more regularely, B.) also to post video's/trailers/etc., psychedelic visual arts/drawings/so called digital-art (photo-"manipultion" etc.), introducing artists and performers C.) I'm also planning to post news about my two projects; my record label for Psych Rock & Acid Folk, called "Merlins Nose Records" and my shop "Surreal Peppermint Store", which is dedicated to supply you with "Psychedelic Delights for Body and Mind"!
Since a lot of mp3's are down and I have to re-upload them again, I will try to post one new post per week and restore one of the old posts and adding them to the top.
I'm excited to get this blog more active and I'm also glad about every feedback I do get on topics or whatever...
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...
Well, a great song, released 1969 on the album "Sound Of Sunforest". just listen to the lyrics. Great female voices, mied with wonderful acid folk. Enjoy! greetings, amadeus :)
After he left shool with 17, he travelled to Italy planning to study there. Two years later his debut was released with a Barabajagal-like cover art. "The Witch" combines Mark Fry's Songwriting with raga-sitar-grooves, flute and sweet drums. An Acid Folk masterpiece!
While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973's privately pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up No Mirrored Temple. (~Clear-Spot)
well, Klaus der Geiger is just great! I saw him live once at the Burg Herzberg Festival. "Flughafen Wahn" is a fantastic piece of Acid Folk! just listen to it. Enjoy!
Lyrics:
Die Wader Heide, ein Stück Natur, in ihrer Art einmalig nur
mit Wassertümpeln und Baumgiganten, fast schon ausgestorbenen Tieren und Pflanzen
Ein Lebenselexier, für Mensch und für Tier
und in ihrer Mitte ein Krebsgeschwühr
Der Flughafen Wahn, mit einem gigantischen Ausbauplan
Weils keiner weiß, machts auch keinen heiß
nämlich, das der Flughafen immerzu am wachsen ist
und, das er nicht nur die Wader Heide frisst, sonder auch DICH und MICH, ha!
Und wir merken es nicht
Pressekonferenz an der Landebahn
ein Luxusliner Bus kommt da an
mit Journalisten vollgepackt
da stehen sie und warten, was der Herr Oberförster sagt
der Herr Oberförster sagt: "Naja, blabla,
Flugsicherheit, alles klar, blabla, wunderbar."
Er will ja nur seinen Job nicht verlieren,
dann lieber weg mit Bäumen und Tieren
die Journalisten stehen rum und schreiben und frieren
und warten auf das Essen, denn das wir ihnen die Flughafengesellschaft bestimmt im Anschluss danach servieren, ha!
Doch da stehn wir und lassen nicht zu, das Pflanzen und Tiere an diesem Flughafen Wahn krepiern!
Und siehe da, da entpuppen sich zwei graue Herrn, ha
als zuständig für Flughafenausbau und Flughafenlärm
und diese Herrn grinsen ins Fernsehn entsinnt
und sprechen mit Hohn, "wir vertreten hier die Meinung von Jährlich Dreimillionen"
nämlich all den jenigen, die nach Mallorca chatten
all denen, die ohne Erdbeeren im Winter womöglich verfetten, ha
"jetzt geht ihr Protestler mal hübsch wieder nach haus,
wir bauen den Flughafen in jedem Fall aus.
Wir werden gewinnen, ihr werdet verlieren,
denn euch hilft niemand und uns hilft die Schmiere
Wir werden gewinnen, ihr werdet verlieren,
denn euch hilft niemand und uns hilft die Schmiere"
Wer wird gewinnen, ganz zuletzt,
wenn das Ozonloch wächst und wächst
wenn nur noch Werbung dich regiert
und du den Appetit verlierst,
auf wahre Lebensqualität,
dann ist es irgendwann mal zuspät,
für uns Menschen hier auf Erden,
für DICH und MICH
denn die Natur, die Natur,
die braucht uns Menschen nicht
John and Philipa Cooper came from Johannesburg in South Africa. But they were not alone, ... Julian Laxton (lead guitar), Art de Villiers (acoustic guitar), Bob Hill (bass), Werner Krupski (keyboards), Francesco (fiddle), Ivor Back (drums), Rory Blackwell (tambourine) helped them out, so they had a nice band together. to categorize their music, I would propose to call it droney acid folk. Someone is playing sitar and robust bass lines are holding the trancy vocals and the psychedelic organ.
"The Inner Sounds of the Id" is an ablum compareable to "How To Blow Your Mind & Have A Freak Out Party" by the Unfolding. The album features Westcoast Hippie Psychedelic Rock as well as hindu/eastern influenced Acid Folk. Both records are milestones, even if they are quite unknown to a lot of people that are into that kind of music. So if you never listened to one of them, it's time now to do so!
Clive's Original Band's first album is including this mystic acid folk track. All in all I can recommend their debut more than their 2nd album. The first one "is not as polished as the next and is also a more intimate work" (~comusduke)
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!
The cover doesn't look like what is inside! Flying trough the desert, a sitar on your fold, riding in coloured clouds of acid fog. One of the finest Psych Folk I ever heared! you can download the complete album on Dr. Schluss' Garage Of Psychedelic Obscurities. Enjoy! greetings, amadeus :)
