psychedelic
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A perfect album for our alternate reality, filled with alternative facts. In a perfect world there would be lines upon lines of information out there written on Naoki Asai’s アバ・ハイジ (Aber Heidschi). Unfortunately, in our imperfect world all we have is one (!!!) brave blog post even attempting to suss out what in the world Naoki Asai…
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Tyrannosaurus Rex – Steve and Marc Some of us will always see artists a certain way. For example, I’ll always think of David Bowie not as the miming artist he started out his career being, but as THE artistic mime we now know him as. I know people always see Marc Bolan as the pint…
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Pink Floyd – 1967 I know the title of this post is really supposed to suggest one specific track, in this case its Pink Floyd’s “Scarecrow”, but in my full view, the feel of the track encapsulates a certain twisted folk being created in 1967, under the guise of psychedelia. Before the Incredible String Band’s…
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The Beatles – 1967 The track of the day is the very unknown single “Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane” from a cult band called the Beatles. Joking aside, what pray tell makes this track so important in the grand scheme of English neo-folk music I’m trying to delineate? Well, if you remember the groundbreaking folk rock…
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The Outsiders Years before the MC5 or the Stooges planted the seeds of American proto-punk, and a couple of years after the Sonics and the Monks helped create garage rock, a couple of Dutch boys had already created music that went beyond proto-anything and issued a heavy statement defying any type of categorization. Helmed by…
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Erkin Koray – 1974 Humor me for a bit more. I’m digging through rare grooves. Mostly of musicians who charted their own course, creating genres not from the ether but through their own push to modernize older traditions. Another great artist in this vein is Istanbul-born Turk, Erkin Koray and his song “Hele Yar” from…
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The following tracks of the day before Thursday are all preludes to my full out month long dive into Brazilian music. I say this because my track of the day Captain Beyond’s “Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Time Since Come and Gone)” touches on something I’ve been worried about. I sometimes wonder where all the great…
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My pick for the day is a track off Donovan’s “A Gift From a Flower to a Garden” album. As a listener whose normally so averse to twee music…I always have to admit a profound love for Donovan’s music because it stays just this side of that line. This double album was released to wide…
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