New/Improved PROG/KRAUT/SPACE/PSYCH ROCK Listening Club - New albums every Friday!

looks like we got a good lineup!

i better make sure the one i'm thinking of wasn't featured last time around! that would be embarrasking

dont think it matters. it was what 3 or 4 years ago?

true, and in any case it wasn't mentioned. looking forward to it!

the funk/soul/black acid rock/jazz-funk club will be relaunched monday btw if anyone wants to volunteer for it

I've been excited about and researching Rock In Opposition bands a lot lately, especially stuff like Art Zoyd, Univers Zero and Present; tonight I stumbled upon mention of a documentary called Romantic Warriors II: About Rock In Opposition. I'm amazed I've heard nothing about this before, I had been thinking weeks ago that a film about this would be a great thing and it actually exists! The reviews sound promising and I'm looking forward to getting it.

Then I see the first film is about current mostly American bands with some Mexican, Italian and Japanese thrown in, and I've only heard of 3 of the bands (Cheer Accident, Deluge Grander, Phideaux). From the trailers I'm more sceptical of some of these bands. But I'd like to see it too.

The third film is a concert of current Rock In Opposition bands. Has anyone here been to the RIO concerts?

The site has plenty of trailers and options for buying.
http://www.progdocs.com/Progdocs.com/Home.html

anyway - to talk about this Magma comp - many of these tracks seem to be not taken from the studio versions, so that's definitely a plus!

Klaus Kombalad! I could have used about 4 times the length on that one.

Sign me up!

done!

08/30 -- AG
09/06 -- DaM
09/13 -- frogbs
09/20 -- balls
09/27 -- ZS
10/04 -- dronestreet

I wonder what Mr. Goalie will put up for us to listen to tomorrow.
Note: you can post it Friday *your time* so if it's Friday where you live put 'er up.

http://i.imgur.com/XNsR9Rs.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/141Ss6mGivtZpTMt4eN4Q8
spotify:album:141Ss6mGivtZpTMt4eN4Q8

Review by Rolf Semprebon [-]

Cottonwoodhill is one of the trippiest records ever made, capturing the intensity of the peak LSD experience far more successfully than any Timothy Leary recording, and even today, when many such documents from that era can sound silly and dated, Brainticket's fascinating debut still holds hallucinogenic potency. The record has only two proper songs, "Black Sand" and "Places of Light," with a side and a half of the album taken up by the three-part "Brainticket." "Black Sand" opens the disc with a driving funk beat and powerful organ and guitar interplay, adding in vocals distorted beyond coherency. "Places of Light" begins in a slightly lighter vein as a flute leads the proceedings, a looser jazzier piece that throws in some of Dawn Muir's odd spoken word vocals. Before one realizes what has happened, the piece has faded out and there is suddenly a crashing sound, car horns, and engines starting up. "Brainticket" is a bizarre roller coaster ride through weird sound effects and electronics, an endless organ riff, and Muir's acid-rush ramblings from hushed whisper to urgent screams, as any coherency she had earlier becomes lost to mind-expanding visions. Rather than the laid-back mellow groove of some psychedelic music from this era, Cottonwoodhill has a hyper energy in the frenetic organ riff and Muir's voice, like an acid trip out of control, while at times the various sound effects take over completely.

Oh man I love this album! Excellent choice.

yup, this is a good one and it's been a while.

can you put me down for a week, viceroy?

you got it!

09/06 -- DaM
09/13 -- frogbs
09/20 -- balls
09/30 -- ZS
10/06 -- dronestreet
10/13 -- Alan N

forget some of those earlier dates I was looking at my calendar wrong.

thanks!

How do I get in on this?

I have a recommendation or two which some might like.

Also, how far can we stretch the definition of prog/kraut/space/psych rock? Because I have some which throw in some folk in there, as well.

just request a week, it'll be late next month so you have plenty of time to decide on an album. Then on Friday, post the name of it, with a picture possibly a little blurb about it if you can find it. If you don't use spotify that's ok, we can post the spotify link. If the full album is up on youtube you can post the link to that.

As far as stretching the definition... I am very flexible, straight up "folk" probably doesn't fit but if it's 'out there' with sound effects/long complicated passages/prominent synthesizer passages then I think it fits just fine.

Do you want a go?

Anyway though, to talk about the album this week -- man I love how the vocalist shouts stuff out in this kind of scared/tense way, and says contradictory stuff, like "Stop! No! YES!! Of course not, of course you can..." etc, like she's responding to stuff during a really heavy acid trip or something. It's kinda creepy but totally awesome.

Dawn Muir. She rules.

Coming soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtwJSAEh7Uc

Sorry to crash in. Just sharing. Please carry on as you were :)

nice choice AG, need to listen to that more. I would like a week please!

This is one of the few real psychedelic freak out albums that actually wound up being as insane as the description makes it sound. I wonder how much of Muir's ranting and raving was scripted, it's just so totally ridiculous and almost terrifying, like you'd think after the recording she went straight to the hospital (or the loony bin!)

Can't say I could listen to this often (that groove does kick some ass though), but it's definitely a singularity

I listen to it a lot actually.

Uh, sacrilege I know, but the vocals are what put me off this otherwise very fine recording!

i like the nurse with wound cover with jim foetus on vocals.

Braintickets please!

Cottonwoodhill = so f'in rad!

Thanks for reminding me about Brainticket

Oh, Muir's ranting/raving is totally scripted to me

Yeah, it's all a bit Home Counties am dram, though tbf, the Radio 4 continuity announcer accent doesn't help.

The material that most of the players on taht lp cut as Toad is pretty great too. I'm not sure if I've heard any of the other Brainticket stuff, have heard it was more spacerocky though I think. So neither party actually makes music exactly similar to that elsewhere. Quite a good combination on there though.

Well Brainticket is really just Joel Vandroogenbroeck (sp?) and whoever else he's playing with at the time

OK, I'm tuning in. Could I have a week?

So I was really into the first couple of songs on the Brainticket album but this is starting to feel a little interminable when they're just repeating this one riff. Admittedly, I'm listening on laptop speakers while unpacking so I'll reserve final judgment until I can listen on better headphones or speakers.

09/06 -- DaM
09/13 -- frogbs
09/20 -- balls
09/27 -- ZS
10/04 -- dronestreet
10/11 -- Alan N
10/18 -- Sund4r

hope I finally got the dates right this time.

Sund4r- Headphones are great for this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjw6jEPgSHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT3E2iWjVyw

Since Drugs A. Money hasn't turned up how about asking Drugs B. Money to take his shot?

Good idea! Drugs? You around?

Sorry about forgetting! I cant do this until tomorrow morning

But I have an album picked out and can get to it then...

Cool!

OK, Brainticket is sounding a WHOLE lot better on headphones.

Mine is gonna veer more drone/freak rather than prog/kraut, but it still fits I think....

And wow, that was great, actually. And that was just on mediocre headphones. Now I'm eager to listen to this with my good headphones after I set up my audio interface. I like the theatrical 'scripted' nature of the vocals: it's a great performance imo. In a weird way, it actually made me think a little bit of some of Crass's stuff that came later. But, more obviously, the influence of 60s sound collage stuff is handled well, I think.

Glad this thing is a thing again (the new listening club).

Where are the download links??

How do you listen to spotify without signing up? I am not a facebook user.

well, the album I wanted to pick out--Angus MacLise's The Invasion of Thunderblt Pagoda--is not available on Spotify, or on Grooveshark, and apparently Grooveshark has fallen victim to both the social networking format and current insane copyright issues, and it's v risky business to just upload shit to it now, or at least so it seems...album is way cool tho and worth checking out; lots of acid trip flutes and bongos

so here is an album on Spotify that is really cool too that a few people on here may not know, even though I discovered it from the whole John Peel's record collection exhibit or w/e

C.A. Qunitet - Trip Thru Hell

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S5Fy7tmHhso/UbTGJ5cw5fI/AAAAAAAAAC0/ehEjR8wL1ac/s320/C.A+Quintet.jpg

can somebody help me out with the Spotify links?

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(For Michael B)

Lol sorry nm

awww i thought this had been revived to start over again

Lmao no...my bad, folks

Shall we?

yes

The youtube algorithm came through with this French band Meule, two drummers + guitarist/modular dude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnvJVKw7xCc

I too latched on to that North Sea Radio Orchestra album.