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Tag: rock music

09/08/2019 nausika

The Big Adventure: a trip that’s anything but big or adventurous

Disen Gage, The Big Adventure, Russia, [addicted label] / NoNames666, CD cat #733 (2019) Celebrating 20 years making mostly instrumental

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24/05/2019 nausika

Masana Temples: fluffy kosmische retro-1970s kitsch psychedelic rock pop all the way

Kikagaku Moyo, Masana Temples, The Netherlands, Guruguru Brain, vinyl LP / CD (2018) As you can see, the cover art

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27/04/2019 nausika

PTOOFF! – an album a decade ahead of its time still has the power to sting

The Deviants, PTOOFF!, United Kingdom, Underground Impresarios, vinyl LP IMP1 (1967) If you didn’t know anything at all about The

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10/04/2019 nausika

One Day: an ordinary mellow soft rock album like any other, by an otherwise classy psych-rock guitarist

Hideki Ishima, One Day, Propeller, vinyl JDX-7010 (1973) Best known as lead guitarist (and later sitarist) for the cult Japanese

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06/04/2019 Ed Pinsent

Enter The Treehouse

Contemporary rock music from Trees Speak on their debut release Trees Speak (CINEDELIC RECORDS CNTS 1.2)…the band is mostly guitarist,

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02/04/2019 nausika

Dark Side of the Moon: a gentle if dark and depressive UK ’70s psych folk rock album

Medicine Head, Dark Side of the Moon, United Kingdom, Dandelion Records, LP 2310 166 (1972) British 1970s blues folk band

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13/03/2019 nausika

Parachute: disillusionment results from city flight to the country

The Pretty Things, Parachute, United Kingdom, Harvest, vinyl LP SHVL 774 (1970) After the commercial failure of “S.F. Sorrow” and

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12/03/2019 nausika

Iijanaika: a patchy effort from a pioneer Japanese ’60s psychedelic rock band

The Mops, Iijanaika, Toshiba Liberty, vinyl LP LTP-9025 (1970) Founded in 1966 by high-school students, Japan’s The Mops originally were

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05/03/2019 nausika

S.F. Sorrow: a significant if underrated historical music document of its time

The Pretty Things, S.F. Sorrow, United Kingdom, Columbia (EMI), vinyl LP SX6306 (December 1968) In case people haven’t already noticed,

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02/03/2019 nausika

Out of Uranus: neither from the heavens above nor the nether regions below but from Planet Ordinary

Killing Floor, Out of Uranus, Italy, Akarma Records, vinyl AK232 (reissued 2002) At least the album cover is a very

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