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The Bleu Forest - Ichiban Live At Jimmie's (1967 us, exciting rough garage...

I’m betting most of you have heard the Bleu Forest’s “A Thousand Trees Deep,” which was issued in 2016 on the Golden Pavilion label. Initially recorded in 1968, the disc duly renewed interest in the...

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rep> Mouzakis - Magic Tube (1965-73 us, stunning raw garage psych with rhythm...

Mouzakis were an East coast basement garage psych group and this is their full LP from 1971. The band started with R&B rock standards, adapted on its way bits of rock’n roll, early rock, and...

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Raw Material - Raw Material (1970 uk, exceptional prog psych bluesy rock,...

Not many may remember Raw Material, an early British prog band who, along with similar groups like Cressida and Spring, helped shape the sound of the legends that were shortly to follow. Perhaps...

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Don Cooper - Howlin' At The Moon (1969-73 us, fascinating groovy jazzy folk...

Laden with sunshine soaked melodies, round-the-campfire guitars, troubadour vocals and hip hop beats, despite being recently sampled by the likes of hip hop giants MC Search and Dilated Peoples, Don...

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rep> The Eyes - The Arrival Of The Eyes (1965-66 uk, great cult mod beat...

Who would have guessed that terrific undiscovered talent lurked behind the rising sun stained-glass windows of the green-fronted doors of Ealing? Who indeed! But Ealing was pretty much like any other...

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Tony Kelly - I Never Got (1973 uk, elegant folk soft rock with funk and jazz...

Released in 1975 as the second work of British singer-songwriter Tony Kelly, who released a total of three albums. What is similar to his debut work is that it shows high-quality musicality with the...

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Bob Hughes - My Old Man (1976 uk, nice folk rock, 2011 korean remaster)

My Old Man is the first release of Bob Hughes, a great musician and singer/songwriter. It was recorded in only one session of 12 hours - two sessions for the The Kids Are Ok!, with the help of the...

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Help - Help (1970 us, outstanding folk psych jam rock, 2021 korean remaster)

The pleasures of record collecting aren’t always obvious. Some albums avoid the shop-front glare to modestly wait in a gloomy rack, whispering anecdotes like Dostoevsky said happens in forgotten...

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Valdy - Country Man (1972 canada, awesome folk country rock, 2020 korean...

Valdy, was born of Danish parents, in 1946 as Valdemar Horsdal in Ottawa.  He began his career playing guitar in rock and country groups. In 1966 he made his home in British Columbia, where he farmed...

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Thomas Jefferson Kaye - Thomas Jefferson Kaye (1973 us, marvelous blend of...

Thomas Jefferson Kaye was a bit of a prodigy. Born in North Dakota, by the age of 18 he was already in New York working for the record label Scepter as an A&R man. In next to no time he was...

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The Countdown 5 - Complete Recordings (1965-69 us, garage beat rock, r 'n' b,...

Members of the Galveston Bay, Texas’ rock scene of the middle to late 1960’s, The Countdown 5 were part owners of the renowned Houston recording studio Andrus Productions, where producer Walter Andrus...

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Help - Second Coming (1971 us, impressive hard classic rock with spirituals...

Help were a Christian power trio from California that included future Doobie Brothers drummer Chet McCracken. They released an excellent self-titled album for Decca in 1970, the style of which was very...

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Burnt Suite - Burnt Suite (1972 us, misty rural stoner psych acid rock, 2023...

Growing up in Canton, Connecticut was an ideal out in the country type of town. Like a lot of kids during that period, Isaw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, heard all the girls screaming, and...

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The 21st Century Sound Movement - 21st Century Sound Movement (1969 us, fine...

The 21st Century Sound Movement where four youngsters from Missouri, consisting of two brothers Terry and Jack Viles, together with Bill O'Malley and Ray Bahr. In late 1968 (short after the recording...

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Diamondback - Diamondback (1974 us, fantastic blues brass rock, 2008 remaster)

In the midst of the uncertainty in the future of McKenna-Mendelson Mainline, band members McKenna and Nolasco put together this side project supergroup which also featured Scott “Professor Piano”...

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Boogie - In Freak Town (1968-69 us, tough raw bluesy psych rock, 2020 release)

Power trio from San Francisco, modeled after Cream, Blue Cheer or The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Includes all their fantastic studio demos from 1968 plus raw and wild live tracks from 1969. Boogie (or...

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rep> The Mourning Dayze - Lost Recordings (1967 us, rough garage psych, 2007...

Mourning Dayze was born on August 9,1965 in Whitewater, Wisconsin. The band's original name was "The Coachmen," but later when they discovered there was another band with the same name, the guys...

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Various Artists - Lost Innocence Garpax (1965-68 us, splendid garage psych,...

Top-rated West Coast garage sounds from the vaults of maverick genius Gary S Paxton. Acknowledged classics, tantalising obscurities and several previously unheard gems, all from the original master...

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Influence - Influence (1968 canada, awesome psych rock, 2010 remaster)

The Influence was one of the most fascinating bands to emerge from Canada during the ‘60s. The group’s rich diversity of styles was a result of the group members’ wide range of musical backgrounds and...

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Fragile - Fragile (1976 holland, stunning melt of hard rockin' funky boogie...

Fragile was an obscure band that played a heavy, twin guitar rock. They choose this name as a tribute to the band Yes, who had released an album by the same name. The music of Fragile is not unlike...

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