Anyone's Dreamcolour - Opel Opera - Dadaistische Oper in 3 Akten (GER. 1994) REPOST

When I started this little blog here, one of the first posts was "Rosemarine", an excerpt from the LOFI- PSYCH-DADA-OPERA "OPEL OPERA - Dadaistische Oper in 3 Akten" by ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR, the homemade lofi psychedelic project of Mike S. (from ORANGE and earlier CLOUD NINE & THE VITAMIN C – two bands most of the regular blog readers here will probably know by now). Postings of "IT'S SO COLD OUT HERE IN SPACE" (1996) and "ACID DAZE" (1992) followed recently. Today it's time for ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR's third major work.

So now here it is: the complete thing in all its glorious lofi madness. What you get to hear (that is: if you dare) is a strange sound collage of various styles, ranging from spacy blues rock to hard rock snippets, experimental kraut psychedelia mixed with typewriter and radio noises, dog snarling and saxophone improvisations. There also is a theme ("Opel Opera Main Theme") that is repeated in different variations (reminding of ZAPPA's "Uncle Meat" concept), one time for example played as a pseudo reggae (Jamacian Opel") and another time in a mean grunge parody, DINOSAUR-JR.-style ("Dinosaur Opel").
This "Opera music" uses indeed all kind of different sounds, often in collage format, using every usable source imaginable. The lyrics are a mix of bad english, german and sheer dadaist nonsense. All songs were recorded in Mike's living room (see front cover!) on anaolog-4-track recorder in the time span of November 1992 'til June 1994.
A word about the Opera ... "concept": Go and sell back the painted Opel car ("Opel" is a well known car series built in Germany) to the factory and throw the keyboard player out of the band... (Well, make of that whatever you will...)
(In order to keep the flow of the music and to avoid unwelcome splits between tracks, I joined together some of the songfragments, when converting the audio tracks into mp3s.)

ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR - OPEL OPERA (Dadaistische Oper in 3 Akten) (1994)
(mp3 zip, 36 min, 16 tracks, art and lyrics incl.)
(Get it here!)

The Vertigo Swirl - reversible (USA 2018)

Yes – they did it again!
Our old friends THE VERTIGO SWIRL have a new album on offer! Check it out!
Released: March 12, 2018
Sounds by Brian Andrew Marek and Michael Allen Thompson
plus Dominic Schaeffer (saxes, loops & effects on 3)
& Drea Busch (vocals on 4).

THE VERTIGO SWIRL's new, all-instrumental album, now available as a digital download with a limited edition cassette version coming soon.
 
Bandcamp here!

The Kadeem Ward Project: Dilemma Of Dispersal & Aging (Or A Continuum To Departure) (2015)

Here is what a guy called Kadeem sent me:

I'm a 23 year old solo artist residing in Barbados, an island in the Caribbean where the music created is often discredited and undervalued.

My latest full-length can be heard via these links:
https://musicbykadeemward.bandcamp.com/album/dilemma-of-dispersal-aging-or-a-continuum-to-departure
Or
http://youtu.be/5Sik-_iQrJU

I encourage you to take the time to listen to what I have to offer, as I believe you may very well be intrigued.

Regards,
Kadeem

If you like improvised long psychedelic rock sessions, you should have a listen.


My favourite track is:

3. Glaciated Sama-Bajau Beacon (Vision II) 37:08 

Enjoy!

Rangers - Phuong (Video) (USA 2014)

My favourite track from the recent RANGERS album:
More video stuff here!

Bleedstone - Glitch (Video)

New video for Bleedstone's closing track off of the debut album "Far From Gone" (2009)

Rangers - Session Man (USA 2014)

RANGERS from Texas has a new album out on bandcamp for streaming or purchase.

As the older blog readers probably will remember I'm a big fan of RANGERS' work, especially his early, quite lofi collage recordings (still available here on HLFP).
This new release Session Man is much more structured but still excellent and simply beautiful. And it still has that special guitar sound that I enjoy so much.

If you don't know RANGERS yet you should really check him out. If you do know him already you surely will do so anyway.

Enjoy!
And support the artists featured on HLFP!

Here are a couple of YouTube-videos:
Check 'em out here!

RE-UP by Request: Captain Fartfish And His Careful Muffins - Live, Woodstöckchen 1987 (GER.)

CAPTAIN FARTFISH AND HIS CAREFUL MUFFINS was a psychedelic jam band from Germany, operating between 1987 and 1989 in the Odenwald area near Darmstadt. The three man band was heavily influenced by ZAPPA (especially Zappa's guitar playing – and also his humor), CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND (around his most experimental phase, 1969) and Free Rock/Free Jazz (in the mood of early GURU GURU for example).

What makes this band so special is the excellent guitar playing of both Holger B. and Daniel P. Caesar (later SUPERKING & THE FIRE ACTION, ORANGE among others). It's most of the time quite heavy (the brilliant "Shotokan") and/or very experimental ("Little Insects...", "... Deep Sea Fish").

Another weapon especially for this gig here was the trombone played in an unnerving Free-Jazz-CAPTAIN BEEFHEART-style ("The Captain Whips It Out"...).

The Woodstöckchen (= Little Woodstock) was a small (private party) underground festival, May 1987, in some vineyards near Heppenheim an der Bergstraße. Imagine an improvised stage in front of a small crowd of chatty stoned local freaks in the sunshine and you will get the picture...

Captain Fartfish And His Careful Muffins -

Live, Woodstöckchen 1987

(mp3 zip, 9 tracks, 90,4 MB, 66 min)

1. Little Insects Flying Around My Head - 12.58

2. Little Bakery I Used To Live In - 2.56

3. Shotokan - 6.43

4. Sharleena - 5.53

5. The Fartfish Is A Deep Sea Fish - 10.21

6. The Boring Old Fart Blues - 8.13

7. The Captain Whips It Out - 8.58

8. Some Stupid Pawn - 3.27

9. Playing Trombone In A French Café - 6.18

GET IT HERE! (New link December 2014)

Entropicodone - 2014 - Saeta Flow (USA)

Fantastic new experimental drone-psych-noise by Lucas Kane of BLEEDSTONE fame recorded as:

Entropicodone - 2014 - Saeta Flow (USA)

1. Heat Sap 02:53 

2. Ox Greed 06:51

3. Conque 00:38 

4. Air Seine 04:00

5. Velvet Drift 03:20 

(mp3-Zip @320, 5 tracks)

Get it here!

"This kind of thing works when you turn the lights down." 

Recorded live at Sadaprost in Athens, GA 

Download all videos and albums for free. 

https://entropicodone.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/entropicodone/sets
www.facebook.com/entropicodone 
http://soundcloud.com/entropicodone 
https://www.youtube.com/user/EntropicSpore/videos


credits:
released 08 November 2014 

Produced and Recorded by Lucas Kane 

Lucas Kane - Guitar 
Scott Crossman - Bass 

entropicodone@gmail.com

RE-UP: some INTERPRETACE (Czech)

A new video by INTERPRETACE - Recorded at Basement studio, Pavlovice, Liberec 16th May 2014.

RE-UP by request: some old INTERPRETACE music from the 80ies posted earlier.



Avantgarde improvised industrial no wave sounds, that will blow your mind!

1: INTERPRETACE - MC (198?), see original post here.
Get it here or here or here!
2: INTERPRETACE - GARAZ (1981), see original post here.
Get it here or here or here!
3: INTERPRETACE - HANNIBAAL (lost & found tapes from the eighties 1).
See original post here!
Get it here or here or here!

4: INTERPRETACE - CHAPEL live 198?, (lost & found tapes from the eighties 2).
See original post here.
Get it here or here or here!
Enjoy!

Thanks again to Richard Charvat for making all this great music available.


More INTERPRETACE here.

http://interpretace.ic.cz/

RE-UP: Rangers - Homemade Cassette Collages III (USA 2009)

Homemade cassette collage: "For the lack of a better title I entitled this track: 'Concorde breakfast - Audio decadence for enlightened jetsetters'" (Rangers)

Enjoy!

http://www.myspace.com/rangerzz

RANGERS - Homemade 

Cassette Collages III (USA 2009)

(1 mp3 track, 28 min, 24,8 MB)

Concorde breakfast - Audio decadence for enlightened jetsetters (27.20)

Get it here!

RE-POST: Orange - Industrial Acid Punk Rock (Live Bootleg 1994-96) (GER)

I already posted some material by this German psychedelic rock/grunge band, that existed between 1993 and 1997, and will do so in the future. Why? Because I really like that stuff.

ORANGE mainly played in the Rhein Main area around Frankfurt a. M. and also did some festivals/open airs in that region and also in south Germany - to mixed responses. They baffled quite a lot of people with their unique sound/style mixture (grunge, free style improvisation, krautrock, psych-folk, psychedelic rock, minimalistic avantgarde music...). ORANGE built themselves a small follower fan base with their always surprising live gigs (not a great number of people, but it was ok for a start). No two concerts were the same, and so one never knew what to expect from the band.

ORANGE also once won the second prize at some kind of "battle of the bands" contest with some hundred bands competitioning in Mainz at the OPEN OHR FESTIVAL in the final round. The interview segment (track 6) is about that competition, where ORANGE played - of all things - a shortened (!) 20 minutes version of "Neil's Elevator".

This live collection here features the more experimental pieces of the band with the flashlight on ORANGE's most avantgarde project, the minimalistic track "Rockwork Orange", that followed an acid punk version of"Magic Spell" (read more about the history and the many variations of that song here).

This version of "Rockwork Orange" is a composite version from two different gigs, with the long middle section coming from the debut performance of "Rockwork Orange" from Frankfurt's "Dreikönigskeller". After 40 minutes the tape run out, while the song lasted for over 60 minutes. The story goes like this:

"In the 'Dreikönigskeller' we first played a normal set with some more or less simple rock songs and then wanted to end the gig with our minimalistic piece 'Rockwork Orange'. The original idea was to play the same riff over and over again until everybody in the audience left the room or the power was cut off by the club owner - however long that might take. But most of the people in the audience really got into us and were digging what we were doing - you can hear some ecstatic screams every 15 minutes or so from some guys in the audience - and the club owner also liked what we did and even contributed on the mixing desk adding spontaniously some effects. So it all ended that we played the same riff for over 60 minutes until we called it quitts... It was indeed a very special experience for both, audience and band. Very trance like and very far out." (Mike S. 2009)

"Rockwork Orange" was played live on view occasions, but never that long again and more often in a more 'traditional' way with the guitar doing some noise solo instead of monotoniously repeating the same riff over and over again.

"He Came To Me One Morning" was improvised on the spot and is a good example of the more free style jamming ORANGE.

"25 Ways" and "Yawning" are some kind of organized improvisations, more in song format.

More ORANGE stuff is still available for download here.

Enjoy!

ORANGE - Industrial Acid Punk Rock 
(Live Bootleg 1994-98)

(mp3 zip, 6 tracks, 73 min, 99,6 MB, artwork for slimcase incl.)

1. 25 Ways - 4.38

2. Magic Spell - 4.38 ->

3. Rockwork Orange (Composite Version) - 44.49

4. Yawning - 8.44

5. He Came To Me One Morning (Jam) - 7.39

6. SWF 3 Radio Interview (incl. fragments of Neil's Elevator) - 1.49

Get it here!

RE-POST: The Vertigo Swirl (USA 2009)

BRIAN ANDREW MAREK's first release by his psychedelic project with the name THE VERTIGO SWIRL from 2009. A great album!
Grab it now, if you missed it the first time around!

BaM: "Well, here it is - the first product of my new psychedelic project, THE VERTIGO SWIRL. Three songs and two instrumentals, all recorded by my lonesome in December and these first days of January. Thank you to Mike Floyd and all the artists on the homemade lofi psych blog for inspiring me to get off my butt and do some new experimental recordings."

The three tracks in song format presented here are nice explorations in psych pop, but the real treat are the two instrumental tracks: "Baited Breath" is a very far out soundscape psych song complete with backward guitars and sitar like sounds that (except for the drum sound) could easily come from a 1967 album. This is the kind of song I could listen endlessly... The second instrumental track, the title song "The Vertigo Swirl", is another, more krauty, psychedelic masterpiece, that comes along as a mixture of the echo-ey guitar sounds of early 70s experimental German guitar player ACHIM REICHEL ("Die grüne Reise") or MANUEL GÖTTSCHING's mid-70s ASH RA ("Inventions for Electric Guitar") and CAPTAIN BEEFHEART's early rhythmic experimentations ("Mirror Man Sessions"). With 22.47 minutes not one second too long! GREAT!

All we can say is: Wham bam, thank you BaM!

You'll also find one very psychedelic track by BRIAN ANDREW on the HLFP-Sampler (# 03): 
"NEW KIDS ON THE BLOG".

The Vertigo Swirl (2009)

(mp3-zip, 5 tracks, 93.1 MB, 43 min, artwork incl.)

Get it here!

Voyageurs - Trigrams (USA 2010)

I know, it's been quite some time since I posted something new ... well, in fact in this case not that new, since it was first released in 2010, but "new" in the meaning of: not a repost of older stuff already posted before on HLFP.
Enjoy!

VOYAGEURS - TRIGRAMS (USA 2010)

(mp3-zip, 8 tracks, 107 MB, 46 min)

Get it here or here or here!

Q: Where exactly are you from? 
A: Fayetteville, Arkansas

Q: Do you want your real names mentioned? If so: What are your real names? 
A: We don't want to show our real names

Q: Who involved? Who played what? 
A: Donovan on vox/guitar, Rat Stephens on bass, Jimmy Spice on drums, Stevie Lee on tambourine, and Lord Neil on keys/guitar. Jimmy Spice moved to the blues capital of the world (memphis) to pursue his Stevie Ray Vaughn cover band. Stickey Nix plays drums on our new song Envy is Inevitable

Q: How recorded? 
A: Some of it was recorded with a usb mic, but "nude vegas" was recorded with a firepod using logic

Q: When recorded? 
A: Trigrams was a batch of home recordings that we worked on from July to September of 2010. Nude Vegas was recorded in about three sessions at a friends house in November but we released it in December. Alien Iverson was recorded from December 2010 to January 2011.

Q: Any more releases? Any "official" releases (label?)? 
A: We released Nude Vegas on White Moon Recordings

Q: Since when does this band/project exist? 
A: Since early summer of 2010

Q: Any previous bands worth mentioning?
A: Pisser, Niall, Pink Drapes, Fecal Spectrum

Q: How'd you "label" your music? (I know... nobody wants to get labeled... bla bla bla...) 
A: bruce willis meets john lennon

Q: Influences? 
A: Neu!, Spacemen 3, Nirvana, Brainbombs, Odd Future

Q: Website, Myspace?
A: voyageurs.bandcamp.com

Q: Anything that you think is interesting, that you'd like to inform the blog readers about...
A:  oddfuture.com

(Interviewed October 2010 by mike-floyd)

Check out more here (you'll find already six more releases by VOYAGEURS for download):
 http://voyageurs.bandcamp.com/

RE-POST: Lucas Nathan - A (USA 2008)

Repost of another great homemade psych recording by a guy named LUCAS NATHAN.

LUCAS is originally from Los Angeles, CA, but had then (in 2008) just moved to New York. He plays guitar, keyboard, a dislocated drum set, bass and percussion, and he's been making music for quite a while, though he performs live very rarely (admitting to be a bit of a hermit), but he's meaning to get out more.

"I record using a few tape recorders I just picked up at radioshack, sometimes plugging one into an amp and recording it again through another tape recorder to get a different sound. Then I'll record into the computer, basically just by holding the mic to the recorder 'cause I'm a bit too lazy to find another way to put it in there..." (L. N.)

So this is really homemade lofi psych, folks! The music is instrumental, though voices are sometimes used to a good effect ("Encouragement"), and very atmospheric.

If you want to contact LUCAS, you may find his email address in the info. (Please don't spam and please support the artist!) Enjoy!

LUCAS NATHAN - A (USA 2008)

(mp3 zip, 8 tracks, 35 min, 63,2 MB, front cover artwork and info incl.)

Get it here!

RE-UP: Orange - Open Air Flörsheim 1995 (GER)

Another Re-up of some stuff by the German Psychedelic grunge/experimental band ORANGE.
Here you'll have the chance to hear the music of their 2nd demo IN THE GARDEN OF THE DEMON KING (see below) live. Enjoy!

ORANGE live at the Open Air Festival Flörsheim, 07-28-1995. This is the complete gig.

Has probably the longest version of "NEIL'S ELEVATOR". There's a small cut at around 22.50 min, but it is hardly noticeable. "Souldrive" is – like in the most versions at that time – included (23.34 until 28.47).

This version here was dedicated to the Frankfurt avantgarde, impro experimental band LAY DE FEAR,that also included MEMBER at that time, a friend of the band and now - together with STOLLE - the heart of the emptyblaukraut-blog. (Read the comment in the original post to learn more about LAY DE FEAR and its side projects.)

You can hear Denner, the drummer and occasional singer and guitarist of ORANGE, mumbling "lay de fear... lay de fear" at some point (at 14.34) in the middle of the free form freak-out part of "Elevator" (starting at 10.58). Also you may notice the beginning of SUPER KING & THE FIRE ACTION's song "Breathing Soft 'n' Slow" shortly later... (at 15.26).

Suse surely must have been very hungry on that day, 'cause in the surrealistic spoken passage she raves about eating and food all the time. e.g. a cake baken by squirrels or apples from an apple tree...

The free form freak-out part has never again sounded so far out, reminding of the strangest GRATEFUL DEAD space explorations, mixed with early krautrock noise improvisations... A true listening adventure!

ORANGE played as the opening act at the two day Festival nearby Mainz and Frankfurt a. M., which also featured the old krautrock veterans GURU GURU – not an easy task to do, but they did quite well and also returned to play "Idiot in Bed" as an unplanned encore. This version here is a very good example of how ORANGE always changed their songs in order to keep the material fresh to themselves and their audience. Watch out for the improvised middle part of the song after the line "Now I'm on my way..." (at 4.18), that demonstrates the rush of the drug hitting the character of the song...

Taken from the original 2-track stereo soundboard mix, excellent sound.

ORANGE - Flörsheim Open Air 07-28-1995

(mp3-zip, 6 songs, 72 min, 99 MB, art incl.)

1. Orange (= In The Garden Of The Demon King) - 7.37

2. Brown - 5.24

3. Love In The Suffer Room - 3.12

4. Tryin' To Be A Good Human - 5.29

5. Neil's Elevator (incl. Souldrive) - 34.13

6. Idiot In Bed - 12.38

Get it here!

RE-POST: Orange - In The Garden Of The Demon King (GER. 1995)

ORANGE - In the Garden of the Demon King (1995)

(Second Demo, Frankfurt a. M, Bunker, GER., 07-09/1995 - CK master/mix version)

1. Brown - 5.51

2. Tryin' To be A Good Human - 6.02

3. In the Garden of the Demon King - 8.29

4. Love in the Suffer Room - 3.13

5. Neil's Elevator (incl. Souldrive) - 30.55

BONUS TRACK:

6. Soul Drive (edit) - 3.31

Get it here!

"Never draw conclusions about a garden from the way a person looks – and especially don't do so about the inside of the arbour from the way the garden looks." 
This kid on the cover artwork at any rate looks like straight out of a Stephen King novel...


This is the 2nd demo-recording of the german psychedelic band ORANGE, based in Frankfurt a. M., from 1995. For more info check out the older entry here at HLFP.


The original ORANGE existed from 1993 until 1995. In those years the band released two demo tapes and was very active, playing many festivals in Germany (Rhein-Main area and south Germany) as well as a lot of solo performances, especially in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.


This 2nd demo called "IN THE GARDEN OF THE DEMON KING" (as a kind of homage to KING CRIMSON) was recorded in true home recording spirit on a Fostex 4-track tape machine in their reheasal place in Frankfurt (an old WW II bunker). The band played and recorded the backing tracks in first takes on two days and then overdubbed vocals, guitar parts and assorted other instruments, noises and tape effects. This probably explains the somehow tinny overall sound, but nevertheless this recording definitly has its moments, especially on the 30 min psychedelic-experimental masterpiece "NEIL'S ELEVATOR". This track builds up quite slowly, starting with wind sounds and a long, slow guitar solo (kind of UFO-Flying-style), before rushing into the post punk indie instrumental main theme, with lots of different parts following, culminating probably in a bizarre, surrealistic druggy story told (in german) by singer Sue Boildice (about some pigs that don't like her green, new shoes because they remind them of the green grass... and more strange things happening) – very far out. Especially because Sue's voice of the backing track shimmers through and so creates a spooky, heavily disturbing overall atmosphere. After that you can listen to some kind of hobbits' freak-out party... (They even make an attempt of singing "Rosies" from the 1st demo...). The second (slow) theme follows, with Sue quoting some familiar lyrics above a PINK-FLOYD-Echoes-like backing... And this is just halfway thru the song! A heavy psychedelic roller-coaster/elevator ride indeed! Not to be missed!


In comparison with "Neil's Elevator" (by the way: also a live killer track!) the remaining songs (usually with Sue's PATTI SMITH like vocals to the front), though not bad, surely look a little pale. "Brown" and "Love in the Suffer Room" offer some kind of post grunge/indie sound, while the title track "In the Garden Of The Demon King" (formly known as "Orange" – remember "Red" by KING CRIMSON?) shows the band again in a more progressive mood. 
I added "Soul Drive", usually part of "N.E.", as a single track, 'cause it is quite a good song in its own right.


Again: Only around 8o tapes were originally sold at concerts or given away to friends. So this is a true rarity.
Should be listened to on headphones!

Enjoy!