HOMEMADE LOFI PSYCH --- WHERE TO START?





"There is so much great music here..." WHERE TO START???

I recommend to
start with the HLFP-Samplers (especially HLFP 04).
Here you will come to know many of the bands/musicians featured in this blog. If you like what you hear, you may check out more of their music later on.
(You may also click on the picture on the sidebar and you will find the original post with download links.)

There is also a "FOCUS ON..." section. Here you will find albums that imo are absolutely great (***** = "five-stars-recordings") and that are essential listening and strongly recommended for download.


I TRY to RE-UP some stuff that has been down from time to

time, but I still don't have enough time to

listen to/post much new stuff.

Sorry!

IMPRESSUM: see here!

Showing posts with label trippy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trippy. Show all posts

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Anyone's Dreamcolour – Acid Daze FILM (Stoned Hippie Sing-along Version)(1992/New edit 2023)

 

1. Acid Daze - Part I: Trip No. 5 Into Inner Space (11.17)
a) 00.00: A Dream In Green (3.02)
b) 03.02: No Difference (1.41)
c) 04.43: Creation (0.51)
d) 05.34: Breathing In The Beginning (0.33)
e) 06.09: Space (5.10)

2. Acid Daze - Part II: March To The Center Of The Brain (16.01)
a) 11.17: Out Of Time (3.07)
b) 14.24: You Can Be Anyone This Time Around (1.09)
c) 15.33: Acid Reign (0.43)
d) 16.16: Optical Promise (2.18)
e) 18.34: Look Inside That Head (8.44)
{TOTAL TIME: 27.18}  

All tracks recorded at Wormser Straße, Mainz, Germany, on 4 track analog, 1991/92. Drums on "No Difference" by Herbert Angermann. All other instruments and voices/noises by Mike S.

1. ACID DAZE - Part I: Trip No. 5 Into Inner Space


a) A DREAM IN GREEN
Forever and ever and ever
a dream in green green green
Forever and ever, ever
a dream in greeeeeeeen

Under the shower - uoooooh
Forever and ever and ever
a dream in green green green
Forever and ever, ever
a dream in green green green

b) (IT MAKES) NO DIFFERENCE
It's a strange world
we can get killed
anytime
by electrical monks

Words always lie
come too soon or too late
better say nuthin'
leave it to fate

I don't mind -'cause I know
It makes no difference anyway
I don't mind, if you treat me unkind
It makes no difference anyway
    (It makes no difference!)

c) CREATION
To create and to create
gives the feeling to be God
To create!

d) BREATHING IN THE BEGINNING
Everything's like breathing
in the beginning of a new style
To be devine or be denied
To be devine or be denied


2. ACID DAYS - Part II: March To The Center Of the Brain


a) OUT OF TIME
Sitting 'round, I'm waiting
Confronted again with death in my dreams
Numb brain
The fear of goin' insane
And still out of time
o u t  o f  t i m e!

b) YOU CAN BE ANYONE THIS TIME AROUND
And I know
you can be anyone this time around
Once in your life you got to decide
The art of life is to do it all in time
To love and hate
and to destroy
Every word already said
Every thought already thought
And I know
It's what I am...
 
c) ACID REIGN
Too much acid
too little head
A little smile in a while
instead
Words are forming
they disappear

d) OPTICAL PROMISE
Too much energy, I believe

Optical promise

A girl in a mirror with long blond hair
Avoid to stare

Passing the time
I'm quite afraid of anything
But India's calling
Delhi Blues
Bombay, Goa
Walking Blues!


This is a true "psychedelic" recording in its literal sense. And probably the most "far out" musical work of the one-man-home-recording-project ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR. One improvised guitar track was recorded, while under the influence of some psychedelic substance, and later, over the next few weeks/months three more tracks were overdubbed with various guitars, voices, drums and other sounds – trying to resemble the different moods of a psychedelic experience. The result is – not surprising – an unnerving, often disturbing bizarre listening adventure. This for sure isn't straight rock music! Rather a kind of a rough soundscape, giving one the opportunity to witness an inner space travel. Some tracks, like for example Out of Time, are heavily disjointed, resembling quite effectively the affect of psychedelic substances. 

No Difference was (in a more rock oriented version/arrangement) later played live by CLOUD NINE (and ORANGE) and also recorded.
Be warned! This recording is surely something of an acquired taste. Different sounds for different people...
Should be listened to in the dark on headphones!
The Acid Daze film was based on the Super 8 film Colours - Death of The Mind, which was shown as a background integrated into the light show at CLOUD NINE & THE VITAMIN C performances.
The original film was repeatedly re-cut and extended until it was digitised and spiced up with new sequences in March 2023. This is definitely the final version.

Dies ist eine "psychedelische" Tonaufnahme im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Und wahrscheinlich das "abgefahrenste" musikalische Werk des Ein-Mann-Home-Recording-Projekts ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR. Ein improvisierter Gitarrentrack wurde aufgenommen, während der Solokünstler unter dem Einfluss einer psychedelischen Substanz stand, und später, im Laufe der darauffolgenden Wochen/Monate, wurden drei weitere Tonspuren mit verschiedenen Gitarren, Stimmen, Schlagzeug und anderen Klängen eingespielt – in dem Versuch, die verschiedenen Stimmungen einer psychedelischen Erfahrung darzustellen. Das Ergebnis ist – wenig überraschend – ein oft anstrengendes, verstörendes, bizarres Hörerlebnis. Dies ist mit Sicherheit keine Rockmusik im eigentlichen Sinn! Vielmehr handelt es sich um eine Art Klanglandschaft, die einem die Möglichkeit gibt, Zeuge einer inneren Weltraumfahrt zu werden. Einige Tracks, wie z. B. Out of Time, sind wie in verschiedenen Zeitschichten seltsam verschoben und veranschaulichen dadurch sehr effektiv die Wirkung psychedelischer Substanzen.
No Difference wurde (in einer rockigeren Version/mit einem anderen Arrangement) später von CLOUD NINE (und auch der Frankfurter Band ORANGE) live gespielt und ebenfalls aufgenommen.
Warnung! Diese Aufnahmen sind sicherlich nichts für den Mainstream-Hörer! Sollte im Dunkeln mit Kopfhörern angehört werden!
Als Grundlage für den Acid Daze-Film diente der Super-8-Film Colours – Death of The Mind, der bei CLOUD NINE & THE VITAMIN C-Auftritten in die Lightshow integriert als Hintergrund gezeigt wurde.
Der ursprüngliche Film wurde immer wieder umgeschnitten und erweitert, bis er im März 2023 digitalisiert und mit neuen Sequenzen aufgepeppt wurde. Dies ist definitiv die finale Fassung.

 Anyone's Dreamcolour - Acid Daze (1991/92)
(mp3-zip, 3 tracks, 35 min, 49,7 MB, art + lyrics incl.)
(Get it HERE!)

Monday, March 20, 2023

Sun Waahs - Humiliani (PORTUGAL, 2023) Video

 

 

Sun Waahs is a band from Lisbon emerged in the early 2021s. Blending Lo-fi experimentation and sonic explorations Sun Waahs's sound fuses neo-psychedelic and vintage atmospheres. Their single "Humiliani" is accompanied by the imagery of Oskar Schlemmer's "Triadic Ballet" from 1912. 






ABOUT THE BAND:
Sun Waahs sound like they have just woken up. The band from Lisbon emerged in the early 2021s. Blending Lo-fi experimentation and sonic explorations - fusing neo-psychedelic and vintage atmospheres. Reverb baking dreamy psychedelic sound on a sleepy roll of a tape machine. Mixing shoegaze and garage rock throughout each experience. Capturing their own aesthetic by echoing the synergies with vintage and modern sounds. Hard to explain - better to listen.“

Contact: sunwaahs.music@gmail.com
(Band-Info)

Cool music, eager to hear more! Enjoy!

Waiting for the Sun, guys? Huuh? All the best to you!

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Vibravoid - Colour Your Mind (GER)

Talking about German neo-psychedelic bands one should not forget to mention the one and only VIBRAVOID from Düsseldorf (of all places). Here they do a great cover version from the Australian neo psych band THE TYRNAROUND originally released in 1986. An excellent, very trippy video!

The band has been around for many many years. They started in the mid nineties, I think. And they have released quite a lot albums. Surely the longest lasting neo-psychedelic band from Germany! They play a very late sixties styled psych rock, that is very reminiscent of early PINK FLOYD or American acid-punk/garage bands like the ELECTRIC PRUNES or even STRAWBERRY ALARMCLOCK. Other influences are German early seventies bands like CAN (they also do a cover of Mother Sky) or some more modern sounds like Goa, Trance or Exotica.

 

If you want to find out more about VIBRAVOID I have good news for you. They offer some of their music for free download on their website https://stonedkarmarecords.bandcamp.com/

Strongly recommended that you check it out. My favourite at the moment is Vibrations of the Cosmic Void, but it's hard to single out any specific album because they all are quite interesting.

Some of their vinyl releases are really extraordinary and well worth buying. 

If you like their music, please support the band directly.

Enjoy their psychedelic sounds!



Sunday, August 30, 2020

Cloud Nine & The Vitamin C – Narration For Entering Galaxy (With Common Substitutes)

 Cloud Nine & The Vitamin C – Narration For Entering Galaxy (With Common Substitutes) (edited version, originally recorded live 1985-02-02 at Teestube Oase, Heppenheim, Germany)

 

In February 1985 Cloud Nine & The Vitamin C had their debut gig at a small youth club in Heppenheim, Hessen, Germany. The place was packed.

Cloud Nine & The Vitamin C (1983-1992) started as a school band and played an unusual mixture of late 60s and early 70s inspired psychedelic rock. Their gigs often featured a psychedelic lightshow. Both, music and lightshow, were extraordinary at that time in that area. No other band sounded like them and noone had such a lightshow ... They were outsiders from the beginning.

If you want to read, hear and see more of that band look here (mostly in German until now, but soon there will be an English translation).

Narration For Entering Galaxy (With Common Substitutes) was the only track cowritten by guest sax player Björn J. and bassist Mike S. The main riff is based on the Quicksilver Messenger Service's treatment of Bo Diddleys Mona.

The title of that song is kind of self-explanatory.

 

I'm walking down the street watching raindrops passing by 

Obscure things appear to me, reflecting colours on my way

Colourful enclosed by light from empty windows

 Dazed and confused he's on the raod right now

Let's hear what's coming up next.


Unknown sculptures are presented to my view not knowing what they mean

Mysterious figures dance around me, movement is magnetizing me

Evidently there is no escape

Helpless I am drifting away, surprised it is electrifying him

Let's hear what's coming up next.

 

Istantaneously I'm realizing that there is a door right on my way

the sparkling way

Melting music comes right out of it

Floating in the air I'm entering this magical door, Cloud Nine is welcoming me!

He's slipping away to a starlit path 

Let's hear what's coming up next.

 

But at the end I know I had been dreaming

Elegant illusion was drifting me up, high through the sky

Clouds surrounding me

Rainbows brought me down, still I remember all this light

My weakness became obvious:

Thinking is the best way to travel

(He had been gone, now the earth has got him back)

 


Monday, January 19, 2015