Here are two short live recordings by RECOMPAS, both from 2008.
Another - the second - studio recording by Atlanta's electronic space-psych band RECOMPAS. Again very much in a Krautrock/"kosmische Kuriere" style - excellent.
From Atlanta, Georgia come RECOMPAS, an electronic ambient-space-psych band project centered around Travis Thatcher.
"My group, recompas, initially started as my solo laptop project, but now has transformed into a 2-6 person live improv space/psych/ambient group. sometimes it sounds like hawkwind, sometimes faust, and sometimes cluster or tangerine dream. anyway, there's a ton of live and recorded music of ours on my blog here:
http://voiceofsaturn.blogspot.com"
Truely amazing! RECOMPAS sound like a Berliner Schule Krautrock band from the mid-seventies! To mind come especially TANGERINE DREAM and KLAUS SCHULZE. If you like those, you surely will like RECOMPAS. Space-psych of the finest!
Also you might like to check out TRAUMMASCHINE, who have a similar sound on some of their recordings - also posted on this blog: here.
RECOMPAS - Studio Recording 1: Analogesic (USA 2008)
(mp3 zip, 3 tracks, 45 min, 40,6 MB)
Surely no need to introduce 3XCX3 (Project), for this is already the third post by this one-man-band project from Siberia. He/they also contributed one fantastic track to the 3rd HLFP- sampler "NEW KIDS ON THE BLOG" (get it here - if you don't have it already!).
"That EP is first part for my BIG CONCEPT PROJECT (April-May 2009)." (3XCX3)
So there will be more to come... As expected, this music here is excellent- in parts quite krautrock-like, other parts are quite heavy/punk-ish. I like "Down in the sky" the most, but all tracks are in fact very good. "Into the Hole..." could almost be an instrumental backing track from the first THE STOOGES album... Enjoy!
3XCX3 - Trans-Siberian Railway (RU 2009 EP)
(mp3-zip, 4 tracks, 15 min, 19,4 MB, front cover incl.)
Get it here!
"I truly love psychedelic music, and though i consider myself psychedelic, though probably more reserved than most of the artists on your page. I make recordings in my bedroom on a tascam 8 track..."
"The writing/recording was done between May 2008 and December 2008 with percussion on the tracks "How The Wind Was Beating Hard" and "Lower Than Low" being improvised by my friend Mike Baltzer on his Korg Electribe. I'm a 20 yr. old manish songwriter living in Minneapolis and I've been trying to be in a band since i could play, but up until now my recordings have been my main commitment. Mike is a songwriter from Pittsburgh who moved here last year and we've been trying to work together, so there might be a band in the future. Otherwise it's all me in the recordings. I use bongos, tables, tambourine and microphone taps for percussion. I use an epiphone dot and a danelectro 56 u3 and a little wee radioshack concertmate for the little keyboard sounds you hear. the less thrilling keyboard sounds probably come from my alesis micron which i recently got, but admittedly do not know how to really use it. I am profoundly influenced by Donovan, The Velvet Underground, The Beach Boys, Hoagy Carmichael, The Beatles, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Gilberto Gil, Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazlewood, Burt Bacharach, Of Montreal, The Kinks, Bob Dylan etc. I do have a page on myspace.com/loyaltyinspace, and I've written lots of new songs so i hope to get some recording done in the future. I really do consider my music psychedelic even though my influences are a bit outside of psychedelia, thankfully psychedelia is one of those sounds that easily digests different ones." (T. D. O. V.)
Most of THE DELTA OF VENUS' songs are rather short, rather sketches of songs, though there is a great indie-pop sensibility to them, and there are many impressive melodies to be found - some thing in common with GUIDED BY VOICES' earlier works (though musically a little more polished and much less aggressive). Truely uplifting, dreamy refreshing music. Eager to hear more!
Enjoy!
THE DELTA OF VENUS - Sinatrasaurus Vs. Caveman (Dance, Ape 'O!)
(mp3 zip, 13 tracks, 30 min)
Yet another fantastic psychedelic record that deserves your attention. Adam B. Phillips - a multi-instrumentalist with a multi-track recorder - is the mastermind behind THE MONOPLEX, a psychedelic band project heavily influenced by 60's psych music using the technology of today.
Myspace lists as band members: Adam Phillips, Spliff Phillips, Train, A.B Philopolis, Tree Top, Dadam; influences: "lately: Animal Collective, TOMITA!, Turner Classic Movies, and Open G tuning with a dropped C."
To my mind rather comes THE BEACH BOYS (at the time of Surf's Up), FLAMING LIPS, SIMIAN and the more pop oriented records of MOTORPSYCHO.
"Recordings done on 4 and 16 track reel to reels with computer assistance over a four year period, and it keeps running on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. off." (T. M.)
This is only a portion of the album "The Silent Speech and Misused Time" by the out-of-sight hipsters THE MONOPLEX. Out Now! on Mayhaps Records.
IF YOU LIKE THE MUSIC, PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTISTS!!!
Band-Website (mayhaps records)
Favourite track: none - the complete album! This is a psychedelic pop masterpiece - grab it and enjoy!
THE MONOPLEX - the silent speech and misused time (excerpt)
(mp3 zip, 12 tracks, 41 min, 55,4 MB)
This ultra rare live recordings were recorded by INTERPRETACE under the moniker name BRODIO NUNCIA in the desolate church of Capuchin's temple some times in the 80's. The exact date is unknown.
Psychedelic Krautrock Double-Feature
- No Fasching today -
„Blue Elephants Destroy Life On Earth"
EphemeroL + P.E.T.R.A
Samstag 21.02.09, 21:00, Die Halle,
Wächtersbacher Str. 84 H, 65795 Frankfurt-Riederwald
live: Die Invasion der Blauen Elefanten im hinteren Riederwald und Zerstörung des Lebens auf der Erde.
Mit dabei: die Bands ephemeroL und P.E.T.R.A.
Welcome Outerspace!
INVASION DETAILS:
P.E.T.R.A.
(Positronen-Elektronen-Tandem-Ringbeschleunigungs-Anlage):
Ike Anger - voc, git, harp; Frank Rosenberg - voc, bass; MR Ling – drums
P.E.T.R.A. is back from Space! Far out long psychedelic improvisations and short songs... Kraut and cream for breakfast... Label: kin-et ffm, http://www.kin-et.de
Influences: Beasts Of Bourbon, Faust, Guru Guru, Ummagumma, MC5, Can, Neu, J. Richman, Yo La Tengo, Wipers; Film: Blow Up...
http://www.myspace.com/147557129
P.E.T.R.A. - Aldebaran 2
(mp3 track, 33 min, 18 MB)
Check this out: 'Aldebaran' starts just like your favourite NEIL YOUNG song crossed with THE PERC MEETS THE HIDDEN GENTLEMAN before drifting into a psychedelic space haze after a few minutes... Great!
ephemeroL
Maxim Engl - guitar, electronics; Roger Eckhardt - bass, electronics; Peter Prochir - drums, electronics
ephemeroL is a platform to break new ground for different influences and genres. Repetition and frozen chords are as important and valuable as free material or rock music. Although our music is basically guitar/bass/drums, we use minimal electronic music, free improvisation and early industrial music to create something altogether new. Our live presentations vary from free improvised chamber tunes, endless drones and pure noise to more conventional structured rock tunes. In the early 80ies, before founding the still existing industrial project SIELWOLF, Peter was, together with HEINER GOEBBELS and ALFRED HARTH a member of the band CASSIBER, which created a compound of free improvised music, punk and avantgarde. At the same time Maxim combined industrial music with 60ies elements in his band JANITORS OF LUNACY, sometimes playing improvised happenings for five hours.
In 2004 we performed at an Indian music-festival in Frankfurt which lasted for several days. Together with Indian musicians, traditional music and our own material was used as a basis for improvisation. In 2005 Peter played several live sessions with ex-CAN vocalist DAMO SUZUKI.
Influences: Gus van Sandt; Gastr del Sol; Glenn Branca; Deep Purple; Black Sabbath; Pierre Henry; Philip K. Dick; David Cronenberg; J.G.Ballard; John Fahey; Alfred Bester; Spike Jonze; Miles Davis; PiL; tbc...
Sounds like: Flower /Eye /Haze!!!!!
http://www.myspace.com/130310810
EPHEMEROL - Demo E.P. (2006)
(mp3 zip, 3 tracks, 54,9 MB)
1. Nine Days Rain (8.09)
2. Melatonin (12.41)
3. Ephemerol (19.12)
Read more about EPHEMEROL here!
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