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!

Check out this new blog!

 CLAP & COLLIDE is a new blog also featuring lo-fi and experimental music. It's well worth checking out!


Look here:

Http://clapandcollide.wordpress.com/

Re-Post: Manual Zombie - S. T. (HLFP Compilation) (USA 2009)

MANUAL ZOMBIE is a New York/Brooklyn-based psychedelic band (like SKY PICNIC), a duo of two guys: Ahmad and Ben. Compared to SKY PICNIC their music is more sinister and far less influenced by 60ies/70ies psychedelic rock. MANUAL ZOMBIE's sound is at least to some degree rooted in the 90ies grunge, post punk and metal sound (though on tracks like "automatic people" some Sweet-Sister-Ray-VU-Punk is greeting). I'd also say I hear some BLACK FLAG influences, and I especially love that excellent distorted guitar playing. Their other main weapon is the voice - often spooky and menacing with strange spoken word passages:This is a trip to the dark realms of psychedelia. Enjoy!

MANUAL ZOMBIE's website lists four releases, and the 9 tracks from this collection here are taken from those records (that you can buy there) except for one song that was only recorded recently.

Favourite tracks: "Automatic People" and "No More Sun"

http://www.manualzombie.com

http://www.myspace.com/manualzombie

MANUAL ZOMBIE - S. T. (HLFP Compilation)

(mp3 zip, 9 tracks, 34 min, 26 MB, art incl.)

Get it here or here or here!

INTERVIEW (June 2009):

- where exactly are you from?

brooklyn

- do you want your real name(s) mentioned? If so: what is your real name?

A: sure.  Ahmad.

B: Ben

- how/when recorded? (at home/equipment...)?

B: We have three albums -all recorded on my computer.

- any official releases? If so, label, record nr.?

B: We haven't really released anything officially. We try to sell cds at shows and actually got somebody to buy one last monday. 

- since when are you into music?

A: weird question but I guess I've been into music from a young age, i just took a long time to start playing.  

B: I started listening to black flag in 6th grade. Thats when I started playing bass.

- any previous bands?  

A: Coupe of denver bands that no one will ever hear of. 

B: I played bass in a band called whore nun wizard ninja. We did classic rock covers and played one show. It was terrible.

- how do you "label" your music?

A: indie-heavy, psycadelic-shoegazish rock

B: acid rock

- influences?

A: Personally: Floyd, Zep, Radiohead

B: the velvet underground, bob dylan, pink floyd, black flag, dario argento

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!

Jesus on Heroine - So High I Can't Look Down

Pretty interesting psychedelic band from Denmark who posted a couple of videos on YouTube.
This one here is by far their most psychedelic one.

"Jesus on Heroine are 7 guys in their early twentys located in Copenhagen Denmark, who  decided to start a band playing hypnotic psychedelic music. The plan for 2012 is to release three album/ep's each having a slightly different but still recognizable sound.. "Acoustic Songs on Electric Guitars" is the first release of the three..." (Band-Info)

bandpage 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jesus-on-Heroine/223981924355575

there are music videos on youtube 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2z6GvAXpwA

Meurtre + Maxim Engl (ePHEMEROL) will perform live in Frankfurt a.M. May 09 at EXZESS

Meurtre / Noise-Trio aus Paris / Gitarre-Bass-Sampler lassen es krachen.

Maxim Engl / Drone Solo-Performance / zart und hart


"Anders als bei bei meinen letzten Solo Performances werde ich nicht ausschliesslich Ambient Schleifen bieten, sondern Teile des ephemeroL Albums "plenK!" performen. Der Verzerrer ist schon bereitgestellt." M.E.

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!

RE-UP: Orange - 1st Demo 1993 (GER.)

RE-POST by request.

• Some time ago I posted "Sleep My Love" from the first demo of the german psychedelic rock band ORANGE. Here now is the complete first demo, recorded in 1993.
  
• ORANGE started late 1992 in Frankfurt as a 60s/70s inspired neo-psychedelic rock band and recorded some demos in the early 90s. All the band members had played previously in other experimental or psychedelic rock bands in the Rhein Main area and/or Berlin. Guitar player Maxim Engl (aka Michael S.) came from the JANITORS OF LUNACY, a heavily experimental industrial wave band in the 80s, Daniel P. Caesar ("Denner") from the psych jam band CAPTAIN FARTFISH AND HIS CAREFUL MUFFINS and the fun project THOTES SCHWEIN (the wrong H is on purpose) among others, girl singer Suse from HORSE BARDORTIES LIEBESCHOR and bassist Mike S. from CLOUD NINE & THE VITAMIN C.
  
• Their influences ranged from THE DOORS, PATTI SMITH, THE CURE, BUFFALO TOM to THROBBING GRISTLE/PSYCHIC TV and a hundred more. For example you can hear a DAVID BOWIE quote from "Hunky Dory" at the beginning of "Drowning", while in the middle break of that same song you can hear a parody of the TV series "Star Treck" (in German!) in the jug sound style of the 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS! The whole demo is a firework of different sounds, quotes and ideas. (By the way: Only around 60 tapes were originally sold at concerts or given away to friends.)
• Enjoy!
  
• 
  
• ORANGE - 1st demo (1993)
• 1. (While the) Rosies Die - 4.15
  
• 2. The Idiot in Bed - 6.20
  
• 3. Drowning - 6.54
  
• 4. Before the Night - 4.12
  
• 5. Sleep My Love - 9.07
  
• (mp3 zip, 44,7 MB, covers included, 31 min)
• Get it here!
  

Re-Up: Endless Endless Endless – Things I Saw (3" cdr) (USA 2010)

RE-POST by request.

ENDLESS ENDLESS ENDLESS are also featured with one extraordinary track on the HLFP-2CD-Compilation, the best of 2009, HLFP 04: SOUND EXPLOSIONS (here).

Read more about the band and their work here:

http://www.endlessendlessendless.com/

Do yourself a favour and download this jewel.

Great electronic dreamlike soundscape music!

Strongly recommended!

(Read the original post here!)

More EEE here!

ENDLESS ENDLESS ENDLESS: Things I Saw (3" cdr)

(USA 2010)

(mp3-zip, 4 tracks, 24 min, 54,5 MB)

Get it here or here or here or here!

(New links March 2012)

RE-UP: Endless Endless Endless – Black Talisman (USA 2009)

RE-UP by request:

Black Talisman' - the debut by the New York/Jersey post-noise duo ENDLESS ENDLESS ENDLESS.

Truely amazing, quite unique piece of music! Spacy guitar accompanied by gameboyDS electronic sounds – very comfortable and relaxing listening experience, though there's lots of distortion...

Strongly recommended! (Original post here!)

http://www.endlessendlessendless.com/?p=56

ENDLESS ENDLESS ENDLESS - Black Talisman

(USA 2009)

(mp3-zip, 5 tracks, 32 min, 62,4 MB)

Get it here!

(New link March 2012, still working in 2022)