RE-UP: Superking & The Fire Action - Hinkelficker (GER 1992)

SUPERKING & THE FIRE ACTION - Hinkelficker (GER 1992, RE-POST by request)

SUPERKING is one of many labels and band/project names that daniL (see HLFP 03 track: Hi, I'm A Motor) used for recording different styles of music. This here is truely a homemade lofi psych recording - weird, experimental and quite funny in places.

Read more and download here (nu links)!

What a trip! - Welcome G. L.!

Yesterday (Dec. 29) my little daughter G. L. was born. 

Wow, what a TRIP!

One of the most psychedelic experiences I ever had ...

This is a picture of her just a few minutes after her birth.

So young and already her second appearance on this blog - remember HLFP 02 "EMBRYO THOUGHTS"? That's her on the cover artwork...

The Kicker Knot - Ghost Mouth of the Clouds (USA 2008)

From Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, comes the one man band project by the name of THE KICKER KNOT. The music is "some lo-fi bedroom psychedelic progressive folk ... that i made in my very own bedroom", so the man himself. 

"Ghost Mouth of the Clouds" was almost completely recorded by him alone – with just a little help from his brother and a friend (horns on "eisenhower highway") and a big group of friends for the choral vocals (on "iron helps us play").

I don't know if THE KICKER KNOT knows "Corky's Debt to His Father", the weird, but rather charming solo album of MAYO THOMPSON of RED KRAYOLA/PERE UBU fame from 1970, but anyway, his music and the singing style somehow remind me exactly of that record (that in fact I love very much; so this is meant as a big compliment)! Probably it is even a little bit more fun to listen to than THOMPSON's record...

In any case a very original work that deserves to get heard by any serious psych-folk collector.

Check out his Myspace site and this site.

Enjoy!

THE KICKER KNOT - Ghost Mouth Of The Clouds 

(USA 2008)

(mp3-zip, 12 tracks, 35 min, 54,7 MB, artwork incl.)

Get it here! New link 2024.

HLFP 03 - NEW KIDS ON THE BLOG

The next HOMEMADE-LOFI-PSYCH presents SAMPLER!

HLFP 03: "NEW KIDS ON THE BLOG"

– A fascinating collection of new sounds in the homemade lofi psych blogsphere –

01. RANCHO RELAXO - Like A Light - 4.02

02. ST. JAMES INFIRMARY - A Sound Is A Sound - 3.28

03. 3XCX3 PROJECT - "Moon will never fall" - 9.04

04. PAN AMP - Always Today - 5.00

05. BRIAN ANDREW MAREK - Muscle Car Demigod - 2.47

06. dANIL (TODESSTERN 007) - Hi, I'm A Motor # 3 - 6.15

07. GRASS MONKEY - Track Three (edit) - 5.07

08. RANGERS - Volvo Jungle Mist (edit) - 7.20

09. BARNYARD - One Nation Under A Poncho - 2.03

10. ANDREW BLAND AND STEVE LOGEL - Cytoplasm - 4.20

11. SHALLOBOI - Angels Floating On The Head Of A Pin - 6.49

12. BILL ROGERS - When The Clock Strikes 13 - 4.19

13. MICROGRAMMA MEDIUM EXTENDED - Triste (electro version) - 6.41

14. LUCAS NATHAN - Encouragement - 3.37

15. TRAUMMASCHINE - Angelica Filanda - 5.30

16. TAPIO OKSA - Sammon Sirpaleet - 3.06

Get it here!

The purpose of this sampler (and this blog) is to show how many great unrecognized very creative bands/artists are out there in the WWW – bands that are doing their own thing, unimpressed by the mainstream plastic pop world ...

I hope that at least some of those musicians will get the recognition they deserve ... at least in the digital world.

Since I started homemade-lofi-psych in January this year there were 137 posts; nearly 60 different bands/musicians were introduced to you blog readers.

HLFP 03 may serve as an appetizer. It features some of my personal favourite tracks by musicians, that were featured on this blog since I posted the last HLFP sampler...

(HLFP 02 "EMBRYO THOUGHTS" – though there is one exception: dANIL, who nevertheless is featured under another name on this blog as solo artist and band member of ORANGE, SUPER KING AND THE FIRE ACTION and CAPTAIN FARTFISH AND HIS CAREFUL MUFFINS)

... and that are NOT yet featured on the first two samplers. Therefore the title: "NEW KIDS ON THE BLOG".

Whoever will download HLFP 03 has the chance to come to know those bands and listen to one of their songs – and if he likes what he hears he may check out the original post with the complete album that song is taken from...

BLOGGERS: Feel free to repost this sampler, but please tell me about it, and please use the original links as long as possible!

The first and second Homemade-Lofi-Psych Samplers are still available for download:

HLFP 01: "RELAX AND FLOAT DOWNSTREAM"

HLFP 02: "EMBRYO THOUGHTS"

Enjoy! And Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

to all blog readers!

And a big

THANK YOU 

to everyone supporting this blog, especially the musicians who kindly share their music with us and those of course who take the time to write a comment.

Winter/Christmas songs (3): Who's that? Any idea?

And now for something completely different. A mystery surprise track - shouldn't be so difficult to recognize for every serious psych head...

Mystery christmas song ...

If you think you know which band that is, please leave a comment...

One more hint: that band hasn't been posted on homemade-lofi-psych before...

Enjoy!

Winter/Christmas songs (2): Anyone's Dreamcolour - Märchen im Winter (1994)

The 2nd song of my winter song collection is by ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR.

ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR - Märchen im Winter 

(Get it HERE!) 

The track is taken from the strange dadaistic Opera "OPEL OPERA", though it is not really part of that longer concept piece but rather kind of an encore.

Märchen im Winter (= A Winter's Fairytale) is the silly story (told in german) by an unsecure narrator with strange pronounciations and even some mistakes about a snowball, who is going through some weird adventures (e.g. playing ice hockey or melting in the sun) and ending as the lover of some fake doctor who turns out to be a communist secret service agent and drug dealer... They have some children together, some chocolate drops, who later all become Zeugen Jehovas.

All the time, while Winni P., the narrator, is reading the fairy tale, you can hear someone play Alle Jahre wieder (a famous german christmas song) on flute (not very well) on one side of the stereo mix and a fuzz guitar soloing on the other side...

Probably more fun, if you understand german, but you might nevertheless enjoy this nonsense, digging the overall vibe...

Enjoy!

Demis CousCous - The Freemealin' Demis CousCous (UK 2008)

Here is, far as I know, DEMIS COUSCOUS' latest album (from 2008). It is similar in style to "Dog Kill Bird" posted recently.

Enjoy!

Demis CousCous - The Freemealin' Demmis CousCous (2008)

(mp3 zip, 15 tracks, 85,5 MB, 47 min)

Get it HERE! New Link 05/2024.

Demis CousCous - Dog Kill Bird (UK 2007)

Not too long ago I posted some free-form-freak-out-psych-rock by GRASSMONKEY, a band that featured DEMIS COUSCOUS on bass. Here is a solo work by Demis. It's completely different in style, so for those of you who didn't like the wild improvisations of GRASSMONKEY (if there are some people at all...), you might nevertheless enjoy this recording here, that is very much in a folk or singer-songwriter style (though admittedly sometimes a little weird - like a cross between NICK CAVE (that is: if he had any humour) and Tom Redecker, the singer of the German psych folk band THE PERC MEETS THE HIDDEN GENTLEMAN and later THE ELECTRIC FAMILY (that probably nobody except me will know... - check it out if you are so lucky to find a copy of one of their rare records).

"This album was pieced together from an aborted project entitled "Remove The Cancer". Some tracks are unfinished works from that album, others were written and recorded after the "...cancer" album fell apart. Others are completed items originally intended for the aborted album...

The album was recorded in livingrooms and bedrooms across the south coast of England between June and September 2007 on a Roland VS2400CD digital recorder using a few battered old microphones. The drums were overdubbed last minute in an old disused TV studio in Winchester..." (DCC quote from email info)

Demis CousCous - Dog Kill Bird (UK 2007)

(mp3 zip, 11 tracks, 80,5 MB, 36 min, artwork incl.)

Get it here! New link 2024.

Read more.

Rangers - Homemade Cassette Collages II (USA)

Two more very long, strange songs by RANGERS.

Joe Knight is the man behind RANGERS. He's from Dallas, TX, USA, and he's doing some pretty amazing stuff. Joe writes (on Myspace), that he's influenced by STREET VENDORS and SOUVENIERS. I don't know either of those two, so I can't say much about that. What I CAN say, is: THIS MUSIC IS GREAT! - very original, always an adventure to listen to (though it IS indeed quite lofi) and that I find myself listening to RANGER's fantastic, exotic music quite a lot...

Enjoy!

RANGERS - Homemade Cassette Collages II

1. Osaka - 24.26

2. Street Smell II - 20.31

(mp3 zip, 2 tracks, 41,2 MB, 45 min)

Get it here 

(new links February 2012, still working in Dec. 2014)!

Pan Amp - Orange EP/2000 Sessions (GER 2000)

Pan Amp - 2000 Sessions

(mp3 zip, 4 tracks, 44,8 MB, 33 min)

As announced: the two remaining recordings by PAN AMP, both from 2000. My personal favourites are "Drug" (11 minutes plus) and "Flower" with over 8 minutes). "Birds" (10.25 min) was co-written with Suse G. (while still a member of ORANGE) and can also be found in a different, much shorter version on the last ORANGE demo.

(You will find PAN AMP's "Mixes EP" from 2001 here.) Click on the covers to read the song titles.

Pan Amp - Orange EP (2000)

(mp3 zip, 4 tracks, 38,1 MB, 28 min)

Get both EPs HERE, re-up 05/2024.

If you like Maxim Engl's guitar style and songwriting, you should also check out his work with ORANGE (psychedelic grunge, rock), EPHEMEROL (post rock/noise), POET ZERO (solo work) and THE JANITORS OF LUNACY (dark industrial). You will find recordings by all this artists/bands for download in the blog archives ("labels" at the sidebar)! Enjoy!

Hans Frommer with J.K. Decker (GER) Web-TV, Giga United

Hans Frommer sent me a mail to tell me about his last web-tv appearance on Giga United, Germany, with his old friend Jürgen Decker. Surely not psychedelic, but if you like good, solid rock music you should definitly have a listen.

They play 2 songs; the first one is called "Do you believe" and the second one, well, you all will know that one – it surely doesn't need an introduction... 

Hans sent me his latest work, a nice ballad, quite right for Christmas time... Enjoy!

Hans Frommer - Like a Baby (mp3)

Get it HERE!

 

If you like this track you might also want to check out Hans' solo work: here!

Mad Magic (Hans Frommer's band) here!

 

Traummaschine live in London, SAT. 24th Jan. 2009

The spanish neo krautrock/experimental band TRAUMMASCHINE will play in London on Sat. 24th Jan. 2009 at THE OTHERS, 6-8 Manor Road.

An opportunaty no Londoner kraut fan should miss!

Pan Amp - Mixes (GER 2001)

After the psychedelic grunge band ORANGE fell apart, Maxim Engl continued with the ORANGE Mark II member Roger Eckhardt (bs) and drummer Björn Jäger to do what he does best: write great indie rock/post rock songs with a psychedelic shade... this time under the name PAN AMP.

These 4 tracks here are my favourite PAN AMP recordings. "Always Today" is such a great song that may stick in mind for days!

Of course Maxim Engl is also the founder of the more experimental noise band EPHEMEROL, that most blog readers will surely know from the 2nd homemade-lofi-psych sampler "EMBRYO THOUGHTS". He also was a member of the dark industrial band THE JANITORS OF LUNACY posted earlier and is the man behind POET ZERO.

More recordings of PAN AMP do exist and will be posted later. Enjoy!

Pan Amp - Mixes (GER 2001)

(mp3 zip, 4 tracks, 31,5 MB, 23 min)

Get it HERE! Re-up 05/2024.

3xcx3 Project - Mendeleev's Toxic Brand (RU 2008)

In October 3xcx3, the one man psychedelic band project from Siberia, announced a "new experimental conceptual album with very mad psycho muzz."

Well, I guess, here it is! And in fact it is really fabulous (mostly instrumental) space psych!

Grab it and enjoy!

Myspace

3xcx3 Project's - Mendeleev's Toxic Brand (RU 2008)

(mp3 zip, 9 tracks, 51 min, 65,8 MB)

Get it here!

Shalloboi - Down To Sleep (USA 2008)

Tyler Ritter, guitar player and singer from the Chicago band SHALLOBOI, sent me this recording to share with you - and I really love it. It's fantastic; do yourself a favour and download this gem!

SHALLOBOI sound like a crossing between SIGUR RÓS, MÚM and MY BLOODY VALENTINE and MOGWAI. So if you like any of those bands CHECK THIS OUT!

"Down To Sleep" was recorded from August 2005 to March 2008 by Tyler Ritter on 8-track cassette machine in Chicago, Il and KaNSAS CITY, Ks. 

Personal: Tyler Ritter: g., voc., loops, perc., toy xylophone, glockenspiel, piano, organ, bs, 6-string bs / Stefanie Goodwin: dr., voc., perc., glockenspiel / Billy Speer: cello / Hannah Trobe: cello (on "to the sky") / Christopher Gagnon: violin.

"this newest release was culled from a cycle of 25 songs that were recorded over a two and a half year process and feature some more fully fleshed-out string parts incorporating the use of violin for the first time as well as stefanie goodwin's transition to the use of live drums. the songs are almost purely droned based with a few exceptions and the guitars more heavily textured. all effects (except for guitar effects) were archived with the use of large spaces serving as echo chambers..." (info from Myspace site)

SHALLOBOI - Down To Sleep (2008)

(mp3 zip, 10 tracks, 61 min, 72,7 MB)

Get it HERE!

New link 2024.

There are more recordings available at cdbaby.com for only 5 $ each. SO IF YOU LIKE THE MUSIC, PLEASE SUPPORT THE BAND!!!

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