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.

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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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