Fresh treats from psychedelic oven

The Sadies – Colder Streams

The Sadies, a rock’n’roll / country / psychedelic band from Canada, has evaded me despite they published their first record as early as 1998. Their discography is so vast I haven’t looked into it properly yet, but Colder Streams, published on July, has some great tunes and songs in it. This excitement comes with a tragic sidestory: the band’s front man, Dallas Good, died unexpectedly earlier this year. If you want to learn more of the man and his band, check this tribute video from CBC Music.

All Them Witches – Acid Face
This 18-minute music video is all about instrumental, robust psychedelic rock, do check it out (may make you lose your sense of time).

Gothenburg Symphony – Kosmische musik
Symphony orchestra playing krautrock classics from NEU!, Kraftwerk, Can and others? Sure, and the compositions definitely work, especially since the orchestra is featured by Swedish neo-psychedelic musician Fontän whom we’ve picked to our lists previously as well. The concert in Finnish National Broadcast Yle is only available in Finland.
https://areena.yle.fi/1-50369357

Copyright: Ylen Kuvapalvelu

Ghost Funk Orchestra – Night Walker / Death Waltz

Ghost Funk Orchestra repressed their first two EP’s in a single delicious LP. If you are friend of fuzzy, psychedelic soul, you should definitely have a go

Sounds Of Lecak Vol.1

Catchy and groovy vintage-sounding new Singaporean tunes by Kribo records. First time encountering the label. Try for instance sweaty Hek Sib Gau by Geylang Electric Phin Band (playing on Youtube teaser below) or Luna by Hong Chungao Street Band while cruising in the darkening but still warm summer nights. (Bandcamp)

Molly Lewis – Miracle Fruit

Los-Angeles-based whistler (yes, whistler) Molly Lewis’ new exotica single from an upcoming Mirage album is an absolute addition to all psychedelic nap playlists. Hashtag island vibes. Props for well-made tounge-in-cheek music video as well.

Thanks for reading! If you’re into this kind of weirdness, remember to check out our four Spotify Playlists.

Article image: Ghost Funk Orchestra

Best psych albums of 2019

As Leo is focused on our next Spotify theme playlist, Mertsi chose his top psychedelic albums, gigs and curiosities of the fine year 2019. Thanks to all great bands, psych festivals (especially Manse Psych Fest and Helsinki Psych Fest) and fellow bloggers from this year!

Mertsi’s best psychedelic albums – top 10 (in random order)

10 000 Russos – Kompromat
Incredibly powerful, machine-like yet vivid display of cold war kraut, as I took the liberty to call it in my review and interview of this brilliant Portugese trio.

Vanishing Twin – The Age of Immunology
This masterpiece takes you afar, mesmerizing with a spectrum of music styles all the way from French avant-garde to groovy soul psych and fairy tale -like spoken word, each mastered by this skillful group. I got to see Vanishing Twin in my home town Turku’s Ilmiö Fest, but the 40-degree heat at the venue seemed to take some toll on them. Still, one of my favourite records. Read my album review here.

Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
I don’t care how psychedelic this is or isn’t (it isn’t), but this rich, beautiful, strong album with progressive and classic pop elements deserves to be on every list I could make about 2019. Lead vocalist Natalie Laura Mering is out of this world.

Various – Reverb Conspiracy Vol Six
This compilation introduced me to so many bands around the world I wasn’t familiar with (including Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Nice Biscuit and Julia Robert), while celebrating currently strong names like Nest Egg and Psychic Lemon.

Various – Self Discovery for Social Survival
This summery and colourful soundtrack was created as a collaboration of psych musicians, film-makers and surfers. Dungen warms up the beach folk and Peaking Lights leads the evening party, to name some bands involved. Read my article about the record here.

Psychic Bloom – Mysterious Temple
I found this band recently and instantly felled in love with its classical neo-psych [sic] sounds. This band gives it touch to international psychedelia from Tehran, Iran, but the songs stand brilliantly on their feet even without this empowering fact.

Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Song for Paul
Groovy, dancing psychedelic funk with fuzzy and mysterious, retro-ish sounds – gotta love it. Walk like a Mother Fucker for me is one of the tracks of the year.

YĪN YĪN – The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers
Speaking of dance music, this psychedelic funk band from Switzerland nailed it as well. Oriental influences such as Thai guitar work sweetly in the band’s cosmic groove.

K-X-P – IV
The Finnish kraut-psych-electronic-ambient group returned with a bang – and a beat, for the orchestra include a drummer contrary to the album’s predecessor. IV only consist of three songs, two mega-long ones and a shorter piece, and they are all powerfully hypnotic.

Centrum – För Meditation
This is a calming, intensively psychedelic record, skillfully controlled and meditating from the first sound to last. As we very well know in Finland, Swedes are great in everything and psych rock is not an exception.

Bonus Categories

Best Gig: Kingston Wall by JJylli, Kuoppis & VHB at Logomo
Seeing Kingston Wall, for me the greatest psychedelic band in Finland of all times, with it’s two living members combined with Von Hertzen Brothers, was a dream come true. I was just a kid when the band was in prime and its front man Petri Walli still around.

Best psychedelic single: All Them Witches – 1×1
As you read the list to the very end, you’ll find some adrenaline useful.

KOLMAS KORVA playlists: Autumn updates

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FRESH PSYCHEDELIA is all about brand new 100 psychedelic tracks from recent singles and LPs, COSMIC CREATIVE is your instrumental soundtrack for deep focus, and LATE NIGHT RITUALS is a bewitching playlist full of deep psychedelia perfect for candle-lit atmosphere.

Here’s the new bands we’ve been adding to the lists during the last months. Be sure to follow the playlists for your daily dose of great psychedelic music!
Best, Mertsi & Leo

AUTUMN ADDITIONS, FRESH PSYCHEDELIA: All Them Witches, Garcia Peoples, 10 000 Russos, Ufomammut, Pharaoh Overlord, Psychic Lemon, Lumerians, Kendra Amalie, Julie’s Haircut, Moon Duo, Triptides, Alber Jupiter, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Thee Oh Sees, The Janitors, Kadavar, HOLY, The Vacant Lots, Pink Chameleons, Rancho Relaxo, Rev Rev Rev, The GOASTT, Sugar Candy Mountain, Allah-Las and more…

AUTUMN ADDITIONS, COSMIC CREATIVE: Acid House Ragas, Curses, Föllakzoid, Minami Deutsch, K-X-P L’éclair and Carlton Melton.

AUTUMN ADDITIONS, LATE NIGHT RITUALS: Julie’s Haircut, Utopia Strong, Curses, DOPE LEMON, Steeple Remove, JuJu & Amy Denio, The Quiet Temple & Moon Duo, Maatlander, Fantasmes and Centrum.