genre: prog
country: netherlands
quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, scans)
time: 1:18'37" size: 427 mb
Scented Gardens Of The Mind:
Realising the commercial potential of Focus, Poydor signed a couple of other 'progressive' groups, including Alquin. They were always in the second league, but many of those bands also deserve some attention. Alquin's versatile style ranged from pop-rock to classical derivatives and from brass jazz to folk, often within the same tracks. A rich array of instruments were used, most notably violin, organ, flute and sax. Their treatments of themes were related to the British progressive sound of the instrumental Caravan and Traffic (circa John Barleycorn). What Alquin lacked was musical depth and a sense of urgency. Their albums are fair, sometimes even good, but never timeless. Check out Marks and Mountain Queen if tempted.
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genre: psych
country: us
quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, scans)
time: 1:19'15" size: 459 mb
misc.: 2003
Fuzz Acid & Flowers:
The first band to describe themselves as 'psychedelic' the 13th Floor Elevators formed in the Winter of 1965, playing their first gig at the Jade Room in Austin on 13th (?) December, which garnered a mention in Jim Langdon's column in the Austin Chronicle.
Sutherland, Walton and Thurman had all previously played in a Kerrville band - The Lingsmen, who became the 13th Floor Elevators when Max Rainey, their original vocalist, left and Roky Erickson, the lead guitarist of The Spades (another Austin act), was drafted in as a replacement. Their original line-up was completed by Tommy Hall, a local student, who played jug and along with his wife Clementine wrote much of the band's early material. It seems Clementine was responsible for their name too. Most American buildings have no thirteenth floor and the band were saying, if you want to reach the thirteenth floor and achieve a new level of consciousness, ride with them.
Their first 45, released in the Winter of 1965, was You're Gonna Miss Me, which Roky had written when he was still with The Spades.
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genre: prog
country: italy
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans)
time: 36'56" size: 259 mb
01. Morning Comes 7:25
02. Comic Strips 3:59
03. Science Fiction Suite 5:57
04. Song From A Picture 4:12
05. Education Story 4:17
06. Going Out 2:59
07. Three Hands Man 8:07
- Gino Campanini / guitar, vocals
- Piero Canavera / guitar, drums, vocals
- Franz Dondi / bass
- Bernardo Lanzetti / guitar, vocals
- Maurizio Mori / keyboards, vocals
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genre: prog
country: italy
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans)
time: 37'30" size: 271 mb
Scented Gardens of Mind:
Acqua Fragile were one of the more song-oriented Italian progressive groups, singing in English and combining melodic influences from early 70's Genesis, Yes and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Lanzetti's nasal voice (comparable to Peter Gabriel, Roger Chapman or Pat Moran of the group Spring) dominates most tracks, sometimes accompanied by three-part vocal harmonies. The majestic guitar licks are also similar to those of Steve Hackett. Their two albums didn't contain anything uncommon, but are relaxing, harmonic and perhaps a little too light-hearted for those who enjoy the more complex sound favoured by other Italian bands. After Acqua Fragile disbanded, Lanzetti joined PFM as their vocalist, strongly influencing the album Chocolate Kings.
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 genre: heavy psych country: uk quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, scans) time: 57'14" size: 238 mb misc.: ugly quality live tapes
01. Friday The 13th 6:36
02. Gershatser 8:16
03. Winter 6:35
04. Shabaloo 6:55
05. Sleeping For Years 6:17
06. V.U.G. 3:50
07. Tomorrow Night 6:38
08. I Can't Take No More 12:08
Vincent Crane/ organ
John du Cann /guitar & vocals
Carl Palmer / drums (Tr.1-4)
Paul Hammond / drums (Tr.5-8) |
 genre: heavy psych country: uk quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, scans) time: 41'46" size: 252 mb misc.: german version
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 genre: prog country: uk quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans) & mp3 (320k, scans) time: 41'25" size: 102 mb misc.: 1994
01. Visions Of The King 1:24
02. The White House Vale 7:13
03. Knights 6:14
04. Battles 1:38
05. Knights(Reprise) 2:12
06. Last Eclipse 2:29
07. Beyond The Lonliest Sea 3:07
08. Stop That! 13:47
09. Get Out Of My Fridge 3:22
- Peter Banks / electric and acoustic guitar, ARP, Minimoog, and Fender piano
- Jan Akkerman / electric guitar (1,4,6,8,9), acoustic guitar (7)
- Ray Bennett / bass guitar (3-5,8,9)
- Phil Collins / drums (4,5,8,9)
- Steve Hackett / electric guitar (5)
- Mike Hough / drums (3)
- John Whetton / bass guitar (5) |
 genre: blues country: us quality: lossless (separate flac, cue, log, scans) time: 57'24" size: 328 mb
"True Religion" (Jorma Kaukonen) – 4:54
"How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) – 4:02
"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 5:47
"Do Not Go Gentle" (Kaukonen) – 3:44
"I See the Light" (Kaukonen) – 6:05
"Embryonic Journey" (Kaukonen) – 2:11
"Good Shepherd" (Traditional) – 6:31
"San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:48
"I Know You Rider" (Traditional) – 5:07
"Just My Way" (Michael Falzarano) – 9:12
"Friend of the Devil" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, John Dawson) – 6:03
Jorma Kaukonen – guitars, vocals
Michael Falzarano – rhythm guitar, vocals
Pete Sears – keyboards |
 genre: psych country: uk quality: lossless (flac separate, cue, log, scans) time: 1:18'24" size: 469 mb misc.: 2004 expanded remaster
1. Have to Whack It Up
2. Leaping Beauties for Rudy / Marcus Junior
3. Xhorkom / Ramadhan / In the Snow for a Blow
4. Uno Transito Clapori
5. Gum Arabic / Confucius
6. Nymphenburger
7. Habibi Baby / Beast of Sweden / Boehm Constrictor
8. Traditional: Arranged by East Of Eden
Bonustracks:
9. Jig-a-Jig
10. Petite Fille (previously unreleased)
11. Biffin Bridge (previously unreleased)
12. Blue Boar Blues (previously unreleased)
13. Nymphenburger (First Take)(previously unreleased)
14. Marcus Junior (Single Edit)
15. Jig-a-Jig (Take Nine)(previously unreleased)
Dave Arbus - violin/flute/sax
Ron Caines - vocal/sax
Geoff Nicholson - vocal/guitar
Andy Sneddon - bass guitar
Geoff Britton - drums
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 genre: folk country: uk quality: lossless (flac separate, scans) time: 39'38" size: 223 mb
01 - Introduction 1:35
02 - Hazey Jane II 3:47
03 - At the Chime of a City Clock 4:48
04 - One of These Things First 4:53
05 - Hazey Jane I 4:32
06 - Bryter Layter 3:25
07 - Fly 3:01
08 - Poor Boy 6:10
09 - Northern Sky 3:48
10 - Sunday 3:43
Nick Drake performs vocals and guitar
Dave Pegg – bass guitar
Dave Mattacks – drums
Richard Thompson – lead guitar
Ray Warleigh – alto sax
Mike Kowalski – drums
Paul Harris – piano
Ed Carter – bass
Lyn Dobson – flute
John Cale – viola and harpsichord (7), celeste, piano and organ (9)
Ray Warleigh – alto sax
Chris McGregor – piano
Pat Arnold and Doris Troy – backing vocals (8) |
 genre: folk country: uk quality: lossless (flac separate, scans) time: 41'48" size: 228 mb
01 - Time Has Told Me 4:28
02 - River Man 4:22
03 - Three Hours 6:16
04 - Way To Blue 3:12
05 - Day Is Done 2:30
06 - 'Cello Song 4:50
07 - The Thoughts Of Mary Jane 3:22
08 - Man In A Shed 3:56
09 - Fruit Tree 4:51
10 - Saturday Sun 4:04
Nick Drake - vocal, acoustic guitar
Paul Harris – piano
Richard Thompson – electric guitar
Danny Thompson – double bass
Rocki Dzidzornu – congas
Tristram Fry – drums & vibraphone see also:
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genre: avant, folk
country: germany
quality: mp3 (mqvbr, scans)
time: 2:23'28" size: 178 mb
misc.: compil.
cd1:
The Marble Index
"Prelude" – 0:59
"Lawns of Dawns" – 3:10
"No One Is There" – 3:36
"Ari's Song" – 3:20
"Facing the Wind" – 4:58
"Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)" – 5:01
"Frozen Warnings" – 4:01
"Evening of Light" – 5:44
Outtakes
"Sagen Die Gelehrten" – 3:52
"Rêve Réveiller" – 4:07
"Roses in the Snow" [alternate version] – 4:00
"Nibelungen" [complete version] – 3:15
Alternate versions
"Lawns of Dawns" – 3:15
"No One Is There" – 3:40
"Ari's Song" – 3:14
"Facing the Wind" – 5:05
"Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)" – 5:02
"Frozen Warnings" – 4:21
"Evening of Light" – 5:41
cd2:
Desertshore
"Janitor of Lunacy" – 4:04
"The Falconer" – 5:42
"My Only Child" – 3:30
"Le Petit Chevalier" – 1:17
"Abschied" – 3:05
"Afraid" – 3:30
"Mütterlein" – 4:40
"All That Is My Own" – 3:36
Demos
"My Only Child" – 4:15
"Janitor of Lunacy" – 3:58
"Abschied Ode (Death/Farewell)" – 3:01
"You Are Beautiful (Afraid)" – 3:17
"The Falconer" – 5:46
"On the Desert Shore (All That Is My Own)" – 2:44/12:44
"Frozen Warnings" [hidden track] – 4:24
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genre: psych
country: germany
quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, cover)
time: 40'43" size: 230 mb
misc.: remake version
"One More Chance" – 4:13
"The Sphinx" – 4:00
"Sãeta" – 3:40
"Genghis Khan" – 3:34
"Heroes" (David Bowie, Brian Eno) – 5:41
"Henry Hudson" – 3:46
"60/40" – 4:35
"Orly Flight" – 2:48
"Vegas" – 3:30
"I'm Waiting For the Man" (Lou Reed) – 4:14
All tracks written by Nico except where noted.
Nico – vocals
Muhammad Hadi (Mad Sheer Khan) – lead guitar, frettless bouzouki, snitra, backing vocals, piano
Philippe Quilichini – bass, African percussions, rhythm guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals
Steve Cordona – drums
Andy Clark – organ, piano, synthesizer
additional:
J. J. Johnson – percussion, trumpet
Thierry Matiozek – electric violin, backing vocals
Gary Barnacle– saxophones, drums
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genre: psych
country: germany
quality: mp3 (320k, covers)
time: 51'03" size: 101 mb
misc: original version
"Genghis Khan" – 3:52
"Purple Lips" – 4:10
"One More Chance" – 5:38
"Henry Hudson" – 3:54
"I'm Waiting for the Man" (Lou Reed) – 4:13)
"Sixty/Forty" – 4:50
"The Sphinx" – 3:30
"Orly Flight" – 3:55
"Heroes" (David Bowie, Brian Eno) – 6:06
All tracks written by Nico except where noted.
Nico – vocals
Muhammad Hadi (Mad Sheer Khan) – lead guitar, frettless bouzouki, snitra, backing vocals, piano
Philippe Quilichini – bass, African percussions, rhythm guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals
Steve Cordona – drums
Davey Payne – saxophones
Andy Clark – organ, piano, synthesizer
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 genre: avant country: us/germany quality: mp3 (320k, booklet scans) time: 1:08'05" size: 175 mb
"I'm Waiting for the Man"
"Berlin"
"The Black Angel's Death Song" (Reed, Cale)
"Wild Child"
"Heroin"
"Ghost Story" (Cale)
"The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group of All" (Cale)
"Empty Bottles" (Cale)
"Femme Fatale"
"No One Is There" (Nico)
"Frozen Warnings" (Nico)
"Janitor of Lunacy" (Nico)
"I'll Be Your Mirror"
"All Tomorrow's Parties" (encore)
Recorded live at Le Bataclan, Paris, January 29th, 1972 Originally broadcasted by French TV. All titles composed by Lou Reed except where is noted.
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar
John Cale – vocals, keyboards, guitar, viola
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 genre: avant, folk country: germany quality: mp3 (192k, scans) time: 29'16" size: 44 mb
While Nico was the member of the Velvet Underground who had had the least experience in music prior to joining the group (while she had recorded a pop single in England, she'd never been a member of a working band before Andy Warhol introduced her to the Velvets), she was also the one who strayed farthest from traditional rock & roll after her brief tenure with the band, and by the time she recorded Desertshore, her work had little (if anything) to do with traditional Western pop. John Cale, who produced and arranged Desertshore, once described the music as having more to do with 20th century classical music than anything else, and while that may be going a bit far to make a point, even compared to the avant-rock frenzy of the Velvet Underground's early material, Desertshore is challenging stuff. Nico's dour Teutonic monotone is a compelling but hardly welcoming vocal presence, and the songs, centered around the steady drone of her harmonium, are often grim meditations on fate that are crafted and performed with inarguable skill and intelligence, but are also a bit samey, and the album's downbeat tone gets to be rough sledding by the end of side two. Cale's arrangements are superb throughout, and "My Only Child," "Afraid," and "The Falconer" are quite beautiful in their own ascetic way, but like the bulk of Nico's repertoire, Desertshore is an album practically designed to polarize its listeners; you'll either embrace it's darkness or give up on it before the end of side one. Then again, given the thoroughly uncompromising nature of her career as a musician, that's probably just what Nico had in mind. — Mark Deming
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