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After collecting rock albums, books and rock magazines for over forty years it's about time to open up the archives and put some of my favorite music on the big net. The music here is intended for review purposes only and is not a substitute for the original record company product. Please contact us directly regarding the removal of any potentially infringing material. READERS: Please use us as a buyer's guide and support the artists.

Magick Brother, Mystic sister

Music, Uncategorised Posted by schothPosted on 21 March 2021 14:38

The flying pot head pixies got my attention again. While going through the albums on the attic I found this little gem. Never gave it much attention thinking that it was a Gong Compilation album…

But it is actually a 1970 german re-release of the original 1969 album of Daevid Allen and Gilly Smyth with, among others, Didier Malherbe.

It has become quite an collectable item nowadays and i think also because of the nice album cover and artwork of Daevid Allen (see photo’s below).

The top right corner of the frontcover has a cut-out star with the letters “Supergroups” above.

frontcover

Daevid Allen’s Gong ‎– Magick Brother
Label: Metronome ‎– MLP 15.372, BYG Records ‎– MLP 15.372
Series: Super Groups
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: Germany – Released: 1970

Recorded September and October, 1969, Studio ETA & Studio Europa Sonor, Paris and first published in 1969 on BYG Records. All tunes by Gilli Smyth.


Early Morning Side

Mystic Sister    (Voice – Tasmin Smyth)   5:54
Change The World  (Bass – D. Gewiffler)  4:09
Glad To Sad To Say     3:45
Chainstone Chant : Pretty Miss Titty   
(Bass – Bare Phillips)     4:49
Fredfish : Hope You Feel OK     4:32

artwork: Daevid Allen
inner cover (a)


Late Night Side

Ego      3:58
(Bass – E. Freeman, Piano – B. Green)
Gongsong     4:10
(Bass – D. Gewiffler, Piano – E. Freeman) 
Princess Dreaming     2:57
(Bass – B. Phillips, Voice – Tasmin Smyth) 
5 & 20 Schoolgirls     4:30
Cos You Got Green Hair     5:06

Artwork: Daevid Allen
inner cover (b)


Credits:

    Art & Liner Notes – Daevid Allen
    Drums, Tabla – Rachid Houri
    Flute, Saxophone  – Didier Malherbe
    Voice, Guitar, Bass Guitar  –  Daevid Allen
   Voices, Space Whisper – Gilly Smyth



Blows against the empire (3)

Music Posted by schothPosted on 27 September 2020 14:18

And now it’s time for the listening party. Here’s the video of unpacking the album Roswell UFO Festival Vol. 2



12 x Double

Music Posted by schothPosted on 9 July 2020 00:32

I was planning to do a list of my favorite ten double albums but i could list a favorite top 20 without any trouble. Anyway, result is a top 12 of my favorite double albums in no particular order. Except for #1 off course!!

1.) Grateful Dead – Live / Dead
This album started it all in the late sixties/early seventees. The essence of the Grateful Dead Jam band. It doesn’t make any difference if I focus on the guitar, or the bass, or the drums… This band is so together !

2.) Marvin Gaye got divorced and wrote a whole album about that painful experience. “Sparrow, FLY”

3.) Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – It’s Your World
Gil is the Father of RAP and a great poet. Brian puts down a great mixture of Funk, Jazz and Rock !

4.) Allman Brothers Band – Live at the Fillmore East
The founders of the ‘Southern Music’. Greg and Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, double drums and long songs, magnificent!
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

5.) Harmonium – l’ Heptade
A Canadian band singing in French. This is a symphonic album of their songs. My first encounter with the band was the album ‘Cinq Saisons’ Great original music.

6.) Wishbone Ash – Live Dates
Oooh, these twin guitars ! I had the privilege to watch the band performing this album live some 40 years later and it still impresses me!

7.) Derek & the Dominoos – Layla and other assorted Love Songs
Radio DJ’s had a habit of killing this song when the piano part began. Grrrhhh this made me so mad! Such a beautiful song has to be played from beginning to end.

8.) James Brown – The Payback
‘Mind Power’ Funk op zijn best. Met brothers Fred Wesley en Maceo Parker… WoW, Good Lord, Make it Funky !

9.) Gong – Live etc.
In the early days of Internet i got an angry mail of Steve Hillage because i had published a dutch concert review which was somehow critic of a concert. Not this album though, flying pixiess all around !

10.) Al Green – Tokyo … Live !
How much ‘Soul’ do you want? Reverend Al Green will give it to you. What a voice and what a feeling !

11.) The Smiths – Louder than Bombs
I used to get on my bicycle to bike to the nearest music shop (15 km) to get the latest 12″ of the Smiths. I couldn’t miss the singles because of the art-work. At home i put the record player on repeat and listen the whole day to the same song

12.) Isley Brothers – Live
The tribute to Jimi Hendrix alone is worth the buy of this album. But it has so more beautiful songs on it. Like this one of Carole King.

A good reserve: Airto and Friends



Showtime

Music Posted by schothPosted on 19 April 2010 22:30

As a ‘natural born dead head’ i’ve been collecting their albums ever since i’ve bought my first Grateful Dead album “Live/Dead” in the early seventies. Not very fanatic but i’ve managed to get a complete collection untill the days the Dick Pick’s series were released. Ffom then on I lost track and purchased a new album every now and then… This weekend i’ve made two low-fi videoclips of the Grateful Dead bootlegs in my collection. Nothing fancy, just some good ol’ grateful dead music!

and here a video of the small and shiny CD’s