Pärson Sound - Pärson Sound (1967-68)

This is a completely astounding collection of dark shimmering drones and super heavy tranced out minimal psych-rock recorded in 1967 and '68. At times freaky and chaotic, but most often hypnotically locked into stoned grooves, this is some of the best heavy psych we've ever heard. Their shifting instrumentation (the list includes guitar, bass, drums, organ, double-bass, electric-cello, flute, cowbell, saxophone, hand drums, acoustic guitar, tape recorder, and...seance? huh?) is employed in both intricate and extended studio recordings and totally primal and euphoric live performances over the course of these two discs. Parson Sound crafted music that, while reminiscient of the Taj Mahal Travellers, Terry Riley, Flower Travelling Band and the like, is almost wholly their own. - Aquarius Records



01. Intro
02. Tio Minuter
03. From Tunis To India In Fullmoon (On Testosterone)
04. India (Slight Return)
05. A Glimpse Inside The Glyptotec-66
06. One Quiet Afternoon (In The Kings Garden)
07. Sov Gott Rose-Marie
08. Skrubba
09. Milano
10. On How To Live
11. Blåslåte

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Kemado Launches New Vinyl Label Mexican Summer

September's the month we in the Northern Hemisphere grudgingly show summer to the door, but beginning September 2, the folks at Kemado Records will usher in summer year 'round.

The label is in the process of firing up a new vinyl/digital-only offshoot called Mexican Summer (hey, just like the Marissa Nadler song!). The imprint will focus on small-batch, hand-numbered releases on wax, each coupled with a download of all constituent jams. There will even be a record club-style subscription service, though those details appear to be forthcoming.

So what's in store for this Mexican Summer? First up is "Sätt Att Se", a previously mentioned 12" from Dungen limited to 1,000 copies and due September 2. The same day will also see the releases of Nachtmystium's "Worldfall" (1,000 copies) and Headdress' "Turquoise" album (500 copies).

Other fun stuff in queue: a reissue of Marissa Nadler's Ballads of Living and Dying (1,000) with a bonus unreleased 7", and a bonus 7"-bolstered edition of the Tallest Man on Earth's Shallow Grave on vinyl (1,000), both due November 11. After that, we can look forward to a Black Moth Super Rainbow picture disc (1,000), a double LP from Charles Manson associate Bobby Beausoleil & the Orkustra (1,000), and a 12" from Valet.

McDonald & Sherby :: Catharsis (1969)

"McDonald & Sherby's sole contribution to the canon of 20th century music was Catharsis, an album which originally appeared on the appropriately-named Omniscient label (Omniscient Records 1426S) Some have speculated that given the band's prog/psych leanings, Catharsis was probably recorded in the '70s, although the accepted wisdom is that the album was made at Minneapolis's Sound 80 Studios on 1969. The album consists of six long tracks with a decidedly heavy guitar-based vibe, all well- recorded and delivered with considerable aplomb."

This shit is just straight up groovy man! Front to back...

Catharsis

Taj Mahal Travellers

A film by Matsuo Ohno, 1973
Watch it here

and for your auditory pleasures...

Live Stockholm July, 1971
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August 1974

Trees Grass & Stones :: The Swedish Progg Movement

Here's a brilliant documentary on the Swedish Progg Movement. Featuring:
Träd Gräs Och Stenar
Hoola Bandoola
Hansson & Karlsson
Kebnekajse
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The Ol' Duct Tape Messiah

Breaking news on the Blaze Foley documentary. Yesterday I got an email from Director/Producer Kevin Triplett stating that the film is almost finished and will make a very rare debut screening at the Paso Robles Film Festival this November.

Try your best to ignore the extremely annoying narrative voice in the trailer.



Blaze is about as good a songwriter as it gets if you ask me...

"If I Could Only Fly"


"Oval Room" (about Ronald Reagan)


John Prine covering Blaze's "Clay Pigeons"

Lonesome Moon Odes

I no longer need to be here. There is nothing the city has to offer me anymore. I need to be where the great silence can be found, where the veil between the present and the past is lifted. I need to hear the wind sway through the treetops and the coyotes howl at the yellow moon. I need a place where I can listen to my own thoughts and those that slip between the cracks of time. I need to be still.



“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” - Edward Abbey