Trancestors- The Music and Art of Quietman (BlackUnicorn Recordings)

Local underground rave scene legend, Larry Lush and his partner in trance, Wilf are Quietman. This is a fantastic package and value; the hardback book and download code…  It is also out on a CD. Anyway this is nearly 75mins of music and 19 tracks that harkens back to the 80s-90s when the rave scene became the trance scene.  Now there are many subdivisions of trance..  I guess this one would be called classic.. 

For every song, there is an associated page with painting, drawing and description. Some are specifically about the song and others more general knowledge and information.  I am so impressed with this package..

Larry and I have also made some music in Øresund Space Collective and in my studio as well.  Anyway, fans of old school rave music will dig this and it nice to sit with the amazing artbook and hear the tracks and descriptions..  Check it out..

https://larrylush.bandcamp.com/album/trancestors

 

Hanna & Jerry- Relaxed (OUTERDISK OD2221222)

This group is a duo of duo Hanna Östergren/Jerry Johansson.  Hanna has been in a number of psychedelic bands like HIlls, Laughing Eye, and DJINN.  Jerry is known for his sitar playing and leading the act Grovjobb. This most excellent album features 5 tracks.  Some of the tracks have bass and drums and others are just floating, eastern inspired psych, like being in a dream. Remains starts things off like an Indian raga and good Sunday morning piece of music with some drum accompaniment.  Silence continues with another raga but Hanna adds in some Rhodes and other instruments along the way like the Shruti box. Still is a very short under 3min Rhodes and Mellotron track with some interesting other additions to keep it anything but normal!!  Side B starts off with the track Mountain and some nice banjo with some original and traditional parts. Hanna plays the bass and drums on this one. After a while it really builds up in tempo and reminds me of something Hills might do but without the banjo!! Dawn ends the album with a 12min raga with some field recordings of birds, a drone, flute and a cool vibe.  Nice album for a sunday morning…

Jerry Johansson: sitar, banjo, Mellotron, guitar
Hanna Östergren: drums, organ, Rhodes, Mellotron, bass,
voice, flute, percussion, shruti box, field recordings, album mixing

www.soundeffect-records.gr

www.outerdisk.com

Gregg McKella- Songs from the Underground (GM001CD)

Most of you will know Gregg from his band Paradise 9.  This CD features a lot of songs from his old busking days that he felt it was time to record properly. He worked closely with Martin Litmus at his studio to create this lovely album of personal songs and memories. The album features 11 original songs and one cover (Motherless Children). Gregg primarily plays acoustic guitar but he also plays glissando guitar, a bit of clarinet, synth… Martin plays the bass, keys, synths, percussion, backing vocals… This was a true musical collaboration and successful.  Both guys have a background in space rock but this is more like spacey busker music, space folk. Check it out. It is out on CD now..

https://greggmckella.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-underground-2 

L.Don Okomi- Banjo Machine Music (Self Released)

It was an honour to be invited to play on this CD/LP, which was released in December. Sadly, I was unable to attend the release party on Dec 27th, as many of the players who are featured here did. Anyway, this is experimental banjo music like you have not heard before. A totally unique album featuring 6 tracks. Don plays the Harmonium and two different types of banjos. It is one track but features mixes or additions by different people, so each track becomes a unique piece of music. Check out the bandcamp page for more details and ordering. You can also buy the CD and LP from me. Just write… 

https://ldonohkami.bandcamp.com/album/banjo-machine-music-2 

SULA BASSANA - Time Travel - Rare & Obscure Tracks From The Decades (Self Released)

 

This is a super cool release of unreleased and rare tracks from all eras of Sula´s solo career and it starts off with a rocking track called Ridin´. This is live from Hamburg 2024, the same show that the tracks that were released on the split LP with Skyjoggers… Krachgarten (from 2012) did appear on a bandcamp compilation before. Really cool bass line on this track and nice delay guitars. A great space rock track in the end. Wow.. Arkelanfall is a short electrronic piece with Modulfix from 2009. Totally different vibe than the rock that started the CD. Trippy….

Animal Farm is a very funny one from 2008 with drums and Farm animal samples… This one drove our dogs crazy!! Was Du Denkst (2006) is a real archive recording and Dave thinks it is from 2006.. 

Soulcake is a cool track that appeared on a Greek Compilation CD in 2011 but has a much earlier orgin, late 90s early 2000s… A nice laid back and spacey vibe to this one with a hypnotic riff.  Fiebertraum is from the later 90s and appeared on the rare Sulatronics CD-R (I own it!!)… Very drony and spacey synths to start.  It slowly builds up with some intense drums and repeatitive synth lines and the tension builds but slowly drops off over time..A bit TD like Paranoid? i is also from the Sulatronics CD and quite a long track at 13mins.  Super cool track… Suomenlinna was inspired by being on a Finnish Island in the late 90s.. Very laid back and trippy with loads of interesting manpulated sounds and repeated fender rhodes like keyboard line.  Dreamy…  Pilzwald, at 33 mins is quite the musical adventure. A very experimental track with Alexander Bulgrin, back then the singer (or ex singer) of Liquid Visions. This was recorded live and is quite the space out..

Maybe it will come out on a CD one day.. Enjoy..

https://sulabassana.bandcamp.com