Seminal Romney Marsh Grindcore lunacy from the mid 80’s - “Septik Breth” were two of my friends with a cheap keyboard, a drum machine, some guitars and basses and a karaoke cassette machine in a garage somewhere in Littlestone. Excavated Releases of “Septik Breth” and “Bonjela”
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A collection of songs created by two American expatriates living in London in 1980. Recorded in their living room on a Teac tape machine, Synthesis was entirely composed and performed on a mail order Serge synthesizer kit that Planetary Peace (the husband and wife duo of Will & Kalima Sawyer) had built themselves.
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Tala Vala combine experimental recording methods bridging marginalised genres, synths, brass and strings, jagged guitars and primal percussion. Both the Ep and album were recorded on 2 inch tape and mixed by Jake Jackson who engineering credits include Mica Levi and Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.
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Charlene Knight recorded as a solo artist on Pamela Records in 1961 with the sides_If You Pass Me By / If My Dreams Come True. and in 1962 as Bob O’Donnell & The Tru-Tones_Shy Boy / The Magic Trumpet.
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BBC 6 Music - Zakia Sewell - Dream Time
Zakia Sewell is a hidden gem on Sunday evenings on BBC6 Music. 2 hours of themed and expansive radio with an emphasis on dreams.
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The Rainy Daze was a psychedelic pop group formed in Denver, Colorado in 1965. They were composed of singer/guitarist Tim Gilbert with his brother Kip on drums, lead guitarist Mac Ferris, bassist Sam Fuller, and keyboardist Bob Heckendorf.
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By the time drummer Pete La Roca recorded his debut album Basra in 1965 he had already appeared on 9 Blue Note sessions as a sideman and spent time in bands led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But it was another tenor titan, Joe Henderson, that La Roca brought in as the sole horn voice to front a dynamic quartet that was completed by what liner note writer Ira Gitler called “one of the most attuned rhythm sections in jazz” featuring bassist Steve Swallow and pianist Steve Kuhn. The resulting album is one of the great underrated gems of the Blue Note catalog featuring an expansive 6-track set that includes 3 compositions by La Roca (“Basra” “Candu” “Tears Come from Heaven”), Swallow’s tune “Eiderdown,” “Malagueña” by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, and a stunning ballad performance of the standard “Lazy Afternoon.”
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The Jazzman label continues its excellent Spiritual Jazz compilation series with a focus on the SABA and MPS labels from Germany, who released tons of music by a diverse range of international jazz artists in the sixties and seventies. Few have heard of these labels next to colossuses like Blue Note and Impulse! - Spiritual Jazz 17 ought to change that, containing music from artists range from Elvin Jones to Pedro Iturralde and Hideo Shiraki.
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Syrinx was a Canadian electronic music group active from 1970 to 1972. Propelled by the compositions of keyboardist John Mills-Cockell and backed by saxophonist Doug Pringle and percussionist Alan Wells, the group broke musical ground with their innovative use of the Moog synthesizer and their world music inspirations. Their song “Tillicum” received national attention as the theme music for the television series Here Come the Seventies.
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Joyce Moreno (born 31 January 1948), commonly known as Joyce, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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