http://magdalenasolis.com Lush warm sonic swells, all wreathed in thick swaths of serious psych guitar, the sound constantly shifting from tranquil and dreamlike, to blown out and druggy/droney and way tripped out, heady and hypnotic and easily some of the best kaleidoscopic kosmische space/drone/psych we've heard.
- Aquarius Records
Selda (Selda Ba?can, born 1948 in Mu?la, Turkey) is a Turkish wonder, heroine of the anatolian invasion; a powerful voice and charged lyrics gave her the moniker of "the Joan Baez of Turkey". She's a protest-singer and an activist, and belongs to the Alevi religious and cultural minority. check the b-music/finders keepers reissue of her self titled 70s album for a mind blowing explosion of psychedelic radical folk pop. selda is a revalatory and groovy in new ways experience for your earhole.
Mike Gunn was a Houston quartet steeped deep in psychedelia. Born on the ashes of the legendary Houston Schlong Weasel, it included John Cramer (vocals, guitar), Tom Carter (vocals, guitar), Scott Grimm (bass), Curt Mackey (drums). Mike Gunn is the name of the Schlong Weasel musician who named the band but never played in it.
Nascent Icelandic band with ties to The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Debut full length album for streaming and downloading available here:
http://www.dead.is/deadskeletons.html
http://www.last.fm/music/the+dead+skeletons
Red River Dialect is the guitars & voice of David Morris with Simon Drinkwater on electric guitar, Jack Kindred Boothby on bass, Ed Sanders on violin and Hugh Cowling on drums. They are from Falmouth & Penryn, in Cornwall. Their latest album 'White Diamonds' was released in November 2010, the follow-up 'awellupontheway' was recorded in June 2011 and will be released sometime in the first half of 2012.
Starving Weirdos are from northern California's lost coast, a sleepy hamlet surrounded by five hours of wilderness in all directions. They are a wild and desperate style music band. They dig on the quiet and natural beauty that defines their environs and try to carry the same spirit of dignity mixed with brute force and docile felicity as it appears to them daily. No discord and no harmony.
Underground avant-garde alternative rock band of the 1980s and 1990s. Originally based in Amherst, Massachusetts at Hampshire College, and at times also based in New York City, Seattle and Los Angeles. Arose in the same college musical scene that gave birth to Dinosaur Jr and also associated with the early grunge movement, especially the Seattle grunge bands including Nirvana. Known for four albums, very noisy concerts and band members' disputatious and disruptive attitude.
The duo of Michael Flower and John Moloney (known from Sunburned Hand of the Man) issued an EP under this monicker on the Manhand label that was reissued as part of Three Lobed Recordings "Oscillation III"-series in 2008. Dubbed by the label as "biker psych for the third eye rider" it featured three extra live tracks not on the original issue.
Sebastien Forrester, a French bohemian artist based in Paris, France who traffics within a melange of aliases but whose freshest mask is Holy Strays. Stuttering drum loops, hypnotic keyboard spirals, and melodic fogs that float up then dissipate. The elements are all there gelling up a superlative sound.