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Criminally overlooked in the psychedelic scene of the first ’70s, East was a Japanese band that made music apparently right in the home in the Haight-Ashbury district of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. Despite the using traditional Japanese equipment like the koto, biwa, taisho-goto, as well as the shakuchi, they sounded …

Often cited among the first proper psychedelic rock bands to emerge in Denmark through the 1960s, Young Flowers were a blues-based power trio whose music was intensely influenced simply by Cream as well as the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Teen Flowers had been produced in Copenhagen in 1967 by guitarist Jens …

Dubbed “Hamburg’s hip-hop dinosaur” by its members, German trio Fettes Brot could very well be best likened towards the Beastie Boys, posting using their American counterparts an identical longevity, a comparably eclectic creative sensibility as well as the same white pores and skin. Fettes Brot (approximately, “fat breads,” and a …

This Philadelphia-based composer is well known primarily through his live synthesizer performances on classic Buchla equipment, his scores for dance and theater, and his musical collaborations. Charles Cohen started playing the uncommon Buchla Music Easel synthesizer in 1976, and provides since become referred to as a get good at of …

Synth pop wasn’t designed to have a spirit. Pioneered by German techno wizards Kraftwerk in the ’70s, digital pop music became a haven for chilly detachment. With no hollow baritone of vocalist David Gahan (delivered David Callcott), there wouldn’t end up being much fireplace in the man made grooves of …

Although G.F. Fitz-Gerald continues to be making music because the 1960s, he’s released only one recording under his personal name, 1970’s Mouseproof. This is a time when major brands were more likely to green-light ridiculously uncommercial albums than anytime before or since, and Mouseproof certainly keeps its own for the …

From your coal and farm country of Akron, OH, Dave Crossland released his first nationally distributed EP, Fields of Guarantee on Appleseed Records, in 2000. Soon after its launch, he began focusing on his debut full-length recording. Both projects included his unique make of folk which presented passionate anthems about …

The Gist was formed by Stuart Moxham like a side project from his post-punk/twee pop pioneering music group Adolescent Marble Giants, but their first single appeared for the racks six weeks before the split of YMG, in Dec of 1980. Embrace the Herd, the group’s lone LP, premiered in-may 1981. …

Multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald and drummer Michael Giles initial teamed in early 1969 as founding associates from the pioneering United kingdom art rock-band King Crimson. Nevertheless, after appearing on the landmark debut In the Courtroom from the Crimson Ruler, the duo — dissatisfied using the group’s musical path and any risk …

Richard Brautigan was a significant American author of the 1960s and 1970s, his droll, financial, gallows-humor prose linking the beatnik and hippie eras, aswell as reflecting many quintessentially American character traits and scenarios. His most acclaimed books include Trout Angling in the us, The Abortion, The Hawkline Monster, and Willard …