EARWACKS-DISTANCES, LP, 1981, USA

This lost piece of private press American prog eccentricity is operating on a very elevated level indeed, with a dizzying array of moves that you could loosely triangulate between the Zappa and Hampton Grease Band-damaged convolutions of the American left field proggers in Oho, the prog/glam-indebted new wave quirk of early Tin Huey and the real people art rock what-the-fuck-ness Gignoux's Broadway Boys. This is just fascinating stuff and begs to be rolled around on (and have it's orifices probed by) your collective tongues, as the mystery and depth here just keep exponentially escalating as this platter spins on.

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LAURENCE VANAY-GATE WAY EVENING COLOURS, LP, 1975, FRANCE

Following Jim's post from way back in 2007 of this spellbinding French artist's debut outing Galaxies, here's Jacqueline Thibault's (wife of famed early Magma member and producer Laurent Thibault) quietly devastating follow-up under this male pseudonym. Gate Way Evening Colours carries forward the spirit of her first in high fashion. As mentioned in the text accompanying Jim's post, her fellow French sympho-proggers in Catharsis would be an obvious point of reference for the often dewily shimmering, restrained and mysterious species of prog beguilement on hand, but so too would fellow French unit Wapassou as this negotiates zones of darkly magisterial wonderment, with some of the ecstatic peaks achieved on the more rock-centric B-side even being akin to the Quebecois dark prog godhead of Franck Dervieux's Dimension M.

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VAGTAZO HALOTTKEMEK-A VILAGOSZTON KIUGRASZTASA (JUMPING OUT THE WORLD - INSTINCT), LP, 1990, HUNGARY

Following on from my post of their debut release, here's another breathtaking round of ecstatic and amphetamine-cut higher key spacerock pummel from this self professed "Shamanic hardcore" unit, with these completely sui generis Hungarians unleashing waves, then shockwaves and finally, audio landslides out of their relentless and nerve-shattering M.O. that seems to equate psychedelic revelation with being baptized in fire.

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V.A.-INSIDE THE FANTASTICAL CAVE, CDR, 2003, USA

This instantly deleted 100 copy CDR comp is split between three bands; one relatively high profile, one de rigueur for this sorta thing and a third that's a question mark, the lot of 'em assembled to provide the soundtrack to the stitched kitsch of Chie Fukao and Leif Ritchey's visual art installation from which this compendium takes it's name. The prolific improv rock freaks in Sunburned Hand Of The Man turn in one of the best of their post-psychedelic interventions here, plowing a very deep trough of Swedish underground-derived acid trudge across 14 mantric minutes, while the esteemed New York speaker cone shredders in Sightings plays a tortured game of whack-a-mole with hairballs of sonic filth, as is their wont. A third outfit under the banner of The Arb offer some slight rhythm-machine abetted drift that probably worked better in tandem with Fukao and Richey's thrift store entanglements than on their lonesome here, but I expect the Sunburned and Sightings material here will more than suffice for the majority of you.

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THE ZEET BAND-MOOGIE WOOGIE, LP, 1970, USA

Highly winning early Moog funk zaniness in a sorta pre-Popcorn mode from this one-off West Coast crew, with some of the best bits here even anticipating the killer synthy library sleaze of Claude Perraudin's Patchwork library releases.

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MCH BAND-1982-1986, 2xCD, 1992, CZECHOSLOVAKIA

A follow-up to my long-ago post of this powerhouse Czech avant prog outfit's early 90's outing "Gib Acht", the work of the MCH Band on this archivally assembled collection could well give The Plastic People Of The Universe a run for their money as the most formidable and outwardly bound Czech unit active during the period represented here. Led by guitarist/sax player Mikolas Chadima, the array of tracks at hand from a decade or so earlier than Gib Acht are a good bit more rawboned and raucous. They schematically divided this two disc set between rock and improvised sections, disc one offering up a magnificent array of nervous avant rock motion, tense atmospheric gestures and bass driven minor key grooves that jibe rather a lot with many of the best outfits out of Czechoslovakia during this era from E to Psi Vojaci to Pro Pocit Jistoty. In fact, it's easy to see how much this material served as a template for the slightly later work of the folks in Uz Jsme Doma. Disc two veers off into much more purgatorial zones of mystery, abstraction and unease that are almost Einsturzende Neubauten-like at times.

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ALBERT MARCOEUR-LIVE IN NANCY, FRANCE, 1976, UNRELEASED

An exceptionally rare live recording of this near mythical French avant prog mage and his crack team of accomplices, whose brilliantly deconstructive musical muse (often compared to Zappa) almost defines the aesthetic stance adopted by the R.I.O. crowd, despite his not being formally inducted into their cabal during Rock In Opposition's heyday. Newcomers to Marcoeur's body of work would be better served by first acquainting themselves with his studio recordings (the split tape with This Heat on Tago Mago posted long ago by Jim would be a good place to start), but for initiates, this admittedly rather rough live recording offers a fascinating window into how his musical processes unfurl in real time.

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ECHO IS YOUR LOVE/KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT-S.T., SPLIT LP, 1999, FINLAND

A rare and largely forgotten split LP from the 90's Finnish underground, this platter finds Echo Is Your Love (still apparently extant and whom their Wiki entry describes as "noise rock") working a seam of languid and distortion laced femme vox indie pop and they certainly do it nicely enough to be appreciated by those that go in for that sorta thing, but it's the earliest era of Finnish free folk/communal psych stalwarts Kemialliset Ystavat that's bound to be the attention getter here. At this point, their more expansive and psychedelic gestures were a few years ahead of them, the scrappily playful material at hand lurching in fits and starts from decrepit no wave screech to lobotomized toy instrument torture.

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HEINZ SCHWEISZ-HUNGER & LIEBE, TAPE, 1985, GERMANY

Another long forgotten Neue Deutsche Welle cassette rescued from the tape decay brink and offered up for your edification, this one a foil-encased 30 copy edition mid 80's cassingle mating a stark bass, beatbox and voice workout with a round of detourned tape spew, metal banging and grafted on narrative on the flip.

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IBID-GOLDEN WONDER, CD, 199(?), HONG KONG

Amusingly piss-takey plunderphonic/karaoke-detourned dada junk spew in the mode of Eye Yamatsuka's hijinks in U.F.O. Or Die and Violent Onsen Geisha circa Otis courtesy of Hong Kong based dadaist bricoleur Xper.Xr. Smear the curdled residue of pop cultural deconstruction across your third eye and smell the love.

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