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.Note: link removed as this is soon due for reissue on Lion Productions
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.*******NEW LINK*******
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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.*******NEW LINK*******
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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.*******NEW LINKS*******
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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.*******NEW LINK*******
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