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We're so glad to have Lance Barresi of Permanent Records joining the show again. Last time we spoke was more than a year ago and a lot has happen since. In this episode we focus on the newly released "Sixth Trip" of the Brown Acid Compilation Series and we listen to five tracks from this volume. Lance also gives us a first listen to a track for the "Seventh Trip", which will be out on Halloween this year. We also listen to Spiny Norman - a band featured on the second Brown Acid volume but which a full length album of unreleased material was released by RidingEasy Records earlier this year. Besides that we also discuss record collecting in general and the future of vinyl.

Truth & Janey (Sound Communications, 1972) -Midnight Horseman West Minist'r (Magic Records, 1971) -My Life Flight (Blecman Records, 1974) -Luvin', Huggin', and More Purgatory (Not on Label, 1970) -Polar Expedition Zendik (Pslhrtz, 1970) -Is There No Peace Summit (North Room Records, 1969) -The Darkness Spiny Normen (RidingEasy Record, 2018) -Bell Park Loon

This episode doesn't follow a particular theme but instead focus around some recently acquired 45s. Although the theme is not clear it turned out to be a pretty heavy episode with some hard rock-sounding tunes, like Babylon, Rebel Woman and Lovin' You (which was recently included on the Brown Acid compilation series). Other highlights includes a nice version of The United States of America's Coming Down, done by an unknown band, which only known recording is an acetate we recently came across. Special for this episode is that we also had the pleasure to interview Sid Bradley from the band Erik, who shed some light on this little-known group for us, which cut two great 45s in the early 70s. For this episode we have also talked to Charlie Day, who played in Conception, and John Lally from Travis, and they revealed some interesting facts about their groups and the recordings they made. We also wish to thank Lance Barresi from Permanent Records, who helped us get in contact with John Lally.

Travis (Starshine Production, 1970) -Lovin' You Micah (Sterling Award, 1971) -I'm Only One Man Erik -Child of the Sea (Coliseum, 1971) -Rebel Woman (Eden, 1972) Unknown Artist – Coming Down (acetate by an unknown band, 196?) The Group Image (Community, 1968) -Hiya Conception (Perfection, 1969) -Babylon Frank Monroe (Eternity, 1977) -Looking Back at You Home Grown (Westmount Records, 1976) -Here in the West

Reine Fiske is well-known as a musician in various bands and musical constellations, most notable as the guitarist of Dungen, Träden and The Amazing. Besides his own musicianship, Reine has long been a devoted record collector with an impressive collection of experimental, psychedelic and progressive music. In this episode, he plays some incredible rare and extraordinary records for us, such as Christian Yoga Church, one of finest psychedelic commune recordings ever made, as well as an acetate copy of Mandrake Memorial's Medium with a different mix on several of the songs. Reine has also been involved in several reissue projects, including the 3 LP box-set of Pärson Sound, the band that later evolved into Träd, gräs och stenar. Here we listen to their composition Tio Minuter (Ten Minutes), which was originally recorded for Swedish radio in 1967. We also listen to the "dark and epic" music of Jake Holmes and Radiomöbel as well as some fine Turkish psychedelic folk by Ersen. With that said, we hope you'll enjoy this show as much as we do!

Ersen (Şahinler, 1972) -Kozan Dağı Jake Holmes – Letter To Katherine December (Tower, 1968) -Leaves Never Break Christian Yoga Church – Turn On!! Music For the Hip At Heart (Memorare, 1967) -Excerpt from side 1 Mandrake Memorial-Medium (Poppy, 1968, acetate copy) -Smokescreen (with a different mix) Radiomöbel – Tramseböx (Chockskivor, 1975) -Hav Pärson Sound – s/t (Subliminal Sounds, 2001) -Tio Minuter

The concept album format really started to evolve during the psychedelic era of the late '60s, and reached its height in the progressive scene of the early '70s, where the album became the main artistic expression. Here, we highlight some unusual concept and context-based albums, with some concept ideas being stranger than others. We hope you find the selection interesting and that you seek out some of these albums to listen to them as a whole (to fully grasp the meaning of the concept!).

A New Place To Live-s/t (Mandala, 1972) -The Moon Tune Mandrake Memorial-Puzzle (Poppy, 1970) -Earthfriend Dr Z-Three Parts To My Soul (Spiritus, Manes et Umbra) (Vertigo, 1971) -Evil Woman's Manly Child Dreamies-Auralgraphic Entertainment (Stone Theater. 1974) -Excerpt from Program Ten Robert Callender-Le Musée de L'Impressionnisme (Phillips, 1975) - Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec Jimmie Haskell-California '99 (ABC, 1971) -Jessica Stone

We're continuing our series of episodes of cheap quality records. In this episode, we're mainly focusing on psych 45s but we also included a few full length LPs, which all coast around $10 and are easy to find. As usual, the bulk of the artists are from the US but we also mix it up with some affordable Italian prog and Swedish progg. We hope that some of these record are new to you and something that you look for next time you're out digging.

Scorpion (American Recording Company, 1973) -I'm Only Human The Tow-Away Zone (Epic, 1968) -Shabd* Dennis Stoner-s/t (Vantage, 1971) -Lost Along the Highway Dalton, James and Sutton (RCA, 1972) -Esatoria Tritons (Barclay, 1973) -Drifter Thomas Wiehe-Drömskugga (Silence, 1974) -Raga vid de relativas nollpunkt Jordan (Golden Chariot, 1974) -Do You Know What It's Like

*We're discussing the meaning of the word "Shabd" during the episode but without reaching a conclusion. After a quick google we realized that "Shabd" means "word" or "sound" in Hindi.

For this episode we've put together a selection of lesser-known or possibly unknown (?) records. It's a strange mix of strange music with all possible genres, including real people, lounge-psych, dreamy psych-pop, breezy soft-rock, folk and hard rock.

Dr. Fuzz (Flippist, 1977) -I'll Be There at the End of the World Randy DeMoss and the Space City Group (Planet Records, ?) -An Angel Blessed Luellen Reese-s/t (Musican's Co-op International, 1981) -Silvery Waterfall Duke (Joy Records, 1975) -Runaway Girl Charlie Bleak (Main One Records, 1973) -Never You Mind The Weirz-s/t (Parallel Records and Tapes, 1979) -Hard Luck Story

In this episode, we celebrate the guitar and highlight some of our favorite guitarists. It's not only through epic guitar solos and technical skill that make you a great guitarist, instead it's about creating a mood and a feeling through your instrument. The guitarists featured in this episode have that skill and they really can pull some spellbinding guitar wizard tricks out of their hats.

John Berberian and the Rock East Ensemble – Middle-Eastern Rock (Verve Forecast, 1968) -The Oud and the Fuzz Myke Jackson – Alone (Yi-Yi Records, 1975) -In Search of a Home David Chalmers – Primevil Road (Same Old Label, 1976) -Houston Jeffery Liberman – s/t (Librah, 1976) -Phenaphen #3 Steve Tibbetts – s/t (Frammis, 1977) -The Secret Bernie Schwartz –The Wheel (Coburt, 1970) -Sunshine Woman

Summer is here (and is almost over in Sweden) so we put together a special episode with some favorite summer tunes. The selection in today's show is not only sunshine pop and breezy vibes but instead we cover a broad range of styles, including heavy Swedish progg, real people, private press psych, downer folk and only one sunshine pop track. A perfect mix for lazy days at the beach.

Stone Harbour - Emerges (Stone Harbour, 1974)

- Summer Magic Is Gone

Michael Farneti - Good Morning Kisses (Full Moon, 1976)

- Nineteenth Summer

Dagens Rätt - Sommarregn (IMAS Records, 1972)

- Jag ville, jag vore

Jeff Eubank - A Street Called Straight (Dorothea Records, 1983)

- Summersong

Mecki Mark Men - Running In the Summer Night (Limelight, 1969)

- Running In the Summer Night

Mark Eric - A Midsummer's Day Dream (Revue, 1969)

- Where Did the Girls of the Summer Go

Hard Meat - Through a Window (Warner Bros, 1970)

-A Song of Summer

This is an interview with the Canadian singer-songwriter Michal Hasek, who did several privately pressed albums and performed all over Canada and the US during the '70s and '80s. In this interview, he share some of the stories from his time as a traveling musician, including hanging out with Alan Watts at the Ottumwa Heights Catholic College and being kicked off stage by Janis Joplin.

Michal was born in Czechoslovakia in 1946. Not long after, his family fled from the Soviet Union and after a few years living in various countries they eventually settled down in Canada. As a teenager in Toronto in the ´60s, he found himself in the midst of the current folk boom and he soon become part of the community of aspiring musicians hanging out in the hip neighborhood of Yorkville. He started playing coffeehouses and bars all over Canada as well as doing several tours in the Midwest. In 1974 his first album was released on his own imprint, Naja, which received some airplay and was later distributed by A&M (check out Acid Archives for a review of the album). He continued to play throughout the '70s and '80s and privately released two more albums, The Radio Play in 1978 and Night Fear in 1989.

We wish to thank Aaron Dunn for helping us get in contact with Michal, David Brown for kind permission to use some of his photos and Nathan Wisnicki for helping out with the recording.

Michal Hasek - s/t (1974)

-Naja (intro tune)

-Strange Man

-Kick'N The Ass - Amchitka

Alan Watts - This Is It (1962)

-Love You

Michal Hasek with Sundog - The Radio Play (1978)

-The Radio Play

Michal Hasek - Night Fear (1989)

-Night Fear (second version)

Michal Hasek

-Northern Lights (bonus material to the CD version of his debut, recorded in the early '70s)

Michal Hasek - Hasek (compilation)

-Nottawasaga (recorded in the early '70s)

We've put together a new mix of mind-manifesting music, including some singer-songwriter tunes, communal folk, hippie idealism and plenty of hand drums.

Thrower, Spillane and McFarland – Crow (Ranger, 1973)

F.B. Worster – Autumn's Child (MPI, 1974)

Turid –Stjärnor och Änglar (Silence, 1975)

Cymbeline – Sixth Image (Green Light, 1971)

Bob McBride – 90 Degrees on the Moon (Capitol, 1973)

Peter Kelley – I Been Told (Sire, 1971)

Ptarmigan – Go Dancing (Columbia, 1974)

Lila – Beneath The Sky (Lila, 1978)

Shawi – Un Air De Printemps (Intervalle, 1981)

Om Shanti – We Are Home (Solace, 1977)

Kevin Vicalvi – Another Day, Another Time (Starizon Studio, 1974)

Kold Duc – Evil Woman (Vat, 197?)

John Braheny – Don't Cry For Me (Pete, 1968)

Rex Holman – Debbie (Pentagram, 1970)

Jerry Merrick – Please Clear the Air (Mercury, 1969)

John Berberian – The Fuzz (Excerpt) (Verve Forecast, 1969)