Gatha - Gatha LP

On the heels of Popol Vuh, here comes Gatha, consisting of Haare mastermind Ilkka Vekka, and Teemu Markkula of Aum Xul (Ilkka also plays in that). Heavy, meditative, and levitating. 2025 LP on Heavy Meditation.

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Jazzfinger - Night Fall At Borrowed World tape

A bit more folky and psychedelic, this one, thus it sounds slightly brighter. 2012 tape on Sonic Oyster Cassettes.

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Spencer Dobbs - If The Moon Don't Turn Its Back On You & Lunar Yearling

I have really liked Spencer Dobbs ever since I heard his 2016 tape Changed Fool (check here), and I've listened to all his later releases in which he plays bluesy/folksy acoustic depressing music with great lyrics. He was kind enough to send me links to two of his most recent releases and If The Moon Don't Turn Its Back On You is the most extraordinary of his work, as it doesn't follow his usual acoustic pattern, but is more improvised and psych folk centered on electric guitars with slides, glissandos, in-song detunings, quite close to Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack and Karen Dalton freaked folk invocations. It's certainly slightly more ugly and sinister than most of his stuff and it's superb. Get your ass up and download it at the Dust Press bandcamp here.

His most recent 2023 tape is called Lunar Yearling, he says that he recorded it in one take drinking Genesee Cream Ale, and is closer to his more expected beautiful melancholic stuff. I'd dare to say that it's probably my favorite album of his. It's hard to emphasize how heartbreakingly desperate and down to earth it is. Go order it right away at the Dust Press bandcamp here.

Million Brazilians – Poderoso Monicato

At this point, MB had already started shifting into the sprawling psych/free jazz/ambient fourth world primitive cannibal spaceship that they now are, and this one is really a recording you can get lost in. 2015 LP on Psychic Sounds.

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Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness ‎– Fucking With Spirits

 

That untuned guitar underneath the vocal incantations just kills me. 2015 tape on Centipede Farm.

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Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness ‎– Foreskin Of Enlightenment

 

Yes, here they are appropriately lo-fi and mescaline-infested. 2015 tape on Jeuness Cosmique.

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Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness ‎– Lowlands Of Hteklum

 

 

 

 

 

A slightly more energetic and hi-end recording by Ak'Chamel? Sounds like there's a full band playing here and the spirits of Sun City Girls are twirling above. 2014 tape on Moon Glyph.

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Little Skull - Collected 7"s

A collection featuring (oh surprise) Little Skull's five 7"s released betweeen 2003 and 2007. There isn't any info in the booklet (just a cryptic note by Dean Brown asking you to give him 10 bucks for another 7" to make up for lost communication) about the order of songs, and the tracks themselves are not separated, so you get one track for each 7", so let's hope that they are at least in chronological order. This is the beginning of Little Skull, so the sound is somewhat cruder, with less acoustic parts and more percussive/accordion driven ritual drone folk at play, but still very evocative and mystical. 2008 cdr on PseudoArcana.

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Little Skull ‎– How We Used to Laugh b/w Haunted and Defiant 7"

 

 This is Little Skull's most recent release. Nothing has changed and everything is its right place: the beautiful acoustic guitar strums, the overarching accordion, the psychedelic overtones. 2020 7" on Horn Of Plenty <O.

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Little Skull - Little Skull LP

 

 Little Skull's first full-length LP contains all those elements that make this project so adorable: the combination of dark drone and sleepy psych folk, the beautiful cut-out sleeves (could be a The Rita cover?), the mysticism of the feeling of an abandoned hilly town on the edge of a train station in the American deserts. Great stuff. 2010 LP on Elica.

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