Each week, COSMIC TONES offers an examination of movements in Psychedelia and
all sorts of eclectic music from around the world.
Then to Now, it's all here.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Lost in My Whirled


//§etlist for 1/27/12//


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Love Is Peace - Amon Düül - 1970, Germany
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Feeling Good - Chrissy Zebby Tempo & Ngozi Family - 1974, Zambia
Intruder - Yuya Uchida & The Flowers - 1969, Japan
Burning Fever - Flied Egg - 1972, Japan
Freakshow - Colour Haze - 2001, Germany
Sol Och Regn - Dungen - 2002, Sweden
Vahsi Çiçek - Mogollar - 1970, Turkey
Soleil D'Ork (Ork'sun) - Magma - 1978, France
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7 Up - Eero Koivistoinen Music Society - 1972, Finland
Igbehin Lalayo Nta - Dynamic Africana - Nigeria
Groovy Bones - Blackfoot - Zambia
One Thousand Tears Of A Tarautula - Dengue Fever - 2005, L.A./Cambodia ~> show review
Kuen Kuen Lueng Lueng - Sroeng Santi - Thailand
Pu Yai Lee Santana - Rung Fah Puping - Thailand
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Lobos al Escape - Los Orientales de Paramonga - 1970, Peru
Lost in My World (Perdido en Mi Mundo) - Dug Dugs - 1971, Mexico
Chased By The Space Police - Øresund Space Collective - 2012, Øresund region
Turnpike - The Low Frequency In Stereo - 2009, Norway
Ténéré Daféo Nikchan - Tinariwen - 2003, Mali
Stained Sky - Ilyas Ahmed - 2012, Pakistan
Fear - Laika & The Cosmonauts - 1988, Finland
See More Glass - Total Control - 2011, Australia
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IN - Seven That Spells - 2011, Zagreb, Croatia



[*Podcast cuts off early, during the last break.
The final track has been added artificially, for continuity's sake]


Here's a video of Seven That Spells performing on the beach in 2010.
DunaJam looks pretty fugn, eh?


Update:

Its the best fucking festival in the world. Period.
-Niko, of STS



Friday, January 20, 2012

Music To Smoke Bananas By...


Setlist for the Evening of:
Jan.20th.2012


Here To Fall - Yo La Tengo - 2009
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Music To Smoke Bananas By - The Elopers - 1967, Manitou Springs, CO
Hot House of Omargarashid - The Yardbirds - 1966
Inside Outside - The Warlocks - 2003, S.F.
New Potato Caboose - Grateful Dead - 1968, S.F.
Dance of The Flames > Samba Das Rosas - Guru Guru - 1974, Germany
Mane Joao - Erasmo Carlos - 1971, Brazil
I'm Walkin' High - Evolution - 1970, Spain
I See A Man - Witchcraft - 2005, Sweden
Ride - Dandy Warhols - 1995, Portland
Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail - Harvestman - 2005
Nazca Lines of Peru - Mercury Program - 2000
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Pictures of A City - King Crimson - 1970
The Illusion Crawls - Danava - 2011, Portland (for Jacob)
Variations On The Coocoo - John Fahey - 1964
Raymond Winchester - Yusef Lateef - 1969
Vibrafinger - Gary Burton - 1971
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See if I Care - Ken & The 4th Dimensions - 1966, L.A.
Genetic Epidemic - Abunai - 2000 (sorry for playing this track, it's sloppy and boring.)
Requiem For Sandy Bull (R.I.P.) - Entrance - 2007
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1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - 1968


Listen/Download: Cosmic Tones: Episode 51


Monday, January 16, 2012

50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain


Setlist for Friday The 13th, 2012




(Bharatanatyam) > Kobwebs* - Gonjasufi (*If the intro to this song doesn't frighten you, please see a psychologist)
2010, San Diego
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Apothecaries' Weight - Kyuss
1992, Palm Desert
Snow Goddess - Sleepy Sun
2009, San Francisco
Lonely - Jake Holmes
1967, San Fran
Atomized - Alexander Tucker
2011, Kent, England
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The Fourth Dimension - The Ventures
1964, Tacoma, WA
Crying At The Aquarium - The Octopus Project
2002, Austin, TX
Druganaut - Black Mountain
2005, Vancouver
Read A Book - Cerebrum
1969/70, SPAIN
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
What Does Your Soul Look Like>
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50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain - Ten Years After
1970, Nottingham, England

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Let's try this...
Download / Listen: Click Hear




I also forgot to mention that this was my 50th show.
Thanks for being there.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

MMXI



So, since I've already put the work in for people like this and this, I figured why not post this blogony (*coined* you heard it here first) in with your favorite soup of sights and sounds that is Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy.

[Oh and by the way, I kinda write for The Denver Post now. Guess we'll see where that goes...]


More hyping of this past expanse of time that no one is really sure what to call...

Favorite songs

∆//////////////////A guide to 2011’s Best Psychedelic Albums://////////////////∆

|Transmalinnia| – Lumerians (Knitting Factory)

|Sun and Shade| – Woods (Woodsist)

|Is Growing Faith| – White Fence (Woodsist)

|Through The Donkey Jaw| – Amen Dunes, (Sacred Bones)

|Hazed Dream| – Psychic Ills (Sacred Bones)

|In Love With Oblivion| – Crystal Stilts (Slumberland)

|Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP| – Thee Oh Sees (In The Red)

|The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz| – Radio Moscow (Alive)

|Diaper Island| - Chad Vangaalen (Sub Pop)

|Getting Paid| – Zechs Marquise (Sargent House)

|936| – Peaking Lights (Not Not Fun)

|Lifeboats and Follies| – Tommy Guerrero (Galaxia)

|S/T| – Quilt (Mexican Summer)

|Country Stash| – MV & EE (Three Lobed Recordings)

|Beyond The 4th Door| – Eternal Tapestry (Thrill Jockey)

|Pewt’r Sessions Vol. 1| – Causa Sui (El Paraiso)

|Stundum| – Papir (El Paraiso)

|I Wash My Soul In The Stream of Infinity| – My Brother The Wind (Transubstans)

|Analog| – The Re-Stoned (R.I.A.G.)

|Master Sleeps| – Hills (Transubstans)

|Neverendless| – CAVE (Drag City)

∆\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Assorted other releases that kick ass:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

|Some Cold Rock Stuf| – J.Rocc (Stones Throw)

|Odd Seasons| – Oddisee (Mello Music Group)

|Classic| – MED (Stones Throw)

|Do Whatever You Want All The Time| – Ponytail

|Tassili| – Tinariwen (Wedge)

|Gloss Drop| – Battles (Warp)

|Maria Kapel| – Six Organs of Admittance (Pavillion)

|D| – White Denim (Downtown Records)

|S/T| – Gardens and Villa (Secretly Canadian)

|Innings| – NODZZZ (Woodsist)

|Apacalypse| – Bill Callahan (Drag City)

|Take Care, Take Care, Take Care| – Explosions In The Sky (Temporary Residence)

|VDSQ Solo Acoustic Guitar, Vols. 4, 5, 6| (Vin Du Select Qualitite)

|Of The Days| – Grey Reverend (Motion Audio)

|Arabia Mountain| – The Black Lips (Vice Music Inc)

|The Mistress| - Yellow Ostrich (Barsuk)

|Shadow Sessions| – The Webelos (Self-released)

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The repetitiveness of social media is ruining me.


Saturday, January 7, 2012

First episode of Cosmic Tones // Backward Glasses Finale









---The name has changed, but the song remains the same.---


Setlist for 1/6/12


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Fire! Fire!! (13:08) > Pagan Moonbeam (3:47) - My Brother The Wind
Åmål, Sweden
Dream of Vodyanoy - The Re-Stoned
Moscow, Russia
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Sunday #1 - Papir
a blizzard, Denmark
Kleiner Knaller - Electric Moon
Germany
Calalini Rises - Lumerians
Oakland, CA
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The Vessel - Hills
Gothenburg, Sweden



Download the show by clicking H E A R
~Also, I'm not sure if I am going to start using this, but it does allow you to listen to the show without downloading it to your computer. It's a cool project either way, so check it out. Radio4all
[And I wouldn't say this if it weren't true; but these past three "Year-End" shows are some of the best on the archive. highly recommended.]

If you are interested in finding more great music of this ilk, these are basically the best labels to check out.
Nasoni