Nirvana - All of Us (1968)

Nirvana - All of Us

Here comes the British Nirvana. This is an album that has both prog and psychedelic sound. "Miami Masquerade" is my favorite, a beautiful song. Love the vocals on all songs. The complete album name is "The Existence of Chance Is Everything and Nothing While the Greatest Achievement Is the Living of Life, and so Say ALL OF US". Yes.

Album information:

01-Rainbow Chaser

02-Tiny Goddess

03-The Touchables (All Of Us)

04-Melanie Blue

05-Trapeze

06-The Show Must Go On

07-Girl In The Park

08-Miami Masquerade

09-Frankie The Great

10-You Can Try It

11-Everybody Loves The Clown

12-St.John's Wood Affair

13-Flashbulb (b-side single)

14-Oh! What A Performance (a-side single)

15-Darling Darlene (b-side single)

16-C Side Of Ocho Rios (b-side single)

Band information:

Nirvana was created as the performing arm of the London-based songwriting partnership of Irish musician Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Greek composer Alex Spyropoulos. On their recordings Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos supplied all the vocals. The instrumental work was primarily undertaken by top session musicians and orchestral musicians - with Campbell-Lyons providing a little guitar and Spyropoulos contributing some keyboards.

Musically, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos blended myriad musical styles including rock, pop, folk, jazz, Latin rhythms and classical music, primarily augmented by baroque chamber-style arrangements to create a unique entity.

In October 1967, they released their first album: a concept album produced by Blackwell titled The Story of Simon Simopath. The album was arguably the first narrative concept album ever released, predating story-driven concept albums such as The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow (December 1968), The Who's Tommy (April 1969) and The Kinks' Arthur (September 1969).

Unable to perform their songs live as a duo and with the impending release of their first album, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos decided to create a live performing ensemble and they recruited four musicians to enable them to undertake concerts and TV appearances. Though hired to be part of the live performance group rather than as band members, these four musicians were also included in the photograph alongside the core duo on the album cover of their first album to assist in projecting an image of a group rather than a duo. However they were not core founding members of the group and within a few months Nirvana had reverted to its original two-person lineup. The four musicians who augmented Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos on their live appearances and television shows for those few months were Ray Singer (guitar), Brian Henderson (bass), Sylvia A. Schuster (cello) and Michael Cole (French horn, viola).

In 1968, the duo recorded their second album, All Of Us, which featured a similar broad range of musical styles as their first album.

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N.S.U. - Turn On, Or Turn Me Down (1969)

N.S.U. - Turn On, Or Turn Me Down

This album is a great mix of blues, psychedelic and progressive rock. One of the bands that I wish had more albums. The band name may be originated from Cream's "N.S.U.". Good vocals, good guitar work. From "bright" songs to "blues", it's all there. Songs "His Town" and "Love Talk" are my favorites. Below you'll listen to the song that gave the album it's name.

Album information:

01-Turn On, Or Turn Me Down

02-His Town

03-You Can't Take It From My Heart

04-Love Talk

05-All Aboard

06-The Game

07-Stoned

08-Pettsie's Blues

09-On The Road

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Mystic Tide - Solid Sound, Solid Ground (1965-69)

Mystic Tide - Solid Sound, Solid Ground

Mystic Tide, a band way ahead of their time. A psychedelic garage rock band, one of the best I dare say. This album was recorded between 1965 and 1969, it includes 18 tracks, most of them are favorites. You will find mellow tracks such as "I Wouldn't Care", and "Why". Then, you will find the hard stuff, "Frustration", "Mystic Ship" and "Psychedelic Journey". I love this band.

Album information:

1. I Wouldn't Care

2. Why

3. Stay Away

4. Search for New Love

5. Mystic Eyes

6. Frustration

7. Running Through the Night

8. Psychedelic Journey, Pt. 1

9. Psychedelic Journey, Pt. 2

10. Mystery Ship

11. You Won't Look Back

12. You Know It's True

13. It's Simple Sister

14. Mystery Ship (ver2)

15. Frustration (ver2)

16. Silver Rails - Going Home

17. See the Light

18. Solid Ground

Band information:

The Mystic Tide were an American rock band who have been credited for creating some of the first psychedelicanthems. They have also been called one of the best garage bands of the mid 1960s.

The group formed on Long Island and released a total of four singles between 1965 and 1967, all of which were written by the band's guitar player, Joe Docko. The band broke up in 1967 after little commercial success. Many years later in 1994 Docko recorded some new material and that along with three demos, the band's four original singles, and their B-sides would be put out as a CD by Distortions records. Released more than 25 years after the group had disbanded,Solid Sound/Solid Ground, was the first and only album the band ever made.

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Mystic Siva - Selftitled (1972)

Mystic Siva - Selftitled

After all the prog albums, we're back to psychedelia. Mystic Siva is heavy on keyboards, more so than the guitar. I like the songs "Magic Luv" and "Supernatural Mind".

Album information:

01 - Keeper Of The Keys

02 - And When You Go

03 - Eyes Have Seen Me

04 - Come On Closer

05 - Sunshine Is Too Long

06 - Spinning A Spell

07 - Supernatural Mind

08 - Find Out Why

09 - Magic Luv

10 - Touch The Sky

11 - In A Room

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My Solid Ground - Selftitled (1971)

My Solid Ground - Selftitled

My Solid Ground is a prog/psyche/hard rock band, it basically is what you make it. For me it's a mix between heavy psychedelia and prog. Some of the songs are instrumental-heavy, if that's your thing, you'll love this album.

Album information:

01 - Dirty Yellow Dust

02 - Flash Party IV

03 - That's You

04 - The Executioner

05 - Melancholie

06 - Handful Of Grass

07 - Devonshire Street W

08 - X

09 - Y

10 - Z

11 - Flash

12 - The Executioners (Demo)

13 - Handful Of Grass (Demo)

14 - That´s You (Diff. Mix)

15 - Dirty Yellow Mix (Demo)

Band information:

A little known hard rock and psychedelic band, who just made the one album, My Solid Ground were amongst the most obscure of acts on Bacillus Records, but these days they are much better known amongst Krautrock aficionados. 

My Solid Ground originated in 1968 from the town Rüsselheim, with the line-up: Bernhard Rendel(guitars, vocals), with Willy Waid (drums) and Uli Weyrauch (bass). Establishing themselves as a psychedelic hard-rock band, unbefitting their name they were never a solid or stable band, with one Werner Geilenkirchen playing bass for a year before being replaced by Karl-Heinrich Dörfler. Gelling the sound proper was Ingo Werner on keyboards, however it seems that he kept leaving the band and returning.

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Murphy Blend - First Loss (1970)

Murphy Blend - First Loss

I'm just beginning to realize how many prog rock bands I have in the archive, Murphy Blend is of course one of them. To me, they also have a psychedelic taste in the their sound. "At First" is my favorite in the album, try it.

Album information:

01 - At First

02 - Speed Is Coming Back

03 - Past Has Gone

04 - Praludium - Use Your Feet

05 - First Loss

06 - Funny Guys

07 - Happiness

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Monument - The First Monument (1971)

Monument - The First Monument

Monument is for prog lovers, a heavy one. They could become an occult rock band with a couple changes, think of Coven, with male vocals. "Dog Man" is a great song, have a listen.

Album information:

01. Dog Man

02. Stale Flesh

03. Don't Run Me Down

04. Give Me Life

05. The Metamorphis Tango

06. Boneyard Bumne

07. First Taste Of Love

08. And She Goes

09. Overture For Limp Piano In C

10. I'm Coming Back

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