November 1, 2021

A multicolored life

 


Rainbow hills! Whether real or imagined, it's the same. It's all in how you SEE it.

And HEAR it!

This playlist is literally multicolored, all over the board, every piece a star player in the game. We start with an unusual track on the fringes of the space rock realm... space jazz? This track is a standalone anomaly from the Lounge Lizards, denizens of the bowels of NYC, and differs from their avant garde freejazz/punk skronk by lightyears. I had to add it after reading the memoirs of their fearless leader, the illustrious wizard John Lurie. What a story, what a man, what a band! What a SONG.

We then return to our regularly scheduled programming with some down and dirty psych/blooz, with Jack Harlon And The Dead Crows (Melbourne, Australia), King Buffalo (Rochester, New York), and All Them Witches (Nashville, Tennessee).

Following that we have some modern psych par excellence with The Nova Saints (Bristol, UK), Hologram People (UK), and Upupayama (Parma, Italy).

Then maybe some motorik madness with Zement (Wurzberg, Germany) and Mugstar (Liverpool, UK)? Some gritty psych traditionalists with The Third Sound (Berlin, Germany), Dead Radio (Newcastle, Australia), and Acid Dad (Queens, New York)? Some shoegaze-adjacent jams from Chatham Rise (Minneapolis, Minnesota) and The Horrors (London, UK)?

Then off the deep end into the experimental post-punk of Liars (Australia). And we wrap up the set with some impossible to classify weirdness from Acid Baby Jesus (Athens, Greece), Domiciles (Scotland), Yoo Doo Right (Montreal, Quebec), Menk (St. Petersburg, Russia), and 3AM (Lima, Peru).

It's like a grab bag of leftover Halloween candy, close your eyes and dig in. You never know what sweet confections await you. Chances are you'll get lucky and grab the psilocybin-infused ones. Those are the BEST! And the parenthetical points of origin yet again illustrate the fact that spacerock is EVERYWHERE!

The following tracks are included in the player below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
A Paper Bag And The Sun - Lounge Lizards Voice of Chunk
The Tale Of The Magnetic Ridge - Jack Harlon And The Dead Crows The Magnetic Ridge
The Knock - King Buffalo The Burden Of Restlessness
Alabaster - All Them Witches Sleeping Through The War
The Draft - The Nova Saints Newfoundland
Pray To The Maypole Witch - The Hologram People Sacred Ritual To Unlock The Mountain Portal
The Blue Magician's Fantasy - Upupayama - s/t
Soil - Zement Rohstoff
Star Cage - Mugstar Graft
Tokoloshe - Dead Radio Callisto
RC Driver - Acid Dad - Take It From The Dead
Hummingbird - Chatham Rise Meadowsweet
Dive In - The Horrors Skying
From What The Never Was - Liars The Apple Drop
Untitled - Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapour Spectra Spirit
Diogenes - Acid Baby Jesus Selected Recordings
Six Degrees of Separation - Domiciles This Is Not A Zen Garden
Marche De Vivants - Yoo Doo Right Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose
Volni - Menk Lopasti Buddy
UHF - 3AM - Transmissions