Episodes
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A new mix of acoustic and lysergic folk music.
Tracklist:
Thomas Mera Gartz - En Lycklig Sång
Poor Richard - The Gulls
Amory Kane - Four Ravens (single version)
Yellow Autumn - Energy
Spilld Mjölk - Glasverandan
Glenn Saiger - Dark Side of the Moon
Art Gee - Tea Gardens
All That the Name Implies - Black Tuesday
Chris Rawlings - Song of Creation
Rabindra Danks - Lords Sweet Name
Logos - Peace
Chas Rose - Ballad For World Heroes
Moonstone - Black Blind Light
Vandy - Wishing Well
Owen B - All We Are Asking
Turid - Före Kenora
Lachlan Chace McLearn - Lady Come Lightly
Sonstar - Save Wild Basin -
A new episode to start off the new year, which we surely hope will be a better year. Here we listen to a mixed bag of new discoveries/finds from 2020, including some UK folk, privately pressed westcoast psych, dreamy pop-psych and funky Swedish blues. We also have the honor to play the new single from Kungens män, which will be included in the upcoming 5 LP-box, “Innanför boxen” that will be out in February.
Bruce Hamana – Hamana (Canyon Records, 1974)
– The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
Shelagh McDonald – First Album (B & C Records, 1970)
–Look Over the Hills
Cinderella (Imperial, 1971)
–From Town to Town
Mad Hatters (Fontana, 1966)
–I’ll Come Running
Red, White and Blues (MNW, 1971)
–Far, Far Away
Sage – Into the Wind (A & B Records, 1978)
–Empty Man
Sten Bergman – Lyckohjulet (Gump, 1974)
– Vägen är Lång
Sally Christopherson – Autumn (Customs Records, 197?)
–Autumn
Kungens Män – Innanför boxen (Cardinal Fuzz, Adansonia Records och Kungens Ljud & Bild, 2021)
–Hamra med slutna ögon
You find more info on Kungens män on their bandcamp-page.
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A new mix of privately pressed US and Canadian folk and folk-rock. We also included a few Swedish progg numbers and a great westcoast-sounding band from Japan.
Tracklist:
Summer Madness - In the Hills of Shiloh
Trees - Psalm 46
Handgjort - Worlds on Fire
Doug McArthur - One-Eyed Walden
David Sinclair - A Tale of Raven
Scott Jones - Chattanooga To Lynchburg Trail
Randy Palmer - Starlight, Daylight
Darragh Nagle - Horse Mesa
Chris Rawlings - The Wheel
Jim Thompson - Train for Thought
Larry Reese - Second Song
Sten Bergman - Människofiskare
Happy End - Dakishimetai
D’Arcy - The Forest
Sage - Empty Man
Bernt Lööf & Jan Eriksson - Kan ljuset vända åter? -
Paul Tescher has been collecting records for a long time and started already in the 80s to deal in obscure music. As part of the first generation underground collector he has seen the evolution of the collectors scene, from the beginning to what it is today. In this interview we talk about how he started to collect and sell records and he also share some stories from the weird world of record collecting. He also put together a selection of 6 track to play for us. Paul is still digging records weekly and still manage to find amazing records, although everyone is saying it’s drying up.
Bruce Cockburn – Ting/The Couldron (True North, 1971)
Spilld Mjölk – Tills döden skiljer oss åt (Svart Mjölk, 1975)
Peter Bursch – Witchwood (Pläne, 1981)
Anna koka 5 ägg jag är värd i huset – Kaffekokaren (Flärrp-skivor, 1975)
Stenblomma – Kungen (Silence,1973)
Jennifer Warnes – Sand and Foam (Reprise, 1972)
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We’ve been in contact with Mark Sabol of Mark and Suzann Farmer for over a year and finally we found the time to record an interview with him. Mark and Suzann Farmer recorded one album, We’ve Been There, in 1978, which is still pretty obscure among collectors. It is mostly known for the moody late-night version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”, and although excellent, this album is far from a one-track-album and I’ve always considered that its true strength lies in Mark’s own compositions. About half of the songs are self-penned and Mark is a competent songwriter and creative arranger, using the sparsely equipped living room recording studio to full use while Suzann has a strong and mesmerizing voice that works well with the material. The overall feel evokes a late-night lounge set at a dimly lit countryside roadhouse and with a minimal instrumentation, including a simple drum machine and a lot of homemade production tricks, they create a mellow but still diverse experience, with enough nuances to keep you returning for repeated listening. The covers generally work well in the mix, and if anything, adds to the lounge vibe and reflex the sound of their live set. In this interview we talk about the making of the album and how it was in the lounge business in the late 70s. We also listen to Dreams, American Child, Waiting For the Dawn and We’ve Been There from the album.
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Although we officially called it a quit with our 80th episode last summer, we’re back with a one-off episode for all of you who are in a lockdown/quarantine or to everyone who just wants to hear some new music. This episode presents records acquired since the last show and includes a mixed bag of communal folk (Huckle), lounge (Eddie Suzuki), Exotica (Dennise Norwood), Swedish progg (Rabatt and Kvartetten som sprängde) and more. We’re also happy to include the great track “Blanket Fog Descends” from Sven Wunder’s forthcoming album, “Wabi Sabi”. Don’t sleep on this one as it will go quickly. We hope you are all doing well during these crazy times and that the selection can bring some enjoyment while maintaining social distancing. Stay safe everyone!
More information on Sven Wunder and Wabi Sabi can be found on pianopianorecords.com.
Huckle - Upon a Once Time (Homespun, 1974)
-Get Down
Trúbrot (Parlophone, 1970)
-Ég sé það
Jim Thompson II and Preflyte – Message at 33 1/3 (Sky Light Records, 1979)
-Eternal Light Brigade
Eddie Suzuki – New Hawaii (ESP Hawaii, mid-70s?)
-Beauty Near Hanalei
Rabatt (Marilla, 1971)
-X:et
Kvartetten som Sprängde – Kattvals (Gump, 1973)
-Gånglåt från Vallahallvägen
Dennise Norwood – In the Skin with Me (Dennise Records, 1961)
-In the Skin with Me
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A mix of back-to-nature folk, eastern-tinged psych and acoustic improvisations.
“Nature’s beauty is so astonishing, makes you want to be around it all the time, you know it’s even been known to make people high” – Jerry and Nancy Stevens
Tracklist:
Children of One - Eastern Cloth (Real Records, 1969)
Arbete och Fritid - Fantasins Lov (MNW, 1977)
Big Lost Rainbow - Ocean (Big Lost, 1973)
Huckle - Hello Sunshine (Homespun, 1974)
Brent Titcomb - Falling Star (CBC, 1975)
Becky Ryan - Pirate (Blossom Records, 1977)
Magic Carpet - Alan’s Christmas Card (Mushroom, 1972)
Caroline Peyton - Light-Years (Bar-B-Q Records, 1977)
David Fishel - Faces to Match the Weather (Kateye Records, 1976)
Jerry and Nancy Stevens - Stranded (Troll Records, 1976)
Michael Styers - Pan’s Door (No label, 1980)
Bob Alster - Hardwood Flats (No label, 1983)
Chris Madsen - Sand and Foam (No label, 1983)
Expanding Circle - Cova Kom (No label, 1980)
Carl Erdmann - Within (No label, 1980)
JB Sky-Blue Into Blue (Gypsy-Child Records, 1977)
Scotti-Equal Time (Strawberry Records, 1974) -
We are honored to have Paul Major with us for the 80th and final episode of Arkivet. Paul has been one of the most influential persons for this podcast as the guru of obscure psychedelic and private press records. In order to have a collector scene, context and coherency are key elements and Paul was one of the first to see the connections and to link private press and real people records to the canon of psychedelic music. Therefore, it is no surprise that many of the records he discovered are true classics and in this episode we play some of the records Paul discovered, and hear him telling the stories of how he found them. We also listen to a few records that are unknown to Paul but that we hope would fit his taste and his well-traveled ears. We couldn’t think of a better way to end this podcast, which has been running for over 6 years and almost 80 hours of recorded material, then to do it together with Paul. We want to thank all of you that have listened to our ramblings and that have participated, in one way or the other, to the show over the years. Thank you all!
Darius-s/t (Chartmaker, 1968)
-I Feel the Need To Carry On
Dark-Dark Round the Edges (Sis, 1972)
-Maypole
Jazz Bend Me Blues Band (Algar, 1967-68)
-Happiness Dream
Morgen (ABC Probe, 1969)
-Purple
Randy DeMoss and the Space City Group (Planet Records, 197?)
-Is This For Real?
Ray Harlowe and Gyp Fox (Waterwheel Records, 1978)
-Gettin’ Keyed
Sounds of Salvation-s/t (Reflection, 1974)
-Overseers
The Clap-Have You Reached Yet? (Nova Sol Records, 1972) -Out of the ShadowsAlso, don’t forget to listen to our previous interview with Paul and a DJ-set we did together last time he was in Stockholm.
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Here we engulf ourselves in some westcoast jams, with bands that doesn’t necessarily have to come from the west coast but all playing that laid-back breezy Californian vibe. Among the highlights of the show is the extremely rare self-titled mini-album by Al Manfredi, which he pressed in about 100 copies for demo purposes and with only very few known to exist today. Also the highly acclaimed Kristyl album is worthy a mention, as it is not only a solid album but one of the true classics in the private press world and discovered already in the ´80s by the legendary Paul Major. Furthermore, we want to highlight the underrated debut of Help Yourself, which in our opinion, is one of the best westcoast-sounding albums from the UK. With that said, we hope you will enjoy our selection of (mostly) 7 minutes westcoast jams.
Al Manfredi-s/t (Band n’ Vocal, 1973)
-Blue Gold
Help Yourself-s/t (Liberty, 1971)
-Old Man
Snakegrinder-And the shredded Fieldmice (Alligator Shoes, 1977)
-Love Junkie
Turnquist Remedy-Iowa By the Sea (Pentagram, 1970)
-All Gone Blues Act II
Lacewing – s/t (Mainstream, 1971)
-Paradox
Kristyl – s/t (No label, 1975)
-The Valley of Life -
We seldom highlight music from our home country but in this episode we turn the spotlight on some Swedish underground and psychedelic bands. In the episode we listen to some of the most obscure bands of the Swedish underground, like Paul Edoh’s Class Breakers, which only release was a test pressing with just a few copies made, but we also play well established acts, such as Nature and Mecki Mark Men. To add some confusion, we also throw in a Finnish band, Cirius, and the reason for the inclusion is that they do a little-known but great version of Bosses Låt (originally recorded by the Swedish band Fläsket Brinner). On top of this, we also listen to some contemporary Swedish progressive music with Pocket-Size and the track Clairvoyant from their new album Immortality (released in December 2018).
Raunchy (Scam records, 1975)
-Flygmaskinen
Nature-Earthmover (Sonet, 1974)
-Mystery Brew
Paul Edoh’s Class Breakers (No label/test pressing, 1970)
-It’s Raining
Mecki Mark Men (Philips, 1967)
-Midnight Land
Cirius-Cirius II (Blue Master Special, 1974)
-Bossen Laulu (Bosses Låt)
Älgarnas Trädgård-Framtiden är ett svävande skepp, förankrat i forntiden (Silence, 1972)
-Saturnus RingarYou find more info on Pocket-Size and upcoming shows on their homepage and Facebook. For more on Swedish psychedelia, check out this previous episode. Thanks to Stefan Kéry from Subliminal Sounds for providing with information for this episode.
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In this episode we go into a late-night mood with some nocturnal psychedelic and private press records. For many of the artists featured in this episode the information is scarce and most of them are still flying under-the-radar, so we hope to shed some light on these great records and hopefully you’ll find something new and interesting that you have not heard before.
Jazz Bend Me Blues Band (Algar, 1967/68)
-Lady Weaver
Moonlyte – Better Late Than Never… (Astro Records, 1974)
-Magic Stencils
Jimmy Thompson (Dek Records, 1969)
-In My Dreams
Last of the Unknowns (Thundermen, ?)
-1, 2 Many X´s
Ben Bogaardt – s/t (Can-Aussie Distributors, 1971)
-U.F.O.
Tim Callander – Future (IJCM, 1979)
-Headin’ To RedwoodThanks to Aaron Dunn for help with background info on the Brothers Bogaardt.
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We have put together an eclectic mix of unique artistic expressions in this show. The tracks doesn’t follow a specific genre but all are from the parallel universe of privately pressed music. For the episode we’ve also been in contact with Garrett Schroeder who helped us to fill in some gaps regarding his debut album “Lack of Sleep”. We end this episode with Thunder Tillman and the great track Condor Sunflower from their long-awaited new EP.
David S Mull (Alpine Records, 197?)
-Far From Home
Garrett Schroeder – Lack of Sleep (Earth Records, 1979)
-Maze of Dreams
Del Buckingham-No Gimmicks (Genera, 1974)
-Wrong Is Right
Ingegärd Nordell – Känsla (Retone, 1973)
-Vart Steg Du Tar
Warhorse – Seduction (No label, 1979)
-She Looks So Good
Michael Kamper – s/t (No label, ?)
-The White Haired Lady
Steve Akin (Ash Records, 1970)
-I’m Trippin’ AloneThanks to Jonathan Kirby of Numero Group and Garrett Schroeder for helping us with background info for the episode.
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A new mix of folk, spiritual psych and post-hippie mindsets.
Aldous Huxley – Excerpt from Visionary Experience Vol. II
Sounds of Salvation – Love III
Hosanna – Why Are Thou Disquieted?
Brent Titcomb – Tibetan Bells
Murari – The One Who Loves Me Best
The Two Rivers! – Cast Out From the Castle
Dennis Loren – Let Go
Michael Cassidy – There Is a Light
Michael McGrath – The Awakened
Severance and Cassidy – Feather In the Wind
Bob Patterson – Bed of Roses
Patterson and Pults – Loneliness Is Only In Your Own Mind
Don Ebbett – Fire In the Sky
Windwords – Take Me Away
Ebbanflo – The Unicorn Song
Demi Heure – Clochers et Maisons
Garrett Schroeder – Maze of Dreams -
In this episode we introduce a new concept for the podcast and we call it the Mystery Jukebox. The idea is simple, we let a collector or listener send us a secret playlist, which we have no pre-knowledge about and let the selector take us on a journey to the unknown. After we have listened and discussed each of the track the artist identity will be revealed for us and you. For the first episode in this series Jens Unosson have selected 11 tracks for us. Jens is a long-time collector and psychedelic scholar from the deep forest of Northern Sweden. When he’s not tending to his farm he runs an on-line webpage, beautifullies, where you can find weird and esoteric records for sale. As this is a secret playlist we will not disclose Jens´ selection by writing it out beforehand and ruin all the fun for you guys and girls. Hope you’ll like it!
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Here we return yet again to the concept of Cosmic American Music, as we didn’t have the time to play you all of the tracks in part 1. In this second part, we mix lesser-known records with some true classics as well as revisiting a few artists that we have already listened to in pervious episodes. We also highlight two great new acts, James Matthew VII and Dalton Correction. James Matthew VII will have his debut LP “Cosmic Folk Ballads” released next year and we listen to his composition “Stoned When I Pray”, while Dalton Correction put out their debut in 2017 on Possible Records, and from that one we play “Yarará”.
JB Sky-Reach for the Sky (Gypsy Child Records, 1977)
-Lonesome Cowboys
Euphoria – A Gift From Euphoria (Capitol, 1969)
-Sweet Fanny Adams
Bob Patterson (R.D.P, 1971)
-Darlin’ Good Girl
Alexander “Skip” Spence-Oar (Columbia, 1969)
-Broken Heart
Scotti-For Friends (Strawberry, 1974)
-Brand New Day
Cambridge-Share A Song (Green Dolphin, 1977)
-Share A Song
Mark and Suzann Farmer – We’ve Been There (MSJ, 1978)
-Waiting For the Dawn -
We’re thrilled to finally have our friend Anders Alexander with us on the show. Anders is a record collector and dealer from Southern Sweden (now living in Stockholm) who’s been hunting records since the 80s. Nowadays he sells records under the name Vinylkatten at record fairs and in his own pop-up record store. For the show, he brought an eclectic mix of records, ranging from under-the-radar gems and dollar-bin alerts to psych grails, and we promise an episode filled with psychedelic saxophones, cocaine flutes (Anders favorite instrument), troglodyte rock and hypnotic vibes.
Bob Seger System (Capitol, 1968)
-Death Row
Adam (Mala, 1966)
-Eve
The Facedancers-s/t (Paramount, 1972)
-Dreamer’s Lullabye
Baris Manco (Türküola, 1972)
-Ölum Allahin Emri
Wizz Jones-Right On (CBS, 1972)
-One Grain of Sand
Amazing Friendly Apple (Decca, 1969)
-Magician
Joseph-Stoned Age Man (Scepter, 1970)
-I Ain’t Fattenin’ No More Frogs For Snakes
The Electric Toilet-In the Hands of Karma (Nasco, 1970)
-Within Your State of Mind -
We’ve been doing this podcast for over five years now and recorded 70 episodes, including 23 interviews with other collectors and musicians. Over the years some have asked us about how we got into collecting records, so in this episode we’re going to tell you about our personal musical journeys and how we got deeper into the psychedelic rabbit hole. The records in this episode represent a development in terms of taste or collecting and while my selection is all about the psych classics, Viktor throws in a wild bunch of songs.
MC5 – Kick Out the Jams (Elektra, 1969)
-Ramblin’ Rose
Dantalian’s Chariot (Columbia, 1967)
-The Madman Running Through the Fields
Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti-, 2006)
-Two Sisters
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Part One (Reprise, 1967)
-Leiyla
King Khan & the BBQ Show (Goner, 2005)
-Waddlin’ Around
Mu – s/t (RTV, 1971)
-Blue Form
Gandalf – s/t (Capitol, 1969)
-Me About You
Frank Ocean (Blonded, 2018)
-Moon River
Darius – s/t (Chartmaker, 1968)
-Blow My Mind
Perry Leopold – Experiments in Metaphysics (no label, 1970)
-Cold In Philadelphia -
Inspired by Numero Group’s compilation Cosmic American Music we felt we wanted to do a take on that theme. However, as neither of us have so much country records in our collections this episode turned out to be a little bit more eclectic with songs inspired by American roots music in general, so it will be some country-tinged tracks but also blues and folk. As we had more tunes lined up than we could squeeze into this episode we will return with a part 2 of this theme. Featured in this episode is also two contemporary artists, Part-Time Lover and Evan Haywood, as we continue with our new segment of playing modern music. Part-Time Lover will release an EP in October on Blue Arrow Records in Cleveland and included here is one of the tracks, “Magic Child”. Evan Haywood is just finishing up his second album “Perfumed Gardens” and we play “Ashes of Oblivion” from the LP.
George Law – s/t (Bongwater Records, 1977)
-Clouded Mind
Drendall, Thrower and Friends – Papa Never Let Me Sing the Blues (Deacon Productions, 1972)
-Papa Never Let Me Sing the Blues
Peter Grudzien – Album nr. 2 (in Two Sides) “The Garden of Love” (Subliminal Sounds, 2007)
-Kiss Me Another
Kathy Ford – s/t (The Great Arts and Farces Company, 1980)
-Kid From Colorado
Dennis – Lay By Me (Roadside Records, 1978)
-Open the Door
Bureman & O’Rourke – Strawberry Pickin’s (Pearce, 1974)
-Genevieve
The Trio – s/t (No label, 1969-70/2015)
-Kind Sir -
This is part of a DJ-set that we did together with Paul Major at Geronimo's FGT in Stockholm, July 2018.
Darius - I Feel the Need to Carry On
St John Green - Canyon Woman
Daisy Chain - All Because of You
Anonymous - Who’s Been Foolin’?
Jade Stone and Luv - Reality
Marcus - Sweet Inspiration
New Dawn - Life Goes On
Peter Grudzien - The Unicorn
Dark - Maypole
Jeff Liberman - Phenaphen no. 3
Last Call of Shiloh - Marriage Supper of the Lamb
Help - Life Worth Living
Relatively Clean Rivers - A Thousand Years
Snakegrinder - Love Junkie
Tripsichord - Fly Baby
Bent Wind - Riverside
Creation of Sunlight - David
D.R. Hooker - This Thing
Stonewall - Outer Spaced
Travis - Lovin You’
Majic Ship - Life’s Lonely Road
Zerfas - You Never Win
Erik - Rebel Woman
The Red House - Mary Anne
Conception - Babylon
Frank Monroe - Looking At You
Village STOP - Vibration
Clap - Out of the Shadows
Steve Morgen - Beggin’ Your Pardon (Miss Joan) -
Here we continue to explore some great psych 45s (press here for part 1). The focus in Part 1 was more on heavy psych and hard rock while in this epsiode we listen to some classic psych and folk-psych sounding singles. We also do a follow-up on Conception (which we included in Part 1) as we been in contact with more people involved in the band and we now have a more complete history of the group. In this episode we also introduce a new segment to the podcast where we highlight some newly released tracks and first out is the band Salt Lick with their heavy sounding Doctor (of Love).
The Red House (Big K, 1969)
-Mary Anne
Simple Simon and the Piemen (Regency, 1967)
-People of Time
Plastic Cloud (Allied, 1968)
-Shadows of Your Mind
Conception (Perfection, 1969)
-The Game
David Santo (Phoenix, 1968)
-Rising of Scorpio
Yankee Dollar (Dot, 1969)
-Reflection of a Shattered Mind
Gerry Pond (Reprise, 1966)
-The Sometime Girl
Two Rivers! (Manfred Janssen/Jim Vautour) (CBC, 197?)
-Sweet HarmonyFor more info on Salt Lick press here
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