Cherrystones Top Ten!

25/01/06

The return of the infamous Cherrystones top ten!  Aural digestives for January!  Plus a bonus choice for everyone!

1.Mustard- Good Time Comin’ (EMI) 7”

Super tough and equally rare Glam Rock Stoper complete with thick-as-fog-bass and face slapped hand claps - out of this world!

2.New Trolls-Searching(Fonit)

Great Italian progressive rock which is devoid of the noodle-doodle and poodle hair that litters the musical rugs we lay on!  This is an acoustic led jam that pours like honey - spread it on your head.

Stream a New Trolls track here.

3.Don Cherry-Degi Degi (A&M)

Deep spiritall pioneer D.C., made a whole heap of great records and this is one of them! like any genre its about feel not the style - you can find the amazin’ ‘Brown Rice’ track on this LP.

Read more about Don Cherry here.

4. Flower Travellin Band-Unaware(Atlantic)

Heavy-riffin’, Sabbath rocking!  Tougher than Frankenstein’s forehead!

Read about it here.

5. George Brigman-Jungle Rot(Anopheles)

Raw psychotic dirty guitar laden loner punk rock reissue, its a disgrace that people like George never made more of an impact while treading the private-rpess freeway!  however you can obtain this extreme rarity now via this limited clear vinyl, straight from the tape and sounding mean.  Check the title track and ‘DMT for some weight!

Read more about George here.

6.  Kites-Peace Trials(Load)

The man is a genius shedding light on the diy aesthetics to making music, it takes a label as bold as load to release and document this type of thing, teh great thing is he actually sings on this LP which reminds me of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, superb, challenging and real!

Read about Kites here

7. George Romanos-Mapiva (Zodiac)

Super rare Greek psychedelia coming off like Os Mutantes with Neu on the keyboards - sixties grooves with that native tongue sounding good - surfacing soon on Cherrystones Word - Sympathetic Sounds from the Psychedelic Ghetto’ compilation for Poptones this spring.

Read about George here..

8. Bardo Pond/Buck Paco - Bog/Pushed out into the Sun (Black September)

Split LP showcasing two reasons to stand-by modern guitar based music, both groups shining brightly and darkly-rising high above the usual riff-raff - limited too
600 vinyl - so be quick.

To listen to Bardo Pond click here

9.Il Barincento-Scorncerto(EMI-Italy)

Big assed breakbeat slo-mo fusion from Italy, syrup moogs and damp hard drums make this a head-nod winner from start to finish. Ciao.

10. Dead Moon-Revenge(Tombstone)

Fred Cole and wife have been makiing great raw garage, rock’n’roll since the 60s via bands such as the Lollipop Shoppe and the Rats (US) - this is no exception, a true classic that cuts deeper than a razor - demented pained vocals, superb guitars and enough attitude to re-write any punk manifesto!

Visit Dead Moon here.

11. Lichens-The psychic nature of being (Holy Mountain)

Deep,deep uplifting vocal loops all pinned down with outer worldly percussion and delicate psyched guitars brought to you by Robert AA Lowe-this is future music now delicately crafted and shaped with craftmanship see the mist rise as the sun sets to this perfect backdrop,illuminated precise and etheral-amazing,watch out for Residual Echoes 2 on vinyl soon-more space rock shreddings that splinter like glass against percussive highways.

Visit Holy Mountain here/

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