There seems to be a big uptick in neo-psychedelic and space rock these days, something I quite enjoy. Bands like Moon Duo, Karda Estra, Magic Bus, Aphex Twin, Steven Wilson, Mondo Drag, Anima Mundi, Oresund Space Collective very well could've lived in the 60s and early-mid 70's making the music they do. I find myself listening to psych and space as productive background music, given how my brain works I guess. I was pleased to find a rip of a Canadian band called Troyka that had one s/t album in 1970, I had picked an 8-track tape of it in the bargain box at the Ft. Meade PX in the early 70s, there was nothing I knew in that box of very cheap cutouts, but, given my Russian heritage, I picked it up. I immediately fell in love with that crazy, quirky album. The tape has been long gone since the late 70s, but I remembered a couple songs in particular, most notably "Berry Picking" that would hit me as an earworm every couple of years. Playing that album in recent weeks was a huge time machine trip for me, since I had bought it in the winter and I always associate it with cold and snow. The album art even featured the band standing somewhat uncomfortably in the snow. When I reached "Berry Picking" I automatically sang all the words as if I played it last week. It made me go digging around for some of the old psych, space and prog I remembered and had from that time period. Zappa, Tangerine Dream (Rubicon-era), Hendrix, PFM, Can, Rayuela, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (who just released a new album and he's like 80 years old by now), King Crimson, Poseidon, early, pre-fame Yes, lots more. Since the internet freed artists from the grip of record labels and their focus on current music and their ignoring of formats they think won't sell, a lot of ignored and forgotten styles are coming back these days. People are tired of the three minute song formula, young folks are discovering old progressive rock music (the best comment I read about someone quite young hearing Yes' "Gate of Delirium" for the first time, "This sounds like music from another planet! I love it!") The long tail of the internet collects artists with long back catalogs but never received much airplay, if at all. Now these obscure old 60s and 70s bands along with the familiar ones like Pink Floyd in the psych era are inspiring the young people today. They might not get famous, but they are having a lot of fun.
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Date: 2015-02-10 07:45 pm (UTC)There seems to be a big uptick in neo-psychedelic and space rock these days, something I quite enjoy. Bands like Moon Duo, Karda Estra, Magic Bus, Aphex Twin, Steven Wilson, Mondo Drag, Anima Mundi, Oresund Space Collective very well could've lived in the 60s and early-mid 70's making the music they do. I find myself listening to psych and space as productive background music, given how my brain works I guess. I was pleased to find a rip of a Canadian band called Troyka that had one s/t album in 1970, I had picked an 8-track tape of it in the bargain box at the Ft. Meade PX in the early 70s, there was nothing I knew in that box of very cheap cutouts, but, given my Russian heritage, I picked it up. I immediately fell in love with that crazy, quirky album. The tape has been long gone since the late 70s, but I remembered a couple songs in particular, most notably "Berry Picking" that would hit me as an earworm every couple of years. Playing that album in recent weeks was a huge time machine trip for me, since I had bought it in the winter and I always associate it with cold and snow. The album art even featured the band standing somewhat uncomfortably in the snow. When I reached "Berry Picking" I automatically sang all the words as if I played it last week. It made me go digging around for some of the old psych, space and prog I remembered and had from that time period. Zappa, Tangerine Dream (Rubicon-era), Hendrix, PFM, Can, Rayuela, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (who just released a new album and he's like 80 years old by now), King Crimson, Poseidon, early, pre-fame Yes, lots more. Since the internet freed artists from the grip of record labels and their focus on current music and their ignoring of formats they think won't sell, a lot of ignored and forgotten styles are coming back these days. People are tired of the three minute song formula, young folks are discovering old progressive rock music (the best comment I read about someone quite young hearing Yes' "Gate of Delirium" for the first time, "This sounds like music from another planet! I love it!") The long tail of the internet collects artists with long back catalogs but never received much airplay, if at all. Now these obscure old 60s and 70s bands along with the familiar ones like Pink Floyd in the psych era are inspiring the young people today. They might not get famous, but they are having a lot of fun.