Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London for the rainy days. Astronauts are solo project of Dan Carney from Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). It was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.

‘Hollow Ponds’ album on Lo Recordings (UK)

*

Female fronted „8-legged riff machine” in the manner of Stooges, Spacemen 3 and AC/DC form Australia.

The Daicos – Monkey’s Blood LP on Homeless Records (Aus)

RAKÉTA FESTIVAL is starting today in Budapest
7 days x 7 places
The most exciting young Hungarian musicians
No limits, free entry & no excuses!

1st act at Vitulla with

Duke Bluebird (folk-pop) – Demjén Hirst (garage punk) – The Somersault Boy (healthy sick pop) – Ї3§3Ł $ΔuNĐ §y$†€M (meth house) – Szagos Hörigekkók (primary school wave)

every info     mixtape

The Swiss mish-mash folk pop band Pussywarmers
& Hungarian Austrian jazz singer (and film maker) Réka Csiszér

Fading Out from the upcoming David Lynch film titled
3 Sparrows & 6 Eyes
which is based on Master Zacharius, a tale by Shakespeare.
It’s about a Swiss clockmaker whose clockworks
suddenly begin to stop one by one.

From the album I Saw Them Leaving on Wild Honey Records  (Italy)
Listen to it in full

„Take me far from everyone.” A social extrovert wax witch with keyboards and guitar plays party punk. But I would go away from that party after 10 min, because his songs are cruelly long on this album.  Above 3 min! But he hasn’t enough talent to do such things. He should stay under 3 min.

Wax Witches – „Centre Of Your Universe” album on Stop Start Music in July (Aus) and Burger Records in Sept (US)

*

Futeisha, a brand new project on the flourishing Italian psychedelic scene. It’s a solo effort of psychedelic rock band La Piramide di Sangue guitarist Juan Francisco Scassa. He is not alone sure. His mates are from such great rock band as Movie Star Junkies and Vernon Sélavy. Instead of rock they play mystical mish-mash folk, or „Occultism and Kebab.”

„Dannato” cassette on Brigadisco (Italy) and Old Bicycle Records (Switzerland). Cover art by Paula H. Satán (of JC Satán). It based on an engraving of Pieter Bruegel the elder.

Futeisha. In Japanese: Outlaws. It was an anarchist group in the early 1920s. Its two leaders was sentenced to death for high treason, but it was changed to life imprisonment. The woman tore the pardon letter up and refused to say thank the emperor. She committed suicide in the cell at her age of 23.  The man released after 22 years in 1945, later became a North-Korean politician.

Killer synth punk tunes from the magician of cheap electronic instruments Giorgio Murderer. Feat Buck Biloxi on guitar

7″ EP on Goner Records (US)

*

The most simple phrase for music of French duo Thee Verduns is folk-punk. With blues, bluegrass, cajun, country elements, ragtime rhythms and Trio cover

„Le catechisme de la joie, la vie entiere” LP and digital on Kizmiaz Records (France)

And sure, every nation has his own Verdun.

I know almost nothing about I Get Mynze. The members are from pop punk band Legendary Wings from Kalamazoo (Michigan), and they play excellent 80s-like lo-fi garage punk in the manner of Jay Reatard.

7″ EP on Pelican Pow Wow (US) and Red Lounge Records (Germany)

*

The second album of the London based alt-country band Cat Meat, where “Phil’s primary influences are the alt-country of Wilco, the surrealist melancholia of Sparklehorse and experimental rock of Califone, though more than a hint of Captain Beefheart’s magisterial influence can be detected in the lyrics and song titles. Ian brings bluegrass chops and punk sensibilities in equal measure, whilst Barney’s slide and fingerstyle guitar reveal a love of the pre-war splendor of Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell.” „Eldritch City Dwellers” is also free to download as their every recordings.

The band’s name keeps memory of a Montenegrin summer holiday.

Saul Conrad is a classically-trained American musician. Almost impossible to categorize his peculiar music: experimental chamber „pop” with surprising key changes, nonsensical rhythmic shifts, overlapping melodies, and folk elements.  His third album is more listener friendly than the previous two. There are easy melodies instead of experiments. But at the same time it’s a very serious album. Perhaps it’s more serious than the previous ones.

The non-musical influences: Kierkegaard. Especially his book about the despair, “The Sickness Unto Death.” Surprising or not, in Japan the book of the Danish existentialist philosopher is living its own renaissance as anime, manga and video game soundtrack. By the way, always the same thing occurs to me from Kierkegaard (1813-1855): during a night I read through his work titled Either/Or, then I vomited out of the window – but that is quite another story.

“The Four Zoas: The torments of Love & Jealousy in The death and Judgment of Albion the Ancient Man.” It’s a prophetic book by English romantic poet William Blake (1757- 1827). Conrad’s album title “A Tyrant And Lamb” references to a pair of poems of Blake: The Tyger, and The Lamb, about the dualism of nature and God. Conrad sings about alternation of this duality in the human sphere.

And now the gruesome list of musicians who have influenced on this album

Blaze Foley, the Duct Tape Messiah, country outsider, was „a genius and a beautiful loser” according to Lucinda Williams, was shot to death at his age of 39 in 1989.

Gram Parsons of The Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, alcohol, drugs, overdose, 26.

Townes Van Zandt, country music outsider, in the 70s, when the bigger part of his highly praised life-work was released he lived outside of Nashville in a tin-roofed, bare-boards shack with no heat, stayed almost entirely unknown until the 80s, when Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered one of his songs, which became a number one hit, and he played at dive bars and lived cheap motels invariably until January 1, 1997, when his femoral neck fracture and his delirium tremens were treated with vodka and weed for good, and stayed 52 for ever.

Harry Nilsson, singer/songwriter, nothing special except for his songs, but a heart attack, 52.

Syd Barrett, the most creative member of the early Pink Floyd, for the most part he wrote the first album alone, LSD, became unable to play in the group, two solo albums in 1970 and nothing more, but a nine parts composition by Pink Floyd to tribute to him in 1975, titled Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Died in 2006 at his age of 60.

Elliott Smith, singer/songwriter, alcohol, drugs, paranoia, suicide, 34. Strange fact, in 1997 he released an album titled Either/Or, which is based on Kierkegaard…

I’m sure, you are very curious

Saul Conrad – „A Tyrant And Lamb” album on Mountain of Leopards and Cavity Search Records. Buy LP or digital copy

Special Swiss alpine sunrise rite
by bizarre eclectic psych folk band
Pussywarmers and Réka

from the album I Saw Them Leaving on Wild Honey Records (Italy)

Armand Margejka was born an Albanian small town Tropoia, located on the highland near the border of Kosovo. Tropoia district has had a long reputation as one of the wildest and most conservative regions in Albania, virtually out of control of every government in Tirana. The family arsenal often takes up a whole room and typically includes anti-tank mines, hand grenades, and rocket launchers besides rifles, revolvers, machine guns, stilettos, swords, baseball bats and all sorts of old guns which goes from father to son. Instead of insurance brokers insurgence agents go about the countryside. Albania was the most isolated and most poorest among the Eastern-European communist states. The Stalinism was the most persistent here. Moreover there are the tribal differences and the beautiful tradition of vendetta.

Margejka’s musical influences were Western cinema, MTV Europe, and fortuitous cassette tape of American pop/rock legends Little Richard, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley taught Margjeka the fundamentals of rock and roll, and subsequently the English language. The country is however friendly and secure, he has changed Albania for Alabama. He plays indie folk rock with sure hands.

„Hummingbird” LP, CD on Communicating Vessels (USA)

 *

Ghetto Ghouls are (a handyman, a geography assistant, a sound guy, and a student) like their predecessor Texan punks,  Bobby Soxx, Dicks, Stick Man With Rayguns or Scratch Acid. This 7” couples a pair of songs from the S/T LP sessions

or rather No Wave Punk Jazz

KURWS in Budapest

with POLE (PL, folk jazz) + TUMO (alt hard rock)
+ JACKIE TRISTE (free noise impro)

22nd May at Müszi. Ticket: 1000

YU-WAVE ATTACK will be same day at a near place.
It will be finished at 10pm.

French For Rabbits. Wonderful haunted dream-folk from the other side and/or New Zealand.

7″ on Lefse (US, West Coast) and Fat Possum Records (US, South)

Euro tour in May-June. Vienna: May 29. Zagreb: May 30.

*

It’s so unfortunately and stupid name as good indie poppy noisy garage rock. Very.

Debut album by Belgian Mountain Bike on Humpty Dumpty Records (Belgium)

The Pine Hill Haints are a traditional bluegrass/folk/honky tonk/country band from Alabama. They describe their southern roots music as Alabama Ghost Music. It’s mixed with gospel, rockabilly, rock and roll and blues.  Instruments: guitar, washboard, mandolin, washtub bass, banjo, snare drum, harmonica, fiddle.

I’m Rambler, I’m Gambler

for their brand new 7″ vinyl on their own label Arkam Records. It’s distributed by KRECS