Jesus Franco & The Drogas
un gruppo di musica proto punk e garage punk Italiano

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on Bloody Sound Fucktory

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For example there was the Trinidad calypso musician Lord Executor (1884-1952), he could not imagine it. This song is a late answer to him by Swiss mish-mash folk pop band Pussywarmers

from their latest album I Saw Them Leaving (Wild Honey Records). You can find chansons, folk ballads, psychedelic beats, rocks and seagulls on it. Listen to it in full! Buy here

Whooa! It’s a fucking good band – I said during the listening to the recordings, despite I am not a big fan of math rock. And finally it turned up that two bands’ songs was mixed up in my player, the Ukrainian Gravitsapa, and the Italian Astolfo Sulla Luna (Astolfo on the Moon).

Astolfo plays quantum mechanic rock which is based on uncertainty principle under strong influence of literature. „Obnoxious, antiseptic, mathematician, restless, unreal, evil, tender.” Synthesize the reality and then spit it out with delay distortions. Anyway „Astolfo hates you. But basically, it is hated by everyone…” And he has a horn, so loud that his all enemies to flee in terror when it sounds.

Astolfo is one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne, went to the Moon on Elijah’s chariot of fire to search his friend Orlando’s wit. Because on the Moon „is wonderfully stored / Whatever on our earth below we lose. / Collected there are all things whatsoe’er, / Lost through time, chance, or our own folly, here.” And there Astolfo of course found Orlando’s wit in a bottle – by poem of Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533).

But chariot of fire does not run too often, so if we want to travel to the Moon because for example do not find our mental balance, we maybe can use a Pepelats interplanetary spacecraft. And it has an important component which allows intergalactic travel: Gravitsapa. From which this Ukrainian math rock band has got his name.

„Musicians do not expect to find understanding on Earth, so they are trying to gain spiritual experience and create music as divinities for new audiences of spiritual connoisseurs of inadequate.” They are constantly compared with King Crimson, which band was unknown for them, and mainly inspired by film directors: by sincerity of Jodorowsky (Chilean scholar in comparative religion, playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist), craziness of Lynch, atmospheric of Sokurov (Russian), conceptuality of Yevgeny Yufit (necrorealist Russian) and the monotony of Hungarian Béla Tarr. And Pepelats comes from a Soviet sci-fi black comedy Kin-Dza-Dza!

When I listened to them two bands came to my mind: the  proto math rock hardcore jazz Victim’s Family, and the Dutch jazz punk band Morzelpronk.

Astolfo Sulla Luna – Ψ² CD + digital album. (Vinyl version from the band) &

Gravitsapa – Radio Free Vulgata digital album (It contains two EPs from 2013)

released by Australian label TENZENMEN

BAPHOMET’S BLOOD is an Italian speed metal band. Here is the last song of their forthcoming album In Satan We Trust

Merő képtelenség, hogy egy olasz metál banda feldolgozza egy magyar hard rock együttes 1986-ban kislemezen megjelent számát, szövegét angolra fordítsa, és lemezen kiadja 2016-ban

With this a plumb nonsense has come true. Because it’s a cover of a short-lived Hungarian hard rock band Fáraó‘s song, which was released in 1986 as a single. And this was the only record of the band. I’ve asked them what is the story behind the cover.

A hogy-hogy kérdésre a banda frontembere, Halálhányásterror Viktor válaszol

Vittorio Necrovomiterror: I love Hungary and Hungarian metal scene!!!!! I am a vinyl collector and finally I’ve found the 7″ of Farao!!!! Completely obessesed by that band!!!! We release the cover in English on the new LP!!

Yes, the lyrics is translation of the original!

Szóval Vittorio annyira a szám hatása alá került, hogy a dal szövegét is lefordíttatta! A feldolgozás a banda Mi a Sátánban hiszünk című lemezén jelenik meg e hó 25-én. Kiadja a német Vas Csontfej Produkció. Meg akarod hallgatni a teljes lemezt?

In Satan We Trust will be released by Iron Bonehead Productions on January 25th. You can listen to the full album. But “If you want to listen [to] Baphomet’s Blood, buy a turntable, a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon whiskey and worship Satan!” – said Vittorio in an interview.

It’s one of the best European garage rock/punk labels. The Italian label is focusing limited edition 7″ vinyls. Here is the first load in 2016

GB 112 – MILK LINES 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.

Band of Jeff Clarke and his wife. Jeff is known from Demons Claws and Hellshovel, Emily is the founder of Bum’s Trading Zone, a flea market where the only rule: do not use money. Debut album has been released last year fall on In The Red Records. Tags on their Bandcamp page (where you can download some demos songs free): country experimental folk country psychedelic rock. (Canada)

GB 113 – SICK THOUGHTS / BLACK PANTIES split 7″ EP. 300 copies.

Apropos of a previous GBB release RNR666 wrote about Sick Thoughts: „Lo-fi raw garage punk. As if the LiveFastDie and the Outdoorsmen would play at the same time. Sometimes like a lo-fi garage Motörhead.”  The Black Panties are similar. The song, Shoot Me in My Head is brilliant, the best Sick Thoughts track what I have ever heard. Sick Thoughts euro tour march 2016!!! (They are from US)

GB 114 – ANDY HUMAN and The REPTOIDS – Sarcastic – 7″ EP. 250 copies with three different covers.

Pop like Devo, Roxy Music, Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex. Debut album in early 2015 by SS Records. (US)

GB 115 – NO LIMIT 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.

Play Jake and Jeff !!! Jake play also Ausmuteants , Frowning Clouds, Hierophants (all was released by GBB) and Jeff in School Damage, Chugga and the Fuckheads. (Australia)

GB 116 – UFUX – III – 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.

UFUX is Christopher Ilth’s new band. He was in Functional Blackouts and Daily Void, and play hc-punk. As montage artist he said in an interview: „I gravitated towards Dada & Surrealism through the pioneers of the punk movement in the 70’s. Those art movements shared individuality, autonomy, rebellion. However, punk, while having a visual side through fashion, record sleeves & fliers, was mainly about music. Dada & Surrealism was not only a visual art movement, but was also a revolt of everyday life with manifestos, pranks, and revolution that made a statement against the establishment and reason.” (US)

Be fast if you want one or all of them!

You can find some free Goodbye Boozy releases from the previous years here. For example: Mikal Cronin, Outdoorsmen, Ty Segall, Useless Eaters, BBQ (Mark Sultan), River City Tainlines, King Khan, etc. If you can’t see the download link, seek it with your cursor below the “download:”

RNR666 GOODBYE BOOZY INTERVIEW

https://soundcloud.com/fuzz-club-records/b1-dead

This is Sonic Jesus from Doganella Di Ninfa, Lazio, Italy.

And these are three (otherwise) great bands to which they are teaching a serious lesson:

• -Wooden Shjips
• -Crystal Stilts
• -The Black Angels

Wake up, men. Psychedelic rock is not about counting people down to sleep or merely jerking off with a musical instrument.

How about making a super trippy double album instead…?

Like the long-awaited debut, Neither Virtue Nor Anger by Sonic Jesus (released by Fuzz Club Records in April, 2015)

Silver Apples of Rome
Trans Upper Egypt
mystic psychedelic rock

Moon Doom

from the new album on Monofonus Press (US)

DD OWEN is Drew Owen from punk band Sick Thoughts (Goner, Slovenly, Goodbye Boozy Records) armed with keyboard, guitar and pedals. A Wizzard Sleeve and a Gary Wrong cover on his brand new single

on Windian Records‘ subscription series (US)

Also a new Sick Thoughts single on Goner Records (US)

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There was an electro-industrial band Musumeci in Torino in the 80s with some side-projects and a cassette label, Der Zeltweg.
A selection of the 1982-1984 side projects Errata-S-Corrige, Gasdehyde and Herpes-Z

on Mannequin Records (Germany)

Trans Upper Egypt

Italian psychedelic rock band
among the members there is one of the best video makers I know
the Z-move specialist tab_ularasa
who made videos for Bazooka, Ultra Twist (as member), Hell Shovel, Feeling Of Love, Country Teaser, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Yussuf Jerusalem, Le Peucher
and many others

Fantasia

from the album Trans Upper Egypt on Monofonus Press (US)

I don’t like the hardcore because it has became very boring for me, but two great Italian hardcore-punk bands

unconsciousness primitive sonic assault by the trio
PaperogA – My Super Sweet Fisting, debut EP

jazzy hc duo
Ludmilla Spleen – Eeeh?!? 12″ vinyl

on Bloody Sound Fucktory Records (Italy)

Maybe I like the hardcore still a bit.

Dan Melchior (ex-Broke Revue) is a highly talented British musician. He comes from garage punk, worked together with Billy Childish, Holly Golightly (it’s her real name!) and Walker Russel (Pheromoans), and usually makes experimental other music

„All At Sea” album on No=Fi Recordings (Italy)

Dan Melchior on RNR666

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Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London by Dan Carey under moniker Astronauts. He is from alt-folk band Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). His solo project was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.

single on Lo Recordings (UK)