Monday, February 18, 2008

Hey - what did the hat say to the tie? "You hang around, I'll go on a head"!!

Pacific Gas & Electric - Live 'n' Kicking At Lexington (1970)
Unreleased live album from this interracial Southern California band, recorded at a Federal drug rehab center in Lexington Kentucky. These guys were right up there with The Chambers Brothers and Sly and the Family Stone, only a lot bluesier. Over an hour of great bluesy rock - maybe a little sloppy and self-indulgent at times, but hey these guys were good!

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Popol Vuh - Einsjäger & Siebenjäger (1974)
On their fifth album, Popol Vuh is now a trio, and this may be the best release from their "Golden Era". This is mostly Florian Fricke on keyboards, Daniel Fichelscher on percussion and guitar, with some occasional vocals from Djung Yun. Melodic, introspective and atmospheric.

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Out Of Focus - Palermo 1972
A fairly recent release, this thing has Out Of Focus performing in May 1972 at the Teatro Biondo in Palermo Italy. About 75 minutes of awesome jazzy, psychedelic, folky, bluesy music.

01. Whispering (10:15)
02. Cafe Stiletto (13:10)
03. I Want To See Your Face No More (12:32)
04. Where Is Your Home Town (8:56)
05. Fly Bird Fly / Television Program (20:35)
06. I'm Kissing Right (10:38)

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Kamæleon - Kamæleon (1978)
I've has this on my hard drive for years and I can't tell you much about it, there is no English info on the net that I can find. This is a very good vinyl rip of some exemplary jazz fusion, from Denmark. Eight tracks of some real tasty contemporary 70's jazz.

Bass - Jens Jefsen
Drums - Poul Poulsen
Engineer [Ass. Engineer] - Thomas Brecklin
Engineer, Mixed By - Flemming Rasmussen
Guitar - Uffe Steen Jensen
Keyboards - Fini Høstrup
Percussion - Steen Råhauge
Producer - Kamæleon
Producer, Mixed By - Freddy Hansson

Bitrate 256 w/smallish covers Download

Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Send Me No Flowers
The first eight tracks of this were recorded in two and a half hours at a last minute session on the morning of Sonny Boy's departure for the States after his last ever trip to England, in 1965. He died three weeks later and these were his last recordings. Accompanying him on these unrehearsed tracks were Brian Auger and one or two of the Trinity, Jimmy Page, and a couple well-known British sax players, Alan Skidmore and Joe Harriot. Not the best album ever, I don't suppose, nonetheless a very good album of jazzy blues. Or bluesy jazz.

Bitrate 320 w/covers Download

Later!

28 comments:

  1. out of focus, yeah, zenarcher..

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  2. Thank Garcolga for posting Out of Focus. Do you have a group called Walrus from U.K. seeya.

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  3. hello!thx for Out of Focus and Kamæleon!
    Sithlord from Hungary

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  4. I just got the OOF from the forum. What a great live-band. I really didn't like their last album. but up to 72 all tehy did had an amazing quality. Great musicianship.
    Mike

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  5. Hi, thanks for the rips.

    I wouldn't say Pacific Gas & Electric were 'right up there' with Sly and the Family Stone - they are a rock-blues band, if anything they'd be closer to the Allman Brothers.

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  6. Thanks for Out of Focus!
    Amazing!! Alan

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  7. Thank you very much for Sonny Boy Williamson

    Gilles.

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  8. much obliged for "Einsjäger & Siebenjäger " : I am really getting into Popol Vuh now thanks to you. Cheers!

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  9. Thanks for great uploads.

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  10. Great Popol Vuh album, merci.

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  11. Thanks!

    And Jaco Pastorius?

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  12. Pacific Gas & Electric is one of those underestimated bands. I'm lloking forward to hear this live recording from them.
    Thanks!

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  13. Thanks for all those Popol Vuh albuns. Many of them I all ready have, but with bad ripping and no covers.

    Keep your wonderfull work.

    twebber

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  14. Always looking forward to your uploads, the gem for me this week was the Popol Vuh (just bought the Out Of Focus, which is would be otherwise). Thanks!

    dr. Qi

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  15. Hey Garcolga
    Terrible jokes, great music. Keep up the good work! (that's the music, not the jokes :)
    MZ

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  16. Popol Vuh is one of my favourite inspiration music when I'm painting. Thanx for posting all those golden era stuff. Golden era is still alive.
    Alain

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  17. Kamæleon Sound like a great lost gem. Looking forward to hearing it!

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  18. Could someone tell us why did the kraut-team blog close? what happened?

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  19. Popol Vuh,superb!
    This remastered editions are really great!
    Thanks Garcolga ;-)

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  20. GarColga, you never let me down ;) I always find something to enjoy, my friend! (apart from so-called "folk weeks", maybe ;) )

    These Germans are again made my day. Popol Vuh remastered ed. series are growing, I'm just hoping you keep on! And this Out of Focus stuff is amazing, too. like manna from heaven

    keep up the good work!

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  21. Great music, you're doing an excellent job!!
    tks from Brazil

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  22. Thanks a lot for adding a link to my little blog
    http://homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com/

    Did you already check out the Whole & Damo Suzuki performance (2007)? I think it's great.

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  23. Dear friend you have been some of the few that it has still been maintaining before the blog in foot so much persecution. I want congratulate and to say that I am excited and satisfied in proving with his existence that we are not defeated. Thank you very much for all of the post that it has been making available. Especially thank you for the postage "Out Of Focus - Palermo 1972." Success

    PHS_BR

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  24. Hi Liam,
    I love your blog man ... I love it coz I was looking for Live 'n Kicking at Lexington since I was born (more or less, eheh).

    Many, many thanks Liam ...
    I'm so curious to listen a Pacific Gas live album.

    Cheers from Azores Islands

    Kikas, aka Dr. Bell Otus

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  25. The PG&E is great. One curiosity though, they have Motor City's Burning credited to John Lee Hooker. On the Kick Out The Jams album it's credited to Fred Sonic Smith. The MC5 did do a good handful of covers, but they always credited them as such. I seriously doubt that they would have taken credit for a John Lee Hooker song, and then not even give themselves an arrangement credit on The Troggs tune which they clearly made their own.

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  26. Awesome on all the Popul Vuh. Turns everyday life into a Herzog film.

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  27. Hi, thanks for great post and superb music!!!
    I have problem, today I download Popol Vuh-Einsjäger & Siebenjäger part1 and try to download part 2 and recived message = This site is currently unavailable. Please help to me!

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