8 DAYS IN APRIL

Edit - October 4, 2012 Well it's been two years now that the blog is dead. Please note that very few if any of the links are still good...

Touch - Touch (1969) "Discovering a treasure long buried and finding with delight it was all that the rumors made it to be. That is how...

Pacific Sound - Forget Your Dream! (1972) Pacific Sound is a band formed by four dudes in the French-speaking part of Switzerland in the 196...

Oxford Circle - Live At The Avalon 1966 "Oxford Circle was a legendary psychedelic blues band primarily due to the fact that drummer Pa...

Fotheringay - Fotheringay 2 (2008) Been a long time since I posted any British folk! 38 years after the band had broken up and decades after...

Island - Pyrrho (1975-1976) This is the same Swiss band that put out the excellent album "Pictures" in 1977. Not altogether sure w...

Mogul Thrash - Mogul Thrash (1970) "This progressive jazz-rock combo's lone release is largely of interest to John Wetton and Asia ...

Annexus Quam - Osmose (1970) German band Annexus Quam's first album is a strange one. Good, but strange nonetheless. A "Kosmische...

Various Artists - White Lace And Strange-Heavy Psych And Power Fuzz From The USA '68-'72 "By the end of the sixties psychedelia...

Bobby Beausoleil & The Freedom Orchestra - Lucifer Rising (Early 70's) Bobby Beausoleil was active in the underground music scenes i...

Black Sabbath - In Concert Paris 12-19-70 Not much to say about Black Sabbath I suppose. This is an excellent quality mono soundboard record...

Alcatraz - Vampire State Building (1971) "Talking about obscure and underrated releases, this Alcatraz album runs ahead of the pack. Th...

Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and The Mothers Of Invention - Bongo Fury (1975) This mostly live Zappa album, featuring the added talents o...

Drosselbart - Drosselbart (1970) "An extremely obscure early Krautrock band with a reputation that is well justified. Their name: Dross...

Ainigma - Diluvium (1973) "An obscure early band that gained recognition as one of the darkest of heavy German progressives. Little is ...

Siloah - Sukram Gurk (1972) "In this album, the obscure Germans of Siloah explore a new musical direction that has almost nothing in co...

Siloah - Sukram Gurk (1972)

Can - Paris, 12 May 1973 Fantastic sounding bootleg featuring Can's classic lineup. Disc One: 1. Whole People Queueing 2. One More Night...

Talix - Spuren (1971) This has never been officially released on CD and the vinyl goes for big bucks. Originally released on the Vogue label...

Emma Myldenberger - Emma Myldenberger (1978) "Initially formed by a number of street musicians in Hirschberg, 1977, with the desire to...

Plainsong - In Search Of Amelia Earhart (1972) "By 1972 Ian Matthews had played in four different incarnations within three years. He’d...

Mythos - Mythos (1971) "Mythos were one of the finest of Berlin bands, yet were unfairly overlooked by most of the media. Maybe this wa...

Steppenwolf - Fillmore West 8-27-68 I was rooting through my stash of data discs looking for something to put on the blog and I found this a...

Irmin's Way - Opus; Destroy (1976) "A rediscovery in the mid-1990's, Irmin's Way were an obscure mid-1970's Anglo-Germa...

Deaf - Alpha (1970-1972) "The Swiss import LP reissue of Alpha brings one of the most interesting, obscure German progressive albums of...

Haze - Hazecolor-Dia (1971) "Historically undocumented, there's not a lot we can tell you about Haze. However, Bacillus Records mus...

Sameti - Sameti (1972) "A collection of Munich musicians fronted by Christian "Shrat" Thiele (born 29/3/1946, in Unterpolling...

Cornucopia - Full Horn (1973) "Here is a real nugget from the golden underground German Krautrock era. Fans of AMON DUUL II will likely...

Guru Guru - Radio Bremen 9-21-71 Recorded on 9-21-71 for Radio Bremen's "Jazz Concert" radio show, this is Guru Guru's cla...

Satin Whale - Desert Places (1974) "A late addition to the first wave of Krautrock, Satin Whale were no doubt influenced by many of the...

Brave New World - Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley (1972) "Exceptional psych-electronic rock experimentations by another obscure 70...

Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray - Citizens Bop (1946-1952) I didn't have anything uploaded for this week so I though I'd throw this in -...

German Oak - Nibelungelied (1972-1976) "The dark German collective back with completely catchy kraut-improvisations. All tracks deliver...

Climax Blues Band - The Harvest Years 69-72 "Following on the spurs of the British Blues Boom at the end of the sixties was The Chicago...

Lamb - A Sign Of Change (1970) "The minor San Francisco group Lamb tend to be remembered only for their appearance on the Fillmore: The...