Wednesday, September 15, 2021

VA - Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 01 - 11 [1968 -2014]

 

PSYCHEDELIC SITAR

VA - Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 01 - 11 [1968 -2014]

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream with this 11x CD,s box set gathering all 11 volumes in the classic Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers series. It's packed with Eastern-tinged rock, pop, and folk from the hippie heyday of the late '60s and early '70s, as well as the more recent psychedelic revival. Featuring over 200 tracks from acts from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as India, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Australia, and elsewhere, it comes complete with an 84-page full-color booklet offering background info, detailed biographies, full discographies, and rare photos, making it a truly essential trip back to psychedelia's incense-shrouded golden age.

Excellent overview of sitar-infused music from the late 60'searly 70s (plus a few well-chosen outliers from later time periods). The foremost genre presented is, of course, psych rock, but there is also a fascinating sampling of pop, folk, prog, jazz and oddball kitsch, all featuring that evocative instrument from the east, the sitar. There are definitely a few new songs to be found, but that's par for the course with a collection this immense, 204 tracks!  (Amazon)

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Track lists


Vol. 01

01 Ray Brown & Moonstone Story Of Ali 3:50

02 Linn County Moon Food 6:25

03 J.K. & Co. Magical Fingers Of Minerva 2:41

04 Omega Redstar Rettenetes 4:44

05 Basement Wall Teenybopper 2:18

06 Abacus Song For Brunhilde 4:33

07 Broselmachine La Rotta 4:05

08 Gualberto Luz De Invierno 4:06

09 Darius I Feel The Need To Carry On 2:41

10 Blonde On Blonde Spinning Wheel 2:44

11 Pretty Things Bracelets Of Fingers 3:37

12 Fredric Morning Sunshine 2:26

13 Flames Solitude 5:43

14 July The Way (alt. ver.) 4:06

15 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band A Child's Guide To Good And Evil 2:25

16 Fraternity Of Man Wispy Paisley Skies 2:19

17 Misty Wizards It's Love 2:08

18 Ramases & Selket Molecular Delusion 3:59

19 C.O.B. Let It Be You 3:47

20 Lord Sitar I Am The Walrus 3:45

21 Vampire's Sound Inc. Psycho Contact 1:24


Vol. 02

01 U S 69 I'm On My Way 6:13

02 Merrell Fankhauser & H M S Bounty Visit with Ayisha 3:28

03 Paper Garden Man Do You 3:37

04 Meic Stevens The Sailor & Madonna 3:06

05 State Of Mickey & Tommy I Know 5:26

06 Ghost Abyssinia 3:31

07 Mandrake Memorial Dark Lady 4:40

08 First (1st) Century Looking Down 2:22

09 People Lucky John 4:07

10 Sagram Heavenly Feeling 4:58

11 Bobby Callender Sade Masoch 2:54

12 Mushroom's God Draped in Shades 3:02

13 Orient Express For a Moment 2:04

14 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera Air 3:09

15 Erin Koray Karli Daglar 3:35

16 Popol Vuh Nosferatu 1:58

17 Brainticket Watchin' You 4:35

18 Chocolate Watch Band Living in the Past 2:56

19 Big Jim Sullivan She's Leaving Home 2:34

20 Dr. Timothy Leary Turn On, Tune In (Epilogue) 5:58


Vol. 03

01 Mops Anthem 3:16

02 Amboy Dukes Psalms of Aftermath 3:24

03 St. Mikael Bom Bom Mahadev 4:01

04 Strawberry Alarm Clock Black Butter (present) 2:01

05 Saffron All Your Ambition 5:52

06 Truth Thoughts 3:29

07 United States of Existence Makin' My Scene 2:59

08 Meic Stevens Yorric 8:48

09 Train Dreams and Realities 3:48

10 Third Rail The Invisible Man 2:13

11 Hurdy Gurdy Peaceful Open Space 5:17

12 Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band Factory Endeavour 2:31

13 Chim Khotari Eleanor Rigby 2:11

14 Them Black Widow Spider 4:34

15 Bobby Callender Rainbow Colors 2:44

16 Ray Brown & Moonstone Start of a New Day 3:12

17 Storybook Psych-out Sanctorum 3:17

18 Krokodil Sunlight's Beautiful Daughter 5:35


Vol. 04

01 Meckmark Men Free 4:10

02 Stunt's Blue Leg Expedition Caves of Her Mind 3:02

03 Ugly Ducklings I Know What to Say 2:30

04 Johnny Thompson Quintet Color Me Columbus 2:29

05 Moonkyte Where Will the Grass Grow 3:54

06 Dantalion's Chariot This Island 3:53

07 Nick Carter Prayer to St Peter 4:59

08 Twilights Time Motion Study Man 2:11

09 Folkswingers 8 Miles High 2:54

10 Ananda Shankar Renunciation 4:15

11 New Tweedy Brothers Wheel of Fortune 4:23

12 Wizz Jones One Grain of Sand 3:35

13 Kuni Kawachi & the Flower Travelling Band Graveyard of Love 4:07

14 Full Moon Band Morning is Born 3:30

15 Chim Kothari Indian Beat 2:34

16 A Little Bit of Sound Incense & Peppermints 2:32

17 Lemon Pipers The Shoemaker of Leatherwear Square 2:01

18 Mehrpoojah Love Dance of the Lemmings 4:55

19 C.O.B. Music of the Ages 3:48

20 Popera Cosmic Aurore Cosmic 7:24


Vol. 05

01 Book of Am I Am That Living Soul 3:59

02 Shocking Blue Waterboy 2:29

03 Poppy Family Free From the City 2:18

04 Magic Carpet Father Time 4:15

05 Saffron Vision is a Lonely World 3:21

06 Wendy Kesselman Lonely Girl 2:37

07 Elyse Weinberg Oh Deed I Do 2:50

08 Calendula Dance of the Red Moon 3:18

09 Montreal Infinity 7:33

10 Fit & Limo Gopher Hat 3:11

11 Pentangle Once I Had a Sweetheart 4:36

12 Red Chair Fadeaway All Your Old Tricks 2:59

13 Sheila Chandra Storm Trance 3:24

14 Sheila Chandra Lament of McCrimmon (Song of the Banshee) 6:26

15 Sally Eaton Flowers in the Air 5:35

16 Ananda Shankar Cyrus 2:43

17 Wylde Olde Souls The Sun God 5:28

18 Kali Bahlu How Can I Tell My Guru 7:02


Vol. 06

01 Tomorrow Real Life Performed Dream 3:15

02 Shiny Gnomes Temple Balls 6:54

03 Fox Butterfly 3:22

04 Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band Sunbeams & Rainbows 2:45

05 Cosmic Gardeners Way of Going 3:27

06 Nova Local Forgotten Man 2:19

07 Family Face in the Clouds 2:54

08 Joseph Cold Biscuits & Fish Heads 3:37

09 Cheops Salem Bibi 4:10

10 3 Hur-El Aglarsa Aram 3:20

11 Grail Grail 4:43

12 Tomerclaus Jeg Vil Gerne 2:59

13 Paroni Paakunainen Mango Pu 3:24

14 Magna Carta The Bridge at Knaresborough Town 4:51

15 Click Many Times Jimbo 3:36

16 Catharsis Melba 5:05

17 Fallen Angeles I'll Drive You From My Mind 4:22

18 Violeta De Outono Within You Without You 3:39

19 David Another Day Another Lifetime 5:42


Vol. 07

01 Euclid Lazy Livin 5:50

02 Unspoken Word Anniversary of My Mind 2:32

03 Oriental Sunshine Oriental Sunshine 3:38

04 Wolfgang Dauner Quintet Take Off Your Clothes to Feel the Setting Sun 4:01

05 Truth Archimede's Pad 9:19

06 Bit a Sweet Speak Softly 5:01

07 Flower Travelling Band Dhoop 3:51

08 Tales of Justine Sitting on a Blunestone 2:33

09 Twilights Devandra 1:49

10 Wizz Jones America 4:00

11 Saddhu Brand I Give You Johnee 5:47

12 Oregon Rejoicing 4:15

13 Lawson & 4 More Halfway Down the Stairs 2:34

14 Pregnant Insomnia Wallpaper 3:31

15 Mirage Tomorrow Never Knows 2:33

16 Brand X Sun in the Night 4:18

17 Unknown Untitled 5:21


Vol. 08

01 Churchills Debka 4:45

02 Bill Plummer & His Cosmic Brotherhood Journey to the East 5:59

03 Boeing Duveen & the Beautiful Soup Jabberwock 2:27

04 David Hemmings Anathea 3:01

05 Gates of Freedom The Earth is the Lord's 4:32

06 Koala Strange Feelings 2:47

07 Blossom Toes Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head 2:52

08 101 Strings Karma Sitar 1:49

09 Greenwood, Curlee & Thompson Little Willy 4:18

10 Forum Quorum Girl Make Up Your Mind 3:02

11 Iron Butterfly Slower Than Guns 3:44

12 John Renbourne Lamento Di Tristan 2:55

13 Charlie & Esdor Da Klagar Mina 3:19

14 Living Room Just a Little Song 3:56

15 Seventh Seal Spiritual Springs 4:50

16 Balsara & His Singing Sitars Strawberry Fields 3:34

17 Humble Pie The Light of Love 3:00

18 Quintessence Notting Hill Gate 4:42

19 Sri Atma Ajit 4:40


Vol. 09

01 Apocalypse Let It Die 6:03

02 No Strange Smiling Time 3:48

03 Gandalf Can You Travel in the Dark 3:02

04 Zodiac Cosmic Sounds The Fire Fighters 3:14

05 Surprise Symphony Lion Song 4:04

06 Universe Jade 3:20

07 Alex Purple Sally 7:28

08 Dave Pike Set Mathar 3:41

09 Gabor Szabo In Search of Nirvana 2:07

10 Superfine Dandylion Ferris Wheel 2:39

11 Hobbits I'm Just a Young Man 2:22

12 Folkswingers Norwegian Wood 2:06

13 Them Time Out 2:53

14 Chad & Jeremy Sunstroke 4:25

15 Pierrot Lunaire Narciso 5:09

16 J.A. Caesar A Psychedelic Opera...Excerpts 15:46


Vol. 10

01 Galliard Ask for Nothing 9:01

02 Shawn Philips Stargazer 2:58

03 Brian Bennett Tricycle 2:47

04 Sopworth Camel Dancin' Wizard 3:01

05 Rick Hayward Light in the Sky 4:07

06 Honeydew Never By Me 3:14

07 Flower Pot Wantin' Ain't Gettin' 2:04

08 Sugar Ssoppe The Attitude 2:18

09 Fallenangels Most Children Do 3:13

10 Doug McArthur Dreams & Visions 4:48

11 Rebeca & the Sunny Brook Farmers What Do You Think of the War 5:13

12 William Truckaway I Go Slow 2:38

13 Ceyliab People Zendan 2:54

14 Twinn Connextion I Think I'll Just Go and Find Me a Flower 2:38

15 Free Spirits I'm Gonna Be Free 3:25

16 World of Oz Like a Tear 3:07

17 Virgin Sleep Love 2:24

18 Tony Scott Homage to Lord Krishna 5:00


Vol. 11

01 Chris Thompson Hugo Spellman 4:13

02 Volker Kriegel Zoom 6:45

03 Indo British Ensemble Yaman (The Colenel's Lady) 4:41

04 Raw What to Do 3:28

05 Panbers Rock & the Sea 1:55

06 David People Saying, People Seeing 1:34

07 Whatt Four Dandelion Wine 3:12

08 Big Jim Sullivan Tallyman 2:38

09 Zoot Money Soma 6:23

10 Morgans Rasal 2:06

11 Lewis & Clarke Expedition House of My Sorrow 4:24

12 Vampires' Sound Incorporation Psycho Contact, Pt. 1 2:33

13 Gordon Jackson The Journey 4:48

14 Friend & Lover Room to Let (To Rowena With Love) 3:28

15 Sagittarius Glass 2:27

16 Blue Cheer Babaji (Twilight Raga) 3:42

17 Shocking Blue Acka Raga 3:06

18 Quintessence Chant 2:58

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14 comments:

  1. It had been a long time since I thought about Gualberto García. I met him in the early seventies as he spent time in Barcelona. Great musician and better person.
    Thanks

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  2. Hi Butterboy,
    It is impossible to thank you enough for everything you give us daily!!! These 11 volumes seem really impressive!
    Cheers

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    1. Hi Il Commendatore,
      Appreciated. I think this set delivers something different.And that is cool.

      Cheers.

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    1. You are welcome, Guitarradeplastico,scraping oddities.

      Cheers.

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    1. Hi JKMAN,
      You have been busy today.
      I hope your finds are rewarding and that you enjoy the sounds of music.
      I wont comment on all your comments. Thank you for leaving a message for each compilation you picked up.

      Cheers.

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  5. Hi BB, I bought this multi cd compilation a while back and was mostly disappointed. There is a lot of corny filler. The people who put this compilation together seemed to think that if it has sitar it's psychedelic. I think I went through all the sets once and never went back. Lots of sitar, not so much psychedelic.But thanks for all the great music you post.

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    1. Hi goinsidemyhead.
      Thank you. I guess in a compilation this size there will be hits and misses.
      Have you picked up my compilation Sitar Rock. There may be more to enjoy.
      Here is a link for your convenience.
      https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2019/07/va-sitar-rock-butterboy-compilation.html

      Cheers.

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