VA - Decameron, Ten Days In 100 Novellas, Parts 1-3 [2011-2016] (12 CDs)

PROGRESSIVE FOLK ROCK

VA - Decameron, Ten Days In 100 Novellas, Parts 1-3 [2011-2016] (12 CDs)

Released between 2011 and 2016 through the ongoing collaboration between the Finnish progressive-rock collective Colossus, Musea Records, Seacrest Oy, and Visual Power, the three volumes of Decameron, Ten Days In 100 Novellas form an extraordinary twelve-disc exploration of progressive folk, acid folk, pastoral psychedelia, underground pop, and progressive rock, psychedelic rock, and the wider progressive underground.

 Taking inspiration from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a collection of interconnected stories told over ten days, the series approaches compilation-making as a narrative art, where each track contributes to a larger journey of discovery.

Rather than relying on obvious classics, the compilers balance recognised artists with forgotten albums, private-press rarities, and overlooked recordings. Familiar names provide occasional landmarks, but the real pleasure lies in the unexpected connections that emerge between tracks. Songs separated by years, countries, or styles often feel as though they belong in the same conversation, linked by mood, imagination, and a shared spirit of exploration.

Acoustic folk melodies, intricate vocal harmonies, progressive arrangements, and psychedelic textures appear throughout the set. Mellotrons drift through pastoral landscapes, acoustic guitars intertwine with chamber-pop flourishes, and moments of quiet reflection give way to passages of musical adventure. The sequencing is central to the experience. Each disc unfolds with patience, allowing contrasts and relationships to reveal themselves naturally rather than announcing them outright.

What ultimately distinguishes Decameron is its ability to create a world rather than simply document a genre. The music evokes landscapes, stories, seasons, and states of mind, drawing the listener into an alternative history of the progressive underground. Across twelve discs, the collection rewards curiosity and attentive listening, demonstrating how thoughtful curation can transform individual recordings into something greater than the sum of their parts. Rich in atmosphere, musical invention, and discovery, Decameron stands as a remarkable achievement in the art of compilation. (B)

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Track lists

Part 1 - CD1

01 La Coscienza di Zeno - Il Paradiso Degli Altri 9:56

02 Nexus - The Evil Priests 7:24

03 Lady Lake - Wisdom 10:46

04 Tommy Eriksson - Abbotic Cure 7:16

05 La Theorie des Cordes - Le Repas des Gelinottes ou Anecdotes sur un Roi de France 6:27

06 Resistor - The Inquisitor's Jig 8:38

07 Faveravola - Cangrande e Bergamino 8:04

Part 1 - CD2

01 Under - Loretta's Tale 10:42

02 Safara - Elissa 5:31

03 Andrew Roussak Project - Alberto of Bologna 5:51

04 Penelli di Vermeer - La Novella di Martellino 3:41

05 Jinetes Negros - Templanza 5:05

06 Posto Blocco 19 - Scandendo il Tempo 6:55

07 Servimontana - Campaign 5:10

08 Fufluns - Andreuccio da Perugia 7:38

09 Senogul - Sixtha Tale 6:35

10 Kate - Alathiella 6:24

Part 1 - CD3

01 Roz Vitalis - Eight tale 8:12

02 Rhys Marsh - In Deceit They Play 4:37

03 Inner Drive - Second Day 10th Tale 4:33

04 Trion - Fast Forward 4:52

05 Attilio Perrone - Peste 8:17

06 Attilio Perrone - Amami 4:23

07 Contrarian - The Alchimist 6:11

08 The Samurai of Prog - The Promise 8:13

09 Jukka Kulju - Decameron Day 3 Tale 6 6:36

Part 1 - CD4

01 Ars Ephemera - Decameron 3-7 12:00

02 Mogon - Snuff 10:55

03 Ciccada - She Went for Love 7:45

04 Ozone Player - Putting the Devil in Hell 6:40

05 Castle Canyon - The Poison Heart 9:50

06 La C.O.S.A. - Orizzonte perduto 6:30

07 Cary Clouser - After All 3:49

08 Daal - Witches 6:53

09 Marco Lo Muscio - White Prelude 4:24

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Part 2 - CD1

01 Robert Webb - Intro 8:10

02 Nexus - The Ship 6:32

03 Serdimontana - Legend 5:13

04 Jinetes Negros - Fatales Rastros 6:19

05 Mogon - Mr. Toad 8:24

06 Willowglass - The Salvestra Tears 7:54

07 Intarsia - Cuore Strappato 10:32

08 Oceanic Legion - The Sleeping Lover 8:35

Part 2 - CD2

01 Samurai of Prog - Sweet Iphigenia 7:36

02 Steve Unruh - Carapresa's Tale 14:38

03 Ars Ephemera - Lost and Found 9:34

04 Rome Pro(G)ject - Day 5 Tale 4 5:08

05 Orchestra d'Oblio - Neifile 6:15

06 King of Agogik - Damsel's Love 8:18

07 Marchesi Scamorza - La Storia 6:09

08 Playing The History - Nastagio 8:51

Part 2 - CD3

01 Senogul - Ninth Tale 5 9:15

02 Camelias Garden - Quinto Giorno 5:29

03 Rhys Marsh - The Tales That You Tell 3:57

04 Narrow Pass - Day 6 Tale 2 8:05

05 Tale 3 - Mauro Mulas - Day 6 9:12

06 La Bocca Della Verità - Chichibio 5:08

07 Faveravola - Dell'Amore 9:03

08 Trion - Xindia 4:25

09 La Theorie Des Cordes - Nouvelle VII 10:51

10 Jaime Rosas & Rodrigo Godoy - Creer Crecer 5:00

Part 2 - CD4

01 Unitopia - Day 6 Tale 9 20:08

02 Piccolo Zoo - Guccio Porco 8:59

03 Karda Estra - The Wanton Subtlety 7:41

04 Yagull - Ways 2:52

05 D'Accord - The Rock and Roll Missionary 6:52

06 Ozone Player - The Well 9:14

07 The Rebel Wheels - Golden Chains 8:21

08 Tommy Eriksson - Cherchez La Femme 5:50

09 Robert Webb - Ode to Good Sex 7:46

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Part 3 - CD1

01 Robert Webb - Intro - HeeBeeGeeBee 5:39

02 Ageness - The Bizarre Garden Incident 7:46

03 Ellesmere & Pericle Sponzilli - Sull'orlo dello spago 9:24

04 JPL - Masquerade (Lydia and Pyrrhus) 5:24

05 Willowglass - The Siena Ghost 8:06

06 Trion - Two Hundred Florins 3:45

07 Stella Lee Jones - A Wandering Poet 5:47

08 Nexus - The Heliotrope 5:19

09 The Nova Mob - The Jagged Edge 5:23

10 Elephants of Scotland - Swing the Gavel 5:37

11 Jinetes Negros - The Other Pig 7:15

Part 3 - CD2

01 Mauro Mulas - Pampinea 9:45

02 Latte E Miele - Elitropia 4:57

03 Oceanic Legion - Indictment Ever After 6:57

04 Interpose+ - Lady of Sicily 11:43

05 Court - Bleeding Hearts 10:45

06 Ars Ephemera - At Lombardy Convent 8:20

07 United Progressive Fraternity - Mercenaries 6:36

08 Alex Grata - Take Thief 5:47

09 Il Tempo Delle Clessidre - Gnaffe 6:12

Part 3 - CD3

01 Rebel Wheel - A Night With Niccolosa 9:16

02 Taproban - Il Sogno, la Bestia, la Ritrosa 7:26

03 D'accord - Rai-ti-tai 7:12

04 Phoenix Again - The Bridge of Geese 6:23

05 Castle Canyon - Put a Tail on It 6:12

06 S.A.L.U.E.N.A. - Ahead of Fortune 9:43

07 Il Castello Di Atlante - Ghino e l'Abate di Cligni 6:32

08 Fran Turner - Neighbors 5:29

09 Blank Manuscript - Decamerone 10I4 10:26

Part 3 - CD4

01 Ozone Player - The Winter Garden 8:21

02 Faveravola - Carlo D'Angio e l'Amore Perduto 8:02

03 Cirrus Bay - The Kight's Tale 9:37

04 Marchesi Scamoza - De bello inter fratres 11:53

05 Bornidol - Il ritorno mai sperato 13:05

06 Locus Amoenus - Comunque vada 9:46

07 Castle Canyon - Outro - Nephile's Song 8:09

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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VA - Global Acid Folk, Echoes of the Hidden Grove (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

ACID FOLK

VA - Global Acid Folk, Echoes of the Hidden Grove (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

Building on the mystical thread of my previous Acid Folk compilation titled Chronicles of the Woven Vale, this new Butterboy compilation is more audacious in scope, a spiritual expedition across continents, era-defying in its selection, yet tethered by a mood of hushed reverence. Echoes of the Hidden Grove unfolds like a spectral map, guiding listeners through lesser-known tributaries of the global acid folk and psych terrain. 

Acid folk first found voice in the countercultural bloom of the late 1960s, where artists blended pastoral roots with experimental textures. But here, in Echoes of the Hidden Grove, the sound blossoms outward, encompassing not just psychedelic flourishes but the ancestral pulse of local rhythms, mythic storytelling, and modal explorations. These are songs that defy borders, unfolding from handmade instruments and whispered tongues, often recorded with little more than heart, tape, and windlight. With this compilation you're looking at a set that vibrates with global resonance and deep-cut magic, this is the kind of compilation crate-diggers whisper about. 

Out of the 92 tracks in Echoes of the Hidden Grove, this set holds at least 38 very rare tracks, true rarities. That includes long-lost pressings (like Extradition’s Hush, issued in 1971 on Australia’s Sweet Peach Records and reissued decades later), private label releases (Ton Vlasman’s White Room With Disintegrating Walls, a Dutch acid folk grail originally pressed in minuscule quantities), and censored or forgotten classics from pre-revolution Iran (Mehrpouya’s hypnotic “Soul Raga” and Pooneh’s spectral “Hamisheh Tanha”).

Labels range from Guerssen in Spain to Lyra Records in Greece, Zodiac, Polydor, and Uptight Records, all responsible for releasing psychedelic acid folk that vanished from mainstream view.

In terms of countries, the range is staggering with 31 countries represented: 

Europe: Ireland, UK, Wales, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Iceland

Middle East & Asia: Iran, Israel, Turkey, Japan, South Korea

Americas: USA, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Canada

Africa: South Africa

Oceania: Australia

Each track carries its region’s spirit, whether it’s the modal melancholy of Piirpauke’s “Konevitsan kirkonkellot” (Finland), the jazz-infused psych from Abstract Truth (South Africa), or the Kabbalistic Mediterranean swirl of Zingale (Israel). This isn't just global, it’s planetary acid folk storytelling. This is a map of acid folk’s secret history, a grove where mossy introspection from Athens sits comfortably beside trance raga from Tehran or eucalyptus-haunted chants from Sydney.

What this set does is collapse borders through emotion. The songs act as spells, some lull, some stir, some question reality altogether. For the listener, it’s not just a journey, it’s a communion with forgotten truths buried in moss, moonlight, and myth, delivering a soundtrack to the soul’s secret forest. (B)

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CD1

01 Mehrpouya - Soul Raga 4:02 1971

02 Clannad - Dúlamán (Seaweed) 4:34 1976

03 Furekåben - Den Gule Filthatmand 8:56 1970

04 Pierrot Lunaire - Sotto I Ponti 7:20 1974

05 Abstract Truth - Jersey Thursday 3:50 1970

06 Pekka Streng - Auringon Lapsi 2:24 1972

07 Kazuki Tomokawa - Goddam Winter 2:24 1976

08 Eduardo Bort - Pictures of Sadness Cuadros De Tristeza 5:56 1974

09 George Romanos - Life is A Dream 4:36 1970

10 Langsyne - Medina 8:24 1976

11 Kim Choo Ja - Before It's Too Late 4:02 1971

12 Jan Duindam - Happiness & Tears 3:34 1978

13 Fanica Luca - Doina din Ardeal 2:23 1948

14 Nagisa Ni Te - Me, on The Beach 8:34 1995

15 Zingale - Heroica 4:18 1977

16 Bernt Staf - Familjelycka 3:14 1971

17 Pooneh - Hamishe Tanha 4:05 1971

18 Dell Dudenhoeffer - Three Week Love 6:08 1975

19 Turid - Crystal Shade of Loneliness 2:44 1971

20 Genticorum - Dans Les Haubans 5:13 2023

21 Áine Minogue - The Grove 3:34 1997

22 Synanthesia - Morpheus 5:57 1969

23 Ton Vlasman - Fight With A Circular Course 16:02 1970

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24 Extradition - Dear One 9:54 1971

25 Aktuala - Sarah' Ngweha 5:45 1973

26 Upupayama - Hello Green Man, I Am a Tiger 8:21 2020

27 Arco Iris - Hombre de Madera 5:35 1972

28 Broselmaschine - Gitarrenstuck 2:05 1971

29 Czeslaw Niemen - Jednego Serca 7:37 1970

30 Daevid Allen - Peace Train 10:39 1994

31 Eddie Marcon - Nageki No Kame 5:31 2025

32 El Polen - La Flor (Tema de Cholo)-El Polen 11:34 1972

33 Emtidi - Touch the Sun 12:06 1972

34 Erkin Koray - Fesuphanallah 3:34 1973

35 Fille Qui Mousse - Princesse Nuage 2:00 1971

36 Luís Cília - Barca bela 3:11 1968

37 Fuchsia - A Tiny Book 8:02 1971

38 Gryphon - The Unquiet Grave 5:46 1973

39 Happy End - Natsu Nandesu (It’s Summer) 3:15 1971

40 Hiroki Tamaki - Kawa (River) 5:46 1975

41 Ken Narita - Gingatetsudo No Yoru (Night on The Galactic Railroad) 4:40 1976

42 Loudest Whisper - Lir’s Lament 2:24 1974

43 Magic Carpet - Harvest Song 3:41 1972

44 Meic Stevens - Love Owed 3:22 1970

45 Novos Baianos - Brasil Pandeiro 3:56 1972

46 Abstract Truth - Total Totum (Acid Raga) 5:18 1970

CD3

47 Áine Minogue - Far Beyond Yon Mountain 6:08 2004

48 Arco Iris - Mañana campestre 2:51 1972

49 Bernt Staf - Mitt Livs Novell 2:29 1970

50 Furekåben - Come, Let Us Soothe Our Nerves a Little 13:23 1970

51 El Polen - Sitting Dreaming 6:05 1972

52 El Polen - Concordancia 7:41 1973

53 Langsyne - Morning 3:34 1976

54 Langsyne - Cynghanedd 7:37 1976

55 Los Jaivas - Tarka y ocarina Diablad, Trote, Kotaikí 13:18 1975

56 Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho - Raga Dos Raios 2:30 1975

57 Franco Battiato - Da Oriente ad Occidente 6:33 1973

58 Niningashi - Hitoribotchi (On My Own) 4:15 1974

59 Novos Baianos - Mistério Do Planeta 3:38 1972

60 Os Mutantes - Ave Gengis Khan 3:45 1968

61 Pau Riba - Noia de Pporcellana 4:04 1968

62 Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisaltani portin loysin 5:08 1970

63 Piirpauke - Konevitsan kirkonkellot 5:08 1975

64 Sachiko Kanenobu - Anata Kara Toku E (Far Away From You) 3:26 1972

65 Satwa - Satwa 7:15 1973

66 Vytas Brenner - Araguaney 2:22 1973

67 Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico Ensemble - O Yannis Kai O Drakos 6:58 2008

68 Stenblomma - Skeppet 9:14 1973

69 Subway - Rosanna of The Roses 3:48 1971

CD4

70 Turid - To The Children of My Song My 5:24 1971

71 Trúbrot - Feel Me 10:37 1970

72 Satwa - Apacidonata 4:11 1973

73 Langsyne - Rainforest Song 3:13 1976

74 El Polen - Mi Cueva 4:20 1973

75 Jeff - Le Hamac 2:26 1978

76 Vashti Bunyan - Love Song 1:58 1970

77 Witthüser & Westrupp - Das Märchen vom Königssohn 9:33 1971

78 YMCK - Bokutachi No Shippai 3:34 1976

79 Amphora - Waitin' (for the Sunlight) 4:24 1975

80 Zingale - Lovely Violin Crying for Peace 3:14 1977

81 Satwa - Valsa Dos Cogumelos (Waltz of the Mushrooms) 5:10 1973

82 Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Paix 15:38 1972

83 Fille Qui Mousse - Annal-Mandreke-Cool Non Imperial News 8:30 1971

84 István Mártha, Endre Szkárosi, Sándor Bernáth - Kapolcs Alarm 4:54 1987

85 Claudio Rocchi - La Realtà non Esiste 2:33 1971

86 Emtidi - Die Reise 10:17 1972

87 Kourosh Yaghmaie - Gol-e Yakh 5:14 1973

88 Aris San - Boumpam 6:41 1967

89 Whitsuntide Easter - Transitory 6:28 1977

90 Folkdove - Willow Song 3:26 1975

91 Almendra - Laura va 2:50 1969

92 Áine Minogue - Song of the Banshee 8:00 2005

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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VA - Acid Folk, Chronicles of the Woven Vale (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3+ Bonus

ACID FOLK

VA - Acid Folk, Chronicles of the Woven Vale (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3+ Bonus

Acid folk, often called psychedelic folk or freak folk emerged in the mid-to-late 1960s like mist rising from the forest floor. It blurred traditional balladry with hypnotic instrumentation, modal tunings, and lyrics that felt conjured rather than composed. You might hear sitars next to dulcimers, voices echoing like incantations, and melodies that seem unearthed rather than written. This wasn’t folk with flowers, it was folk with shadows, spells, and surreal devotion.

Early boundary-breakers like Donovan, The Holy Modal Rounders, and The Incredible String Band laid the groundwork, with ISB’s The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion often cited as a defining work. In your compilation, Way Back in the 1960s stands as a whimsical and satirical relic from that album, sly, playful, and dripping with countercultural reverence. Other cornerstone artists like Comus (Diana), Trees (The Garden of Jane Delawney), and Forest (A Fantasy You) and (Graveyard) helped steer folk music into visionary, ritualistic terrain.

The genre never exploded commercially, but it built a devoted cult following. By the late ’70s, it mostly vanished, living quietly in private pressings and dusty record store corners delighted by cult circles, diggers of forgotten vinyl. 

Across 63 core tracks and 21 bonus selections, this is not just a listening experience, it's a living archive. Many entries are genuine rarities. Take "Prisoner" by Marie Celeste, a fragile track from a UK private press that floats somewhere between séance and lullaby. Or "If Words Were All I Had" by Bobb Trimble,a home-recorded masterpiece of outsider melancholy. There’s "Epitaph" by Oberon, pulled from their near-mythical 1971 LP, and "Sea Song" by Caedmon, glimmering with medieval modernism. "Dancing at Whitsun" by Stone Angel, a quietly devastating reflection on war and remembrance, is another deeply buried treasure now restored to light. And then there’s "I Feel the Sun" by Extradition, an Australian gem that opens like a sun prayer and ends like a breeze through ancient gums.

To listen to acid folk is to leave the road and follow mossy paths through story, sound, and spirit. It’s not just a genre, it’s a gateway. And once you cross through, something in you changes. 

As a Bonus I have included a 21-track compilation titled VA - Proto Acid Folk, Before the Bloom (A Butterboy Compilation)

This compilation doesn’t just anticipate acid folk, it listens for it in the distance, like birdsong before rain.

Before acid folk unfurled into phantasmagoric pastoralism, a quieter revolution brewed in the margins. Drawing exclusively from tracks recorded before 1967, proto acid folk emerged between 1962-1966 as a spectral whisper of psychedelia meeting tradition, haunting modal guitar lines, mystical lyricism, and esoteric ballads delivered with emotional rawness.

Artists like Anne Briggs, Bert Jansch, and Joan Baez offer stark acoustic meditations, rooted in centuries-old melodies and delivered with emotional precision. Paired with avant-garde folk voices like Sandy Bull and the Holy Modal Rounders, whose experiments with form and tuning break the boundary between tradition and surrealism, the set captures a transitional moment in folk music’s evolution.

Lyrical sorrow, environmental dread, and mystical longing are recurring themes, from Bonnie Dobson’s apocalyptic "Morning Dew" to Karen Dalton’s fractured lament "Katie Cruel", each track whispers at the threshold of deeper psychedelic transformation. The sequencing arcs gracefully: starting with Appalachian lament and folk purity, moving through experimental cadence and poetic narrative, and culminating with the Incredible String Band’s "October Song", a quiet prophecy of the acid folk era to come. (B)

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Acid Folk, Chronicles of the Woven Vale

CD1

01 Forest - A Fantasy You 2:41 1969

02 Adam & Eve - Desert Song 3:10 1969

03 Shelagh McDonald - Peacock Lady 3:29 1970

04 Malicorne - Dame Lombarde 3:11 1974

05 Subway - I Am A Child 4:19 1972

06 Lesley Duncan - Love Song 3:09 1969

07 Chimera - Lady With Bullets in Her Hair 2:47 1969

08 Marie Celeste - Prisoner 3:31 1971

09 Mellow Candle - Silversong 4:29 1972

10 Folkal Point - Once I Knew a Pretty Girl 4:03 1971

11 Shide&Acorn - Under The Tree 4:28 1971

12 Caedmon - Sea Song 5:35 1978

13 The Incredible String Band - The Minotaur's Song 3:22 1968

14 Ken Saul - Warm Summer Rain 2:41 1970

15 Mr Brooks - The Family 3:08 1974

16 Peter Sinfield - The Song of The Sea Goat 6:08 1973

17 Trader Horne - Morning Way 4:36 1970

18 Holy Modal Rounders - Generalonely 4:00 1971

19 Oberon - Epitaph 3:35 1971

20 Mr. Fox - Mendle 7:12 1970

21 Trees - The Great Silkie 5:11 1970

CD2

01 Bread, Love & Dreams - Hymn for Sylvia 5:46 1970

02 Extradition - I Feel The Sun 1:20 1971

03 Comus - Diana 4:36 1971

04 Bobb Trimble - If Words Were All I Had 4:27 1982

05 Stone Angel - Dancing at Whitsun 3:15 1994

06 Vashti Bunyan - Rainbow River 3:22 1970

07 Forest - Graveyard 5:45 1970

08 Magic Carpet - The Phoenix 3:19 1972

09 Spriguns - Trysting Tree 4:05 1976

10 Skybird - Queen Magdalena 3:26 1973

11 Jan Dukes De Grey - Sorcerers 2:42 1970

12 Ithaca - All My Life 2:38 1973

13 Incredible String Band - The Water Song 2:50 1968

14 Meic Stevens - Yorric 8:48 1970

15 Dr. Strangely Strange - Strings in the Earth and Air 2:01 1969

16 Spriguns of Tolgus - Flodden Field 6:42 1975

17 Big Lost Rainbow - Ocean 5:02 1973

18 Simon Finn - Butterfly 3:27 1970

19 C.O.B. - Soft Touches of Love 4:46 1971

20 Mark Fry - The Witch 6:41 1972

21 Carol of Harvest - You and Me 2:26 1978

CD3

01 Time - A Song for You 5:34 1968

02 Bob Brown - Baby Child 5:35 1971

03 Pearls Before Swine - Ballad to an Amber Lady 5:14 1967

04 Mad River - Equinox 1:49 1969

05 Curved Air - Elfin Boy 4:16 1973

06 Amazing Blondel - Love Sonnet 4:02 1970

07 Incredible String Band - Koeeoaddi There 4:46 1968

08 Trees - Little Balck Cloud 2:13 1969

09 Ithaca - Questions 4:10 1973

10 Extradition - Song for Sunrise 5:47 1971

11 Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith 3:39 1970

12 Spirogyra - Time Will Tell 5:38 1971

13 Tony, Caro and John - There Are No Greater Heroes 3:46 1972

14 Water Into Wine Band - Waiting for Another Day 6:23 1976

15 Roger Rodier - While My Castle Burning 4:19 1972

16 Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney 4:07 1970

17 Judee Sill - The Lamb Ran Away With The Crown 3:16 1972

18 Midwinter - The Waters of Sweet Sorrow 3:08 1973

19 Heaven & Earth - Feel The Spirit 4:47 1973

20 Jan Dukes De Grey - Sun Symphonica 18:59 1971

21 The Incredible String Band - A Very Cellular Song 13:09 1968

BONUS VA - Proto Acid Folk, Before the Bloom

01 Jean Ritchie - Black Waters 4:09 1977

02 Malvina Reynolds - What Have They Done to The Rain 2:15 1964

03 Elvis Presley - Tomorrow is a Long Time 5:21 1966

04 Joan Baez - The Trees They Do Grow High 2:56 1961

05 Anne Briggs - She Moved Through The Fair 2:19 1963

06 Donovan - Guinevere 3:42 1966

07 Ian Campbell Folk Group - The Sun is Burning 2:25 1963

08 Bert Jansch - Needle of Death 3:19 1965

09 Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel 2:33 1963

10 Rosalie Sorrels - If You Love Me 3:19 1962

11 Tom Rush - Urge for Going 5:47 1966

12 Richard & Mimi Farina - A Swallow Song 2:54 1965

13 Incredible String Band - Way Back in the 1960s 3:13 1967

14 Sandy Bull - Blend 21:56 1963

15 Donovan - Legend of A Girl Child Linda 6:52 1966

16 Holy Modal Rounders - The Cuckoo 3:08 1964

17 Anne Briggs - The Snow it Melts The Soonest 2:18 1665

18 Buffy Sainte-Marie - Cod'ine 5:04 1964

19 Bonnie Dobson - Morning Dew 3:20 1962

20 Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind 2:20 1965

21 Incredible String Band - October Song 4:09 1966

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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VA - California Acid Folk [1981]

ACID FOLK

VA - California Acid Folk [1981]

California Acid Folk (Penguin Records, 1981) isn’t just a bootleg, it’s a portal. It opens with a 1967 Byrds radio session that’s all shimmer and shadow, then slides into Country Weather’s smoky demos. Kaleidoscope’s live set from Berkeley twists acid folk into Middle Eastern spirals, and pulls you deeper with Lowell George, Gram Parsons, and more offbeat companions.

Despite its scrappy origins, it’s stitched together with curatorial care. You don’t just hear songs, you feel the undercurrent of California’s psychedelic folk roots bending into garage, country-rock, and the avant-garde. It’s a sonic flea market full of ghosts. (B)

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01 Byrds - Hey Joe, My Back Pages, Mr. Tambourine Man, He Was A Friend of Mine, So You Want to Be A Rock & Roll Star, Roll Over Beethoven 17:52

02 Country Weather - Time is Leaving Me Behind 3:26

03 Country Weather - New York City Blues 4:10

04 Country Weather - Carry A Spare 4:32

05 Country Weather - Fly to New York 6:06

06 Kaleidoscope - Oh Death 5:43

07 Kaleidoscope - Taxim 7:36

08 Kaleidoscope - Egyptian Gardens 4:45

09 Factory - No Place I'd Rather Be 2:31

10 Factory - Smile, Let Your Life Begin 2:26

11 Mystery Trend - Johnny Was A Good Boy 2:39

12 Dino Valenti - Birdses 2:36

13 International Submarine Band - Sum Up Broke 2:16

14 Misfits - The Uncle Willie 2:15

15 Vibra-Sonics - Thunder Storm 2:55

16 American Four - Lucy Baines 2:35

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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