Browse by Label: WOODEN HILL (UK)

Artist:	VA
Title:	Syde Tryps One
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 002CD

1995 release. "First CD issue of Tenth Planet's much-loved series of late '60s UK psychedelic pop nuggets culled from previously unissued or private label recordings. Syde Tryps One features 15 essential tracks cut between 1966-1970 including contributions from the Purge, Pleasure Garden, Tidal Wave, Kat, Fringe Benefit and a host of equally obscure names from the soft white underbelly of British psychedelia. Eight page booklet with liner notes and photos."

Artist:	JASON CREST
Title:	Collected Works of Jason Crest
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 006CD

"Now available again after being deleted since 2002, Collected Works Of Jason Crest collects the A and B sides of all five late 1960s singles by British psychedelic pop cults Jason Crest and adds six extraordinary demos that failed to see the light of day at the time. With a lavish 16-page booklet and tracks of the caliber of 'Turquoise Tandem Cycle' and the legendary 'Black Mass,' Collected Works Of Jason Crest is the definitive anthology of one of the most highly regarded British psych-pop bands of the era."

Artist:	FAY, BILL
Title:	From The Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 012CD

Subtitled: A Collection of Demos and Outtakes, 1966-70. "Described by Mojo magazine as 'Britain's pop Salinger,' the reclusive Bill Fay cut the classic 'Screams In The Ears'/'Some Good Advice' single in 1967 before making two dark singer-songwriter albums for Decca, at which point he opted for public silence. This CD features 25 stunning, previously-unreleased late '60s demos. Baroque '60s pop at its finest, this important release includes new quotes from Bill." 2004 release.

Artist:	CHIMERA
Title:	Chimera
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 013CD

"Legendary lost masterpiece of late '60s acid folk/baroque psychedelia, the unreleased 1969 album by Chimera -- featuring future Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston -- was partly produced by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason who, like Rick Wright, makes a cameo appearance. First released a few years ago in vinyl-only format, this first-ever CD issue adds an extra eight pre-album demos to provide the definitive Chimera anthology. 12-page booklet with lots of photos and the full story behind the band's astonishing adventures in Swinging London." 2004 release.

Artist:	ANGEL PAVEMENT
Title:	Maybe Tomorrow
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 014CD

2005 release. "Recorded in 1969 but unreleased at the time, the sole album by baroque harmony pop-psych group Angel Pavement finally emerged in vinyl-only format in 2003. This CD release adds a further eight tracks, including five superb West Coast-leaning demos recorded locally in 1967 before they came down south to London to release two singles, all four sides of which are included herein. A rare treat for lovers of Honeybus/Zombies-style late '60s British pop, the 23-track Maybe Tomorrow includes full liner notes, quotes, photos, etc."

Artist:	FOREVER AMBER
Title:	The Love Cycle
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 015CD

"First-ever official reissue of the great lost British pop psych album, recorded in the summer of 1968 and released in a total quantity of 99 copies. A magnificent 16-track song-cycle widely compared to a basement version of the Zombies' Odessey & Oracle, this release features the original restored artwork, a 12-page booklet with quotes, photos etc., and eight bonus tracks: re-recordings of The Love Cycle material from an aborted 1978 reworking of the LP. The definitive release of an album that even The Times recently hailed as 'a lost classic!'"

Artist:	ICARUS
Title:	The Marvel World of Icarus
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 016CD

"First-ever official, master tapes reissue of 1972 British psych/prog concept album, allegedly withdrawn at the time due to pressure from Marvel Comics. The full story is told in the lavish 16-page booklet, which also includes previously unpublished photos and band quotes. Five bonus tracks: a U.S.-only single that was an outtake from the LP, the band's 1968 pop-psych debut single and, most impressively of all, both sides of a fantastic unreleased 45 from 1969. This release also doubles as the complete recorded works of one of the most elusive, mysterious bands active during the British psychedelic/progressive era."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Psychedelic Schlemiels: Lost Sounds from the Britpsych Scene
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 017CD

...1966-1069. "The British psychedelic scene has been so heavily anthologized over the years that many cult acts are now as familiar as the era's major players. But while London-based bands like Tintern Abbey and Dantalian's Chariot have belatedly received the attention that they deserve, the local group scenes that thrived up and down the country during the late '60s remain a mystery to even the keenest collector. The first volume of a new series, Psychedelic Schlemiels explores the secret garden of sweet floral Albion with no less than twenty unreleased acetates and private tapes recorded by mostly unsigned provincial groups, the majority of whom weren't even household names in their own households. With vital contributions from such local heroes as Peanut Rubble, So On & So Forth and Herbal Remedy, and featuring previously unreleased demos by major label acts The Carnaby, Sounds Around and West Coast Consortium, Psychedelic Schlemiels offers a fascinating window on a hitherto lost world of small-town suburban psychedelia."

Artist:	ONE IN A MILLION
Title:	Double Sight
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 018CD

"Featuring the precocious talents of 14-year-old guitarist Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish band One In A Million's genre-defining December 1967 single 'Fredereek Hernando'/'Double Sight' is widely acknowledged as one of the rarest and best British psychedelic singles of the era. Naturally enough, that double-sided classic is included on this complete anthology of the group's recordings, which also includes both sides of their highly-regarded mod-pop debut single from January 1967 as well as no less than seven previously unreleased, unknown-to-exist, Who-influenced demo recordings from the same period. With a number of hitherto unpublished photographs, comprehensive liner notes and numerous quotes from lead singer and chief songwriter Alan Young, Double Sight is the final word on one of the most intriguing and obscure groups to emerge from the British psychedelic scene."

Artist:	WEST COAST CONSORTIUM
Title:	Mr. Umbrella Man
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 019CD

Subtitled: A Collection of Demos 1967-1969. "West Coast Consortium's late 1960s 45s were sophisticated, lavishly-orchestrated, close harmony pop affairs. At heart, though, they were a garage psychedelic pop band -- as can be heard on Mr. Umbrella Man, which assembles the pick of the four demo albums they made between 1967 and 1969. Now heard for the first time, this astonishing cache of recordings reveal that, left to their own devices, West Coast Consortium ditched the brass and strings arrangements of their singles in favor of Mellotrons, fuzz guitars, Vox Continental organs and wah-wah pedals, while hitherto unreleased nuggets like 'Santa Monica Bay,' 'Aimie (Sing Your Song For Me)' and the woozy 'Mr. Umbrella Man' show a parallel debt to the lo-fi, DIY approach of the Beach Boys circa Smiley Smile and Friends."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Psychedelic Schlemiels 2: More Lost Sounds
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 020CD

...From The Britpsych Scene 1967-1969. "The second volume of Wooden Hill's ongoing series of lost nuggets from the soft white underbelly of the late '60s British psychedelic scene, Psychedelic Schlemiels 2 assembles no less than 20 previously-unheard acetate and private tape recordings from mostly unsigned provincial groups. With vital contributions from such obscure local heroes as Cellophane Cloud, Sweet Marriage, Varsity Rag and Forever Changes, and featuring previously-unreleased demos by major label acts The Loot, Young Blood and Opal Butterfly, Psychedelic Schlemiels 2 offers another fascinating glimpse into the hitherto lost world of small-town suburban psychedelia."

Artist:	LATE, THE
Title:	Songs From The Family Tree
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 021CD

"Although harmony-based British soft rock act Unicorn didn't release their superb debut album, Uphill All The Way, until mid-1971, the core of the band had been playing together, principally as The Late, for several years. Taken from previously unreleased acetates and studio tapes, Songs From The Family Tree charts the group's hitherto undocumented progress from 1967 to 1969 as they slowly evolved from their original, Hollies-inspired psychedelic pop direction to create a more individual identity. With comprehensive liner notes, quotes and numerous photographs, Songs From The Family Tree is an essential item for Unicorn fans and admirers of late '60ss British pop alike." Includes a previously unreleased alternative mix.

Artist:	HI-FI'S, THE
Title:	Snakes And Hi-Fis
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 022CD

"One of the finest examples of the beat-bands-go-bonkers syndrome, Snakes and Hi-Fis was released in Germany in mid-1967 by exiled British group The Hi-Fi's. Long established as an expensive, highly sought-after rarity on the worldwide beat/psych collectors market, this first-ever, band-authorized reissue is bolstered by no less than fourteen bonus tracks (many previously unreleased) from the same time frame. With extensive liner notes and some fabulous previously unpublished photos, this is the definitive release of a wonderful album."

Artist:	SHEPHERD, ALFIE
Title:	The Wind In The Willows
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 023CD

"In 1969, Angel Pavement linchpin Alfie Shepherd took time out from the group's hectic schedule to demo a concept album that he'd written around his favorite childhood story, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows. Sadly Angel Pavement broke up before they'd had a chance to record the work, which was duly left to gather dust. Forty years later, Alfie's homemade recording of the proposed album finally gains a long-overdue release. Taken from the original mastertapes, and bolstered by a clutch of similarly unissued home demos from the same timeframe, The Wind In The Willows is now revealed as one of the great lost projects of the late 1960s, a thrilling psychedelic pop song-suite bursting with melodic invention, ambitious vocal arrangements and the boundless spirit of adventure that characterized the era."

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Upside Down World Of John Pantry
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	WH 024CD

"Prior to his conversion to Christianity in 1972, singer/songwriter/pianist/producer/engineer John Pantry had been the brains behind numerous late 1960s UK psych-pop masterpieces, writing and recording under such aliases as the Factory ('Try A Little Sunshine', 'Red Chalk Hill'), the Bunch ('Spare A Shilling'), Norman Conquest ('Upside Down') as well as leading his own groups, Sounds Around and Peter & the Wolves. This astonishing 53-track 2CD set -- a heavily expanded version of Tenth Planet's acclaimed 1999 vinyl-only release - assembles every Pantry recording that survives from 1966-71, including those aforementioned seven-inch marvels as well as a plethora of demos, many of which have been taken from a hitherto-unknown-to-exist 1968 demo album. The Upside World Of John Pantry is not only the definitive early career anthology of this fascinating figure (now a vicar in Kent), but a Holy Grail item for anyone who loves intelligent, melodic, Bee Gees-inspired late '60s British pop." Artists include Peter & The Wolves, Sounds Around, Wolfe, The Bunch, Norman Conquest, The Factory and John Pantry. Includes 16-page booklet.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Psychedelic Schlemiels 3: More Lost Sounds
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WH 025CD

...From The Britpsych Scene 1967-1970. "The third volume of Wooden Hill's acclaimed series of unreleased-at-the-time British psychedelic pop artefacts, Psychedelic Schlemiels 3 painstakingly assembles another twenty acetates, demos and private recordings from the soft white underbelly of the late '60s group scene. In addition to featuring the first-ever demos to surface from legendary London underground club band Jade Hexagram, there's first-time exposure for psych-era unknowns the Outside Toilet, the Carley Hill Blues Band and studio project Airbus. Also including demos from such major label acts as Serendipity, the Mirror, Warm Sounds, Schadel, the Montanas and Des James (the original, hitherto unknown to exist, acetate-only version of 'Little Games,' subsequently recorded by the Yardbirds), Psychedelic Schlemiels 3 is an essential purchase for anyone with more than a passing interest in vintage British psych-pop." Includes 20-page booklet with pictures and extensive liner notes.

Artist:	SORROWS, THE
Title:	Old Songs New Songs
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	WH 026CD

"The first-ever official reissue of this legendary Italian-only late sixties album! British freakbeat/garage R&B giants the Sorrows relocated to Italy in 1966, recording the album Old Songs New Songs a couple of years later for a small independent label based in Milan. Now extremely rare as an original pressing, the album has been shoddily bootlegged a couple of times, including a CD pressing that slowed down the recordings and also managed to chop off the final minute of the album's title track! This new, band-approved reissue features the fully restored album in sparkling sound quality and adds an extra 100 minutes of music, nearly all of which is previously unreleased. Among the highlights are the magnificent heavy psychedelia of the band's aborted early 1968 Pye single 'Which Way'/'My Way Of Thinking,' the theme song to the cult Italian spy caper Ypotron, a couple of movie collaborations with soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone, and even an entire late 1968 demo album that, following the departure of two group members, was eventually scrapped and replaced by Old Songs New Songs! Completed by a previously unheard live gig from 1980 that proved the Sorrows' savage garage band instincts were fully intact a decade later, this package features new, extremely detailed sleevenotes concerning their time in Italy, with fresh band quotes and some superb, previously unpublished photos. Forget what you may have read and heard elsewhere, this incredible 2CD package is the final word on the band's lengthy but previously little-documented Italian sojourn!" Includes 16-page booklet.

Artist:	ONYX, THE
Title:	Kaleidoscope Of Colours - The Onyx Demo Sessions 1967
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WH 027CD

"After relocating to the outskirts of London in the summer of 1967, Cornwall band The Onyx went on to record a clutch of late sixties singles that are now highly regarded by psychedelic pop fans. A collection of studio demos recorded in late 1967 as they prepared to sign to a major label, Kaleidoscope of Colours features early versions of subsequent single tracks (including 'So Sad Inside' and 'You've Gotta Be With Me,' the latter with songwriter Guy Fletcher on lead vocals), the band's original recording of subsequent She Trinity B-side 'Climb That Tree' and a host of previously unissued day-glo psychedelic pop offerings, including the extraordinary, heavily phased title song." Includes a 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes and some particularly great pictures of the band in their nerd-years.

Artist:	WARD, CLIFFORD T.
Title:	Path Through The Forest
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	WH 028CD

Subtitled: The Secret World of Clifford T. Ward 1964-71. "When 'Singing Schoolteacher' Clifford T. Ward finally made a commercial breakthrough in the early 1970s, it brought to an end nearly a decade of toil within the soft white underbelly of the British pop scene. Path Through The Forest: The Secret World of Clifford T. Ward 1964-71 assembles his early work for the first time, featuring his scarce 1960s psych-pop singles as leader of The Secrets and a breathtaking treasure trove of locally-recorded demos and works-in-progress recordings, including two versions of a song that is now revered as a genuine British psychedelic pop classic, 'Path Through The Forest.' A prodigious collection of beguiling ballads and melodic, hook-laden pop songs, Path Through The Forest reveals that, some years before the winsome singer-songwriter glories of 'Gaye' and Home Thoughts, aspiring pop star Cliff Ward was already a highly significant talent."

Artist:	DEAR MR. TIME
Title:	Grandfather
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WH 029CD

"First-ever official reissue of Essex-based band Dear Mr. Time's highly-regarded and much sought-after psych/prog concept album Grandfather. Heavily influenced by the Moody Blues and early King Crimson, Grandfather was recorded in mid-1970 and issued by the tiny Square Records in February 1971, but was only pressed in a total quantity of 1000 copies. This definitive release is taken from the original master tapes, and adds five superb home demos recorded around the same time as the album by guitarist and chief songwriter Chris Baker. It tells the group's story for the first time, and includes many previously unpublished photographs." Includes a 16-page booklet.

Artist:	AIRBUS
Title:	Test Flight
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WH 030CD

"West Coast Consortium spinoff Airbus never played live or even released a record during their 1970-1972 lifespan, instead spending their entire subterranean existence holed up in their self-owned Whitechapel studio, writing and performing innumerable high quality demos and then attempting to place those songs with major label acts. But, more by accident than design, they came to leave behind THE Great Lost Early '70s British Pop Album - a jaw-dropping collision of superb songs, dazzling vocal harmonies, intelligent lyrics and hook-laden melodies that occupy the same studio �berpop territory as the first two 10cc albums and even Paul McCartney's Ram. Here, then, is the strange, previously untold story of a band that didn't leave so much as a footprint in the musical sands, but recorded a greater number of three-minute pop nuggets than almost all of their contemporaries."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Psychedelic Schlemiels 4: More Lost Sounds
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WH 031CD

...From The Britpsych Scene 1966-1969. "The fourth volume of Wooden Hill's acclaimed series of unreleased-at-the-time British psychedelic pop artIfacts, Psychedelic Schlemiels 4 gathers up twenty acetates, demos and private recordings from the soft white underbelly of the late '60s group scene. Major discoveries this time around include a live-from-Swedish TV track from legendary London underground club band Jade Hexagram, two unreleased recordings from Bulldog Breed and a near-seven minute acetate-only version of Jason Crest's much-loved 'Black Mass.' With fascinating unreleased material by VU/Nico-loving Surrey teens the Velvet Frogs, High Wycombe underground warriors Respect and songwriter David Matthews (the man who wrote Matt Monro's countercultural anthem 'We're Gonna Change The World'), Psychedelic Schlemiels 4 is an essential purchase for all admirers of vintage British psych-pop." Includes a 20-page booklet with pictures and extensive liner notes.

Artist:	GRANNIE
Title:	Grannie
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WH 032CD

"One of the least-heard but most beguiling albums to emerge from the British progressive rock era, the sole, self-titled LP by East London band Grannie was recorded at a demo studio in late 1971 and then issued on vinyl in a total pressing of just 99 copies. Feverishly sought-after by genre aficionados since its belated discovery in the early 1990s (Record Collector magazine included it in their list of the '100 Most Valuable Records of All Time'), Grannie now gains its first-ever official reissue. With quotes from drummer John Clark and keyboardist John Stevenson that tell the story of both band and album for the first time, this is the definitive release of one of the most valuable jewels of the early 1970s British progressive rock scene."

Artist:	HENDRICKSON ROAD HOUSE
Title:	Hendrickson Road House
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WH 033CD

"Recorded to showcase the prodigious talents of teenage singer/songwriter Sue Eakins, the Hendrickson Road House album was issued in 1970 as a limited edition pressing by the Two:Dot studio/label. Widely regarded these days as one of the rarest vinyl artifacts to emerge from the late '60s Californian counterculture, the LP now sells for around $1000 on the rare occasions that copies surface. Now available for the first time in more than forty years, this authorized reissue adds half-a-dozen fascinating bonus tracks, including alternative mixes of two of the album's finest songs, only briefly available at the time as a 7" that was credited to group alias Nibbus. With a lavish booklet featuring rare photos, interview quotes and the full Hendrickson Road House story, this is the definitive edition of a lost classic of the West Coast psychedelic folk genre."

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Artist:	SCORPIONS, THE
Title:	Anthology 1959-1965
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 004CD

Artist:	DANTALIAN'S CHARIOT
Title:	Chariot Rising
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	WH 005CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Story of Oak Records
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 007CD

Artist:	COMPLEX
Title:	The Way We Feel
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 009CD

Artist:	KLUBS, THE
Title:	Midnight Love Cycle
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 011CD