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PURPLE 001CD
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The first volume in this historic series! Highlights include the layered sitar narration of Ray Brown & Moonstone, Linn County's doomy up-front electric sitar, J.K. & Co.'s ethereal ocean sounds, Hungary's Omega Redstar, fast-paced sitar swirl from Louisiana's The Basement Wall, delicate folk-psych from Abacus, Germany psych/prog from Broselmachine, '70s Spanish psych-progsters Gualberto, California's genius flower child minstrel Darius, UK '60s flower-raga from Blonde On Blonde and UK supergroup The Pretty Things. Other artists: The Frederic, The Flames, July, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Fraternity Of Man, The Misty Wizards, Ramases, Cob, Lord Sitar and The Vampire's Sound Inc. And it's true: all of these songs feature the sitar.
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PURPLE 004CD
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Highlights from the fourth volume in this series include '60s Swedish hippies Mecki Mark Men, North Carolina acid fuzz from Stunt's Blue Leg Expedition, '60s Canadian garage-punk psych from The Ugly Ducklings, UK folk singer/songwriter Wizz Jones, Indian headswirl master Ananda Shankar, and obscure sitar favourites Nick Carter and Mehropoojah. If you listen to one song on this CD, make it track 13: Kuni Kawachi & The Flower Travelling Band's "Graveyard Of Love." Other '60s and '70s psych obscurities from Johnny Thompson Quintet, Moonkyte, Dantalion's Chariot, The Twilights, The Folkswingers, The New Tweedy Brothers, Wizz Jones, Full Moon Band, Chim Kothari, A Little Bit Of Sound, The Lemon Pipers, C.O.B. and Popera Cosmic.
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PURPLE 006CD
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A collection of '60s and '70s psych obscurities, all featuring the sitar. UK folk-psych, Turkish fuzz, echoed Eastern chants, radiant raga jams, lysergic Gregorian warbling, Swedish prog, the inevitable backwards sitar tidbits, tablas, crunchy drums, a Brazilian-prog cover of the Beatles' "Within You Without You" and other delicacies. Artists: Tomorrow, The Shiny Gnomes, The Fox, Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band, The Cosmic Gardeners, The Nova Local, Family, Joseph, Cheops, 3 Hur-El, Grail, Tomerclaus, Paroni Paakunainen, Magna Carta, The Click, Catharsis, The Fallen Angels, Violeta De Out Ono, and The David.
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