It started as a competition question - Fruits de Mer followers share some of their favourite tracks - psychedelia, progressive rock, krautrock, kosmische, acid-folk, folk rock, old and new...
Nothing too obvious here - but surely it's much more fun that these are relatively undiscovered gems
i. BARBARA ALLEN - ABUNAI! ii. WE - THE TRIP iii. ALAN HULL - DRUG SONG iv. RALPH HEIDEL - AVI
i. Robert Musgrove says, " a great version of a folk tune in not a very folk way"
ii. Scott Heller released the album with this track on it
iii. Chris Purdon: "Why the track is a bit special: Alan Hull is vastly underrated as a songwriter, yet some (e.g. Elvis Costello, Sting, Peter Gabriel) consider him to be “England’s Bob Dylan”
He deserves far wider recognition other than just as the front man for Lindisfarne. This song captures the beauty, simplicity and humour of his songs and is little known: it’s from his solo album “Pipedream” rather than being one of the Lindisfarne classics"
IV. Jonathan Maddock says the track is special because of its energy and its typical of his music - distorted sax and synths played with feeling. he can't believe he's so unknown!
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i. THE URGES - PSYCH WARD ii. KAREN DALTON - IT HURTS ME TOO iii. FLYTE REACTION - FLAGS ON THE MOON iv. ROY ORBISON - SOUTHBOUND JERICHO PARKWAY
i. Mark Brady recommends - from the Dublin band's 2007 album.
ii. Peter Aston's choice
iii. Paul Standley recalls a song and a moment..."love the reverb and feedback intro that transitions into a semi-pop, psychedelic, dreamy song, ending with some excellent repetitive drumming. It brings back memories of a camping trip I took with my brother-in-law and young nephew in April 1994. That was the same time we heard about the death of Kurt Cobain from Nirvana. Later that night, we played this song while gazing at the thousands of stars in the night sky"
IV. Designer to the stars, Dale Simpson, days, "I first heard when I was in my early teens and was into Northern Soul, what I liked about it was that fast beat in the chorus; hearing it again later I realise it is also slightly delic too"
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i. HENRY BADOWSKI - BABY SIGN HERE WITH ME ii. THE SUPERNATURALS - I WASN'T BUILT TO GET UP iii. THE POPPY FAMILY - WHERE EVIL GROWS iv. FUNAKI - KANGAROO
i. Arnald Paul says, "All the things I loved then, and still do...Eno, Barrett, Tubeway Army"
ii. "I love this driving powerpop and used to sing this to myself on the way to work around 4am", says Ryne Hoek
iii. Over to FdM's archivist Mark Brady, "When I first heard this a few years ago, during the end titles to an episode of 'Killing Eve' I was intrigued to find out more. Very surprised to discover Terry Jacks ('Seasons In The Sun') was behind it earlier in his career (1971)"
IV. another from Mark - Norwegian friends of his...
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i. DYLAN GROUP - TOWERS OF THE DUB ii. THE LOVELY EGGS - MAGIC ONION iii. CRYSTALLINE - A HOUSE IS NOT A MOTEL iv. JULIAN COPE - AN ELEGANT CHAOS
i. you don't get many Orb covers, but Rob Roden found one
ii. Chris Pawlin says the band are touring in October, if you like the sound of this track
iii. Tom Pratt rates this as a brilliant 1970 cover of what is a classic song..."the singer is just so haunting, and the guitar solo at the end is amazing.
IV. Rui Alcoforado describes this as, "a beautiful introduction to the work of the brilliant Julian Cope"
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i. DELIA DERBYSHIRE - DELIA'S PSYCHADELIAN WALTZ ii. SONNY BONO - I JUST SIT THERE iii. CAN - DIZZY DIZZY iv. ISHQ - SPIRA
i. Rob Roden says it reminds him of a thought while you are tripping
ii. Henry Schneider shared this obscure Sonny Bono psych track
iii. Simon Clarke recommends a Can track..."This is just mesmeric and feels like you can listen to on repeat. Classic krautrock, but at the same time just cool"
IV. Rob Roden chose a track by Matt Hillier, who just happens to be an old mate of Jake Stephenson
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i. HONOLULU MOUTAIN DAFFODILS - PSYCHIC HITLIST VICTIM No.8 ii. RUN RUN RUN - DICTATED H iii. OCTAVA - ZINGSNIAI iv. SILVER BIPLANE - MISS CALIFORNIA TOOTHPASTE 1972
i. suggested by Keith Dodd
ii. Gavin Lloyd Wilson reckons there's bit of a Neu! vibe going on here
iii. Zil Bareisis shares what he thinks is probably the best psych track from Lithuania..."It’s even more special since it was released in 1972, during deep Soviet times, by the state label, Melodyia"
IV. Friends of Kev Shepherd (and fellow Luton Supporters) from a new ep that's about to be released
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i. ANDERS BUASS - THE WITCHES OF FINNMARK ii. BHAJAN BHOY- SIR RICHARD CONYERS iii. CHRYSALIS - DR. ROOT'S GARDEN iv. DELIA DERBYSHIRE AND ANTHONY NEWLEY - MOOGIES BLOOGIES
i. Matt Breach describes this as "essentially a 9 minute guitar solo which doesn’t feel long enough :) Originally came out late in 2017, and he has done 2 more albums as sequels to this one"
ii. Ernie Oakley explains that this was recorded on an old Church Organ In South Croton, Yorkshire - just gentle repetitive music to get lost in, it does vary but very subtly.
iii. A really strange and outré song released in 1968; Henry Schneider thinks that there some connection to Frank Zappa back then
IV. Rob Roden loves it!
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