Velvet Attack – Hellfire (video GER 2022)

 VELVET ATTACK are a 60's based indie-rock-group from Dortmund, Germany formed in 2019 to play velvet popsike melodies boosted by freakbeat/kraut educated guitar attacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAF_iN5MrZE&list=RDMMnAF_iN5MrZE&start_radio=1

 
 https://open.spotify.com/artist/4NzQ9MsIjFgC0OcvMgVX9y 

https://velvetattack.bandcamp.com

Single out on SOUNDFLAT RECORDS Sep/09th/2022! Taken from the album VISIONS FROM INNER SPACE / LP out on SOUNDFLAT RECORDS Oct/07th/2022.

Paneye - Desertism (AUSTR./ United Arab Emirates 2015)

A new fantastic album by 

PANEYE:

Desertism

recorded at Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai in 2015.

Art, music, words, vocals by Will Treffry. 
Second vocalist is Khat.

1. Desertism

2. Eyelid Temples

3. I Stumbled Upon Her Ruins

4. Decayed Windforms

5. Watched By Every Gloom

6. Passports To Overcast Islands

7. Visited By Murky Windings

8. Disfigured Fortune

9. Calm Eternity

10. Heed The Cycling Idleness

11. Empty Boats And The Vortex

12. Fragile Awe


Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/paneye/sets/desertism-by-paneye-2015

thebutterpeople.blogspot.ae/

Bleedstone - Glitch (Video)

New video for Bleedstone's closing track off of the debut album "Far From Gone" (2009)

Paneye - Remote Summer Clouds (AUSTRALIA 2014)

Anyone who's been following HLFP for the last few years surely knows that I'm a big fan of PANEYE.

Here is good news for all you guys that also enjoy his electronic dreamscapes as much as I do.
Will contacted me and asked me to feature his latest work on HLFP. It's a pleasure for me to do so.

I think his music is rather special and I really hope that someday he will get the recognition for his work that he deserves.

http://thebutterpeople.blogspot.ae/2014/09/paneye-remote-summer-clouds.html

Tracklist

1. Dimensions

2. Living And Gone

3. I Was The One

4. A Slender Loneliness

5. Moon Boy

6. Before

7. Shadowy Joy

8. Into The Gray

9. At The End Of A Dream

10. World Of Infinity

11. Neon Angst

12. Wayward

13. Inwardness

14. There Is Another Happiness

15. A Marriage Of Caves

16. Under Lakes

17. Leading To All The Living Things

18. Sleep In Parks

19. Sometimes Life

20. Corridors

21. Gray Eyes

22. Remote Summer Clouds

Get it here!

REPOST by Request: POET ZERO (Orange, Ephemerol...) - Vanille Club, Radio X (GER. 2002)

POET ZERO (aka MAXIM ENGL) of EPHEMEROL fame doing a solo acoustic radio concert, broadcast 09-17-2002 on "VANILLE CLUB", RADIO X, Frankfurt a. M., Germany, performing songs from his solo repertoire as well as his former bands/projects THE JANITORS OF LUNACY, ORANGE, SPACE TRUCKIN' and PAN AMP.

This is an edited version of the broadcast, because some cover versions of songs by TIM BUCKLEY, NICK DRAKE and BLACK SABBATH, that POET ZERO 

also performed on that day, had to be left out for copyright reasons...

The highlights probably "Stanley Kubrick's Diaries" (compare to the electric version by the JANITORS OF LUNACY here) and "Magic Spell" (also performed many times live by ORANGE). At the end of "Magic Spell" you can hear a quote from "Neil's Elevator", which fits in here perfectly...

Enjoy!

POET ZERO - Vanille Club, Radio X 09-17-2002

(mp3 zip, 12 tracks, 50 min, 70 MB)

1. Girl X - 2.50

2. Sun - 3.17

3. Magic Spell - 3.09

4. Dinosaurs - 2.58

5. Distant Smile - 4.24

6. Cathedral in Hell - 4.15

7. Stagnation - 4.15

8. Five - 6.44

9. Compenser - 3.53

10. Stanley Kubrick's Diaries - 4.16

11. Yeah - 3.01

12. Bush Has Gotta Die (edit) - 2.49

GET IT here or here.

(new link May 2014)

POET ZERO will be playing  a live gig in the WAGGON, Offenbach, Germany, on May, 15th.

http://waggon.blogsport.de/ 

RE-POST: Paneye - Wilt and Loom (AUSTRALIA 2009)

 "Wilt and Loom" is a fantastic record!!!

The man behind the one-man project PANEYE is Will Treffry, and he is from Summer Hill near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
PANEYE's music could be described as a mixture of electronic, ambient, psych folk and indie dream pop.

Regular blog readers will certainly already be familiar with Will Treffry's music recorded under the name PANEYE as well as BRIRSTLES ON THE CARAPACE. In fact he is one of my favourite musicians featured here on HLFP. 

http://www.myspace.com/paneye

http://thebutterpeople.blogspot.com/

http://www.secretstationrecords.com/

Dive into his dreamscapes and enjoy!

PANEYE - Wilt and Loom 

(AUSTRALIA 2009)
(mp3 zip, 14 tracks, 46 min, artwork incl., 66,4 MB)
Get it here!

Re-Post: Manual Zombie - S. T. (HLFP Compilation) (USA 2009)

MANUAL ZOMBIE is a New York/Brooklyn-based psychedelic band (like SKY PICNIC), a duo of two guys: Ahmad and Ben. Compared to SKY PICNIC their music is more sinister and far less influenced by 60ies/70ies psychedelic rock. MANUAL ZOMBIE's sound is at least to some degree rooted in the 90ies grunge, post punk and metal sound (though on tracks like "automatic people" some Sweet-Sister-Ray-VU-Punk is greeting). I'd also say I hear some BLACK FLAG influences, and I especially love that excellent distorted guitar playing. Their other main weapon is the voice - often spooky and menacing with strange spoken word passages:This is a trip to the dark realms of psychedelia. Enjoy!

MANUAL ZOMBIE's website lists four releases, and the 9 tracks from this collection here are taken from those records (that you can buy there) except for one song that was only recorded recently.

Favourite tracks: "Automatic People" and "No More Sun"

http://www.manualzombie.com

http://www.myspace.com/manualzombie

MANUAL ZOMBIE - S. T. (HLFP Compilation)

(mp3 zip, 9 tracks, 34 min, 26 MB, art incl.)

Get it here or here or here!

INTERVIEW (June 2009):

- where exactly are you from?

brooklyn

- do you want your real name(s) mentioned? If so: what is your real name?

A: sure.  Ahmad.

B: Ben

- how/when recorded? (at home/equipment...)?

B: We have three albums -all recorded on my computer.

- any official releases? If so, label, record nr.?

B: We haven't really released anything officially. We try to sell cds at shows and actually got somebody to buy one last monday. 

- since when are you into music?

A: weird question but I guess I've been into music from a young age, i just took a long time to start playing.  

B: I started listening to black flag in 6th grade. Thats when I started playing bass.

- any previous bands?  

A: Coupe of denver bands that no one will ever hear of. 

B: I played bass in a band called whore nun wizard ninja. We did classic rock covers and played one show. It was terrible.

- how do you "label" your music?

A: indie-heavy, psycadelic-shoegazish rock

B: acid rock

- influences?

A: Personally: Floyd, Zep, Radiohead

B: the velvet underground, bob dylan, pink floyd, black flag, dario argento

RE-POST: Orange - In The Garden Of The Demon King (GER. 1995)

ORANGE - In the Garden of the Demon King (1995)

(Second Demo, Frankfurt a. M, Bunker, GER., 07-09/1995 - CK master/mix version)

1. Brown - 5.51

2. Tryin' To be A Good Human - 6.02

3. In the Garden of the Demon King - 8.29

4. Love in the Suffer Room - 3.13

5. Neil's Elevator (incl. Souldrive) - 30.55

BONUS TRACK:

6. Soul Drive (edit) - 3.31

Get it here!

"Never draw conclusions about a garden from the way a person looks – and especially don't do so about the inside of the arbour from the way the garden looks." 
This kid on the cover artwork at any rate looks like straight out of a Stephen King novel...


This is the 2nd demo-recording of the german psychedelic band ORANGE, based in Frankfurt a. M., from 1995. For more info check out the older entry here at HLFP.


The original ORANGE existed from 1993 until 1995. In those years the band released two demo tapes and was very active, playing many festivals in Germany (Rhein-Main area and south Germany) as well as a lot of solo performances, especially in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.


This 2nd demo called "IN THE GARDEN OF THE DEMON KING" (as a kind of homage to KING CRIMSON) was recorded in true home recording spirit on a Fostex 4-track tape machine in their reheasal place in Frankfurt (an old WW II bunker). The band played and recorded the backing tracks in first takes on two days and then overdubbed vocals, guitar parts and assorted other instruments, noises and tape effects. This probably explains the somehow tinny overall sound, but nevertheless this recording definitly has its moments, especially on the 30 min psychedelic-experimental masterpiece "NEIL'S ELEVATOR". This track builds up quite slowly, starting with wind sounds and a long, slow guitar solo (kind of UFO-Flying-style), before rushing into the post punk indie instrumental main theme, with lots of different parts following, culminating probably in a bizarre, surrealistic druggy story told (in german) by singer Sue Boildice (about some pigs that don't like her green, new shoes because they remind them of the green grass... and more strange things happening) – very far out. Especially because Sue's voice of the backing track shimmers through and so creates a spooky, heavily disturbing overall atmosphere. After that you can listen to some kind of hobbits' freak-out party... (They even make an attempt of singing "Rosies" from the 1st demo...). The second (slow) theme follows, with Sue quoting some familiar lyrics above a PINK-FLOYD-Echoes-like backing... And this is just halfway thru the song! A heavy psychedelic roller-coaster/elevator ride indeed! Not to be missed!


In comparison with "Neil's Elevator" (by the way: also a live killer track!) the remaining songs (usually with Sue's PATTI SMITH like vocals to the front), though not bad, surely look a little pale. "Brown" and "Love in the Suffer Room" offer some kind of post grunge/indie sound, while the title track "In the Garden Of The Demon King" (formly known as "Orange" – remember "Red" by KING CRIMSON?) shows the band again in a more progressive mood. 
I added "Soul Drive", usually part of "N.E.", as a single track, 'cause it is quite a good song in its own right.


Again: Only around 8o tapes were originally sold at concerts or given away to friends. So this is a true rarity.
Should be listened to on headphones!

Enjoy!

Kid's Garden - Don't Call Me Yours - Digital 7" (USA 2011)

George De Large from Harrisonburg, VA, is the man behind KID'S GARDEN.

Some time ago I posted his first album Further on HLFP (see here).

Check out http://kidsgarden.bandcamp.com/ for more releases.

KID'S GARDEN - Don't Call Me Yours

- Digital 7" (USA 2011)

(mp3-zip, 3 tracks, 9 min, 22,7 MB)

Get it here or here or here!

released 26 April 2011

Kid's Garden is:

George Clanton- Vox/Rhythm

John Sgroi- Lead

Nick Webb- Bass

Chris Straub- Drum

"Kid's Garden debuted with the album "Further" in 2007 on the website "George De Large's Music To Take Drugs To" blog (now defunct).

It was given away for free and generated a relatively large number of listeners on Last FM (http://www.last.fm/music/Kid's%2520Garden)

Since then there was only one other song ("Lord, Amen" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xw1mzcTT10) released with very little distribution.

Last month we announced we played the first show ever as a band after 4 years, and announced a preorder for an upcoming 12" vinyl EP to be released this summer.

The preorder was successful, generating nearly $500 (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1471123704/kids-garden-mirror-kisses-split-album-on-vinyl), which is half of the total cost of printing.

The record (entitled 'Light Hearted') is being pressed as we speak, and will be coming out soon. To ease some of the anticipation for this long-time-coming release,

we are giving away a free 3-track single on bandcamp, called Don't Call Me Yours. thats what I sent you. (kidsgarden.bandcamp.com)

Kid's Garden is a 4 piece band from Harrisonburg, Virginia (USA) just beginning to perform live. We will be performing around the east coast of the US all summer long.

thats pretty much the whole story in a nut shell! All of the music was written and recorded by me in my basement apartment."

(George De Large - Info via email May 2011)

PANEYE - Lost In A Dark Aquarium (AUSTRALIA 2010)

PANEYE - Lost In A Dark Aquarium

(AUSTRALIA 2010)

(mp3 zip, 27 tracks, 56 min, artwork incl., 65,5 MB)

Get it here (Crocko) or here (RS)!

Regular blog readers will certainly already be familiar with Will Treffry's music recorded under the name PANEYE as well as BRIRSTLES ON THE CARAPACE (see below). In fact he is one of my favourite musicians featured here on HLFP. I simply love those dreamy, very atmospheric electronic soundscapes.

Strongly recommended!

http://www.myspace.com/paneye

http://thebutterpeople.blogspot.com/

Also check out:

PANEYE - Wilt and Loom (2009)

PANEYE - along the way to the bigtop, my life just dissolved (2009)

BRISTLES ON THE CARAPACE: Faded Suburbs (2009)

PANEYE - Lying Under Moribund Waves (2010)

PANEYE is also featured on HLFP 04 SOUND EXPLOSIONS

as well as HLFP 05 SPACE IS STILL THE PLACE

Favourite track: The whole thing! Well, maybe "Misery Portholes", which sounds especially great to my ears.

Enjoy!

Wonder Wheel - IMHO/Deep in the Bottle (digital 7") (USA 2011)

"This is Paul A. Rosales and here is a quick sample of the Wonder Wheel band's first full-length album, Total Bundy.

The only recordings with the band have been a few live bootlegs and the Wonder Wheel and the Warriors Demonstration EP of July 2010. Raul, Danny and I have been working hard over the past few months to compile and refine these tracks.

A cassette release with Burger Records will be available Spring 2011 and we are looking through other outlets for CD + LP. (...)

For more info please visit the Wonder Wheel blog:

http://mywonderwheel.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!"

(Paul A. Rosales)

I haven't heard the complete album yet, but those two tracks here are among the best songs that I have heard so far from WONDER WHEEL.

Check 'em out!

WONDER WHEEL: IMHO/Deep in the Bottle

(USA 2011)

(mp3-zip, 2 tracks, 7.18 min, 17,9 MB, artwork incl.)

Get it here or here or here!

Broderick Young - Dysfunctionally Yours (USA 2010)

In February 2009 I posted BRODERICK YOUNG's first solo album Florescent Light Fortina on HLFP (see here), NOUGATS followed March last year (see there) – and here is his latest release, Dysfunctionally Yours, recorded Winter 2010. Another very fine album – again, what strikes me most is Broderick's voice, reminding me of a young, charming LOU REED (especially in his VELVET UNDERGROUND time and early solo stuff). Enjoy!

"This one was sort of weird to do. Usually I like to write a song then record it and keep on doing that until I have enough for an album, but this time I wrote the songs, did a demo, revised the hell out of them, practiced, then recorded. Chris Daily and I recorded the rhythm guitar and drums on a tape 4 track then transferred those tracks to a digital 8 track. The tracks recorded there were saved on a computer for further mixing with pro tools and logic. It's pretty crazy but everything sounds clearer than it did on some of my other albums. Well I hope you enjoy it!" (B. Y.)

Favourite track: Insomnia (love that cheesy organ!)

http://polydactylrecords.blogspot.com/

BRODERICK YOUNG: Dysfunctionally Yours (USA 2010)

(mp3-zip, 16 tracks, 33 min, 77 MB, artwork incl.)

Get it here or here or here!

This Love Is Deadly - Misery (EP) (GER. 2010)

THIS LOVE IS DEADLY is a much promising band from Berlin, Germany, that is heavily influenced by shoegazing gods MY BLOODY VALENTINE (aswell as, say DINOSAUR JR.) and also reminds me – especially regarding Lisa's vocals – of PATTI SMITH and PJ HARVEY.

Misery is their first EP. And it is excellent!

Grab this monster!

Q: Do you want your real names mentioned? If so: What are your real names?

Louis: Sure! Our names are Lisa & Louis. Our drummer wants to be called H.D.

Q: Who involved? Who played what?

Louis: Lisa on bass and vocals, me on guitar and vocals and H.D. on drums.

Q: Where exactly are you from?

Lisa: I was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up all over the world.

Louis: I originate from Italy. H.D. grew up on a farm near the border to Holland.

Q: Since when are you into recording music?

Lisa : I guess, like probably every ambitous young musician, who starts to write own songs, we all had our first dilettante tries at recording music in our teen years on old-school cassette players. I remember, at one point having this really shitty and defect head phone set that my father'd given to me because he had no use for it, and it came together with this computer program to record voice samples and stuff like that. I recall how excited I was about its overdub option, which allowed you to record over your first take. That's how I did my vocal harmonies, after having recorded the guitar together with the lead vocals. The program even had a special effects section, enabling you to reverse a take...it felt like heaven to me back then! However, about five years ago Louis and I started to build up a home studio where the first tlid recordings were recorded. Everything was still very amateurish and low-fi, it still is actually! We sort of made a virtue out of necessity and have adopted this style to our overall band sound. But it was a great way to gain experience and since then especially Louis has become quite skilled at the art of recording, mixing and producing.

Q: Any previous bands/side projects that you've been involved in worth mentioning?

Louis: I played with a band called the amber light before, H.D. played with EL*KE and Lisa's currently got a solo project under the name Amour Fou.

Q: How'd you "label" your music?

Louis: I dunno, maybe Alternative, Psychedelic, Pop, Punk, Grunge...

Lisa: I always find it difficult to categorize ones own music... Motor.de recently wrote a review about us describing our music with german words such as "Edelgrunge" and "Rauschrock", which sort of appealed to us.

Q: What's your favourite track on this ep? Why?

Louis: We love 'em all equally. I think Midiverb stands out for it's uniqueness in terms of sound.

Q: How do you write your songs? What comes first, words or music?

Louis: Music always comes first then we write the lyrics. We write mostly on acoustic guitars.

Lisa: Yeah, when the music and the idea of a song is there, we play around with a melody...sometimes the melody inspires the lyrics...certainly the feeling of the song does. Rarely do we have a distinct idea of what exactly the lyrics should express... it's more a mood, a general feeling. The first idea of lyrics are mostly improvised and we often experiment with the phonetics of words, the sound of a word can be very inspiring. It's sort of an unconscious process, a stream-of-consciousness kind of thing. We might not understand it while in the process of creation, and often it only makes sense after completion.

Q: What’s the best song you’ve ever written?

Louis: I believe it's Wasting Time.

Q: Favourite line from a song you've written?

Lisa: Hm...I don't know. Our lyrics can be quite trivial and insignificant. If a song of ours carries a message, I believe it's more of an emotional than an intellectual nature. Perhaps that is the reason why our vocals are more often than not very low in the mix. Due to the fact that we mostly utilize the voices as instruments, it's more important to us that the melody or the way something is sung carries a certain feeling and thus contributes to the whole atmosphere of a song.

Q: How do you record your albums?

Louis: Mostly we record demos at home first on which the final recordings are based upon. Then we go into a studio and overdub the drums, preferably on tape.. We end up using a lot of tracks from the demos because of their feel. It's always a mix between lo-fi and hi-end.

Q: Any plans for live gigs?

Louis: We wanna play live as much as possible.

Q: What are your main musical influences? Do I hear a MY BLOODY VALENTINE influence or is that by chance?

Louis: Sure, MBV is a key-influence. But so is much of the music I think they were also influenced by, like sonic youth, dinosaur jr. the velvet underground, ramones, stooges, jesus and mary chain, hendrix, neil young...etc.

Q: Favourite band at the moment?

Lisa: Scott Walker is much adored at present.

Louis: I agree, I might have said Neil Young a few weeks ago. His latest record is a masterpiece.

Q: What was the first record that really blew your mind?

Louis: In Utero, Nirvana

Lisa: Nirvana, In Utero

Q: The last five records you bought/downloaded?

1. Neil Young - Le Noise

2. Tocotronic - Schall und Wahn

3. Air - Love 2

4. Portishead - Third

5. PJ Harvey - White Chalk

Q: Anything that you think is interesting, that you'd like to inform the blog readers about...

Lisa: Our MISERY EP is now available as a FREE DOWNLOAD! Via this link: http://www.thisloveisdeadly.com/ThisLoveIsDeadly-MiseryEP.zip

(or you may - of course - use the links below (m-f))

Q: Website?

A: http://www.thisloveisdeadly.com

Favourite track: Wasting Time, but every track is a winner!

http://www.myspace.com/thisloveisdeadlyband

 

THIS LOVE IS DEADLY: Misery (GER 2010)

(mp3-zip, 4 tracks, 13 min, 18 MB)

Wasting Time

Everything Is Nothing

Misery To You

Midiverb

Get it here!