What!? Lorenzo Again?

Thanks to Rudy for sharing this nice discovery!
I guess that Spids Nøgenhat is the first band of Lorenzo Woodrose (Baby Woodrose, The Setting Son, Dragon Tears and Pandemonica). So this album must be Lorenzo's first recording!

En Mærkelig Kop Te (meaning: A Strange Tea Cup) is an album with six great Psychedelic songs blended with 60's and Space rock. All songs are sung in Danish. If you like Lorenzo's work, you really should listen this one! Enjoy!

In 1993/1994 Lorenzo (at that time under the stage name Aramis) and Aron of On Trial spent some time together playing acoustic guitars and getting it off in a very basic folk format. They also played acoustic folk in the streets of Copenhagen, trying (very unsuccessfully) to expose the common public to Roky Erickson, Love, Spirit and the likes. Lorenzo was at that time already full on recording his own 4-track folkpsych recordings, later to be known under the name of Pandemonica. This was a big inspiration for all, and led to loose and stoned late night Jamming in the rehearsal room.

In 1995/96, Lorenzo, Aron and Hobitten (before entering as fulltime member of On Trial), decided (this may be too precise a term) to explore the psychedelic folk format even more. Back in the safe environment of the rehearsal room a plan was taking form in the minds of the three musketeers. Three guitars, a singer, some natural inspiration, an expanding folkrock collection and lots of echo on top. It sounded just right for the psychedelic space invaders. A setlist found it's way to the band, and they liked to play live with this constellation.

In 1997 The band got a deal to play Friday and Saturday at Cafe Rust for a month. A hard place to play folkrock. You can imagine a room full of party people trying to score. The crowd didn't want to listen to three acidheads stoned out of their minds, so they never got back there again. One day Lorenzo said to the other guys, "We're gonna call ourselves: Spids Nøgenhat." Yes, of course! Spids Nøgenhat is the danish botanic term for the magic mushrooms also known as Liberty Cap and Spitzkegliger Kahlkopf, and it was definately mushroom music coming out of the speakers. Then followed gigs at Loppen (CPH), Achtung Cowboy (CPH), Posehuset (Nykøbing Falster), kulturfabrikken (Nykøbing Falster) Swamp Room Happening (Hannover), Stengade 30 (CPH) now expanded to a foursome including Elverpigen Lene on additional vocals. The last gig was at Filmskolen (CPH).

In the year 2000 Spids Nøgenhat recorded "En Mærkelig kop te", A set of songs from the bottomless well of Lorenzo's songwriting craftmanship. Full electric band backing (organ, bass, drums played by Lorenzo) and strong, well-written danish lyrics. In spite of the minimal promotion it became a serious cult/underground LP in the years to follow.

Facts and loose ends:

Some 4-track recordings from the period 95/96 found it's way to the Aron LP "Blackbeacon". The song "it's living" may be one of the first recordings of what later incarnated as Spids Nøgenhat. And until some live recordings get released, this is, along with their only 45 (Alrune rod/En drøm), the closest you get to hearing the original live sound of Spids Nøgenhat. Also, the song "2000 kilometer i en 2værelses lejlighed" was included on a Swamp Room Happening compilation LP, released in 2000.

2001 saw Lorenzo start fuzzed out caveman garagerockers Baby Woodrose, who is now enjoying great and well deserved recognition from all over the world. The LP "En Mærkelig Kop Te" was recorded at Mad Scientist Music Lab in the Northwest part of Copenhagen. Nick Hasselby took all the pictures and worked as engineer on the recordings.

In 2003 a Christiania support cd was released by Helicopter Records and featured an unreleased recording from the album sessions titled "Mere Frihed"

Another song "Hobbitten's Drøm" originally intended for the Spids Nøgenhat album, but recorded much later, was included on the Dragontears album project "2000 Micrograms From Home" released in 2006, featuring the original line up and members of Baby Woodrose largely re-introducing the echoey sound of the original band.

A film, by Niels Plenge, documenting danish underground sounds on vinyl, was planned to include recordings of Spids Nøgenhat in the studio. The project never got finished, but at some point it may see the light of day. Live recordings of nearly all Spids Nøgenhat's all too few concerts document the band as a productive and broadminded psychedelic experience.
(From MySpace)

Spids Nøgenhat - En Mærkelig Kop Te (2001)

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Money For Soul

Money For Soul is the second album by Baby Woodrose. This album is again full of pleasant Psychedelic Sixties Garage Rock tunes. Great songs are: Honeydripper, the single Disconnected, Hippy Chick and the title track Money For Soul. This album is another proof of Lorenzo Woodrose's musical genius! Enjoy!

Superfuzz, good stuff! 30 seconds into Money for Soul, and you’ll be thinking you found yourself a combination of early Mudhoney (vacuum cleaner fuzz) and Monster Magnet (Guf Lorenzen’s soulful vocals are a bit reminiscent of Weindorf’s), but a few minutes later you’ll realize you’re beamed back to the second half of the ‘60’s, to a time when each kid with a garage had a guitar and bashed out simple rock ‘n roll. When I tried to visualize the members of Baby Woodrose, I came up with a bunch of slackers in a haze of pot-smoke, fondling their worn-out copy of Nuggets and cherishing a closet full of obscure 45’s. Whereas many of their Scandinavian brethren (Hellacopters, Hives, Gluecifer, to name a few of the obvious ones) dabble in high-energy rock that first saw the light of day more than 35 years ago, Baby Woodrose goes a few years further back. Although it’s obvious this is a contemporary band, their influences are to be found on the Nuggets-compilation and psychedelic albums (just not the extended jam-kind): The Sonics, pre-Forever Changes Love, The Seeds, The Standells, and so on. In the hands of most other melomaniacs (what I assume they are), Money for Soul could’ve come off as a hopelessly hollow genre exercise, but it’s become much more than that here, as the band tears through four decades of garage rock with a stylish aplomb that’s pretty rare nowadays.
It’s not that the album contains instant garage classics that could match, say, The 13th Floor Elevators’ “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” The Remains’ “Don’t Look Back,” or Love’s “7 and 7 Is,” but there’s hardly anything bland either, as these concise, natural sounding tales about women, sex and drugs (for the most part) are ideally suited when you’re gonna organize that retro-party you’re thinking of. Of course, leader Lorenzen already had the opportunity to exercise with On Trial (where he played drums), and this time as well, one catchy hook is immediately followed by a next one, guitars buzz like in the golden days of 1965-‘68 and deliciously nagging organ melodies wind up now and then. It’s no surprise that “Disconnected” – with its no-nonsense attitude and brevity – was a single, as it embodies everything that’s good about psychedelic garage rock. There’s even better stuff, though: the rudimentary “Pouring Water” has to be the catchiest song to come from Denmark in a long, long while, “Never Coming Back” sounds like one of the greatest tributes to The Seeds AND The Sonics ever recorded, while the exuberant title track, with its pleasantly offensive lyrics (“You know how to suck dick, but don’t know how it feels” – allegedly about a record company executive), matches anything by, say, American neo-garage band The Mooney Suzuki. Like that band, Baby Woodrose also succeeds in incorporating a generous dose of soul (and a salute to Redding, with a lot of “Gotta gotta gotta” in “You Own It”), melody and attitude. Not as hard-rocking as the party tracks, but equally memorable, are the psychedelic pop of “Hippie Chick” and “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” songs that undoubtedly would get Sky Saxon’s seal of approval. It all goes to show that nostalgia and inventiveness needn’t be opposites, and if it weren’t for the fact this trio has digested 40 years of rock ‘n’ roll-history (with a bit of imagination, there are also hints of glam, punk and Blue Cheer-muddiness to be found), most of these songs would’ve fit nicely on any excellent 60’s music compilation. Even the gloomy ballad “Carrie” (also a single) works pretty well and serves as a nice break halfway the album. In fact, the only minor complaint that I have is that they felt the need to close the album with the much heavier “Volcano,” an excellent rocker in stoner-fashion, but one that somehow doesn’t seem to fit on this album and comes off as a weird afterthought. Anyway, Baby Woodrose’s second album is a winner. They’ve recently won some prize in Denmark, so now it’s up to the rest of Europe (and the world) to head over to Bad Afro Records and read more about them (or order a copy of Money for Soul).
(From Guypetersreviews.com)

Baby Woodrose - Money For Soul (2003)

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Part Two And Three Of A Trilogy.

Thanks again to Maciej for sharing these albums!
Last week I posted the first album of Pandemonica, a solo project by Lorenzo Woodrose. Here are II and III. It is like the first album: Dark Psychedelic Music with the great voice of Lorenzo Woodrose. These are very nice tunes. It is hard to find any reviews of these albums, except for the one below. Enjoy!

A trilogy of LPs packed in non-gloss black cardboard covers depicting various satanic or occult drawings probably lifted from writings by Alistair Crowley or Anton La Vey, and with song titles like "Thanatos", "Therion" and "Dying to Live" anyone could easily be tricked into believing that this is the work of yet another daft church-burning bunch of Norwegian black metal madmen. But no, it's the psychedelic sounds of Lorenzo Woodrose's Pandemonica.
(From Lowcut.dk)

Pandemonica - III (2002)

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Another Project Of Lorenzo Woodrose.

Thanks to Maciej for sharing this album!
Lorenzo Woodrose is famous from bans like On Trial, Baby Woodrose, Dragontears and The Setting Son. Pandemonica is a solo project before Lorenzo began Baby Woodrose. I cannot tell much about it. It seems that Lorenzo played all instruments by himself. The result is a strange and Psychedelic album. It's a combination of Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock and 60's Rock, Influenced according MySpace by: 13th Floor Elevators, St. Michael, Aleister Crowley, Bevis Frond and Black Sabbath. This album is the first of a trilogy. The voice of Lorenzo is clearly recognizable. This album sounds great, a lot different than other stuff I've heard from Mr. Woodrose. Enjoy!

Pandemonica - I (2000)

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One request: If someone got Pandemonica II and III, please share it!

Blow Your Mind!

A while ago I tried some Baby Woodrose (The Hawaiian) and I got sick as hell. I blew my stomach, so to speak!
So I prefer the Danish Baby Woodrose, a very nice Psychedelic Garage Rock band with a sixties feeling. Baby Woodrose is formed by Lorenzo Woodrose, who also plays or had played in several other bands like On Trial and The Setting Son. Blow Your Mind is the first album by Baby Woodrose and I say it's an awesome one! Enjoy!

"The music is very different from Lorenzo’s main band On Trial, this is 60´s sounding psychedelic rock with a strong pop vibe. If you have (and love) the Nuggets box you’ll love this as well, if you also like The Wellwater Conspiracy and bands like Farflung and ST 37 you gotta buy this disc as well. ...Lorenzo has a great voice that at times reminds me of Dave Wyndorf’s, on top of that he handles all the instruments himself on this CD. ...You simply can’t go wrong with a record filled to the brim with acid guitars, trippy lyrics, great vocals and extremely catchy melodies with a strong pop vibe (which is an art that seems to have been more or less forgotten since the heydays in the 60´s)."

(By Hogfeldt at Stonerrock.com)

Baby Woodrose - Blows Your Mind! (2001)

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A Bit Of Danish Psychedelic Garage Rock

I don't know what it is with Denmark, but this country has a lot of great Psychedelic Bands. If you like Baby Woodrose, then you will like The Setting Son. In the past Lorenzo Woodrose has given his cooperation to this Psychedelic Sixties Garage Rock Band by producing and drumming.

Sebastian T.W. Kristiansen is the young and shy brainchild behind The Setting Son. This unusual talent has composed more than 50 songs and recorded them on his small 4-track taperecorder in his flat in Copenhagen. A collection of songs that is both naive and rather desperate with Sebastians highly addictive vocals on top. The debut album by The Setting Son was produced by Lorenzo from Baby Woodrose and was recorded and mixed in 9 days at the Black Tornado studio in Copenhagen in December 2006. The result was 14 songs in a little over 30 minutes and the album is set for release September 3rd 2007. In A Certain Way was chosen as the first single and will be released as limited edition 7" vinyl and CD single. Line-up on the album: Sebastian T.W. Kristiansen: vocals, rhythm guitar, organ Lorenzo Woodrose: drums, percussion, vocals (Baby Woodrose) Adam Olsson: lead guitar, vocals (The Good The Bad, The AIM) Marco Burro: bass (The Untamed)
(From Lp33.tv)

Spring Of Hate (2009)

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The Setting Son (2007)

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Two Singles Of Baby Woodrose

A while ago I bought these two singles of Baby Woodrose from Denmark. I love this band because of their Psychedelic Sixties sound. You should really listen to their albums.

The only thing I want is to get high on some Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds.

A few years ago Lorenzo Woodrose was wandering the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark searching for kicks. In his search he met The Moody Guru, who offered him some mighty special seeds. Argyreia nervosa or Baby Hawaiian Woodrose they were called, and they got Lorenzo all fired up. As Lorenzo once said: I tried it once and wrote 5 million songs in 30 seconds and decided to make a record using this name, and he sure did. The next day, still tripping he entered a recording studio. All by himself, he recorded 14 songs of sixties inspired garagerock with loads of fuzz, tambourines, cheesy organs, snotty vocals and a whole lotta soul. These tracks would all end up on the Blows Your Mind album. To complete the recordings he once again called upon his trusty sidekick and spiritual adviser The Moody Guru to do the final mixing of the album. Finished and returning to the real world Lorenzo decided to gather a band to play these new fuzzed out tunes live. Yet again The Moody Guru got involved. Lorenzo gave him the name of Riky Woodrose and The Guru was ready to rock. All they needed to complete the line-up was a drummer. Their choice wasnt an obvious one, - instead of choosing a drummer for his skills, they chose the new kid on the block with the best taste in fast cars and women. They named him Rocco Woodrose and Baby Woodrose was ready to blow your mind!
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Coming Around Again 7" (2008)

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I'm Gonna Make You Mine 7" (2007)

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