Dragontears: Discography

 

Dragontears is a side project of the rock based group BABY WOODROSE from Denmark. A recording only band headed by guitarist Lorenzo Woodrose which is quite far away from the usual

heavy rock style here. Enlarged by members of the band ON TRIAL they recorded their debut during one week between Christmas and New Years Eve in 2005 at the Black Tornado studio in Copenhagen. This album named '2000 Micrograms From Home' was offered in 2007 by Bad Afro Records and was originally concipated as a vinyl release only. Six cuts are included deriving from improvised jam sessions deep in hallucinatory psychedelia.
                      

One year later they followed this path with the second release 'Tambourine Freak Machine'. Once again

you will detect all the ingredients what the genre is able to present - trippy spacey songs with hypnotic parts, a lot of electronica and experimental elements. DRAGONTEARS is a recommended project for fans of the genre which shows a retro as well as a modern approach.

                          

01. DRAGONTEARS - 2000 MICROGRAMS FROM HOME 2007

                               

"2000 Microgramms From Home" marks the debut of Lorenzo Woodrose's DRAGONTEARS project. Originally playing stoner rock in the band BABY WOODROSE the musicians are turning deep into the psych/space territory here. Heavy rocking elements are taking a backseat and instead of that we have tons

of echo guitar and vocals, dreamy spaced out sounds presented in a hypnotic mood. I started to listen to the band with the follower 'Tambourine Freak Machine' first and it totally convinced me and therefore was praised with five stars. Surely a heavy load for this debut album which contains six songs representing a vinyl length of nearly 40 minutes. This is a very good listenable album for fans of psychedelic and spacey trips. Unfortunately DRAGONTEARS is a studio project what I know and the chance to enjoy this music live on a stage is very very small - but never say never ... 
                         

Dragontears – 2000 Micrograms From Home
Label: Bad Afro Records – AFROCD032
Format: CD, Album, Promo, Cardsleeve
Country: Denmark
Released: Mar 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                         

01. Microdot   6:39
02. Borderline   4:26
03. Hobitten's Drøm   4:04
04. Doubtstains   4:21
05. The Doors Of Prescription   17:53
06. Heliodrone   2:00

LINE - UP

Lorenzo Woodrose / guitar, vocals, organ, percussion
Ralph A. Rjeily / banjo, effects
The Moody Guru / bass, guitar, Glockenspiel, vocals
Fuzz Daddy / drums, organ
The Hobbit / guitar, effects
Aron / guitar, voice

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02. DRAGONTEARS - TAMBOURINE FREAK MACHINE 2008

                                               

             

DRAGONTEARS is a side project of the stoner rock band BABY WOODROSE where guitarist Lorenzo Woodrose can be treated as the mastermind. They are additionally supported by some members of another danish band called ON TRIAL. First of all - don't expect much heavy psych/space rock in the vein of

HAWKWIND or 35007. 'The concept is letting songs evolve freely in the sonic playground' they write on the myspace site. That's the case - and this is prepared in a more hallucinatory transcendental way which lets you questioning the musician's stoner rock origin in any case. The album sounds like recorded on bloc and is pointing to the former hippiesque 60/70s times a lot. But on the other hand this is not retro exclusively because they also use several innovative electronic ingredients. 'Tambourine Freak Machine' is recommended with a relaxed spacey base and nice melodies as well as portions of weirdness which makes this also interesting for krautrock fans. A special mix which is hardly comparable ... 
                          

Dragontears – Tambourine Freak Machine
Label: Bad Afro Records – AFROCD037
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: Europe
Released: Nov 17, 2008
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                              

01. The River    10:10
02. Sunrise    5:12
03. Masters Of War    5:10
04. The Freedom Seed    15:15
05. Roccos Revenge    1:45
06. Dreamweaver    3:42

LINE - UP

Lorenzo Woodrose / vocals, guitars, organs, piano
Fuzz Daddy / drums, percussion, tablabox, cellphone
The Moody Guru / bass, tambourabox, pianostrings
Manoj Ramdas / theremin, musicbox
The Hobbit / guitars, Roland R66, space echo
Ralph A. Rjeily / tape treatments, FX Chain
Janine Neble / vocals
Aron / guitars
The Twilight Princess / chinese flute, vibes

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03. DRAGONTEARS - TURN ON TUNE IN FUCK OFF!!

                                  

Danish Dragontears released their third album at the beginning of this month. Although I really enjoy also the two previous albums (2000 Micrograms from Home, 2007 and Tambourine Freak Machine, 2008), this

brand new one is possibly the best. So it's downright sad that Turn on Tune in Fuck off!! is at the same time also the last Dragontears album. The band's main figure, Baby Woodrose's Lorenzo Woodrose has decided that from now on he will incorporate also his weirdest and most psychedelic ideas into the albums of the main band. Well, it's of course a good thing considering the future Baby Woodrose albums! And these former and present members of On Trial and Baby Woodrose surely have several other projects as well. 
                       

Dragontears – Turn On Tune In Fuck Off!!
Label: Bad Afro Records – AFROCD040
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: Denmark
Released: Nov 1, 2010
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                                

01. Two Tongue Talk    3:54
02. No Salvation    4:31
03. My Friend    3:31
04. Time Of No Time    6:11
05. William    13:15
06. Mennesketvilling    5:49

LINE - UP

Lorenzo Woodrose / vocals, guitars, organ, drums, bass
The Hobbit / guitars, Harmonium
Moody Guru / percussion, guitar
Fuzz Daddy / percussion, oszillator, theremin, tanpura
Anders 'Evil Jebus' Onsberg / effects
Ralph A. Rjeily / effects
Lars von Lundholm / keyboards

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:

Emma Acs / percussion, vocals
Sebastian Winther / percussion, vocals
The Adam / percussion, vocals

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Jesus On Heroine: Tremolo Eastern Salvation 2013

 

What can we say about Jesus On Heroine? Well, the truth is, tracing down information on these guys is pretty damn difficult. They like to keep way under the radar. They are a mysterious psychedelic

shoegaze band from Copenhagen. They are influenced by The Doors, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and, strangely, Kasabian, and they clearly want their music to speak for itself. They’ve been around since 2011 and released their first album in 2013, Tremelo Eastern Salvation. The video for their song, ‘No Hard Feelings,’ presents a naked woman swaying from side to side against a backdrop of psychedelic rainbow jellyfish—it’s pretty trippy.
                                  

Hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark eclectic rock band Jesus On Heroine evolve around dreamy psychedelia, noise-rock and drone-based shoegaze. The group released their debut album entitled

Tremolo Eastern Salvation… This is music to get lost in, with more ambience and dream-like cloudiness than you can shake a stick at. They are venturing out from wherever they hide to play Berlin’s Psych Fest in April 2014, joined by a hearty line-up of international psychedelic bands. Here’s hoping for a live interpretation of the naked woman with jellyfish as part of their performance. If they can’t manage that, I reckon it would be a pretty decent show anyway.
                             

The group released their debut album entitled Tremolo Eastern Salvation in 2013 and now the time has

come for the release of the video of the first single “Musasabi” of the second album Ardhanarishvara. The theme of the new album is “everything is a remix”. The idea is that the original piece doesn’t exist. The ambition is therefore not to create something unique beyond what is already produced. The hope is nevertheless to search the new in the old. To emphasise this the album is going to be released in three versions. Three different moods made by three different producers and DJ’. 
                          

Artist: Jesus on Heroine
Type: CD, Album
Label: Not On Label
Released: 2013
Genre: Rock 
Style: Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Total length: 53:08    
                                         

TRACKS

                        

01. Drifting for Hospitality
02. I Won't Be Loving You That Long
03. Jesus On Heroin 
04. Up On Horizons
05. So High I Can't Look Down
06. This Is Not How I Feel
07. So Hard Working for No One
08. Tangerine Dream
09. I Don't Need No Getting High
10. No Hard Feelings
11. Hidden Time Revisited
                           

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The Noise Figures: Aphelion 2015 + Telepath 2018

 

  " A psyche-garage trip by car... through time. "

The Noise Figures are like a time machine channeling The Sonics and The Doors: They pass through 1960s garage and ‘70s psychedelia, taking in ‘90s alt-rock and modern fuzz along the way. The Athens-based duo is comprised of George Nikas (vocals, drums), already known to Greek

audiences from his previous work with Zebra Tracks, and Stamos Bamparis (guitars, vocals), also known from his time with the grunge group Keyser Söze. In January 2012 they released their single ‘Bitter Taste’ and entered the studio to work on more material. The Noise Figures EP was released digitally later that year and was soon followed by their self-titled debut album. In 2018 the band returned more fearless than ever with their third full-length studio work, Telepath, inspired “by the theory of spiritualism and personal experiences” to use their own words. 
                        

The band connects, in a unique way, 2013 Athens with 1965 San Francisco through the musical influences of the band. Restless fuzz guitars flirting with old-fashioned garage but also with contemporary blues,

amps with plenty of spring reverb and dirty overdriven vocals form the music backbone of their sound. The lyrics draw their themes from experiences on the road and express a dizzying madness for life. Traveling by car under the hot sun, hallucinogens, girls next door and beautiful wild landscapes are some of the inspirations of the two artists who are driving the imagination of the listener on an adventurous Kerouacian journey. “The Noise Figures” is best listened loud and is the ideal soundtrack for escaping the urban boundaries by car.
                                

In 2020, the Athens-based drums-guitar duo of George Nikas and Stamos Bamparis released their heaviest

album to date. The Perfect Spell is a dark and cynical glimpse into a metaphysical void- how else can someone describe an album that begins with the wildly joyful “I Cheat Death” and ends with chugging riffs in “Pilgrims of the Dark”? The Noise Figure take a step forward by taking the road back to their fiery rock n’ roll roots and their heavy psych inner-self, with metallic drum beats and brain-pounding energy, feeling more improvised and loose than ever.

                                             

01. THE NOISE FIGURES - APHELION 2015

                                   

Two years after the release of their self-titled debut that created a great sensation, The Noise Figures duo

is back dynamically with “Aphelion”. After two European tours, hundreds of concerts in all major Greek cities and having shared the stage with some of the most important bands (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Growlers, Japandroids, No Age, Dead Meadow, Sonic Jesus, Sylvain Sylvain), George Nikas (drums, vocals) and Stamos Bamparis (guitar, vocals) elevate the musical tones and offer us some of the best songs of the year. Recorded in five days, on a reel-to-reel tape machine, with vintage gear and tuned to A=432 Hz, produced and sound engineered by Alex Bolbasis in Artracks Studios, ”Aphelion” answers the

question of what happens when you combine ideally the raw power of Death From Above 1979, the spirit of Black Sabbath and the fuzz of Black Angels. Spunky vocals, massive guitar riffs and sticky tunes in harmony with a special engraving, created by Bob Studio for the cover artwork, are making ”Aphelion” an album that is here to stay.
                             

The Noise Figures – Aphelion
Label: Inner Ear – INN114
Format: CD, Album
Country: Greece
Released: Sep 28, 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock

TRACKS

                       

01. Shoot The Moon
02. In The Boneyard
03. Run
04. Don't Throw Your Head
05. Aphelion
06. Holy One
07. Feathers
08. Blood
09. No Use
10. Celebration Time

LINE - UP

                  

Drums, Vocals – George Nikas
Guitar, Vocals – Stamos Bamparis
Producer, Engineer – Alex Bolpasis

NOTES

Recorded At – Artracks Studio
Recorded in five days, on a reel-to-reel tape machine, with vintage gear and tuned to A=432 Hz.

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02. THE NOISE FIGURES - TELEPATH 2018

                            

Two and a half years after “Aphelion”, The Noise Figures return more frenetic than ever with their third full-length studio work entitled “Telepath”. Inspired by the theory of spiritualism and influenced by personal experiences, “Telepath” is an intoxicated concept album, with intensively sobering attention to

detail in every single track, revealing a different side of the band’s personality and crossing all the paths the duet from Greece has traveled so far, from heavy blues to psych garage to a fuzz vertigo. With its swinging moods of bright to dark undertones, the album sounds sharper than ever, with more energy, intensity and tuneful sensibility, capturing the band’s hundreds of live performances and touring thrust. With Alex Bolpasis’ stamp on production and mixing, The Noise Figures develop the artistic freedom they have cultivated over the years, while keeping their primitive spirit of raw guitar and drum sound intact.
                                

The Noise Figures – Telepath
Label: Inner Ear – INN150
Format: CD, Album
Country: Greece
Released: 2018
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock

TRACKS

                            

01. Taste Like Time     3:21
02. Strange Medium Child     3:22
03. Stay Forever Young     3:27
04. Out Of Touch     3:58
05. Healing Light     3:08
06. Telepath     3:15
07. Hypnotized     2:32
08. Lethargy     4:22
09. Never Sleep     2:20
10. Glow Electric     5:02

LINE - UP

                        

Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals – Stamos Bamparis
Lead Vocals, Drums, Percussion, Keyboards – George Nikas

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Psychic Ills: The Early Years

 

When it comes to following the beat of their own drum, New York’s Psychic Ills have exemplified the phrase since their beginnings in 2003. Initially spawned from electronic-centered home recording experiments, they progressed into all-night full-band exploration in a neighborhood where noise wasn’t a

problem. They soon after evolved into a live band seemingly at home within the extended jam, exploring a variety of musical terrain. The early years saw several releases for Social Registry, tons of time on the road, and collaborations with artists as diverse as Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and Sonic Boom (Spacemen Three/Spectrum). In 2011, their first effort for Sacred Bones, Hazed Dream traded in the synthesizer space-outs and raga rumbles, and delivered  records of sunburned psych pop, awash in warm tones and blues damaged songwriting. 
                       

01. PSYCHIC ILLS - DINS 2005

                          

Dins is the full-length debut of New York City's Psychic Ills; a band known for their squalling live shows that combine post-punk sonics, deafening drones, psychedelic weirdness, rhythmic tribalism, and loose, shambolic, improvisational jams that have everything to do with chaos and intensity. That weird Eastern

tinged mental drug orgy thing that seems so elusive to so many nowadays drenches these proceedings. Check the hand drumming and snaky guitar in "East" for starters. There's that eerie blues thing going on with the modal guitar line, with hypnotic bass lines and hand drums. It's the payoff before the seduction where everything that's delivered in a haunted, wooly sanguine blur was never promised. Who knows what's being sung, and who cares? It's silvery, slithering melodic fabric has no seam, everything lies down together in a psychedelic rock & roll orgy of acid-guzzled, dark-thrummed bliss. Dins does it, over and again. 
                               

Psychic Ills – Dins
Label: The Social Registry – TSR024
Format: Album, Digipak
Country: US
Released: 2005
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Ethereal, Electroacoustic, Experimental

TRACKS

01. East    1:39
02. Electric Life    5:26
03. (Untitled)   4:25
Effects [Stereo Parametric Equalizer] – Charles Burst
04. January Rain    5:38
05. Inauration    1:57
06. I Knew My Name    8:33
07.Witchcraft Breaker   2:12
Horns – Jesse Trbovich    
08. Another Day Another Night    8:08

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02.  PSYCHIC ILLS - EARLY VIOLENCE 2006

                              

Early Violence, a 35-minute album with a December 2006 release date, marks the first time that some of

Psychic Ills' pre-Dins recordings have been available on CD. This disc unites the contents of Psychic Ills' first two releases, "Mental Violence I" (a 7" record) and "Mental Violence II" (a 12" record), with two previously unreleased songs: "Highway of Death" and "Diamond City Redux." Although Psychic Ills were still finding their creative way during those first few months, they had an attractive style early on: a spacey and hazy yet distorted, gritty, and rockin' style that drew on influences ranging from shoegazer bands of the '90s and 2000s to '60s and early '70s psychedelic garage rock. 
                   

Psychic Ills – Early Violence
Label: The Social Registry – TSR032
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: Dec 5, 2006
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

01. Vice    2:25
02. Killers    4:25
03. Diamond City    4:01
04. Days    7:09
05. Highway Of Death    3:51
06. 4AM    6:14
07. Red-Split    3:35
08. Diamond City Redux    4:20

NOTES

Tracks 1 & 2 from: Killers 7" single 2003
Tracks 3, 4, 6 & 8 from: Mental Violence 12" single 2005
Track 5 from: Various Artists CD compilation xgLA: Sophistication Meets The Streets (U.S. Pop Life Vol. 19) 2005
Track 7 from: Various Artists 2xCD compilation Every Day Since Sixty Six / Ascension Days (When We Rise) 2005
(Unlisted Track 8 not mentioned on packaging).

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03. PSYCHIC ILLS - LIVE AT LEVITATION 2012 (2022)

                         

The fifth LP in this Live at LEVITATION series features New York psych legends Psychic Ills capturing

the band’s spellbinding performance in 2012."The first thing that grabbed me when I listened to our 2012 performance at Austin Psych Fest is Tres declaring at the start of the recording “It’s good to be back in Texas” because that simple sentiment captured everything we felt in that moment—the nostalgia and privilege of coming back to our home state for such an iconic festival." - Elizabeth Hart (Psychic Ills)
                        

Psychic Ills – Live At Levitation
Label: The Reverberation Appreciation Society – RVRB-053
Series: Live At Levitation 
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Sep 30, 2022
Country: Europe
Released: 2012
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

SIDE A.

                   

A1. Midnight Moon    4:19
A2. Mind Daze    3:31
A3. Incense Head    3:58
A4. Ring Finger    4:16
A5. Electriclife    4:02

SIDE B.

             

B1. Meta    3:57
B2. Diamond City    3:41
B3. January Rain    6:32
B4. I'll Follow You Through The Floor    4:35

NOTES

2012 performance at Austin Psych Fest

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