Saturday, April 5, 2014

Yellow Sunshine Explosion - Yellow Sunshine Explosion (Love’s Simple Dreams, Germany, 1987)



Today’s update is about getting high with some quality psych-kraut music. You can tell it by the simple look at the handcrafted art cover: fisheye views, garage-psych revival looks, some big cacti, explosions, pink floyd colours…and if this details aren’t evident enough, just look at the label acronym. 

This record has all the ingredients to get hipped about: it’s very spacey, primitive, raucous, dense and loopy, reminding a lot the likes of the Elevators, the Velvets or the criminally obscure masterpiece ‘Troubled’ by The New Creation.  

Featuring extra-cool repetitive guitar riffs and effects, monotonous drums, raw and drugged vocals, flute, rusty moutharp, and also some eastern influences provided by the sitar, the flutes and the tabla. 

Certainly a grower. So be prepared for enjoying this addictive journey to the depths of this acid monster.

Tracks
A1. Ballad of Dan
A2. Sorry
A3. It's not my fault
A4. Yellow Sunshine Explosion
A5. Feminine Animation
B1. Kaleidoscope
B2. Take it Acid is
B3. Sing Ba Ba Ba
B4. Sun my love
B5. Isabelle

All songs written by Bert Schlexer


Personnel
Bert Schlexer: Lead vocals, Bass
Paul Hadley Langley: Harmonika, Flute, Percussion
Thomas Hopl: Drums, Percussion, Tabla
Georg Schulte: electric and acoustic Guitars, Vocals
Gerd Neumann: Sitar and flute on “Take it Acid is”
Hugggy Borkhardt: Organ on “Feminine Animation”


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