Jotcamp is a pair of art students with some vague principles on media gluttony. We don’t want to just sit back and consume all the tasteful art we come across, so we’ve made this blog to compile and comment on that delicious media to keep our TV, music, and movies habit from becoming a one way conversation.
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Morgen - Welcome To The Void
Morgen was a short-lived psychedelic rock band out of Long Island led by Steven Morgen during the late 60s. This self-titled 1969 record is all they managed to put out, but it’s a great relic of fuzzy psychedelia. The over-driven guitar on this album is distorted to basically absurd levels, which is exactly how I like it and how I do the effects on my own guitar. These guys are definitely worth a listen if you like your rock and roll rough around the edges. Boring as hell album art though.
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Zerfas - Stoney Wellitz
Zerfas was another American private press psychedelic band that put out this obscurity in 1973. As is usually the case with bands that have such a limited run, there’s not a lot of readily available information on them. The band is named after a pair of brothers in the band, and according to some notes on the album, they were big DIYers, making their own wine and their own synthesisers.
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Starfire - Many Moods Ago
Starfire, a wonderful American psychedelic group, put out their only record in 1974. Unfortunately they didn’t have much of a commercial backing and this album was originally released in a 200-or-so batch of privately pressed LPs. Luckily Radioactive Records put out a reissue of this incredibly rare album, but the more I read about that company, the less legit it seems to be…
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Krzysztof Domaradzki. Balladyna.
Illustrations made for the exquisite publication of ‘Balladyna’ by Juliusz Slowacki, a famous Polish Romantic poet considered to be one of the ‘Three Bards’ of Polish literature. Due to the financial crisis, the project was cancelled and one of the illustrations was used to promote The Non Cadenza, a jazz & soul ensemble from St. Petersburg.
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McDonald & Sherby - Sharks Around Blood
I got super sick last week, and apparently that sucked the wind out of my blogging sails. The good news is I found a list of albums put out by a record company called Radioactive Records, which reissued a bunch of my all-time favourites, so it’s going to be fun to look through their catalogue.
First up from the company is a psychedelic rock duo called McDonald & Sherby and their 1969 1974 record, Catharsis. I’m pretty sure if I grew up during that time period, I would look exactly like the guy on the left. That’s kind of a scary thought, but this record is full of some great, bluesy psychedelia.
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Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Horses On A Stick
This one of the albums I came out of the record store with on the weekend. The owner remembered a bunch of the albums I’d been pestering him for and had set them aside in a nook for me. It made me feel pretty awesome.
Judy Henske and Jerry Yester’s Farewell Aldebaran is wonderful bit of 60s strangeness. This married psychedelic folk duo, on Frank Zappa’s advice, recorded this 1969 record of Henske’s poetry put to a variety of types of music. The album bounces between psychedelic belters, hymns, and pop parodies while maintaining a death grip on listener’s attention through Henske’s deep and powerful vocals.
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Steamhammer - Levinia
Steamhammer was a British blues group with a musical range so wide that they often get lumped into progressive rock sections in record stores.They came into their record deal by gaining a serious live-show reputation while performing as Freddie King’s backing band in the late 60s. I stopped in at the Turntable record store this weekend, and it was hard to walk out of the store without this album.
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Kim Jung Mi - Wind
Kim Jung Mi was a Korean psychedelic folk band during the early 70s, headed by renowned Koeran guitarist, Shin Jung-hyeon. For whatever reason I can’t find much information about this group other than that. The band’s name very possibly could be the name of the female vocalist. In any case, this is a wonderful psychedelic record that sounds like it was recorded on a grassy hilltop during a 70s summer.
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