Music

One weekend back in 1970, 26-year-old Ohio insurance salesman and Air Force reservist Benjamin Franklin Van Dervort, calling himself JD Blackfoot, recorded an LP entitled The Ultimate Prophecy, which Mercury Records soon put out. It may or may not be a holy grail for today’s young stoner-folk and freak-rock generation, but it should be, given poetry like: “Lain out on the dawn of creation/The king hath named it ground/And he hath given to the earth people/ To sit and look profound/But they will be known as love creatures/Born to live on sound!” Decades hence in New Zealand, helped out by friends from Mountain and Pure Prairie League, Blackfoot commemorates the Battle of Little Bighorn with a frequently gorgeous if ridiculous concept CD about Native American horse legends and General Custer. He is also no longer a Cleveland Indians fan.

JD BLACKFOOT
Yellowhand
(Yonder Music Ltd. boogie-drummed spaghetti-squash-western country-prog singer-songwriter album with spoken-word interludes)

DRUNK HORSE
In Tongues
(Tee
Pee heavy psychedelic boogie album)

Sample “Strange
Trangressors”

ESMERINE
Aurora
(Madrona
Quebecois psychedelic instrumental chamber-drone album)

Sample “Why
She Swallows Bullets and Stones” (Real Player)

ET SANS
Par Noussss Touss les Trous de Vos Crânes!
(Alien8 Quebecois
psychedelic drone-rock album)

Stream “Les
courbes sanglantes entendues de l’organe trop vraimenthalluciné”
(MP3)

GANG GANG DANCE
God’s Money
(The Social
Registry neo-no-wave psychedelic Gregorian gamelan dub-drone
album)

Sample “Nomad
for Love (Canibal)” (Windows Media)

Sample “Egowar”
(Windows Media)

Sample “Before
My Voice Fails” (Windows Media)

HOLLIS BROWNE
Demo
(hollisbrowne.com
semi-psychedelic post-grunge blues-pomp EP)

Stream “Go
Away” (MP3)

INDIAN JEWELRY
Health and Wellbeing
(Girlgang
psychedelic punk “tour only” EP)

Stream “Lesser
Snake” (MP3)

Stream “Dead Eyes”
(MP3)

PARCHMAN FARM
Parchman Farm
(Jackpine Social Club
heavy psychedelic boogie EP)

Stream “Chosen
Child” (MP3)

POOBAH
Steamroller
(Monster ’70s heavy
psychedelic boogie reissue)

Stream “Jump
Thru the Golden Ring” (MP3)

Stream “Integrated Circuit”
(MP3)

Stream “You
Don’t Love Me” (MP3)

PURE REASON REVOLUTION
“The Bright Ambassadors of Morning”
(Holograph 10-inch psychedelic dub-rock single)

Watch “Bright
Ambassadors of the Morning” (Video)

THE WORKS
The Works
(Subliminal
Sounds Swedish psychedelic rock album)

Sample “Everybody”
(Windows Media)

Sample “Time
to Wake Up” (Windows Media)

Sample “Speak
Your Mind” (Windows Media)

VERTIGO MIXED . . . BY ANDY VOTEL
(Family Recordings ’70s
psychedelic-boogie/acid-folk/stoner-prog DJ mix album)

Sample “Morning
for One/Introduction/Modus Operandi (Method of Work)” by Linda
Hoyle/Carcious/Nirvana (Windows Media)

Sample “Battle
of the Locusts/The Kettle/One Way Glass” by Aphrodite’s
Child/Colosseum/Manfredd Mann (Windows Media)

Sample “(Oh
No Not) The Beat Day/Three Sisters/Willie the Pimp” by Marsha
Hunt’s 22/Affinity/Juicy Lucy (Windows Media)