Lamb / Barbara Mauritz - Cross Between (WB 1971)

Fortunately i can still occasionally find a lost gem like this. I love Sandy Hurvitz's "Sandy's album is here at last" and this Barbara Mauritz's "Lamb" sounds a lot like it. The two first songs do not wake any big expectations, but then from on the title song "Cross between", the music begins to grow and grow and the entire second side is gorgeous. There is a moment on "While waiting" where i can hear Barbara singing like Björk sings on her "Vespertine."

A birthday cake for a big Pink Floyd fan

My friend Jukka turned 60 and he is a big big big Pink Floyd fan. It was obvious that we invited got to taste not any amazing budding, but the famous Frisian Lulubelle the Third. And by the way, Jukka is a well known cattle rancher in our district.

Some catches from last weekends fair...

Victor Young - Johnny Guitar (1981 Citadel)

Good movie and quite okay music too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAycA7Ucf6g

Mona Carita - Mona Carita (1979 Finnlevy)

You may ask What Mona Carita has to do on this blog... Rasputin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bx2WeeUv84 Call me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmH70ykr164 Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5hv4Xt6V_Q

Omega - 200 Years After the Last War (1974 Bacillus)

Hungarian progrock and very good one.

Our Generation - Compilation

"Woodstock music and art fair presents an Aquarian exposition in White Lake, NY."  50 songs between years 1964 and 1969.

Jane - III (1974 Capitol)

Maybe the best album from Jane. Psych-prog-kraut.

Ari Vaahtera - Mustat Rummut (1987 Not on Label / Self released)

In 70s he played bass guitar and guitar and was a vocalist in Kalevala and Bluesounds. Ari's singing reminds me somehow of the style of Ismo Alanko (Hassisen Kone). Mustat Rummut is 80's modern (laconic?) synth pop (side A) or post punk style (side B) taking something from Duran Duran, Talking Heads, Pet Shop Boys, Gabriel, Human League, 80s Bowie and so on.

Vaarallisia valloituksia 1991. Pleasant and well made music. These two albums were a bit surprise to me - in a positive meaning.

Triumvirat - Spartacus (1975 Harvest)

Playing ELP...

Brewer & Shipley - Weeds (1969 Kama Sutra)

Country music from between two houses and neither one of them is pink or big.

Angel Pavement - Maybe Tomorrow (2013 Tenth Planet)

A compilation of quite nice British baroque pop but too honed to be my kind of music. Funny thing is that song Maybe Tomorrow begins with same theme later known better from Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4.

Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer (1966 this re 1983)

Blues based psych?

Isotope Illusion (1974 Gull)

Canterbury...great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikR__0dQnLs

P.F.M. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Cook (1974 Manticore)

Excellent live album and  Alta Loma Five Till Nine is super.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY9H0lKlwj0

Joe Beck - Nature Boy (1968 Verve)

Wow! Base guitarist Joe Beck's first album from 1968 is just great! The picture on the cover does not tell anything at all about what the inside of the album is. This is quite obscure mix of psych and jazz and his base guitar playing is maybe best i have heard before. Why did he not play with Zappa. That would have been super!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZyCxPgSyU

Epitaph - Outside The Law (1974 Billingsgate)

Excellent guitar driven hard rock. I would not say this was krautrock even it is from Germany. Sounds more like American and was recorded in Chicago. This is worth checking out.

Bert Sommer - S/T (1970 Buddah)

In Woodstock he performed with Simon & Garfunkel.

Cheryl Dilcher - Special Songs (1970 Ampex)

Special songs indeed. Very nice album. Maybe a forgotten pearl. This is second time I found a copy of it here in Finland.

Björk - Vespertine (2016 One Little Indian LP)

In 1977 i went to military service for almost a year. Since it I mostly listened to progressive rock and other early 70's rock. Then came AOR and Punk and I dropped by the wayside. Over 20 years I was not very interested in 80's and 90's music. It was boring. I used to listen to my old records. It was in 2001 or so, when I bought this album on CD and it was a new beginning to my music listening. Vespertine's meaning to me musically is about the same that Frank Zappa's music was to me when I was 15 in 1973. I woke up to believe, there is always interesting new music to come. Even it may take 25 years.

Airbag - Identity

Pink Floyd influenced music from Norway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNVH68UjPo

The Beatles - 1962-1970 (1973 Apple)

I don't own many Beatles albums but have always wanted to get these two compilations in mint shape. And now... here they are and the first pressings. 20 euros each.

Julian's Treatment - A Time before This (1970 Decca)

Once again... yet another copy of this album  arrived my collection. I give this 10 out of 10. And this cover of the US pressing is much finer than the original English.

Phluph - Phluph (1968 Verve)

This is Phluph, not Bluff. I give this album 9 out of 10. At first i say they sound when singing together, like Moody Blues. Fluff is organ driven playful psychedelic pop with some slight proto-prog elements. Excellent album.