Tyrannosaurus Sex - Must Have Been Painful (1968 Fly /2008 Vinyl Lovers)

Have given some spins to this and every time the flight has been as short as chicken's with no head. The whole album sounds to me there is only one long irritating track of nonsense and painful singing. The only good thing with this is that i paid only 10 euros for this reprocopy.

Widsith - Maker Of Song (1972 Alithia)

Great music! An exceptional album. "Astral Weeks" -like feeling. And "Maker Of The Song" sounds like Sixto  Rodriguez. Can't help listening it again and again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-VFJ_iAqY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfUZIJTXrr8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hXbDDgyBo8

Buskers - S/T (1970 RCA)

Why? The Answer: this music is made for fading it away by walking by and giving a coin somewhere in the middle. Cover art: Hippnoossis.

Oliver Walrus - Walrus (1972 Janus)

"Everyone deserves a fat chance". Someone who wants to advertise his music by/with/through the cover art like this  deserves to come noticed. This cover beats all those artsy Hipgnosis ones. And the music... totally comparable to the cover. It is great this was done!

RDTEN (RYM): So here's a career synopsis in Walrus' own words:   

"My career began in the 70's with my band Oliver Walrus ... We played the circuits of Los Angeles including the infamous Troubadour and the Whiskey. I was discovered and signed with Chess Janus Records who had known artist(s) like Bo Didley, Chuck Berry and Jimmy Hendrix among others.  I recorded my first album in 1972.  My song 'Climb, Climb, Climb' was my first top 10 record on the billboard charts [no idea what that means].  My main music background consists of heavy funk that I fused with rock and pop.  I am proud to say that I have a huge fan base still building." 

By the time Walrus and company went into the studio to record 1972's cleverly titled "Walrus", the band showcased the talents of percussionist Warren Bryant, keyboard player  Mark Fiedler, guitarist Robert Franklin, bassist  Michael Herring, and drummer Warren "Bugs" Pemberton.  Produced by Robert Adcock (Joseph Long credited as executive producer), the album typically gets labeled as a slice of horn rock which undoubtedly turns off a big chunk of the potential audience.  True, tracks like 'Let Me Save You' and 'Freedom' featured some horn arrangements, but with the exception of 'You Can't Shine', this wasn't anything like a BS&T, or Chicago album.  Namesake Walrus had an interesting, if not particularly commercial voice - imagine a gruffer version of Meatloaf and you'll be in the right aural neighborhood.  As a band these guys were actually quite tight, though producer Adcock's penchant for adding shrill female backing singers to virtually every track didn't help the proceedings. 

Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night (1973 London)

If this is so called Canterbury style i have to confess i don't know what "Canterbury" really means. Why would this music be so brilliant as they tend to say? can't find the real point of this if there were any. Occasionally nice but on the whole quite standard straight foward proggish rock stuff. This is good:
Memory lain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCo8c53fo_A

Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Farewell Aldebaran (1969 Straight this re Klimt)

I listened to this first when watching TV at the same time and did not get it at all. One track on which Judy Henske's vocals was awful, i thought i would give the whole album away to my friend Jukka, who knows almost everything about this kind music things. I phoned him and he said he's got this album and it's not so  bad at all as i was hearing.  When someone you value as a wise man on any field tells you you are wrong you change your thinking. No, i'm not a victim of manipulation. This album may be the kind you don't assimilate immediately. (i by the way read this album was first recorder on Frank Zappa's label.) Now that may be real plasebo, i don't think FZ would have made any big error with them...

Pilot - S/T (1972 RCA)

I picked this album as curiosity and for the background of some members of the band. I knew Leigh Stephens at least as a member of Blue Cheer and of his two solo albums Red Weather and Cast of a Thousand. Drummer Mick Weller has played with many big names - if it means anything. One can play with big ones but can he also make something on his own, that isn't any brained. Mick has made music for Rod Stewart's Maggie May. Isn't that something. All tracks are by Bruce Leigh. Brother of Stephen's? Pilot is a good band It's music is both boogie (which kind of music i usually avoid) and more progressive, a sort of extended boogie style. The other side of the album is all over four minutes lasting tracks and that is usually a good clue for myself picking a record without further knowledge of it and in this case everything went ok.

Sammal - S/T (2013 Svart Records)

Brand new Finnish Hammond dominated metal-folk-pop-riff-prog. Very worth investigating.

Turustako tämä uusproge Suomessa itää? Hienoa! Hyvän levyn ootte tehneet. Soundit tekevät paljon ja tuo video on sopivan yleisnostalginen. Kiinnostaisi tietää, jos eksytte tälle sivulle, kenen sävellys on Jäniksen Vuoksi. Onko sekoitus lainattua trad. sieltä täältä.. vai? Englantilaista meriroslolaulua ja suomalaista patakakkosta...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2LPKc5tIpk&playnext=1&list=PL6DDA48669274F33F&feature=results_video

Samla Mammas Manna - S/T

This album really starts not until track nine "at-one-ment" and is very pleasant, authentic and jammy since that. I like this one better than "knapitatet".

Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney (1970 CBS re 1987 Decall)

"The garden of Jane Delawney" may be the best English psych tinged folk rock album at least as far as i know. I like its improvisational feeling. It doesn't mean there were something wrong with the songwriting. No, not at all. One half of it is traditional songs arranged by Trees and the other half is composed by band's bassist Bias Boshell. In this case that kind of mixture works perfectly. The whole atmosphere on the album is emancipated. The musicianship is great and spiritually coequal. I imagine hearing mutual appreciating in all they do. Maybe they have not fully found themselves as a group yet so they have to hear and reflect each other to know which direction to go. I can hear them being on the road not quite knowing how the trip will end and that is why it sounds so authentic.  Don't get me wrong but somehow TGOJD reminds me of VanMorrison's Astral Weeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUcZGopoTU
Excellent guitar and sensitive female vocals and what i took note at the first hearing is the bass player. His role doing the ground to Trees is remarkable. It is just my humble opinion of course.

Trees - On The Shore (1971 CBS re 1987 Decall)

I'll never say never again. I had vowed myself never more to buy any English folk rock record but, when i stumbled upon these two albums from Trees i had to renegade. Now i can withdraw my words again because i'm sure i can't find better English psych tinged folk rock albums than On The Shore and The Garden of Jane Delaney. This their second album may be more considered than their debut one. Even if it is far from overproduced music which i hate, this misses something when comparing it to their debut one and it is the innocence and authenticity on being. On The Shore is better album than The Garden of J.D if you appreciate musical tightness and goal-directed production. When comparing this to TgoJD it lacks of authenticity but may be more there.    ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbtmGEQied4

Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet (1974 Silence)

Thank gods there still are this kind of gems unknown to me. Klossa Knapitatet är den bästä musik från Sverige jag har hört. Guitar virtuoso Coste Apetrea used to have session with our guitar hero Jukka Tolonen.

Two days and a couple of listenings later: i have to water a bit down my first reaction. I first heard some kínd of similiarity to Zappa's music and as a big Zappa enthusiast i may sometimes overreact when hearing something avant-garde style near to his that i have never before heard. Nu när jag har hört skivan några gånger måste jag sägä att mostly it is just a good technical simulation of Zappa's music but not enough assimilated. It is too much aping. Ramlösa kvällär is the best stand-alone track on the album. Among the other circus music there are though some marvelous passages but as a whole this record is a bit loose and
artificially fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-03Kv5a84DY

Älgarnas Trädgård - Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden (1972 Cd 1995 Silence)

Mostly a bit tedious psychedelic folk rock. There's a lot of sound effects and impromptu in minor. I like to hear violin in rock music but this time it sounds amateurish and flat. This is a good album anyway, but i think it is not as good as they use to say on RYM and Allmusic. There's one excellent Pink Floydish track different from the most others, which show tight musicianship: "Ring Of Saturn". If the whole album just were more a stuff like it... changes in rhythm and intensity, excellent drumming... "The Future is a hovering ship..." is very intense and hypnotic too.
Ring of Saturn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft_2Gzr54nE
The future is...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfagq7lvBUg

Omnibus - S/T (1970 Liberty)

Organ and fuzz guitar driven rock with some jazz and psych flavor in the vein of Doors and Morrison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYk1XA86pwM

Orpheus - Joyful

Nicely orchestrated pop. Easy to listen to.

Bruce Palmer - The Cycle Is Complete (1971 Verve Forecast)

Ex Buffalo Springfield bassist's (+ Kaleidoscope) free form hippie effort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJo3ghCkRaM

Goliath - S/T (1979 CBS re Swee Dandelion)

Quite good jazzy progrock with nice J T -like flute, tenor saxophone etc. but something is missing... i'm not sure what it is... this does not grow but remains sprouting. The best track is "I heard about a friend". The last track "Maajun" is very interesting too and sounds occasionally a bit like Jethro Tull on "Thick as A Brick". Somebody says on the net somewhere Goliath sounds like Catapilla... Maybe so.
I heard about a friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muy1oKYdp4w
Maajun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40645rQUoI

The Common People - Of/By/For The People From (1969 Capitol re Radioactive)

If the whole album were as brilliant as the first three tracks, it were a masterpiece. Unfortunately rest of the songs are not on same level as the first three great ones except "land of a day" which is different but beautiful.

Soon there will be thunder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I3E_zND2JU
I've been alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqj4WuvVv7o
Those who love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BN9sfgb9l0
Land of a day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAeualgMBbA

Yankee Dollar - S/T (1968 Dot re Subway Records)

Quite simple harmony-psych-pop. Simple is not any understatement here. On the contrary their self-confidence when executing their music is on high level and on some odd way in it's simpleness it is almost ingenious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JATxkGP7hg