Sarah Kernochan - House Of Pain (1973 RCA)

The title track "House Of pain" is the best one on this moody and mysterious album. Sarah's a bit chilly voice fits well on this music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_48MXrC2Q

Goldie Zelkowitz - S/T (1974 Janus)

A delicious version of Allman Brothers's "Whipping Post". Excellent vocals and musicianship. The first side makes the album, but the other side is meh.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02QkPjT293o

Rhinoceros - Satin Chickens (1969 Elektra)

Decent hard-blues-rock wit some jazzy country flavor.. Bill Mundi played drums with The Mothers of Invention and  guitarist Danny Weiss was member of Iron Butterfly. The tracks don't differ much from each other. After hearing this i got a feeling i had listened to one long track. Ok, not more.

Ferris Wheel - S/T (1970 UNI)

This is a big positive surprise after reading a review written by one of my favourite reviewers "Tymeshifter" on RYM. He is wrong with this peculiar and highly enjoyable album! Linda Lewis sings like an angel from the highness and straight to my bullseye. And so does M Snow. Playful, jazzy, intelligent and odd mix of progressive pop. Is british but sounds a bit american. Instruments: organ, vibraphone, celeste, gong, saxophone, flute and lute. Never heard of Linda Lewis before, but better now than never. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiG5MILfj4w

Fanny Adams - S/T (1971 Kapp)

Good hard-rock-blues. Strong vocals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BjjDQjQt4

Ben - S/T (1971 Vertigo re 2003 Akarma)

I had never heard jazz-rock group and album Ben before i purchased this yesterday. The two first long tracks "The Influence" and "Gibbon" are both quite good clear and light fusion. "The Influence" is the best piece of the album but "Gibbon" does not pale much in comparison. On "Gibbon", there are some delicious Zappaish "Uncle Meat" -like passages. After "Gibbon" the rest music on the album goes minute by minute musically downwards. The whole dragging reverse side is just both light twiddling, exercising and sampling. That was how i liked it yesterday, but after listening the album several times for now i have began to like the other side too. What i like most is many Zappa-like moments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOCI00TRZo

Juliet Lawson - Boo (1972 Sovereign)

Boo! Very nice singer-songwriter album from British Juliet Lawson and some of The Trees. I'd describe this progressive singer-s-w-music. There's more edge and sophisticated rawness among the beauty on the album than many others on this genre want, can or dare to express. She keeps me awake... on the ball... i mean so much interesting happens all the time. I on the whole like this kind of pure, not overproduced records. If i didn't know i would say she is american, because of her way of singing. An exciting album, diverse but balanced. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g32Ds7BJ1b8

Moog of Hyman

US 69 - Yesterdays Folks (1969 Buddah)

This is music for me! Great, great album. It is a easygoing journey without map or gps from location a to location x never touring or seeing once passed places again, and that is the way i like music. Every second brings something new to your ears. Great trip!

I'm on my way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_M4w-mdmY

Fever Tree - Creation (1969 Uni)

Dali style enigmatic cover art. Album's music is quite enigmatic too, but not infered from the cover art. Wild Woman Ways: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvcgPkbqfKI

Jericho - S/T (1972 A&M re 2011Acid Nightmare)

Great hard-prog-psych album. The guitarist plays well and the sound of his guitar is pleasant especially on track "Justin and Nova" which is a great piece of rock.

Justin and Nova: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU9c9Nksb04

Tee And Cara - As They Are (1969 United Artists)

Tee Sapoff and Cara Beckenstein, 18 and 16 years old John Adams high school students from NY in 1969 have created an atmospheric album. Before they went duo there was a third wheel too, but after few sessions Tee and Cara found this form better. Have to admit their voices fit well together. These young talented musicians have of course written all but two of the songs by themselves. Beatles's Hard days night they do is nice, slow and soulful version too. I think i can hear they were more than a s-s-w duo. The picture on the cover is moodfull. I would like to shared that moment of meal on the pavement edge with them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biPAngT5sQQ&feature=relmfu

Phantom's Divine Comedy - Part 1 (1974 re 2003)

Tom Carson sounds a bit like Iggy Pop but his melodramacy is more forced. Gary Meissner on guitar is very good. The others are John Bdanjeck (d,p), Dennis Craner (b) and Mike DeMartino (k). The entire album is a kind of hard-psych operetta. I can imagine seeing scenes come replaced by Phantom's recitative briefing when guitarist Carson conveys the story line. Overall this less known light and "mysterious" rock opera is high-class art work.

Design - Tomorrow I So Far Away

A big disappointment! This is a vocal group with guitar and the harmony singing is not very harmonic at times. I don't care of this kind of music. But who cares.

The Zig Zag People - Take Bubble Gum Music Underground (1969 Decca)

Gum goes under quite interestingly. Chewy chewy! Some say that though TZZP actually existed, this album is mostly played by a studio band with no name. Fuzzy guitar, horny horns and more. Bubble gum goes under ground and raises in every hole on the earth and keeps on growin in theirpsychedelic garden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5IMNMDbg7o

Ron Nagle - Bad Rice (1970 WB)

Rock'n roll and real life ballads. Ron has something to say and his message and lyrics appear at least as important as his songs. there is nothing left from his light psych past and the anti drug piece "Marijuana Hell" is one those where the song and the lyrics are in pleasant balance. I like these crazy american album covers. Ron seems to be a companion of misfortune to me. I know exactly what bad rice may cause. It happened years ago in school eatery. I was eating cabbage casserole made of cabbage and rice. Some grains were still rocky and broke one my tooth. Fortunately it was not any front tooth like what seems to have happened to poor Ron. He later "went down to 61 clay" in his own pottery making wonderful ceramic art. He now is retired professor of ceramics. I really'd like to have one of those artefacts made by him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMD0AR9ltGo
Frank's Store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT8fve-wd1A

Bill Puka - S/T (1970)

I like to dig and pick up this kind of totally unknown never heard records when available cheap at flea. Singer/songwriter pianist Bill Puka is not bad at all. There is something he wants to say and he does in some bluesy way with the help of about 30 person named on the back cover. Bill Puka seems to be a professor Ph. D since 1980. It was funny to notice that John Rawls was one of his advisors. I happen to know Rawls's Theory of Justice as i have studied philosophy and taught it some courses in high school too. Billy Cobham, Ron Carter and Mike Mainieri are told to be present on the album but there is no mention of the first two on the cover. Nice and interesting album!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ts7oQjhHFM

Old Mill Bay

Jukka Gustavson Organ Fusion Band with Strings - Root & Stalk & Flower Music (2011 RockAdillo)

Music for modern gardeners? The upper sleeve is a painting on wild flowers but inner sleeves are full of pictures of flowers in garden. Just garden flowers... not even one radish, beetroot, carrot, swede or turnip. But yet there is some beatroot to find among all those roses, lilies and daffodils. Fortunately there aren't any white lilies! "Being" is my all time favourite Wigwan album. Jukka G played organ and other keys with them and was the head of the band on Being. The music on this one is serious fusion, funky fusion, progressive rock, blues, classical music, and skillful musicianship of course. But to the roots again... this is not any "Happy Hammond" -music and it is just a good thing that there do not grow any hidden beetroots (in finnish "punajuuri" = redroot) in Gustavson's garden anymore, but the "beatroot" of "Being" which still grows seasoning here and there is the best thing on the album. once more... Most i like those parts where i can hear some echoes from Being and when JG sings. He is a great sounding original vocalist too.The rest material around and the main beingbeetroot sound of the album is important and obligatory framework. R&S&FM is very Hammond-organic music and JG will allways be my favourite organist. "This Elegy Will Always be" is my favorite piece after hearing the album two times for now.

Jimmie Spheeris - Isle Of View (1971

The cover art did not mislead me even it seems to be making war on the contrary to the music on the album which is plainly made for making the other one thing. Beautiful music with extended instrument gathering such as viola, violin, flute and conga.
The Nest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30P9OMZ4HY
For Roach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMZjeNTvRM

Big Brother And The Holding Company - How Hard It Is (1971)

Janis Joplin is not with them anymore but the music is is still good, rolling and jammy blues based stuff.

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick 2 (2012)

Thick As A Brick means me a lot. What happened to fictious Gerald Bostock after 1972 is to be heard on this new album. As i said, TAAB means me a lot, the music, the sounds, everything on the album is one and takes me always back to time and place where i used to listen it again and again. So what to think of this second one? It is not about what happened to Gerald later but what might have happened. He might have come banker, homeless, military man, chorister or just ordinary man. Anderson tells us about those possible histories of Gerald. This album unfortunately does not take me to any retro feelings. The sounds are mostly today's sounds of course and the spirit is only partly 70's. I must confess i was hoping TAAB2 would sound somehow more like TAAB1 and somehow it does, but is not stuffy enough to fulfill all my expectations. The compositions and production itself are top, but when even Dream Theater occasionally comes to my mind it makes me drift in some other worlds than in 1974 when i heared the original one first time. Maybe it would be too much to ask for Ian Anderson to make me feel the same again 40 years later on the same concept, but i always demand for the best. Great post-progressive record but not great enough when comparing it to my world according to "GB". I don't like those spoken word parts at all. I think Anderson made this as a compromise for both old and new listeners. Now it is proved: You can not step two times in the same river. Or maybe i just am thick as a brick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2jVCj79E1A&feature=related

Ralph Humphrey - Drums

I'd like to introduce some of my favorite musicians who maybe are not too well known, but who i think are masters on their own area.

Some of my favorite Zappa albums from the first half of seventies are those on what Ralph Humphrey played drums at the same time as Chester Thompson.

C.T. may be better known than Ralph Humphrey but how R.H. plays his instrument on "Overnite Sensation" for example (One size fits all, Roxy & Elsewhere) is something that makes the album. I listened that record today and once again thought what is the main thing that makes the sound of it. There are many things but to me one of the most important ones are how Ralph H- plays his set. "Overnite Sensation" is one of those album i know throughly note by note.

Ralph Humphrey's way of doing things with his drums is something i have not heard from anyone else.

Wow, i found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9eZNfWbEo