Beautify Junkyards - The Beast Shouted Love

Ok, we're back for a year or so. 

And what a wonderful album to return to. It's UK Psychedelic - beautiful to the point of being slightly scary. The sort of music that sound-tracked horror or occult movies in the early 70's. I love it.

 

It's a vinyl only release ltd to 250 on Mega Dodo Records - which means it will sell out fast. There're a further 250 digipack versions as well. Released 14th September 2015 but beware the pre-orderers!

Blue Cheer

Great Oil Pan/ Liquid Lightshow - wack it on full screen

and now for a modest advert

Full Lotus - 4 hour DJ set - 11th April 2014 - Camden London

a fellow member of the prog/psych group of which I am a humble dust mite - these people were there, and know all of the good, bad and mentallo stuff. Unmissable therefore. I dust might go {sorry couldn't resist that one}

Short Film - Kusama's Self-Obliteration (1967)

Yayoi Kusama does the art direction and CLA. Change do the music in this mega-trippy film about her work at the time. Outdoes Warhol and his factory, and pre-empts all the euro and krautrock art and music. I liked the part where fruit becomes spaceships. 24mins of brilliance. Beware, some gentlemens' 'unmentionables' start flapping around near the end...

Film - House (Hausu) (1977)

Nobuhiko Obayashi's utterly crazy but unmissable comedy-horror-ghost-fantasy film. Everything is slightly out-of-whack, in particular the skies! Seven largely annoying girls go to stay in a haunted house. You know what's going to happen...but it's HOW it happens that is incredible! The most inept schoolteacher ever also has a psychedelically-comic role. Great design and imagination.

http://viooz.co/movies/20298-house-hausu-1977.html

Kanashimi no Belladonna (1973) - Film

Very very strange exploitation, occult, porn, animation that is somehow superb! Men come out of this very badly indeed (the sad excuse for a husband in particular). I don't want to spoil the surprises and spectacular artwork, because it is all about pacing. It starts very slowly, and is very down and depressing (and feminists will blow a gasket, with no little justification!) but stick with it because there are reasons for this. It's loosely based on a book called The Witch, and the Director (Eiichi Yamamoto) was seriously into Aubrey Beardsley at the time. If you can get past the muck this is a cult-classic.