DIY cosmic disco from Sweden originally recorded and released as a privately pressed single in 1979. Here’s the liner notes from the original release.
SUMMER SHORES: Sit down in your favourite armchair and light your pipe (!?). When you’ve leaned back and made yourself comfortable. Enjoy this melodious hit on headphones (stereo) for 4 minutes and dream of our summer beaches, soon we’ll probably have none left…
THIS KINDA SHIT: When the weekend comes and you happen to be hit by the 1950s disco wave, I recommend that you invite your friends to a party. And when everyone is gathered and the mood is at its best, you flip the record a few times until the number 2 stares at you. Then you turn up the volume until you can’t hear the neighbours yelling:” this kinda shit”. Then fly away to an alien planet with the help of: This Kinda Shit.
With Nemo’s Theme, Sagor & Swing continues their journey through the dreamy. The song is inspired by Jules Verne’s classic novel about Captain Nemo – the lonely explorer who seeks freedom beneath the surface of the sea, beyond the laws and sorrows of the world. The music moves through the same landscape of contrasts: from fate-filled chords and dark underwater sounds to a quiet, almost peaceful resolution where Nemo seems to accept his fate aboard the Nautilus. Here, the beauty and the terror of the depths of the sea blend into an evocative, almost cinematic soundscape. The song was recorded during a tumultuous time in the composer’s life; Captain Nemo became a metaphor – a figure who both escapes and finds his destiny. Perhaps that is why Nemo’s Theme feels so personal: a quiet reflection on loss and reconciliation. Musically, the song is a bridge between the Nordic melancholy and the colourful splendour of psychedelic pop – a mix of Yellow Submarine and Strawberry Fields Forever. Sagor & Swing lets organs, synths and dreamlike melodies grow together into a fairy-tale world where time and space is suspended, and where the silence of the depths ultimately becomes a place of reconciliation and peace.
Newly re-mastered vinyl reissue. Includes liner-notes and more photos. Limited edition of 500 copies. Order HERE now!
“The first psychedelic country concept” album from 1974. Features bluegrass mountain music Americana from the twilight zone mixed with tape effects, musique concrete, fuzz guitar, surreal lyrics imagery and themes from religion, death, sex and other timely concerns.
”If you want to go as far out as it gets, this underground cult album from a NYC visionary provides a map. This is one of the more remarkable LPs I‘ve heard. The van Gogh of 1970s folk.” (Patrick Lundborg / The Acid Archives).
Subliminal Sounds re-releases Shiho Yabuki’s beautiful “Pastoral Wind” album from Japan 1990. – Sound aesthetics with 1/f fluctuation. This work is given to those who actively try to incorporate the gentle comfort of nature. Listen and download from the Bandcamp store or via your favourite DSP.
The first re-release of Shiho Yabuki’s “aesthetic music” album from Japan 1989. “Relax your mind to the fluctuating music”.
“Sound aesthetics with 1/F fluctuation (also known as pink noise). Aesthetic music is the transition of the four seasons. It reminds me of spring coming into summer, the relaxing autumn, the winter when you fall asleep, and the spring of new vitality again.
Traditionally, skin health was mainly an external approach. However, music therapy is effective in stabilizing the balance of the hormones. Therefore, The Cosmetics Headquarters Beauty Research Institute has proposed that aesthetic music including 1/f fluctuation, can be relaxing during aesthetic treatments. In addition, as a result of the analysis of music suitable and research on its physiological effects, Forest Land was produced.
In the process of studying various environmental music, attention was paid to the music of Shiho Yabuki, a synthesizer keyboard artist who combines the flexibility and tolerance of women. In 1987, the production a new music called aesthetic music was done jointly with Shiho. Her original songs were produced experimentally at the membership-based aesthetic salon “Salon de Este” in Rokuza. As a result of listening to 69 songs for more than two years and listening to different opinions about them, it was confirmed that these songs are essential elements of aesthetics.
The Forest Land album contains 10 original songs carefully selected from those 69 songs. You can feel at ease as if you were enwrapped into nature, and it can further enhance the effect of the aesthetics. Regarding the nature of the original songs on this album, it has been confirmed that 1/f fluctuations is included”.
We have new music out today! The Malihini Serenaders combine all the hallmarks of golden era hapa haole songwriting with thrillingly exotic productions on their debut EP. ”Let the lap steel guitar carry you away to tropical beaches and lush green hills, marvel at the strange sounds of the quijada and tropical birds as they set the soundstage for the sweet harmony singing of the Serenaders!
”This four piece from Sweden, including band members from Ìxtahuele and The Test Pilots, has dug deep into the history of 20th century Hawaiian music and yet they offer a fresh take on a classic genre. Equally appropriate for the luau as for a favorite armchair – an absolute must listen for any fan of Polynesian pop!” MALIHINI SERENADERS streaming now! Listen @ Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music
We have new music out today! Lush and exciting, rich and vibrant, the modern masters of exotica ÌXTAHUELE presents a new song: ”The House of the Gods” – streaming now! Listen @ Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music
The cerrado stretching out for miles below you, you scale the treacherous cliff face, your clothes whipping in the wind. Slowly inching higher, you finally leave the world of men behind as you ascend into another one. A forgotten world, lush and mysterious, guarding its secrets jealously. You have entered the house of the gods.
TRP – wild and untamed Swedish teenage heavy metal from 1981-1985. The boys were still in elementary school when they cranked out and recorded their heavy metal / hard rock music. Their fans were made up of the local teen hard rock youth gangs who all wore leather jackets, studded belts and denim vests. TRP, an acronym for “Tyrannosaurus Rex Prisoners”, performed loud and crazy live show with excessive use of homemade smoke bombs, pyrotechnics and gallons of fake blood which eventually got them banned from performing live for being too obscene(!).
“I had welded a guitar slide with one end closed and filled it with chimney test smoke pellets, then I screwed it to the top of the neck of the bass. It burned constantly for two songs, but the effect was cool. We spat blood, as usual, and Peter just kept firing off bombs like crazy. He managed to shoot one right up into Fredrik’s ass during a guitar solo…”
BABY GRANDMOTHERS – Merkurius (SUB-123 LP) 170:- Black vinyl LP, silver foil sleeve + insert. Limited edition of 700 copies. Merkurius is the mind-melting album from the originators of Swedish psychedelia. The band launches into drones, avant-garde dirges, and fevered hard rockin’ wig-outs heavily overblown with jams rocketing into surreal spheres. All with an urgency of the now. Baby Grandmothers are bona fide psychedelic originators and these three extraordinary musicians creations run like a red thread through Swedish psychedelic music history. After over 50 years in the service of psychedelic music this album finds the Baby Grandmothers in fine form and as timeless as ever.
PÄRSSON SOUND (Subliminal Sounds) NEW 700:- Deluxe tri-fold sleeve 3LP set of these legendary recordings. A spectacular, and now revised and updated, archival package of primitive drone and minimalist rock/trance/psych from the Swedish underground, believe the hype as follows; one of the most memorable audio documents ever. Pitchfork rating 9.3. “For a brief period during 1967-68, Pärson Sound was a frontrunner in the burgeoning Swedish music scene, leading to an opening gig for the Doors and an invite from Andy Warhol to play an art exhibit in Stockholm. Regrettably, no album was ever cut and the band’s activity ended almost as soon as it began– although later manifestations would emerge and continue under the names International
SWEDEN HEAVEN OR HELL?Rare original Swedish vinyl 1st pressings
Records graded DISC/SLEEVE. Prices in SEK.
ATTRACTIONS – Let Love Come Between US / 5th February 1968 (Columbia SW 1968) Ex-/Vg+++ 900:- Superb psych rarity from 1968. “5th February” is a totally amazing lengthy jam. With Janne Schaffer.
BJÖRN & BENNY –She’s My Kind Of Girl / Inga Theme ( Epic EPIC 83025 JP 1972) Ex/Vg+ 300:-Superb Japanese release. Pre-Abba heavy psych killer. Includes the original label inner bag too.
CANDLE – In A Vision / Matthew, Little Man (MALLWAX MAL 5013 1971) Ex/Ex 900:- Rare and wonderful Swedish psych from 1971.
CHEERS – Love Me Two Times / Somebody to Love (Decca F44542 SW 1968) M-/Ex- 1300:- Amazing and rare Swedish heavy psych beat with killer guitars. The center has been removed.
LOS COMPANIDDROS – I Want My Darling / The Dream Push (Silence ZING 102 SW 1971) Ex/Ex 600:- Post- Baby Grandmothers pre- Kebnekajse groovy Swedish psych prog from 1971.
CONTACT – A Fairy Tale / Convul’sions (MNW 05S SW 1970) Vg+/Vg+ 650:- Legendary Swedish 1970 killer heavy fuzz psych monster.
CYMBELINE – New York / Sixth Image (Greenlight 2 S SW 1971) Vg++/Vg++ 900:- Great and rare Swedish killer psych from 1971.
TOMAS ERNVIK – Små Låtar (Cymbal 1971) Vg+Vg+ 450:- Legendary Swedish hippie psych hard rocker guitarist custom label solo album from 1971. Includes the insert.
GLORYMEN – Glad Musik För En Glad Religion (Spectra Musikproduktion SEP 201 SW 1968) Vg+/Ex 1300:- Rare and very unusual Swedish xian garage fuzz feast from 1968 (!)
GOSPEL TRAIN – Det finns hos Gud (Jubilate L 554SW 196?) Vg/Vg+ 300:- Swedish xian with one superb track that’s a huge personal fave. The disc crackles a bit but it’s pretty darn rare.
GOSPELGRUPPEN GLORY – Kärlek Som Består (GM Production SW 1976) M-/Vg+ 350:- Great andf obscure xian full band rocking out with lotsa fuzz guitar and flute.
GUN SMOKE –Midnight Train / THOUGHTS (Artside Records ARS-0420 SW 1975) M-/Vg+ 650:- Awesome Swedish 1975 psych private press.
GÅRUNT SHOW – Baladen Om Mrs. Miller / Bara Skrot (Karusell KFF 710 SW 1967) Vg+/Vg+ 550:- Legendary early head spinning psych 45 from 1967 with Bella from Baby Grandmothers.
KÖRERNA VID VÄSTKUSTENS UNGDOMSSKOLA – Från Hav Till Hav (Canzona 101LP 101 SW 1965) Vg+/Vg+ 300:- Very obscure xian with some amazing and haunting choir work, especially on the superb ”Lustgården”.
MASCOTS – I Want To Live / A Different Mind ( Decca F 44518 SW 1967) Vg++/Vg+ 2200:- Fantastic and killer early Swedish freak beat punk psych.
SMU-TEAMET – Hem, Ljuva Hem (Cavatina C 68-107 SW 1968) Ex/Ex 150:- Very cool Xian pop rarity from 1968.
BIRGITTA YAVARI – I Mitt Hjärtas Trädgård (Prim SW 1976) M-/Vg+ 300:- Really magical xian from 1976 as featured on the “Frälst!” comp.
COOL VINYL LP REISSUES
V/A – The Midwest Vs. The Rest Vol.1 (UNLIMITED PRODUCTIONS US 1983) Ex/Ex 250:- Awesome ancient rare garage 45 comp.
V/A – Nightmares From The Underworld Vol. 2 (Underworld CA 1985) Ex/Ex 320:- Superb ancient comp of Canadian garage and psych rarities 45s from the 1960s. Includes the rare booklet!
WITCH – Lazy Bones (Now Again US re) M-/M- 300:- The ultimate reissue of this mind bending Zambian heavy psych album from 1975. Includes a massive booklet.
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ÌXTAHUELE –100:- Limited Edition Vintage Style Resort Design Soft-Style Ring Spun White T-Shirt. Available in sizes S to 2XL.
THE AMAZING T-Shirt 100:- The Amazing – Gentle Stream surf logo. Vintage style limited edition print on white T-shirt. Available in sizes S / M / L.
BALL – Satanic Ecstasy – new LP album and more! ORDER HERE NOW!
Wasted Swedish heavy psych power trio soaked in diabolical occult havoc. Drugged and toxic – Hard Rock from Hell! Satanic Ecstasy presents a depraved cinematic audio experience with unique music from Ball.
This is the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the extreme and demonic new underground hardcore horror. An adult shock flick from the deepest recesses of the abyss – so horrifying it couldn’t be shown! Satanic Ecstasy!
“Satanism is more popular now than ever before. The devil’s herb is used to inspire intercourse. Through sex Satan’s powers are invoked. Often during the ceremonies, the worshippers pretend they are animals.”
Experience Satanic Ecstasy firsthand…if you dare. Parental advisory – X-rated content. Buy at your own risk!
