Sadness 'Round The Bend (EP) [2009]

This is my latest release and this time is a Punk Rock EP containing 5 songs each one less than a minute long, so this is a very short EP.

My Punk Rock influences are in this order: DEAD KENNEDYS, MINOR THREAT and GANG OF FOUR (not punk but I will include them here because people keep including THE STOOGES in the genre so why can't I do the same with GOF).

Anyway I kept it short because I get tired of Punk Rock easily.


ENJOY IT!


1. Hot, Hot, Heat!
2. The Cave
3. I Never Wanna See You Again
4. Sadness
5. Put Your Hands Against The Wall


LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/c2443d46

Electric Laser Church Of Agnostic Gnomes [2009]

Yet another album from 2009 (my 5th this year), this time a psychedelic concept album about religion and some people who go to church looking for who knows what and never find it.

I'm not saying all people who go to church are not sure why they go but some aren't and that's what this is about.

The first song, Sunday Morning, is a mellow track with an acoustic guitar basic track and a lot of keyboards which are hardly noticeable.

The second, Another Ceremony, the center, longer piece and my favorite from the album, it contains many sections and for me they all are fabulous and exciting, and although is 17 minutes long it feels like is 10 minutes shorter because it never gets tiresome.

The third and final song, Heaven (At Home) is an instrumental track done with just two keyboard tracks (no guitars, drums or bass), it's very relaxing and have an avant-garde feel.

If you can believe it, the artwork is from a Disney on Ice show picture that my wife took when she and my son went to see it on the summer of 2008.


Well I hope you enjoy it, I know I am already.


1. Sunday Morning [10:19]
2. Another Ceremony [17:06]
3. Heaven (At Home) [9:43]



LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/6335fa11

Proceed At Your Own Risk! [2009]

My latest album, another funk rock exploration, this time more professional and in some cases more experimental.

It contains pure funk, disco, reggae all done with a rock player mind and of course as always my own style familiar to those who have already ventured into this blog.

The artwork has images of the Trafalgar Falls' path on the island of Dominica which is an irony because the type of music on the album is mostly associated with urban life.

There's a long song with an avant middle section in it, a song done in two versions the second version has more of a hard sound and so I called it the Bullet Version, there's a reggae song about a very special/dangerous plant and a bad experience with it and then there's the title piece which is really ambient noise.

So enjoy it!!!


1. It Was a Lie
2. Hold My Gun
3. Diesel Burning Locomotive
4. Royal Tribute
5. Butterfly Dies
6. Moist Desire Spoiled With Fire
7. Proceed At Your Own Risk!
8. Hold My Gun [Bullet Version]
9. Datura Ferox


LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/2085cf40

The Eyelid Of God... [2009]

This album is now my favorite one of all I've recorded. It reminds me a lot of those early 70's albums by Gravy Train, Krokodil, Raw Material, etc. which is the music I listen to the most, but it has that indie rock quality of the 90's.

The title of the album was stolen from a line of "Waltz Of The New Moon" by The Incredible String Band.

I tried not to overdo the artwork and do it minimal so it can create some contrast with the ever changing movements of the songs.

The 1st song is my favorite because of the instrumental 3rd part of it which is noisy and disjointed but somehow melodic.

There's some $1 wood flute on the 2nd song; one of the shortest, it has more movements than most of the rest of the album but the flow is almost seamless.

The 3rd song has some funk guitar, evolves into an eastern little piece and then returns to the main theme at the end.

The words of the 4th song are about writer's block, which is always present in me because I'm not a natural writer or singer.

The 5th song is an instrumental with some strange noises all created with an electric and bass guitar.

The last song was the first I recorded from the album and the inspiration for the rest of them.

This album is full of suites and mood changes like some of the songs recorded by Paul McCartney in the early 70's like "Band On The Run" and "Uncle Albert" but the difference is that this one is mostly hard/progressive rock.

Please enjoy!!!



1. The Eyelid Of God...
2. Take My Hand And You'll Be Free
3. Prisoner Of Yourself
4. My Pen Doesn't Write Anymore
5. He Donated His Brain To Science (Fiction)
6. Life Ain't Sweet



LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/8ec786bf

Memories Lost Under Grey Hair [2009]

I don't know how to rate this album yet, I kind of have mixed feelings about it. I'm sure I will learn to love it later on.

The artwork is the second in a series of tributes to the jazz albums covers from the 50's.

I'll try to explain what I think of the songs:

THE STALKER. This one is my favorite from this album, I like the wah guitar solo and the way it gets faster towards the end.

MEMORIES L.U.G.H. A 70's hard rock funky intro. The album's named after this song because there are a couple of songs related to nostalgia in it.

BURNING FEET. This track was first recorded in 1997 and like all of my recordings from that era the fuzz pedal was always on, now on this one I stripped the whole thing. Don't ask what the lyrics mean.

NOSTALGIA. An instrumental.

TEENAGE LOVE. Another bossa nova track. This is my second favorite track from the album and I really love the wah guitar solo.

PREPARE FOR TAKE-OFF. This is a trippy track with a good fuzzy solo in the middle of it.

NOTHING TO GAIN. The original title of this song was "Third World Espionage" I decided to keep it simple and not confuse the listener who tries to find any meaning in it. I like it but is not my favorite.

ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS. I recorded the basic track (Casio Keyboard) after listening to Bill Fay's "I Hear You Calling" from the album Time Of The Last Persecution which is one of my favorite albums from the 70's.

WAITING IN THE FREEZE. A mainly acoustic track with a nice middle section.

BLACK TAR VILLAGE. One of two songs where I used the Casio Keyboard. Not my favorite track but the organ solo sounds a little jazzy and the lyrics are about a street I used to transit years ago and in case you follow the lyrics I want to make clear I was not a customer!.

Enjoy!!! and... REMEMBER TO WRITE SOMETHING DOWN THERE.

1. The Stalker
2. Memories Lost Under Grey Hair
3. Burning Feet
4. Nostalgia
5. Teenage Love
6. Prepare For Take-Off
7. Nothing To Gain
8. Another One Of Your Friends
9. Waiting In The Freeze
10 . Black Tar Village


LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/80df9637

The Black Lagoon [2009]

My second heavy rock album, an appropriate one to open this dark 2009, and I say dark because of the global economy as well as the three ongoing wars in the middle east

The truth is that I was listening to Sabbath's "Master Of Reality" a lot in December and it shows.

The themes of the songs are very odd and I'm not used to write these type of songs but I think they fit the overall feeling of the album.

The music, well, all six songs are almost equal to each other except "Ritual" which starts in the same vein as her sisters but it gets more similar to my latest extended experiments (especially when clocking at almost 18 minutes long).

The artwork is a cropped picture of St. Kitts on Good Friday 2008, while I was on a cruise ship with my wife and son.

Anyway this album is dedicated to my friend "The Ohio Carp" who really digs this type of music.


Enjoy and...
REMEMBER TO WRITE SOMETHING DOWN THERE IN THE COMMENTS' SECTION!!!


1. The Black Lagoon
2. Hostage Situation
3. Fangs
4. Winged Creature
5. The House At The End Of The Road
6. Ritual



LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/94837344

Social Tea (2008)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!

This is a special album for me and not at all in a good way, the original was my fourth; it contains nine songs that actually are about a not so good relationship I had with a girlfriend, the lyrics of those were written in 1998-99 but the original album was recorded in 2002-03.

It's also very special because of this new version which sounds really good I must say, so much cleaner than the original.

THE SONGS: - Miniature Brain
This one is actually about a Social "Tea" meeting with friends and the mentioned girlfriend, it was a strange night, the things you see, feel and hear when you're under the shitty tea, well that was another time, long gone.

- Cow Shit - Rainbows - Melted Walls -
Blues, Part 4 [Including Drums For Electricity]
These four songs are what I thought it would be the Social Tea Suite but I couldn't write any lyrics for it and then opted to separate the songs. The first two have an eastern feel.

- When You're Down
I now realize that one of this song's guitar parts is almost identical to Huxton Creepers' song "Slow Attack". All I can say is that it wasn't intentional. I love this one and the lyrics are about the state I was in while in the above mentioned relationship.

- Tunnel/The Bottom
Filler, filler, filler. One is an eastern guitar part (edited backwards) and the other a Dub Reggae track.

- Bottom Of The Sea
This one was actually written in 1996, it's not about any girlfriend and you could say the lyrics are similar to Yellow Submarine or Octopus's Garden, sort of like a children song. The music has a Caribbean feel.

- Link, Space
More filler on the reggae and Sci-Fi side.

- Put It Down (The Knife)
This one was inspired by Frank Zappa's "Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution", actually the recording technique used to speed up the guitar solo was what inspired me to do it.

The rest are pretty standard rock songs, except River Of Madness which is like a sister of those Social Tea Suite songs in that incorporates the eastern/blues part of those.

I hope you enjoy it and next year I will post the original album so you can compare the unbearable one to this little gem. REMEMBER TO LEAVE YOUR COMMENT!!!!

[The Bold Ones Are My Favorites]
1. Miniature Brain
2. Cow Shit
3. Rainbows
4. Melted Walls
5. Blues, Part 4 [including: Drums For Electricity]
6. When You're Down
7. Tunnel/The Bottom
8. Bottom Of The Sea
9. Link
10. We're Not The Same
11. Space
12. Try To Grow
13. Put It Down (The Knife)
14. Don't Give Up
15. Millions Of Words
16. Her Looks Are Deceiving
17. Going To Bed
18. I’m Not Gonna Hurt You
19. Night Time Is The Right Time
20. River Of Madness

LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/1af0d660

Throwing Punches (2008)

I recorded this song last night to celebrate the first year of this Blog.

The cover art was a five minute google search affair.

This improvised track was inspired by the people who enter this blog and never say "hello" or "I hate you", so if you are one of those consider yourself a lucky person I wrote this song about you and if you are one of the cool people who has graced this blog with comments please enjoy it, it really is for you!!!






LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/4ec5536f

Slavery Ends With Art (2008)

This is my latest album and I'm pretty sure the last one for 2008.

I designed the artwork to be some sort of tribute to the 50's early 60's artwork mostly done for jazz albums.

I believe this album is the best of the four I recorded in 2008, it's almost a sampler of the three preceding albums.


- Like a Disease
It was recorded originally for an old album called SOCIAL TEA (which I will re-record later). It was an instrumental and I added lyrics for this new album.

- Winter Time
A Bossanova tune. I recorded a similar but electric song for "UNFINISHED REPORT..." and discarded. This time I chose to exchange the electric guitar for an acoustic and write new lyrics more fitting to the song.

- Neurogenesis (First Thoughts)
This song was born after an invitation/challenge from Mike-Floyd author of the Homemade Lo-Fi Psych blog to record a song about Embryo Thoughts. I'm proud of the thing.

- Geometric Lapses of Unconscious Landscapes / Constant Shadows
These are some of those avant-garde songs I seem to squeeze into most of my albums and you should know that I will keep doing these songs for as long as I play the guitar, I just love them.

- Sold To The Polls
A piano piece from 2005, recorded on the same sessions that produced BLUE BRAIN FLU's Mysery. I added bass, drums, lyrics and voice for this album.

- Screwed
One of my favorite songs from this album, it's very similar to some of the tracks from DESTINATION: SATURN.

- Lost Your Bubbles In a Half Empy Glass Of Champagne
This one is actually a deleted part of FILTH's Zanzibar.

- Walk The Land
A percussion saturated track with an eastern solo.

- Dreams Never End / Regarding Your Expectations
Mixed feelings about this one, don't know what to say...
I like them but if I had to do a "best of" collection I wouldn't use them.

- Making Caramel Under The Bridge
Art? You'll be the judge.


Enjoy it, I know I will. THE COMMENTS' SECTION IS WAITING FOR YOU!!!!!!

1. Like a Disease
2. Winter Time
3. Neurogenesis (First Thoughts)
4. Geometric Lapses Of Unconscious Landscapes
5. Sold To The Polls
6. Screwed
7. Lost Your Bubbles In a Half Empty Glass Of Champagne
8. Walk The Land
9. Dreams Never End
10. Regarding Your Expectations
11. Constant Shadows
12. Making Caramel Under The Bridge

LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/dca64d49

Filth (2008)

My latest album, a Funk Rock album.

It contains no covers, but at the same time it has more solos than a Grateful Dead concert.

The basic tracks were recorded in march 2008 but I wrote the lyrics and recorded the vocals last week (and it shows!!!).

This one is like "Connect The Polka Dots" in that it's not a psychedelic album at all but it's more mature than the one mentioned.

I'm proud of it but don't know what else to write about it so please enjoy and comment.

1. You Won The Crown
2. The Crowning Of The South
3. The Race
4. Small Freaky Head
5. Zanzibar
6. Filthy Mind
7. Uncovered Grave


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/03973ee8

Connect The Polka Dots (2008)

This is my latest album recorded between january and september 2008, actually the music was finished in may when I posted the "Blue Brain Flu" album but I've been so lazy that I just couldn't write or sing songs (procrastination has been in full effect this year).

The album contains 5 cover songs:

1. Ni Chicha Ni Limona
This song was written and recorded by the martyr Víctor Jara, a Chilean songwriter whose own government killed him along with thousands in the Chile Stadium. You can find out more about this great latin american here: Victor_Jara

3. 36-24-36
It was written by Violent Femmes' singer/guitarrist Gordon Gano, one of my favorite bands of the 80's, the Violent Femmes played songs that reflected introspective youth, although this song doesn't reflect that, I think it fits this album.

7. Given the Dog A Bone
Ac/Dc !!!!!!.... I just can imagine you listening to my version and thinking: Is this guy real?, is this a joke?, well it's no joke I like them I can't sing like Brian Johnson or Bon Scott but still think their early albums especially with Bon Scott are influential as anything from the 70's.

9. Wanted Man (Outlaw Man)
Written by David Blue, this song is one of my favorite songs played by the Eagles, I've only heard their version so mine it's inspired by theirs.

12. Sam Stone
This one is a really great song and very fitting in these times of war. It was written and recorded by John Prine, a country songwriter whose debut album is a masterpiece. This song inspired me to write The Good War which was "coincidentially" placed right after Sam Stone on this album.

Most of the rest of the album was inspired by The Rolling Stones' kind of old style rock 'n roll mixed with my own style.

I have a couple of albums in the can, one that only needs lyrics and another in the process of recording the basic tracks; I only wish I don't get so lazy as I have been most of this year.

Hope you enjoy it. Leonel Garcia

1. Ni Chicha Ni Limona
2. Connect The Polka Dots
3. 36-24-36
4. A New Kind Of Senior Citizen
5. Colourful Rumours
6. Firehoses And Warhorses
7. Given The Dog A Bone
8. When I See You
9. Wanted Man (Outlaw Man)
10. I Saw You Today
11. Do I Seem Desperate? (I Guess I Do)
12. Sam Stone
13. The "Good" War
14. Rough Sketch Of What's Inside
15. Whatever You Say


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/faf3a588

Homemade Lo-Fi Psych Sampler [Embryo Thoughts] (2008)

- A mind blowing collection of inner and outer space snapshots of different kinds -

[click on the following link for more of the featured artists]:
http://homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com


THE SONGS:

01. ANCIENTS - Son Of Albion (3:50)
From the unreleased, unfinished album "Paens & Odes". THE ANCIENTS is one of Michael Dust Devil's (DUSTdevils, ATLANTIC DRONE...) band projects. Sadly the singer Patrick Hurst just recently took his life. The song was recorded about 3 months ago on Michael's Pro-Tools rig, just before he returned from Bradford, Yorkshire, to live in the USA again. Right at the moment Michael is busy recording a new lp with JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER and also just finished recording the 2nd lp with ATLANTIC DRONE (Hugh Hopper from SOFT MACHINE is now in the band!).
http://michaeldustdevil.multiply.com/

02. STOLLE & MEMBER - Wellen (mixed & edited) (9:55) A track from their latest workshop, freshly mixed and edited. Stolle & Member are two guys from Karlsruhe and Frankfurt a. M., Germany, specialised in creating free improvised music in the best 70's krautrock tradition. From time to time they play as a rock trio called THE WHOLE, often joined by krautrock legend DAMO SUZUKI (ex THE CAN).
Their many different musical band projects are very well documented on their own blog
http://emptyblaukraut.blogspot.com/

03. LEONEL GARCIA - Neurogenesis (First Thoughts) (4:20) The song was directly inspired by the theme of this sampler. The lyrics were written from the point of view of an embryo asking his mother about his/her future, and not optimistically about his dad. Leonel records alone with a PC, guitars, Casio keyboard and mic. He is not confined to record psych or trippy music (although that's his main influence), he records whatever mood he is into.
http://leogt.blogspot.com/

04. T.H.U.M.B. - Jorgen's Shit Song (3:48) Unreleased track from the latest recording session. The Italian stoner rock band (with space and psych elements) consisting of Bokal (bass, vocals, synth), The Zmudah (guitar and vocals), Liz (drums) released two cds up until now. They played many gigs in Italy some years ago, but now seem to be no longer together, there may a reunion though in the near future.
http://www.thumbstoner.blogspot.com/

05. SZBUTÄ SORÖH - Womb Of My Mind (6:23) SZBUTÄ SORÖH is a Brazilian one-man experimental/noise music project. Samuel Macedo, the man behind the name, uses a variety of different instruments and many different sources for his music, ranging from bamboo flutes,acoustic and electric guitars to field recordings, that afterwards are manipulated through computer processings. This for sure isn't easy listening!
http://www.myspace.com/szbutasoroh

06. DANNY SPACECAT - The Probe (3:26) Original, unreleased track, recorded (using a 4-track connected to PC) by Pete Adcock, a guy in the UK, under the name of DANNY SPACECAT. Danny also plays guitar for a band called THE RUNNIES, that also have two tracks on the new JULIAN COPE tribute CD, Interpreters Volume 3 - Triple Vegetation (free download: http://www.tripalot.com/cope/interpreters/volume3.htm).
http://www.myspace.com/dannyspacecat
http://www.myspace.com/therunnies

07. GLAZE OF CATHEXIS - Drifting Concepts (5:08) (Music/lyrics by Matt Comegys, published under Psychedelic Garage music.) Recorded at the Psychedelic Garage Studio in Ueda, Japan, in January 2007, featuring a Fender Jazz Bass, Fender Telecaster, Roland Juno 60, and a tin can for holding pencils, all delayed by a Boss ME-50 effects board. Matt of course is the man behind Dr. Schluss' great music blog, where you'll find more of his music for free download.
http://psychedelicobscurities.blogspot.com/

08. ATLANTIC DRONE - Muddy 'ol Sea (6:40) (Written by Steven Cerio and Jim Drago; produced/arranged by Steven Cerio) Drumspercussion/synth, bass - Steven Cerio; guitars - Sal Canzonieri, Dave Rick, Michael Dust Devil; sax - Bryan Kieser.
ATLANTIC DRONE is essentially the one man band of Steven Cerio, who uses contributors and old talented buddies like Michael Dust Devil to help him out. "Muddy 'ol sea" (alternative title: "Mexican Spy") "won't fit on the next record so it'll nice to have it floating around!! Now it has a home." (S. C.) Their stellar, highly psychedelic debut record is available via Noiseville Records.
http://www.happyhomelandstore.com/listen.php

09. WE'RE LATE FOR CLASS - Pregnant Tight Rope Walker In Santa Ana (4:10)
(Written by We're Late For Class.) Like all of WLFC's music, this is a live improv track (mixed to sound not-so-improv), recorded April 18, 2008 during "The LSD Sessions", but was left off of their 31st web release to be an exclusive part of HLFP 02. You'll find all of their recordings for free download here:
http://werelateforclass.blogspot.com/

10. ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR - Embryo Thoughts (3:59) ANYONE'S DREAMCOLOUR is the solo homerecording project of former CLOUD NINE (& THE VITAMIN C) and ORANGE bass player Mike S. from Mainz and now Berlin, Germany. This track is in fact an edit/remaster of a demo recording of a 1999 sessions of a song called "Strange Room", until now unreleased. All instruments played by Mike S., recorded on analog 4-track. Other web-only releases – solo or with his various bands – can be found on:
http://homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com/

11. THIS LOVE IS DEADLY - My New Favourite Need (4:52) A demo recoding left in the can until now... from this promising shoegazer/dream pop/post punk band from Germany. The current line-up of TLID is: Lisa: vocals, bass; Louis: guitar, vocals; Janne: drums.
http://www.myspace.com/thisloveisdeadlyband

12. JAY MATTHEWS - Dreams (2:19) "'Dreams' was recorded on a yamaha m00 4-track sometime in the early 1990's, in Skemersdale, Lancashire, UK, by myself, Jay Matthews, I was experimenting with pedals and effects and trying to create some Trippe sounds... just overlapping guitars... it did originally have some strange vocals, but they were deleted and the song has simply just lay around for 20 years... Recording engineer was Peter Adcock" (see track # 06! m-f) (J. M.). Jay is like DANNY SPACECAT a member of THE RUNNIES.
http://www.myspace.com/therunnies

13. EPHEMEROL - embryO dreamS oF (10:00) On this track: Maxim Engl: ggguitars, Ike Anger: mix & mastering. EPHEMEROL (from Frankfurt a.M., Germany) is Maxim's post rock/noise/experimental band; other bands and projects he is or was involved are POET ZERO, THE JANITORS OF LUNACY, ORANGE, SPACE TRUCKIN' and PAN AMP. Web releases of some of them may be found on
http://homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/130310810

14. MAURICE RICKARD - Macbeth 1 (6:17)
Maurice has been performing live since 2001, doing performances of guitar-and-PowerBook-based ambient electro-acoustic improvisation under several different project names. He also is a member of the GLENN BRANCA ENSEMBLE, having joined for the recording and performance of BRANCA's "Symphony No. 13" in 2004 and 2006. http://www.onezeromusic.com/index.php/a2

15. TRUE COLOUR OF BLOOD - In My Next Life I'm Coming Back As A Field Of Poppies (7:23)
Until now unreleased track. TRUE COLOUR OF BLOOD is the one-man-band project of Eric Kesner from Washington D.C., dedicated to "Guitar Based Atmospheric Soundscapes", that could also be described as dark ambient.
http://www.tcobambient.com/
http://www.myspace.com/3954079

16. THE WIG MUSEUM - Future Daze (2:55)
Another one-man-band-project, this time from provincial UK. The web-only release "House of Toucan" is a true psychedelic masterpiece and well woth checking out! (You know where!) Herod (aka Marvin), the man behind THE WIG MUSEUM, has played and recorded with various bands over the last 20 years and is also the one running
http://psychedelicpsauna.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thewigmuseum

17. TORSTN KAUKE - Not Like Always (pt. 1-4) (8:26)
(written, performed and produced by torstn kauke
in offenbach/germany, august 2008)
"here comes something you will never understand
here comes something you'll never get out of alive
now this is not like always
now this is something new
this is not like always
here comes something you will never understand
not like always
here comes something you'll never get out of alive
not like always
this is called life - come and try one
this is called life - come and have one
this is your life - come and get one"
"originally written 1992 and re-animated/modified for the “embryo thoughts” HLFP sampler. i used to write & produce these kind of indie-psychedelic-songs in the nineties and released several tapes. some of these tapes can be found (or will be found there in the future) on my unpop-blog (www.unpop-media.blogspot.com). there i’m posting much of my recorded work with different bands and projects of the last 20 years.in the moment i’m working most of my time on my german-language project/band SUPERSTOLK (www.myspace.com/Superstolk) and with the Improvisation/ Krautrock-Group “MICROGRAMMA MEDIUM EXTENDED” and in some other, yet unnamed Techno-Projects." (t.k.)
www.unpop-media.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/Superstolk

18. DREAMCOLOUR - Dreamshow (edit) (9:58)
Recorded August 17 at DREAMCOLOUR's 'DREAMSHOW' at Mai's Cafe in Ventura, CA. The improvisation is an excerpt from "Colour Combinations Vol. 1" and features alex gray: guitar/sounds; alexa pantalone: bass; teddy skupien: drums/trumpet; rob magill: saxophone; ryan ermisch: synthesizer; chelsea gray: clarinet. (The track was slightly shortened and edited by mike-floyd to fit in to the given time span.)
http://www.listentocolour.com/index.php
http://www.myspace.com/dreamcolour

19. CATASTO ELETTRICO - Beta Centauri (9:14)
CATASTO ELETTRICO is an improvisational Italian band, that retired from playing live to concentrate on recording improvised sessions very much in a jazzy progressive style (with some indi influences). For this compilation CATASTO ELETTRICO were digging deep in their vaults and finally found this track, which they edited years ago for a dead early album project. "It is really an embryonic thing for us, one from our space side belonging to the days we switched from composed to improvised music." (C. E.) You can explore their more recent work at
http://catastosfriendlyfire.blogspot.com/

20. RADAGAST PROJECT - Re:birth (edit) (10.00) Another psychedelic Gem from RADAGAST PROJECT, recorded 15/08/08 on a fostex 8 track analogue tape machine. The voices were recorded with an analogue answering machine, edited with Magix Cleaning Lab and transferred to tape. RADAGAST PROJECT is the psychedelic folk project of former PEACE'N'STUFF bass & flute player Christof Köhler (aka Koehler, aka CK – listen to tr. 8 on the first HLFP sampler!). Here he dives deep into inner space to explore the embryonic experience... On a background of didgeridoo and sitar drone there’s a stereo track of distorted electric guitar treated with a violin bow and occasional mellow flute. A monotonous heartbeat bass and gong explosion towards the end create an astounding early Floyd mood. All instruments played by CK. This version here was slightly speeded up and had to be edited to meet Mike’s 10 minute restrictions. The original, unedited version is 12.20 min long. More web-only released stuff can be found on

THE PREMISE/CONCEPT OF HLFP 02:

1. Each song had to be unreleased until the given date to feature EXCLUSIVE material, and it had to fit in somehow to the given THEME.

2. Each artist could only contribute ONE track.

3. Song length: 10 MINUTES or less.

4. SOUND QUALITY wasn't that important (remember the blog's name!), but it had to be LISTENABLE.

5. NO COVER SONGS were allowed. The contributor had to be the copyright holder.

6. DEADLINE was Fr. 15th, August 2008 (more or less...)

ASSEMBLING THIS COLLECTION: Some adjustments were done, when it seemed necessary: first of all concerning the different recording levels; also some noise and recording clicks were removed/faded in or out at the beginning and the end of one or two songs; one mono track had to be shortened and was doubletracked and slightly remixed on that occasion to give it a little bit more volume (hope you don't mind, guys!). Otherwise all tracks were left untouched.

A WORD ABOUT THE RUNNING ORDER:
The songs on HLFP 02 are placed exactly in the running order as they were sent to me. First track came first... (Thanks, Michael!), nevertheless I find this sampler suprisingly fluent and coherent – though a whole lot of different styles are to be heard.

THE SELECTION:
Almost all offered tracks were chosen in the end. Only one song had to be rejected for the fact, that it already had been released (even on this blog!) and it had absolutely NOTHING to do with the given theme/concept! Sorry, guys!


LINK: Rapidshare

Alternate LINKS: CD1 CD2

Blue Brain Flu (2008)

My latest album, recorded between February and May.
As always I play every instrument of the album but my wife helped me with backing vocals on a Piero's Vengo cover [Piero was an Italian born Argentinian protest singer songwriter very popular in the 60's and 70's in all of Latin America].

Here I finally finished the Dark Future Suite I tried to record on A Vision In A Dream, I couldn't do it on that other album because of the poor acoustic recording techniques I had in those days. Most of the lyrics were written in 1992, this is one my earliest songs.

I also recorded the titled track Blue Brain Flu as a sort of suite but this time completely electric and a little more instrumental and avant-garde than the Dark Future Suite.

The instrumental Misery was recorded on 2005 before I began the sessions for the Roots album, I added the drums two weeks ago, the song is just plain piano [yes, the same Casio keyboard I always use but don't know how to play], no guitars or bass.

Red, Red Communist, Deputy Of Light, Magazine Smiles and The Tape Was Paused were recorded for another album, an album which I now discarded and will finish later with other songs replacing these ones.

I'm proud of it and I'm already spending a lot of time listening to it so enjoy! Leonel Garcia


1. Dark Future Suite
2. Red, Red Communist
3. Deputy Of Light
4. Magazine Smiles
5. Vengo
6. Misery [Instrumental]
7. The Tape Was Paused
8. Blue Brain Flu


LINK [Including Artwork]: http://sharebee.com/206ca257

A Vision In Another Dream (2006)

An outtake from A Vision In A Dream, actually it was part of the title song, but for some reason I don't remember why it ended being edited.

I now call it A Vision In Another Dream. Enjoy!


LINK: http://sharebee.com/9e401673

Push-Her (2006)

This album was recorded in 2006 right before I recorded "A Vision In A Dream".

It was the first of two sort of dance/electronic albums I recorded but different from the other one (Hosted Critical Dynamic Resources) on this one I played electric guitar and bass on the whole album and the guitar also took the lead.


I'm very proud of it although I don't listen to it a lot because I'm not much into this kind of music.

There's lots of wah guitar in it and has a kind of a funk groove.

NOTE: I posted this album on the old blog; now I've changed the names of the tracks because the old titles were lifted from the DVD of the Monkey (Magic) Series, I was bored then!!!.

Enjoy it. Leonel Garcia.


1. Waiting For Authentication
2. Rigorously Tested Independent Packages
3. Current Core Version
4. Complex Infrastructure
5. Virtual Nodes
6. New Levels Of Flexibility
7. Robust Cluster Environment
8. Dynamic Guest Source
9. Matching Capabilities
10. Cost-Effective Peripheral Deployment
11. Push-Me, Push-Her


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/a5cdc9e7

Roots (2005)

This album was written and recorded in 2005. It was the first album I posted on the first version of this blog before I pulled the plug.

It was also the first of my albums that I liked the sound, it was also the first recorded with the Shure Microphone I record my albums today. I played the Les Paul guitar, Goldwave and the Propellerhead Reason 3.0 software I wrote about before. One thing I first used that time and I haven't use after this album is Guitar Tracks, a software I don't recommend because of its limited features.

The album contains 4 covers:

-Good Morning Little Schoolgirl a song by Sonny Boy Williamson but the inspiration was from the Grateful Dead's version of it.

-I Saw The Light by Todd Rundgren, done here with out of tune organ and guitars (not good).

-None A Jah Jah Children No Cry by Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus, I really love this song, both the original and my different version.

-Sugaree by Jerry Garcia, I always liked this song and I recorded a better version than the one on this CD in 2001 but I lost it. The one on this CD is not that good and I think I could have done better.


My favorite songs from the album are:
1. Fog
2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
9. None A Jah Jah Children No Cry
14. Childhood Dreams
18. Parade Through The Center Of My Heart

I'm still proud of the album but I've done so much better since then.

The drawings were done by me while working on my old job.

Hope you enjoy it. Leonel Garcia.


LINK (Including New Artwork): http://sharebee.com/ef65fc37

Destination: Saturn [Demo] (1997)

Here it is as promised the DESTINATION: SATURN demos/original album, this was the 3rd album I wrote and recorded, it was all done in 1997.

When I wrote this thing I was heavily into progressive rock and psychedelia, and I wanted to write a concept album; I didn't know what to do and while I was reading a saturn article about astrology I became interested in the planet and researched a little more and that help me write my concept album, the first half of the album has a flow but then I became lazy with the writing and concentrated on long instrumentals (boring!!!).

As I wrote on the very first post of this blog this was recorded with a karaoke tape machine, a couple of guitar pedals one of them a digital delay/sampler which let me sample the drums from various sources including a Pixies song, and a Frank Zappa song; I also used the same Casio keyboard I use today (which I still don't know how to play well) and a Les Paul guitar.

The sound is heavy on fuzz distortion, wah and hiss. I'm not that proud of it and that's why I re-recorded it in 2007.

Some songs were instrumentals and on the new version I wrote lyrics for them, and most of the songs are very different from the new version, they are mostly stretched with longer solos and pretty monotonous I must say.

I guess I'm posting it because I want you to hear the differences.

Well, enjoy it(?). Leonel Garcia


Part 1: http://sharebee.com/828433c9
Part 2: http://sharebee.com/aaf8c755
Artwork: http://sharebee.com/325fbf2e

Lost In The Morning Dew [Alternate Versions] (2007)

These are alternate versions of some of the songs from the album LOST IN THE MORNING DEW.

Recorded early this year and later re-recorded for the final album, except for "2. Rats On Your Floor" which was re-recorded when doing the final touches of the album and then discarded because I liked the original version better which is the number 3 in this file, for the final version I just added another guitar and louder drums.

You will notice that most of these songs are faster than those in the album, that's the reason I had to record them again, I just thought the were rushed, there are alternate lyrics also on "Old And Grey".

I hope you enjoy the differences. Leonel Garcia.


Have a happy new year, we all need it!!!!!!



1. Disgrace [Alternate Instrumental Version]
2. Rats On Your Floor [Alternate Version]
3. Rats On Your Floor [Original Guitars And Drums]
4. Boiling Water Underground [Alternate Version]
5. Witch's Lair [Alternate Version]
6. Old And Grey [Alternate Version]


LINK (No Artwork): http://sharebee.com/b4bfcb15

Unfinished Report Of Last Year's Report (2007)

This album was recorded between 2006 and 2007 and it was the first recorded with my newly and cheaply acquired Washburn Guitar and the first of seven recorded on 2007.

I think this is one of my best albums but the guitar and bass sound is not the best so I don't listen to it very often.

The guitar parts are very soft and subtle on most of the songs and I am conscious of a Krautrock influence on some of the songs especially on the title track and "You've Grown".

Friends, Rainy Days has a similar lick of Santana's version of "She's Not There" and for me a really bad guitar solo. It's one of the weakest of the album.

The Witch is one of my favorites and has a nice psych-trance vibe.

Red is a blues song about me raising my kid.

You've Grown is the only song of the album played with my old Les Paul Guitar, I don't know if you can notice but the sound of the Les Paul is stronger than the Washburn. I like how the song destroy itself in the middle and then comes back.

Stoned was written a long time ago but I still like the simple structure of the song.

Numb has very strong and emotional guitar solo and the lyrics are in the same vein of Stoned.

Girlfriend is a cover of the 1991 Matthew Sweet hit. I think I could have done a better job with it but I still like it anyway.

Unfinished Report... is sort of a Krautrock instrumental piece I played one night while trying to record another song, I like it a lot but the drums are sometimes a little out of time.

Hope you enjoy it. Leonel Garcia.

1. Friends, Rainy Days
2. The Witch
3. Jealous Guy, Promicuous Girl
4. Red
5. You've Grown
6. The Past Is Now
7. Stoned
8. Simple Leisure
9. Numb
10. Girlfriend
11. Unfinished Report...


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/4a745d97

This was the third and last of my albums posted by ChrisGoesRock and this link was uploaded by him; remember to visit his blog and thank him for his efforts.

Wooden Flower, Water And Air (Demo) (2004)

Here it is as promised, the old version/demo of Wooden Flower, Water And Air.

I hope you appreciate the differences between the old and the new. There's lots of wah guitar in this one and the Mapcap track has a real version of Organ Donor.

I prefer the new version, the noise and hiss of the old version is almost unbearable, that's what I call Lo-Fi, if you're a fan of Guided By Voices you may enjoy it.



Leonel.


LINK: http://sharebee.com/c9461344
ARTWORK: http://sharebee.com/c68f127f

Wooden Flower, Water And Air (2007)

I re-recorded the album this past summer the same week I finished recording Debris and Hosted Critical Dynamic Resources, Most of the albums I have recorded this year were done in the summer while I was on vacation, between trips to the beach and home improvement.

This is my favorite album, it has most of what I love in music, although Debris and Destination: Saturn are there competing for the spot.

- Wooden Flower Suite is my best song yet, I just love it, I started writing the Spiral Purple Rose part and then I started adding more parts until I felt it was one whole piece, it was from the beginning my intention to do a suite of short songs related to each other, that I had done with Destination: Saturn as a whole fantasy concept album with all songs related in music and lyrics to each other, but I've never done it within a song. The basic track of the whole song was recorded on one take with acoustic guitar.

- Fuzzy Toys Of Old is one of the weakest songs on the album, not that I don't like it but there are others more powerful.

I composed another suite called Water And Air comprised of Up In the Attic/Home Improvement/Pipe Riders/The Big Hand/Water And Air/Yellow Oily Sticky Thumbs but I recorded all of those separated because I didn't know how to mix them all into one, so now all of those songs stand alone.

- Up In The Attic was an old piece I've been playing since the 90's, originally a Bossa Nova/Jazz piece (I don't know, still sort of Bossa).

- Home Improvement is a protest song.

- Pipe Riders is the weakest track, an instrumental.

- The Big Hand is a blues based strange little song, the intro/outro was lifted from a 1967 song by The Incredible String Band.

- Water And Air was supposed to be the central piece of the suite, is another favorite, I love the solo part not only because of the solo which is really nice but the bass and acoustic guitar give it a good warm sound.

- Yellow Oily Sticky Thumbs is another favorite, an eastern tinged song with strange lyrics which I still don't know what they mean. The solo part has my voice backwards saying: "Trading flowers for company, plotting the newest crime scene just so the hands of time can feel the never ending songs of dreams" which is part of Never Ending Songs Of Dreams from the Wooden Flower Suite.

- Madcap is a song dedicated to Syd Barrett written before he died. It starts with just organs, electric piano, bass, drums and my voice then the guitar creeps in there and does the solo for what seems to be 40 minutes and then the original song returns only to break into free form madness. When I recorded this in 2004 I had the lyrics but didn't know how to sing them so the song ended instrumental. Now at last I sang the damn thing.

- Sunshine (Reprise) is exactly that a reprise of Sunshine from the Wooden Flower Suite but this time with another solo (backwards).

The artwork was stolen from an old 60's concert poster, if the original artist has a problem I'll gladly remove it.

I hope you enjoy it. Leonel Garcia.


NOTE:
This album was originally written and recorded on 2004 but with really crappy equipment, actually the problem was the sound card, the microphone and the recording technique I used.
I'll post that one next week.



1. Wooden Flower Suite:
a) Spiral Purple Rose
b) Sunshine
c) Wooden Flower
d) The Throne
e) Never Ending Songs Of Dreams
f) Wooden Flower (Reprise)
2. Fuzzy Toys Of Old
3. Up In The Attic
4. Home Improvement
5. Pipe Riders
6. The Big Hand
7. Water And Air
8. Yellow Oily Sticky Thumbs
9. Madcap:
a) Roger
b) The Organ Donor
c) Roger Again
d) Candy Faces
10. Sunshine (Reprise)


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/03096366

This link was uploaded by ChrisGoesRock when he posted this album in August. So visit his blog and thank him.

A New Perspective (2007)

This album was recorded in early 2007.

I used a Washburn X-Series strat for the guitar and bass parts and the Propellerhead Reason Software for the drums.

The songs are based on roots reggae. At the time I was listening to a lot of stuff like Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus, Desi's Roots and The Mighty Diamonds; the thing is that I'm no Rasta and I only wish I could play or sing with the soul those guys do, so the songs ended very different from all I've recorded and even more different from standard roots reggae.

Now you will listen to my least favorite album. I guess I don't like it because I respect so much those roots artists and this ended as some sort of insult to them. Well, I tried very hard.

I've always thought (roots reggae) was a difficult music to play because of the rythmic but spacy structure, it's mainly based on the bass. There were lots of artists trying to cash in on the success of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Toots & The Maytals and the movie The Harder They Come but there were many, many greats that came out around that time.

Songs I like from this album: "Because I Could Not Stop For Death", "Goodbye!", "Fire And Ice" and the guitar solo of "Morning Glories".


Curious? give it a try. Leonel Garcia.



The lyrics are poems written by the following great poets:

1. A New Perspective by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. The Funeral Rites of the Rose by Robert Herrick
3. An Epitaph by Andrew Marvell
4. Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
5. Goodbye! by George John Whyte-Melville
6. Sights and Sounds of the Night by Carlos Wilcox
7. On The Verge by William Winter
8. Morning Glories by John G. Neihardt
9. A light exists in spring by Emily Dickinson
10. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
11. The Tear by George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron
12. Of My Lady Isabella Playing on the Lute by Edmund Waller


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/64e86055

Lost In The Morning Dew (2007)

This album was recorded right before "Destination: Saturn".

This is my take on heavy/stoner rock, "Core" is not that heavy though.

The title track starts heavy then gets into an eastern break, after that it disintegrates for a little free form attack and then it comes back to the heavy theme.

It contains a Jethro Tull cover: "A New Day Yesterday" which along with "Black As Night" are what I believe the weakest tracks of the album.

This is one of my least favorite albums because first as you may have notice I'm not a good singer (heavy rock requires a strong voice) and second I'm not much into heavy rock anymore, I still like it but it doesn't move me like when I was a kid.

My favorite tracks from the album are: "Lost In The Morning Dew", "Stop Don't Run", "Disgrace" and "Old And Grey".

Give it a try!!!!. Leonel Garcia.


1. Lost In The Morning Dew
2. Throw The Poppies Down
3. Stop, Don't Run
4. Fins In The Bay
5. Disgrace
6. Black As Night
7. Core
8. A New Day Yesterday
9. Rats On Your Floor
10. Boiling Water Underground
11. Witch's Lair
12. Old And Grey


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/218e6c08

Hosted Critical Dynamic Resources (2007)

This one was recorded this past summer the same day I finished recording "Debris".

I needed some kind of release after working on those "Debris" songs and thought I do some experiments with minimal electronic music.

These tracks were done without overdubs, just had to sequence the bass line and then I turned a couple of knobs, that was all and three hours later in between some snacks and a little TV we have this album. The x-rays are mine (you can see my small sinus problem).


Enjoy. Leonel Garcia


1. To Deploy A Critical Process
2. Difficult Layered Resources
3. Hosted Identity Cluster
4. Dynamic Access Policy

I recorded another "electronic" album in 2006, I'll post that one later.

LINKS (Including Artwork):
Part 1: http://sharebee.com/f8255d31
Part 2: http://sharebee.com/7958fb70

A Vision In A Dream (2006)

This album was written mostly in 2006, I say mostly because my songs were written in 2006 but there are five late 19th century and early 20th century poems and two covers.



The poems are:

-The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold
-Song by Thomas Lovel Beddoes
-The Night Has A Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon
-I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale
-Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson

The covers are:

-Pride Of Man by Hamilton Camp
-People Change Your Mind by Killing Floor

This album was the first one I recorded with computer amps/effects for guitar although you won't notice any difference except for the extra hiss, well I was still experimenting with the effects and new mic.

I played it with a Les Paul guitar, the bass parts were done with the Les Paul as well, the piano is a cheap Casio Keyboard I wish I could play better and drums were done with the Propellerhead Reason 3.0, this software (Reason) is my friend because I can't play drums where I live, don't have the space and can't afford good electric drums.

Another note: I wrote the music for Requiem at the same time I wrote Destination: Saturn in 1997.


Give it a try.

1. Chained
2. Sherry Wine
3. Dusty Road
4. Hiding
5. Dark Future
6. New Depression
7. The Forsaken Merman
8. Something Strange
9. A Vision In A Dream
10. Song
11. Put The Tape On Erase
12. Don't Leave The Cat
13. Pride Of Man
14. Waves Of Hiss
15. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
16. People Change Your Mind
17. I Am Not Yours
18. Requiem

ChrisGoesRock posted this album after I sent him the sharebee link a couple of months ago so I want to thank him again for sharing my music, he's been very kind in this matter not to mention sharing his collection which is not only vast but incredibly good. The link below was uploaded by Chris.


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/cce724ef

Debris (2007)

This album was written and recorded in 2007.

It is one of my favorite albums although is more pop than what I'm used to record it sounds different from your typical 2000's pop.

It has two covers "Massachusetts" from Bee Gees and "Sanctuary" from The Yankee Dollar a summer of love band.

It contains two instrumentals, the blues based "Watching The LP Go 'Round" and "3rd Street (Love Song)" a piece named after the street my wife and I lived when we got married.

"Take Him By The Hand" was written in 2002 and although I don't believe in any religion it has religious lyrics, well I don't don't know what I was thinking.

"Red Carpets" is about the paparazzi-hungry state of our world.

The last song "One Of Us (For Peter)" is one of two songs I wrote for my school friend Peter Mercado who committed suicide 18 years ago.

1. Business Time
2. Slow Me Down
3. Fried
4. Joystick Guided Souls
5. Down On My Knees
6. Debris
7. Massachusetts
8. Take Him By The Hand
9. Watching The LP Go 'Round
10. Laugh-Cry
11. Forgive Me
12. This Town
13. Sanctuary
14. Red Carpets
15. New Way Of Thinking
16. The Knight
17. Tears Like Stars
18. Nice And Slow
19. 3rd Street (Love Song)
20. One Of Us (For Peter)


LINK (Including Artwork): http://sharebee.com/853906d8

Alejandro Jodorowsky's Masterpieces

This past summer I bought "The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky" Box Set and man what a treat it is!
I greatly recommend this package to every avant-garde fan.

It contains his first three commercial films:
- Fando y Lis
- El Topo
- The Holy Mountain
It also contains:
- La Cravate his first (short) film.
- La Constelación a documentary

A couple of years ago I downloaded the first three commercial films and was shocked by his audacity and imagination, the thing is that these files were converted from old vhs tapes and to see this new DVD version I have to say you must buy this package.

Although Fando y Liz is almost impenetrable, the film is beautiful and strange in a Free Jazz sense (remember I'm a music fan), the acting is really good also.

El Topo as most of you know is a cult classic which got famous by John Lennon's appraisal and by being the first cult midnight movie of the 70's.

The film is rich, violent, strange and revolutionary, even today you show it to a friend and I'm sure he/she will be shocked.

Jodorowsky plays El Topo and his son Brontis plays El Topo's son on the film.

At the time the film was picked up for distribution the critics were divided over whether the film was a masterpiece or an incoherent bloodbath.

On the other hand the critics bashed The Holy Mountain, most of them hated it and for me it was his greatest achievement. This film has all his trademark skills and more it is so trippy you won't even care about the plot which in turn was his most coherent to date. The surrealistic imagery in this film is so over the top I don't even know how to describe it.

Just try to buy it and enjoy it. Leonel Garcia

http://www.amazon.com/Films-Alejandro-Jodorowsky-Fando-Mountain/dp/B000NY1E9E/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/10


UPDATE:
I watched again EASY RIDER a couple of nights ago and noticed that the the film editor's really cool back and forth effect between scenes was stolen from FANDO Y LIS.

Destination: Saturn (2007)

This was the third album I wrote.

The original "demo" as I now call it was recorded in 1997 with a Les Paul guitar and a karaoke tape recorder and it really sounds crappy with a lot of fuzz and energy. The drums were sampled with a delay/sampler pedal. I will post that original recording on another time.

On this new version I can say I'm very proud of the sound.

I used the following instruments:
Guitars: Washburn X-Series strat, Montaya six string acoustic
Bass: Washburn X-Series strat. Same as above (with effects)
Drums: Propellerhead Reason 3.0
Mic: Shure PG58
Audio Clips: Columbia's First Shuttle Mission


LINK (including artwork): http://sharebee.com/9a23f3a1