Franco Battiato – Clic {1974}

Franco Battiato is an internationally known Italian composer, musician, filmmaker and painter. In his early days in the 1960s he had some success collaborating with the psych/prog outfit Osage Tribe that played an interesting...

Electric Frankenstein – The Land Of The Magic Wizard {1975}

Electric Frankenstein is the solo effort by the Italian guitarist Paolo Tofani who later joined the Italian prog-rock band Area. Expect psychedelic rock with spacy guitar solos and electronic swooshes all around. The track...

Aksak Maboul – Saure Gurke {1977}

Here’s some great weird electronic music by Aksak Maboul from Belgium. This track “Saure Gurke” (“Sour Pickle” in German) from their first album Onze danses pour combattre la migraine from 1977 anticipates keyboard patterns...

Atlantis Együttes – Kinai fal {1968}

Great Freakbeat from the Hungarian band Atlantis Együttes (or just “Atlantis”), taken from the compilation Well Hung – Funk Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary, released in 2008 by Finders Keepers Records. “Finders Keepers...

Yuri Morozov – Neizyasnimoe {1978}

Amazing instrumental electronic prog-rock from the “Russian beatnick” Yuri Morozov. The multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and composer built his own home record studio where he produced around 60 of his own albums or as he...

Kobza – Zajczyk {1971}

The band Kobza from Ukraine play a charming mix of traditional folk music and soft psychedelic rock with a flair that reminds me of French movie soundtracks, exemplary in this song “Zajczyk” from 1971.

Kikagaku Moyo – Tree Smoke {2013}

I discovered the contemporary psychedelic band Kikagaku Moyo from Japan in my Facebook stream when somebody in my friend circles showed interest in going to one of their concerts in Berlin in May 2016....

Rein Rannap – Värvilind {1974}

Experimental soundtrack by the Estonian composer Rein Rannap to the animated short film Värvilind from 1974. I can’t find more information about it, not even a proper release. I would describe it as a...

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gamma Knife {2016}

Being asked in last week’s radio show Electronic Global Psychedelia on WEFT what I’m listening too at the moment, I mentioned the Australian band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Goat from Sweden....