Carolyn Hester Coalition - Carolyn Hester Coalition (1968)

"After a handful of Folk albums, The Carolyn Hester Coalition was a completely different beast, taking her in a Psychedelic direction. The album is a fine West Coast-style Hippie fuzz Folk Rock/Pop affair with Hester singing in a decidedly non-folky Acid Bubblegum style. Solid all the way through, this album should appeal to any fan of Neighb'rhood Child'n, Birmingham Sunday, Daisy Chain and similar semi-light trips. " (Amazon review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Folk Rock
CD reissue: 2008
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.carolynhester.com

Barbara Keith - Barbara Keith (1969)

"Barbara Keith's solo debut is sometimes confused with her 1972 Reprise album in discographies, since both releases were self-titled. This Verve 1969 release, though, is an entirely different record. It's respectable, slightly above-average late-'60s singer/songwriter music, with a strong country-rock flavor (with frequent steel guitar) on many though not all of the tracks. The best part of the LP is Keith's voice, which has a slight shake that is reminiscent of Marianne Faithfull's timbre, though Keith's range is much higher than that of the post-mid-'60s Faithfull." (All Music Guide review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
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Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Acid House Kings - Sing Along With Acid House Kings (2005)

Acid House Kings is a blend of 60's Motown and Bacharach, 80's The Smiths and timeless pop perfection.

"This Heart Is A Stone" video:

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Language: English

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Genre: Baroque/Sunshine Pop
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.acidhousekings.com
http://www.myspace.com/acidhousekings

Roberta Gambarini - Easy to Love (2006)

"Although she was born and bred in Italy, Gambarini brings a distinctly American jazz flavor to Easy to Love. On the title track, her multi-octave range can be seen as an indication of the "cool school" but when she starts swinging she’s anything but cool! Her scats and melodies breathe beautifully and her melodic lines have a lighter, airier quality that finds her swinging but in a softer, more relaxed manner. Billie Holiday’s anthem "Lover Man" has been claimed as part of the cool jazz movement and Gambarini certainly offers an outstanding variation of this sublime ballad." (Amazon.com review)

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Language: English
Runtime: 77:36
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.robertagambarini.com/

http://www.myspace.com/robertagambarini

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Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (2002)

"At first, this sophomore album from New Yorker Nina Nastasia, with her reedy girlish drawl, sounds merely appealing, like nice background music--but that impression lasts for about a minute. The strings (Dylan Willemsa's viola) conjure John Cale, and the shuffling rhythms (Jay Bellerose on drums) defy convention. Besides, there's an edge to Nastasia's voice--creepy and foreboding--that Nick Drake and Nico touched on, and that Chan Marshall and Will Oldham both cultivate in their own ways. Despite that dark urban folk vibe, Nastasia's inner workings seem more lucid, more honest, and well, more optimistic." (Amazon.com review)

"This Is What It Is" video:

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Origin:
Language: English
Runtime: 43:54
Genre: Folk Rock
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.myspace.com/ninanastasia

Mary-Anne - Me (1970)

"Firmly established as one of the rarest records of its time, and never reissued on vinyl until now, Mary-Anne Paterson’s sole album is a beautiful combination of traditional and original folk material whose echoing production perfectly captures her haunting voice. Scottish folksinger Mary-Anne Paterson made a nice if modest acoustic traditional-oriented album in 1970, Me. It matched her high, clear vocals, acoustic guitars, and flute with sparse echoed production and very occasional touches of acid folk and pop, though overall the LP had a haunting medieval tone." (System Records review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 2006
Quality: 320 Kbps
Official website: NA

Jonathan and Leigh - Third and Main (1967)

Jonathan And Leigh (born Sandy Roepken, now Sandy Lee Bashaw) were a folk duo that made one album in 1967 before disappearing. The sound is very distinctive, with Jonathan and Leigh's heartfelt Ohio roots shining through in the strong vocals and the accompanying music veering between simple folk stylings and a jangly, electric-folk hybrid.

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 2001
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Kotebel - Fragments of Light (2003)

Kotebel are a Spanish Symphonic progressive rock band and Fragments Of Light is their third album. The album is complex, restless music, overflowing with classical flourishes, jazzy twists, rocky outbursts and plenty of room for Hispanic cultural inspiration and traditional folk/flamenco influences. Voices in charge of Carolina Prieto.

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Language: English, Spanish
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Genre: Symphonic Prog Rock
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.kotebel.com
http://www.myspace.com/kotebel

Julie Mairs & Chris Stowell - Soft Blue Sea (1975)

"They started their collaboration in 1975, with Chris on guitar, banjo and saxophone and made this rare British folk album. Julie has a Beautiful voice and Chris is a brilliant songwriter and instrumentalist. Excellent material adds to a top UK folk reissue. In places similar to June Tabor." (Freak Emporium review)

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Language: English
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Genre: British Folk
CD reissue: 2004
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

High Treason - High Treason (1969)

"Yes, that's not a replication of the American Flag on the top left of this picture....it's a packet containing actual American Flag rolling papers, compliments of High Treason!! This 1970 self-titled LP was recorded in Philadelphia and actually featured several musicians that played with Perry Leopold. Featuring the beautiful and haunting female vocals of Marci Rauer, this music is spacey, bluesy, and psychedelic sounding, much like that of Jefferson Airplane and It's A Beautiful Day!" (lpcdreissues.com review)

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Language: English
Runtime: 37:59
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
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Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

The Great Society - Conspicuous Only In Its Absence (1968) / How It Was (1971)

The Great Society was a 1960s San Francisco folk-psychedelic rock band. Remembered as the original group of singer Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick. The band released only one single during its lifetime in 1966, "Somebody to Love" (originally titled "Someone to Love"). Later tapes of live performances were released as two separate albums in 1968 and 1971 after Grace found fame, repackaging both as a double LP called Collector's Item in 1971. Don't miss "White Rabit" original version.

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Language: English
Runtime: 66:55
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
CD reissue: 1990
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.myspace.com/graceslickofficialmyspace

Fontella Bass - The Very Best of (2006)

"25 track compilation by this outstanding Soul diva, who channeled her Gospel roots into some of the finest R&B of the '60s. Features her signature song, 'Rescue Me', as well as 'Oh No, Not My Baby', 'Since I Fell For You', 'I'm A Woman', 'Our Day Will Come' and more." (Official review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Soul Music
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.fontellabass.com/

Emma Myldenberger - Tour de Trance (1979)

"Emma Myldenberger have a unique sound, essentially acoustic, mixing various elements from authentic pagan folk to medieval and psych-progressive rock. Their second album called "Tour de trance" is considered to be one of the most achieved psych-folk listenings. A very ambitious effort made of high quality kraut-folk improvisations."

Male/female vocals with Anne Goßlau and Gaby Kinscherf .

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Language: German

Runtime: 43:37

Genre: Folk/Krautrock
CD reissue: 2006
Quality: Kbps (ripped from a LP)
Official website: NA

Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones - The Sporting Life (1994)

"Perpetually pissed, Diamanda Galas has screamed her way into cult-goddess status. Arriving in 1982 with "Wild Women With Steak Knives" and serving up in the AIDS requiem Plague Mass a magnum opus, she's a flashy fury with a three and a half octave range and a sensibility spun off from highbrow naughty boys de Sade and Artaud. Ex-Led Zep bassist and eclectic producer and arranger John Paul Jones (Butthole Surfers, R.E.M.) manufactures clangorous backdrops for her operatic murder fantasies and victim chic. What continues to dog Galas is her painful literal mindedness: To chronicle states of psychic torture, she simply tortures the listener." (Rolling Stone magazine review)

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Language: English
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Genre: Avant-garde Rock
Quality: 256-320 Kbps
Official website: http://www.diamandagalas.com/

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Clannad - Dúlamán (1976)

"In 1976 Clannad produced Dúlamán, "which probably was the high point of their albums of solely traditional material. The title track is a song telling the story of two dúlamán or seaweed merchants, one of whom is trying to win the hand of the other's beautiful daughter. The other highlight of the album is the rousing tale of sibling rivalry in "Two Sisters". (Official Review)

The vocals are leaded by Moya Brennan (born Máire Ní Bhraonáin).

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Language: Gaelic, English
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Genre: Celtic Folk
CD reissue: 1990
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.clannad.ie/

Bread, Love and Dreams - Bread, Love and Dreams (1969)

"1969 debut, released by London in the US and Decca elsewhere, from this UK folk trio with two female vocalists [Angie Rew, Carolyn Davis]. Surreal, flower-power lyrics and simple melodies are highlighted by delicate instrumentation and occasional string arrangements. The group would go on to release two further albums and band member David McNiven also helped out label mates The Human Beast by contributing lyrics to their Volume One LP."

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Language: English
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Genre: Psychedelic Folk
CD reissue: 2001
Quality: 192 Kbps
Non-official website: http://www.myspace.com/breadlovefolk

Anekdoten - Vemod (1993)

"Anekdoten is the most famous example of the new Scandinavian School. This trend mixes dark and gloomy influences with an extreme energy a bit in the way of King Crimson on "Red" or Univers Zero. The orchestration includes Mellotron and cello (All performed by the pretty vocalist Anna Sofi Dahlberg!) and allows to turn in one second from a vaporous atmosphere to the paroxysm of frenzy." (Musea Records review)

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Language: English
Runtime: 56:58
Genre: Heavy Prog Rock
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.anekdoten.se/
http://www.myspace.com/anekdoten
http://www.myspace.com/annasofidahlberg

The 3rd and the Mortal - In This Room (1997)

Originally starting with doom metal now they have evoluted to an experimental and ecletic rock band. The music is still influencied by electronic, dark wave and prog rock . The vocals are leaded by Ann-Mari Edvardsen.

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Language: English
Runtime: 53:13
Genre: Atmospheric Rock
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.mortal.info/

Seven Reizh - Strinkadenn Ys (2001)

This is actually the first line-up from Brittany to record a rock-opera in their original language. Strinkadenn' Ys is the name of this trip of initiation that recalls the Enora pilgrimages, in a quest for their own identity. The music is an original blend of Symphonic Progressive and Gothic Rock with the elements of Celtic music. The vocals are leaded by Bleunwenn Mevel.

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Language: French Breton
Runtime: 76:53
Genre: Symphonic/Folk Rock
Quality: 320 Kbps
Official website: http://www.seven-reizh.com/

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Ruthann Friedman - Constant Companion (1969)

Ruthann Friedman is best known as the composer of the Association's biggest hit "Windy." Her music is folk music with complex melodies and jazzy tendencies. Very cool!!


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Language: English
Runtime: 39:46
Genre: Folk
CD reissue: 2006
Quality: 160 Kbps
Official website: http://ruthannfriedman.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ruthannfriedmanmusic

The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes (2006)

"The Pipettes were formed in mid-2003 by singer-songwriter and promoter Monster Bobby with the intention of reviving the Phil Spector pop sound and giving it a modern twist,[2] after noticing the reaction girl group songs got during his DJ sets."

Line-up:
RiotBecki [Rebecca Stephens] (vocals)
Rosay [Rose Dougall] (vocals, keyboards)
Gwenno (Saunders) (vocals)

"Pull Shapes" video:


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Language: English
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Genre: Retro Pop
Quality: 192-320 Kbps
Official website: http://www.thepipettes.co.uk/

http://www.myspace.com/thepipettes

News From Babel - Sirens and Silences/Work Resumed on the Tower (1983) / Letters Home (1985)

"News From Babel were a studio project that combined the talents of woodwin player Lindsay Cooper (Henry Cow), American harpist Zeena Parkins, and drummer Chris Cutler as well as vocalist Dagmar Krause (both from Art Bears). Very much in the RIO tradition, both albums are filled with energetic and playful cacophony, unusual chord progressions, odd-time signatures (where drummer Cutler's distinctive style shines), vocal squeals and shrieks, but also unexpected sensuous and fluid passages that take on chamber music-like tones, all nicely complemented by Zeena Parkin’s harp." (See also Slapp Happy and I.D. Company)

Basic information:
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Language: English
Runtime: 70:12
Genre: RIO (Rock in Opposition)
CD reissue: 1995
Quality: 256-320 Kbps
Official website: NA

Mourning Phase - Mourning Phase (1971)

"The Mourning Phase demo-LP was discovered in 1992 and later sold for a 4-figure sum to a 'collector'. It appeared to be a test pressing, dated 1971, with a hand-made cover. Lyrically interesting, the densely layered acoustic/electric music seems merely to serve as a vehicle for the love/hate relationship of, speculatively, the male and female vocalists. Cynical, misanthropic, (with and occasional cello), and a cover based on an impressionist painting. Mourning Phase is surely the archetypal home-made art-student LP"

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Language: English
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Genre: British Folk
CD reissue: 2002
Quality: 320 Kbps
Official website: NA

Landmarq - Science of Coincidence (1998)

"Produced by Clive Nolan, Landmarq plays an elaborated and melodious neo Progressive rock, more ambitious than its contemporaries and colleagues from Clive Nolan. It evokes Camel's most commercial period, Pink Floyd for the superproduction as well as Genesis and some 'soft-hard Progressive rock' bands for the impact of the melodies." (Musea Records review)

This is the fourth Landmarq's album but the first with female vocals. The vocalist Tracy Hitchings has prolific career in prog rock scene performing in other groups like Strangers in a Train and Quasar.

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Language: English
Runtime: 63:14
Genre: Neo Prog Rock
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.landmarq.net/

http://www.myspace.com/landmarq

Kathi McDonald - Insane Asylum (1974)

Kathi McDonald was one of the friends recruited by Big Brother & the Holding Company to perform on their two post-Joplin releases. This album has blues in the veins produced by Pete Sears and featured by John Cipollina, Nils Lofgren, Papa John Creach, Neal Schon (Journey) and others. Highly recommended.

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Language: English
Runtime: 36:30
Genre: Blues Rock
CD reissue: 2004
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.kathimcdonald.com/

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Julian's Treatment - A Time Before This (1970)

The album is a sci-fi concept album involving the destuction of the Earth . Musically, it's late a 60's prog rock with great spacy organ and a cosmic feel to the whole album and Cathy Pruden's great vocals. The CD reissue (A Time Before This... Plus (1970-73)) includes bonus tracks of recordings from 1973. A second album was recorded by the group leader Julian Jay Savarin.

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Language: English
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Genre: Prog/Space Rock
CD reissue: 2002
Quality: 320 Kbps
Official website: NA

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Gillian McPherson - Poets and Painters and Performers of Blues (1971)

"[She] throws it all in - folk, jazz, country, blues and rock. The result is original, powerful and exciting. Whether performing solo with clear ringing vocals or leading a power hungry band, her music is always biting, subtle and emotive."

Now she is known as Gillie Mc Pherson.

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk Rock
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Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: http://www.gilliemusic.com/

Eva Cassidy - Eva by Heart (1998)

The tracks were recorded in the studio over a period of several years. This album was released posthumously by Eva's family. The songs varies among styls as folk (mainly), jazz, gospel and blues.

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Language: English
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Genre: Folk/Jazz
Quality: 224 Kbps
Official website: http://www.evacassidy.com

Carmen Maki & Blues Creation - Carmen Maki & Blues Creation (1971)

"Reissue of rare as hell 1971 heavy rock guitar monster from Japan with the beautiful Carmen Maki doing her best Grace Slick impression. Don't go thinking that "Demon and Eleven Children" is the only heavy album from these guys! This is every bit just as essential. I swear, this thing has some brutal non-stop wailing guitar! It also has some sweet mellow bluesy psychedelic rock numbers too, but it's all top notch."

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Language: Japanese
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Genre: Hard Rock
CD reissue: 2003
Quality: 256 Kbps
Official website: NA

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Brandywine Bridge - The Grey Lady (1977)

Mid 70s UK folk played on on treble recorder, mandolin, guitar, banjo, fiddle, whistle, concertina, handdrum, bodhran etc. This three piece trad folk band at no time gives up its distinctly British musical flavour and the end results are beautifully memorable. Vocals are leaded by Sheila Hague.

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Language: English
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Genre: British Folk
CD reissue: 2004
Quality: 192 Kbps
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Arrakeen - Mosaïque (1992)

The album is an eight-track collection of accessible neo-prog tunes. The album has a significantly longer running time. Layered vocals provide an extra special texture. The band plays in full splendour with guitar- and keyboard-based instrumentals effectively complimenting Maïko's stunning vocal parts.

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Language: English, French
Runtime: 50:44
Genre: Neo Prog Rock
Quality: 192 Kbps
Official website: NA

Zephyr - Zephyr (1969)

Band formed in 1968 by Tommy Bolin, later famous for been member of Deep Purple. He replaced Ritchie Blackmore during 1975-76 and recorded Come Taste the Band album. The music is a bluesy hard rock with a really powerful vocals of Candy Givens. Highly recommended.

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Language: English
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Genre: Blues Hard Rock
CD reissue: 1990
Quality: 128 Kbps
Tommy Bolin's website: http://www.tbolin.com/history/zephyr.html