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Archive for April, 2007

The delectably psychedelic Circulatory System have been recording their sophomore album for the past 6 years. The last time I contacted their label about a release date for their upcoming album in 2006, it was supposed to be coming out that spring. However, after e-mailing Cloud Nine, they simply replaced the 6 with a [...]

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Vashti Bunyan has announced that she will be playing at the upcoming Syd Barrett tribute concert, Madcap’s Last Laugh, on May 10th. The evening will pay homage to the pioneering psychedelic artist whose music has influenced so many artists since. Madcap’s Last Laugh was organized by Joe Boyd, both Barrett’s first producer and more recently [...]

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Video Naturalismo

Adem – Launch yourself

Tropical percussion and lyrics about space, what more could you ask for? Such a killer track, so catchy. The video is a little cliche’, but somehow it works. I never saw this clip when it first came out.

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The ‘Pac of folk, Nick Drake, will posthumously release an album comprised of unreleased tracks recorded before his debut album, Fire leaves Left. Slated for release on June 19th, Family Tree brings together a collection of rare Nick Drake material that was culled from old reel-to-reel tapes. Family Tree sees Drake performing a duet [...]

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Peter and the Wolf have recorded a brief set with the always intriguing Daytrotter at Studio one. Included in their new recording are two unreleased songs named “Where Summer Goes” and “The Fall.” To listen to the songs and get a preview of the bands upcoming Sunchasers album head over to Daytrotter. [...]

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Joanna Newsom’s new EP, Joanna Newsom and the Y’s street band, is due for release on April 24th. While the Y’s Street Band sees Joanna continuing her lavish baroque folk on one third of the new EP, the other songs mark a slight return to the sound of her more personal and minimal [...]

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Video Naturalismo

First up is the preview for the Rocky Erickson documentary You’re gonna miss me which covers his drug dependency, family and music life after his time spent fronting the legendary 13th Floor Elevators.

More information here: You’re gonna miss me
Second, Devendra Banhart shares some of his favorite albums:
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Woods – At Rear House

This record has been growing on me quite a bit and I thought I would share it with my readers who haven’t heard them yet. Woods consists of two core members Jeremy Earl and Christian DeRoeck, with a rotating assembly of other contributors they call Woodsists. Earl is the founder of Fuckittapes, which [...]

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ARTHUR MAGAZINE LIVES

LONG LIVE ARTHUR MAGAZINE!

 
Forgive me for keeping mum about the status of Arthur magazine, as I preferred to stay optimistic in the wake of its apparent demise. It’s now official that Arthur Magazine is on the path for resurrection. Arthur editor, Jay Babcock now has his baby safely back in his hands thanks to a [...]

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Charles Manson, known more so for his murderous direction of his followers, than for his musical career and connection to The Beach Boys Dennis Wilson. What finer a day than Friday the 13th to put on your favorite Manson Family album? Today I have two tracks from his now infamous demo tape recorded in [...]

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Video Naturalismo – Ira Cohen

Ira Cohen’s psychedelic masterpiece“The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda,” will see release on June 1 thanks to Arthur Magazine. “The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda” will be a full Directors cut DVD with commentary by Ira Cohen, an alternative soundtrack by sunburned hand of the man, and a film short compiled from unused footage from Invasion. [...]

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I-doser gets you high off music.. literally

 

When was the last time you visited a blog and it got you high? Or how about made you trip? Afraid that opium pipe might tip off your boss at work? A Naturalismo Blog first.. Well now you can discretely trick the brain into thinking that it has taken a dose of any of [...]

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Mr. Cognomen man himself James Jackson Toth of Wooden Wand has changed names once again to become WWVV in proparation for the release of his new album James & the Quiet. This is all old news though as I caught wind this morning that the name changery has yet to cease and James Jackson has [...]

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Citay…

 

(c)Alissa Anderson
…In case you missed their release here’s a second chance to get acquainted. I originally planned to only post up to date and future developments in the Naturalismo music scene but I’ve realized that there’s so many bands who are overlooked that I must cover everything. Citay is difficult to classify, a common theme [...]

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A few months ago, I was wishing that the Department of Eagles would get into the studio and record the follow up album to their awe-inspiring Whitey on the Moon LP. With no updates or new material in sight and Daniel on tour with grizzly bear, I had given up all hope that [...]

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Woods
– Don’t Pass On Me

These guys are amazing and really deserve an entire post. I’m waiting for their album At Rear House to come so stay tuned for more tracks and information from them. For now you can go to their myspace and stream some of their songs.
Visit: Woods [...]

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Karen Dalton – In my own time

The overwhelmingly positive reception of the Yo Si Oigo | Devendra Banhart’s Influences compilation has been amazing and I love getting all of your e-mails. I think the best thing to come out of it are the responses saying that they hadn’t yet heard one of the artists on it and now can’t wait to [...]

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UPDATE(5-24-2007): See ‘Smokey’ becomes Vasu deva kutumbam (click here)

 
 

“recordin’ by Bean Raymon”
While there’s no aural or written updates about Devendra Banhart’s new ‘Smokey’ album, due for release in the third week of August, there is a new visual update from the recording of the album. I found these new photos on Devendra’s website this morning [...]

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