Yes, that Purple Haze, the Jimi Hendrix cover. The Art Ensemble of Chicago give it a funky brass arrangement.
Psychedelic
[Music] Andrew Liles & Jean-Hervé Péron – The Fly On The Windowsill Is Dead
Andrew Liles and Jean-Hervé Péron (formerly of Faust) make quite an impressive, Krauty pair, don’t they?
[Music] Nekropolis – Musik Aus Dem Schattenreich (1979)
Musik Aus Dem Schattenreich is an avant-progressive masterpiece by German electronic music composer Peter Fröhmader’s band Nekropolis.
[Music/Theater] Libaaxyada Maaweeliska Banaadir – Naga Tag, Kac Hooyaa (Get Lost! Rise Up! Got It?)
Another treasure from Reddit, it turns out that Libaaxyada Maaweeliska Banaadir (Banaadir Entertainment Lions) was a theater group from Mogadishu who mixed talented veterans with burgeoning new talent from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, before everything went to Hell.
For more on the story of Libaaxyada Maaweeliska Banaadir, check out this blog post from Likembe.
[Music] Bango – Hell the World (Inferno No Mundo)
This came as a nice surprise while checking out some fuzz-laden garage tracks on Reddit today. As it turns out, Bango also have this available via Bandcamp.
[Music] David Bowie – My Death (Live)
David Bowie left the world on top with his magnificent swan song, ★ (Blackstar). This live song seems terribly appropriate for today.
[Music] Music legend David Bowie dies
I truly wish this was a hoax, but alas, Ziggy Stardust has left us for better shores.
[Music] Marty Willson-Piper – The Sniper
Marty Willson-Piper is the former guitarist of The Church. Though I’m bummed he left the band, he’s still making some rather solid music these days.
[Music] Syd Barrett: the genius who almost was – a classic profile by Nick Kent
I’ll be the first to admit that I loathed Pink Floyd’s work after The Dark Side Of The Moon, and up until their rather charming final album, The Endless River. Syd Barrett, to many die-hards, was the heart and soul of the band. Nick Kent profiles the man over at The Guardian.
[Music] The Rugbys – Wendenghal (The Warlocks)
Hot, heavy psych from The Rugbys, a group of whom I have absolutely no information, but must say I find amazing.
UPDATE: It looks like they were an American band from Louisville, Kentucky. What a shame that they didn’t release more music. They mastered psych and should rightly be considered proto-metal. As a bit of trivia, some groups from Peru like The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter and Belgium’s Climax covered their big hit, You, I.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 