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SACROS - Same, Chile 1973 (SHADOKS 098)
LP 450 numbered / glossy heavy sleeve / 180 gram pressing, insert
Sacros ('The Sacred') was a Chilean rock band inspired by the spiritual passion and veneration for the great gods of South America, such as Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, god of the ancient Mayas and Viracocha, Lord of Tiahuanaku in the Andes mountains. Sacros recorded the debut LP on the state label IRT and the production was destroyed by the militaries. Only very few copies survived from destruction.
The music goes in the same direction as Los Jaivas, Los Blops and El Congreso (all from Chile) and Lula Cortez from Brazil.
It has a great 12 string Rickenbacker sounds, effects, great vocals and rhythms with an experimental touch.
You can call this easy one of the rarest albums from Latin America since only a handful of copies survived.
Patricio Panussis (guitar & vocals) Hernan Valdovinos (bass & vocals) and Tomas R. Herrera (percussion).
The band recorded only this one album in 1973.
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JW FARQUHAR - The Formal Female, USA 1972 (SHADOKS 099)
LP 450 numbered / glossy heavy sleeve / 180 gram pressing
All tracks where recorded by JW Jarquhar in 1972. The songs on THE FORMAL FEMALE were written as an outcry against the materialistic nature of the woman during that time period in 1972. Many will tell you it is still that way. JW had recently extricated himself from a 10 year marriage and the words from this experience fit the lyrics on the album still. During that time he lived by himself in a 3rd floor apartment in Philadelphia. It was a street with a lot of traffic. Car horns, busses, police sirens, fire engines, screams, and sometimes even gunshots filled the airwaves. For this reason he sealed up the windows and any other openings with sound proofing foam. This was necessary because his music was recorded in there.
JW was the instrumentalist; rhythm guitar, lead guitar, drums, vocals, and bass. However he could not play them all at once, so he purchased a four track simulsync Teac recorder...professional version. This allowed him to record on one track and then play it back and separately record on a second, third, and fourth track. The original tracks were recorded at 15 IPS. A final mix was then made in stereo with yet a fifth overdub, when needed. At that time other effects were limited.
It is amazing electric fuzz album full of effects and it's an masterpiece such as DR. Hooker. Extra heavy psychedelic.
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MORNING AFTER - Blue Blood, UK 1971 (SHADOKS 103)
LP 450 numbered / glossy heavy sleeve / engraved artwork / 180 gram pressing
Here we have a completely unknown album from England from 1971. Morning After recorded this LP as a demo only to acquire a record deal (as so many bands did in the late 60´s early 70s). So the album was pressed only in tiny amounts. The recording was with home studio equipment. Some of the tracks on the album sound like Blues Rock from the late Fleetwood Mac and some have a more progressive touch such as Shuttah. Great & heavy guitar work, fuzz and wah-wah all over the album, snotty vocals, all own great compositions. The album title Blue Blood assumed a noble wealthy family and a member of the establishment, but the music and lyrics are just the opposite. The music on this album is pure British Underground, electrifying, pure and raw, no Sgt. Pepper sing a long tunes. Just superb! 
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LP + CD
LOVE, PEACE & POETRY - Chilean Psychedelic Music (QDK-MEDIA 049)
LP glossy gatefold heavy sleeve /180 gram pressing TRANSPARENT RED VINYL, 62 minutes
CD jewelcase with booklet, 62 minutes
In 1973 the dictatorship in Chile banned most rock bands and most musicians had to stop or leave the country, the other bands had to play in underground. The dangers of being a rock musician in Chile during this period were very real. The ban extended to the retroactive destruction of many master tapes for many of the albums included here, which has changed beginning of the 1980´s.
 With the following bands:
Kissing Spell with “Yellow Moon” taken from their 1970 album Los Pajaros. Embrujo (or simply “Spell”) and releasing a self-titled LP in 1971 from which track #9 here, “Canto Sin Nombre” is taken. Los Jaivas ("Little Crabs") debut LP was pressed privately in 1971 in a small edition of 500 copies. The second track on this collection, “Foto De Primery Comunion” is taken from that LP. Los Vidrios Quebrados (“Broken Glass”) recorded their album Fictions on the independent label Ues Producciones in three nights of 1967. One of the real masterpieces of South American psychedelia, the jangle-pop Byrds-like quality comes through clearly here in the track “La Primavera De Miss L.O'B.” Aguaturbia formed in 1968, are pioneers of psychedelic rock in Latin America, they also generated considerable controversy in Chile over their album covers. Pushing both buttons of sex and religion, Aguaturbia’s 1969 debut LP featured the band members naked on the cover, while the second album caused an even larger outcry because it featured the lead vocalist, Denise Corales, being crucified on the front in an homage to Salvador Dali’s painting "Christ of Saint John of the Cross." Both rare LPs represented here by “Erótica” (track #4 from the 1st LP) and “I Wonder Who” (track #11 from the 2nd). Los Blops recorded and released three now very rare and very sought LPs between 1970 and 1973. All three albums are sampled, in order, here on tracks 5, 8, and 13. Track #6 is “La Realidad” by Sacros. Forming in 1968 when the members were all students and focused on the sound of their guitarist’s electric 12-string guitar (an unusual instrument in Chile at the time). Sacros were among the first electric folk-rock bands to perform during Catholic mass. They are represented here with a track from their very rare 1973 self-titled LP. This production was almost destroyed by the militaries and only a handful of copies survived. Los Macs’ 1967 masterwork, Kaleidoscope Men, is rightfully considered by many collectors one of the finest examples of 60s psychedelia from South America with original copies impossibly rare. “La Muerte De Mi Hermano” is taken from that album. Los Beat 4 was one of the most successful groups of the national scene in the mid-sixties. Both of their rare LPs are represented here by “Pobre Gato” (track #10 from their 1967 2nd LP) and “Civilizacion” (track #15 from their 1968 3rd LP). They sang in Spanish only, because they wanted the youth listen to their lyrics about psychedelic, existentialism, drugs, youth rebellion, love and peace. Tumulto was respected for being non-commercial and maintained the spirit of rock for over 30 years. Taken from that rare debut album, “Tu Yo Y Nuestro Amor”. Escombros released their sole LP in 1970 on Chile’s Arena label. From their self-titled LP the song “Magnetism” is offered here. A gem in the psychedelic progressive folk style, Congregación released their sole LP on the IRT label in 1972. “Cuantos Que No Tienen Y Merecen” is taken from that rare LP, Viene. El Congresso’s sound is the result of a unique blend of contemporary elemets with those of its Andean roots. “Asi Seras” is taken from their eponymous first LP from 1971.
Across these seventeen tracks culled from some of the lost treasures of the psychedelic music scene of the seven years period of 1967 to 1973 you can begin to get a picture of the unique quality of Chilean psychedelic music, produced during a time of great cultural change and social turmoil.
CD
RAYNE - Same, USA 1979 (SHADOKS 089)
CD jewelcase with 4 page booklet
Frank Saucier and his 3 brothers formed Rayne in 1977, located in the New Orleans suburbia. They have recorded the album with good home equipment with no overdubs. The original album (the black album as they called it) was only pressed 300 times and during a moment of frustration they took a box of the album and shot them with a shotgun. So not many left to sell. The music is first class psych rock, strong compositions, great guitars & vocals, just everything right, something you would expect from a band located in New Orleans. Southern spirit and the tough guys don't dance thing, they play music instead.
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BLUES ADDICTS - Same, DENMARK 1970 (SHADOKS 093)
CD jewelcase with 8 page booklet with rare interview
There where only 4 good and rare albums on the Danish Spectator label: Terje, Jesper & Joachim (Shadoks release), Moses (we are still working on a deal), Days (Shadoks release) and the rarest of them all BLUES ADDICTS. What a guitar work this is. Ivan Horn really kicks ass with his extra heavy guitar. As good as the heavy CREAM songs, in parts as creative as JIMI HENDRIX. The musical range and the guitar style is as good as the best early ERIC CLAPTON work with the far out techniques of Jimi Hendrix. All own composition, long tracks, extra heavy guitar, English vocals & heavy drum sounds. Ivan Horn: guitars, vocals & kazzo, Mich Brink: bass, Gibber Thomsen: vocals & congas, Henning Aasbjerg: drums. If Spectator would have kept rock music their musical style instead of switching to Jazz, those 4 bands would have been successful on the international rock circus.
CD
DAYS - Same, Denmark 1970 (SHADOKS 096)
CD jewelcase with 8 page booklet
The Danish group ”Days” was formed in Copenhagen in the winter 1967/68 by Peter Lindhe (drums), John Kjaergaard (vocals/rhythmguitar), Ole Fester (vocals/bass) and Lars Reinau (vocals/leadguitar). The band’s repertoire was mainly rock and blues oriented with cover versions of songs from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Rolling Stones. During 1968/69 Peter Lindhe and Lars Reinau started writing original material to the band and the repertoire started changing from rock/blues cover versions to self composed more lyrical songs with elements of Beatles, Procol Harum and (early)Deep Purple. In 1969 Jørn Anker (Hammond organ) joined the band and he too started contributing new original songs to the band. The Days LP was recorded in the early summer of 1970 and in 1971 the band split up. Days is one the the rarest albums from Denmark which also came out on Spectator (Blues Addicts, Terje Jesper & Joachim, Moses). It is full of amazing prog tunes which great organ elements and strong fuzz guitar. A killer album from beginning to end.