Matt Berry - Like Stone (Moon Duo Remix)

Nature abhors a vacuum. The dust hadn’t even settled on Matt Berry’s acclaimed 2020 album Phantom Birds and yet he was already hatching plans for a follow up. More accurately, he’d recorded most of "The Blue Elephant" before "Phantom Birds" had even been released.

“When I was having to talk about "Phantom Birds" to people my mind was already on the next album which was half finished,” recalls Berry. “I wanted this album to be a reaction to the last. With "Phantom Birds" I’d stripped everything back to basics and put my voice very much to the front. It was a song-driven endeavor with very little coming out of the speakers. With The Blue Elephant I was eager to go in the opposite direction.”

On records such as 2018’s tremendous "Television Themes", Berry has shown his skill for drilling down into one idea over the course of an album but "The Blue Elephant" is perhaps the first time he’s pulled all of the different strands from across his recording careers into one record. Perhaps not coincidentally, the release also marks ten years since he signed to Acid Jazz and began the diverse career that has continually run parallel with his acting and writing.

From rerecording 70s television themes to a pared-back Dylan-styled set of confessionals to this – arguably the culmination of all his recording work to date – trusting Matt Berry to follow whatever direction he fancies is a policy that has paid off in spades.

Following the acclaim of Matt Berry’s eighth studio album "The Blue Elephant", on 18th June Acid Jazz will release a remix by San Franciscan psychedelic outfit, MOON DUO.

In keeping with "The Blue Elephant" disorientation, MOON DUO have crafted a remix of one of the album’s standout tracks, "Like Stone" (“a cosmic jazz scorcher” – The Times). Slowing the original track down, the duo has applied their distinctive brand of west coast psych, making it the perfect accompaniment to a spaced-out and trippy summer day.

Today's tune "Like Stone" is taken from the album the "The Blue Elephant", which is rooted in psychedelia. Featuring a breadth of styles and musical ideas throughout, it takes the listener on a dizzying trip through an idiosyncratically British love of Psych, Freakbeat, Acid Rock and late ‘60s pop, enjoy!



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Black Elephant - Seven Swords

Monday, a new week and it's time for another "Record Of The Week".

The planets have aligned, and space itself has opened up to grace us with the heavy roll of BLACK ELEPHANT's "Seven Swords".

The Italian four-piece fuzzmongers mark 10 years of cooperative corporeal existence in 2020 and last checked in from their native Savona in Summer 2018 with the aptly-titled "Cosmic Blues", read about it here! and two years and an entire lifetime later they're back with the second collection of classic-minded heavy groovers, picking the best the '70s, '90s and '10s had to offer in riffery and melding spacey blowouts with desert-hued hooks.

"Seven Swords" is a well made album, the production is really nice, perfectly of the fatness is the bass line and the drums and the fuzziness and a glorious scream in the guitars makes the music very enjoable.

From the solid album opener "Berta’s Flame" that takes your hand with a firm grip, throws you into a cosmic universe that you float around in and feel the rythms tickles your body and you almost lose consciousness until "The Last March Of Yokozuna" takes over with it's gentle guitar which caresses your senses so incredibly beautifully. The heaviness is back when it's time to gear up in "Yayoi Kusama", fuzzy distorted guitar and the Italian vocals sets a great touch on this number. It's wandering further on half pace in "Mihara" with some attacks of melodic and stylish guitars. "Red Sun And Blues Sun" increases the pace a few steps. The blusey rocker "Seppuku" gives the record another face, cool. The near-nine-minute album closer "Govinda" ends this thirty four minutes cosmic trip. "Seven Swords" is a great fuzzy psychedelic rock album that suits all Heavy rockers out there.

Sum: Ready for some cosmic fuzz, then "Seven Swords" it is entirely in your home area.

"Seven Swords" was released August 21, 2020 on Small Stone Records. Recorded and mixed by Giulio Farinelli. Recorded at Green Fog Studio, Genoa, Italy. Mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio Labs, Ann Arbor, MI. Cover and Design by Robin Gnista.

BLACK ELEPHANT is:

Alessio Caravelli: guitar and vocals

Massimiliano Giacosa: guitar

Marcello Destefanis: bass

Simone Brunzu: drums 

Today's tune "Berta's Flame" is taken from "Seven Swords", enjoy!



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Arteaga - Espejo Roto

Bad Acid Session (​(​(​Live Bootleg​)​)​), is a live recording by the acid rock from southhell ARTEAGA, the acid Chilean beast that has been committing covens on the southern stages of the American continent for years.

ARTEAGA published a bootleg called "Bad Acid Session", a material consisting of seven songs captured directly from the audio speakers during a presentation on March 22, 2019 at the Mi Bar in Santiago, Chile.

ARTEAGA are:

Francisco Gonzalez (Bass / Vocals)

Domingo Lovera (Drums)

Sebastián Morales (Guitar)

Today's tune "Espejo Roto" (Broken Mirror) taken from "Bad Acid Session (​(​(​Live Bootleg​)​)​)" originally released on the album "Necromance", enjoy!



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Space Coke - L' Appel Du Vide

If the amp don't smoke, it ain't Space Coke

SPACE COKE is a psychedelic sludge from Columbia, SC. The first full length "L' Appel Du Vide". was released on December 7, 2018.

Fat and meaty riffing along with a psychedelic swing create a joyful time along with these dudes.

SPACE COKE consists of:
Reno El Cheapo Gooch: Guitar and Vocals
Jay Matheson: Bass
Brandon Johnson: Drums
Moses Andrews III: Organ

Today's tune is the title track from the bands debut "L' Appel Du Vide", enjoy!



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