Kosmik Radiation Radio - September 13, 2016 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Red Crayola "The Parable of Arable Land" 1967 (USA)

The debut album by The Red Crayola was released on the reknowned Texican label International Artists (founded by Kenny Rogers' brother!), which was most famous as the home of 13th Floor Elevators (and also one-hit nugget wonders The Bubble Puppy - though the IA label actually only ever released 12 LPs in 5 years!) The Elevators had set new highs in American psych-rock, but Parable was probably the most psychedelic album released anywhere in 1967. A half dozen "songs" with very little structure are interspersed with "free-form freakouts" (probably to pad out the fact they barely had six songs). Roky Erikson plays organ on one track: he sounds like Sun Ra missing nine of his fingers. When the Crayola played live, they just made horrible electronic noise until someone would unplug them. Amazingly, the group made like a dozen more records over the next several decades (under the revised name The Red "Krayola" for legal reasons, with their most recent release in 2010) - although leader Mayo Thompson has been the only consistent member. Their second album Coconut Hotel was recorded in 1967 but went unreleased until 1995: it makes Parable sound like Sgt. Pepper, but is also a pioneering work in the "ambient drone" style (nothing on the album sounds like a melody or even an instrument). However by the 1990's, the version of Krayola releasing albums on the indie rock label Drag City (home of Royal Trux) included some "actual" musicians and began to approach something related to rock. Arguably, that makes this the longest-running underground band in America.

(N) = New Release

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
The Amboy Dukes	Night Time	The Amboy Dukes	1967	USA
The Strawberry Alarmclock	Lose To Live	Incense and Peppermints	1967	USA
Arjen Anthony Lucassen	Flowers In The Rain (The Move)	Strange Hobby (N)	2016 (Cherry Red)	Netherlands
Fire In The Field	Eyes	Look So Strange EP (N)	2016 (self release)	USA
Of Montreal	Gratuitous Abysses	Innocence Reaches (N)	2016 (Create Control)	USA

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	I'm Still Here	Miss Sharon Jones! (N - movie soundtrack)	2016 (Daptone)	USA
The Love Dimension	Get Real Wild	Freakquency Space Mind Continuum EP (N)	2016 (Diamond Heart)	USA
Sonny & The Sunsets	Nightmares	Moods Baby Moods (N)	2016 (Polyvinyl)	USA
The Walking Faces	Endless Highway	The Invisible Planet (N)	2016 (Cosmic Primitive)	USA
Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve	Creation	The Soft Bounce (N)	2016 (Phantasy Sound)	UK
Robert Bensick Band	Payphone Meter Lover	French Pictures In London (N)	rec. 1975 (2016 Smog Veil)	USA

Boredoms	(two circles) / (up arrow)	Vision Creation New Sun	2001	Japan

The Red Crayola	Free Form Freak-Out / Hurricane Fighter Plane	The Parable Of Arable Land CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1967	USA
The Red Crayola	Free Form Freak-Out / Pink Stainless Tail	The Parable Of Arable Land CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1967	USA
The Red Crayola	Free Form Freak-Out / War Sucks	The Parable Of Arable Land CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1967	USA
13th Floor Elevators	Dr. Doom	Bull Of The Woods	1968	USA
The Red Krayola	I Knew It	The Red Krayola	1994	USA

Ranch Ghost	Black Caboose	Lookin (N)	2016 (Rough Beast)	USA
The Mystery Lights	Intro / Follow Me Home	The Mystery Lights (N)	2016 (Wick)	USA
Essential Tremors	Death Perception	The Visitor EP (N)	2016 (Third Man)	USA
Synthetic ID	Note For Note	Impulses (N)	2016 (Castle Face)	USA
Children of Leir	Hate	Children of Leir (self-titled third album - N)	2016 (self release)	UK
Flamingods	Gojira	Majesty (N)	2016 (Soundway)	Bahrain/UK

Tunde Adebimpe, Lee Ranaldo & Friends	Playing In The Band (Grateful Dead)	Day Of The Dead (N - various artists box set)	2016 (4AD)	USA
The Flaming Lips	Dark Star (Grateful Dead)	Day Of The Dead (N - various artists box set)	2016 (4AD)	USA
Tim Hecker	Transitive Refraction Axis For John Oswald	Day Of The Dead (N - various artists box set)	2016 (4AD)	Canada
Man Forever, So Percussion & Oneida	Drums --> Space (Grateful Dead)	Day Of The Dead (N - various artists box set)	2016 (4AD)	USA

New Madrid	Guay Lo	magnetkingmagnetqueen (N)	2016 (Normaltown)	USA