Crystal Syphon – ‘Family Evil’/’Elephant Ball’ (Gear Fab Records 2021)
Unless you were going to gigs around the San Francisco Bay Area back in the late sixties, you would probably have no clue who Crystal Syphon was. During...
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Haré Rama Haré Krishna: Celebrating the 50-Year Anniversary of a Classic Bollywood Film
2021 marks the 50-year anniversary of 'Haré Rama Haré Krishna', a classic Bollywood film that has a significant place in the history of Hindi cinema. There are three...
Iron Butterfly – ‘Unconscious Power: An Anthology 1967-1971’ (2020)
Late 1960’s San Diego based psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly is best remembered for the 17 minute title track to their second LP 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' which occupied the entire...
Yusuf / Cat Stevens – ‘Mona Bone Jakon’ and ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ 50th-anniversary boxsets reissues
Ever since the 50th anniversary of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by the Beatles in 2017, record companies have been undertaking massive reissue projects of albums marking...
Diagonal – ‘Diagonal’ (2021)
This Chicago quintet’s debut full length follows on from several singles (included here) that have seen their post-punk sound morph into a more psychedelic, krautrock-influenced groove. ‘Anticipation’ slides...
Dreamweapon – ‘Rites Of Lunacy’ (2021)
The prolific psychedelic improvisational band from Portugal (this was just one of four albums originally self-released last year alone), 'Rites Of Lunacy' is their self-confessed “lost album”, recorded...
Adam Stone Dead Sea Apes Black Tempest – ‘Dataland’ (2021)
As the world continues to dig itself out of the increasingly oppressive doldrums brought on by the COVID-19 virus, this trio of favourites collaborated over the internet to...
Various Artists – ‘Psychedelic States: The Dakotas In The ’60s’
For the past twenty-odd years, the Gear Fab label has been making our lives brighter by reprising cool and obscure albums from the late sixties and early seventies....
The Chemistry Set – ‘Paint Me A Dream’ / ‘The Witch’ (2021)
Be sure to circle January 29th in your datebook, because that is the day the Chemistry Set unveils a brand new single. Active since the late eighties, the...
From The Vault: Ultimate Spinach – ‘Behold & See’ (1968)
Obviously the hit from this album is 'Mind Flowers' by the wasted Ultimate Spinach, a drug bathed band from Boston who came into being in 1967, at the...