Here’s a record I saw decently priced at the WFMU Record Fair but wasn’t ready to pounce on. I remember reading about a dark folk record with a big Leonard Cohen influence,…
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Jackie-O Motherfucker – Flat Fixed
Released on Imp in 1998 in an edition of 300 copies, the double album Flat Fixed is much more complex than the band’s first two albums Alchemy/Shit To Gold and Cross Pollinate.…
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Vodka Soap – Un Chand Pyramidelier
I guess if this website can copy/distribute my live photography of Vodka Soap, I can copy its description of Un Chand Pyramidelier: For the past week or so I’ve been falling to…
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Bong – Bethmoora
Word from New Jersey is that the doctors might move my father out of Intensive Care today. This is very good news. I’m happy to see that maybe the worst part of…
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John Villemonte – People Like You
“There were only 200 of these pressed, according to the artist. Gorgeous 1977 pastoral melodic folk psych private pressing from Madison, WI. Song “I Am The Moonlight†is a completely arresting, haunted…
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Sonfolk – Sonfolk (1971) [Private]
Lovingly donated by Viagra Falls “…Side 2 is where the real surprises come in. “Stand” (the Sly and The Family Stone hit) charges forth with a crude driving fuzzed riff, ending with…
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Charlie Lochner – Winter In My Life
This is a very pretty, very obscure (it’s not even mentioned in the Lysergia/Acid Archives book) folk album from a songwriter who lived in Cheshire, Connecticut. It was released in 1976, and…
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Jack Intveld – I’ll Sing Of Life
“Yes-influenced basement progressive from high school kid multi-instrumentalist?” Um…yes!? Thanks to Swan Fungus reader “Viagra Falls” for this contribution. Today completes our week-long foray into the world of private press releases. We…
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Eddie Callahan – False Ego (Ocean, 1976)
Who is Eddie Callahan, and why are collectors paying ridiculous sums of money for his album, False Ego! That is the question which we will debate tonight here at Swan Fungus. And…
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KC Humphrey – For A Smile (Milliken Sound Service, 1975)
I hope that you are enjoying this week-long exploration of some rare, private press recordings. Reader “Viagra Falls” was kind enough to send over a gigabyte of albums for me to enjoy,…