Saturday 16 March 2024

Jill Cislaghi - Friends of Mine (Very rare 1977 US Folk masterpiece released on Fleetwood Records)

 

One of my top ten US privately pressed LPs !
Jill Cislaghi wrote and recorded her only album in her senior year in 1977 at Regis College, in Massachusetts near where she grew up.
Cislaghi pressed 500 copies on Massachusetts' own vanity custom-pressing plant Fleetwood Recording Co. She made this record for her friends and wound up selling nearly every copy at her college, so this LP is incredibly hard to come by now.

Listen : A1. July 20th

A2. Shine Your Light

& B2. Jesse 

B3. Sweet November

& A3. Don't Make Me Just Another Memory 

B5. For Bea (My Grandmother)

 

A really great album ! Most of the songs are solemn and haunting. Very beautiful. Collectors of loner/outsider music as well as those dedicated to Acid Archives will truly love this rare bird. 


Record : VG++
Cover : VG+ (autographed on front - see pictures)
Price : 250,00 Euros (+ expedition costs by registered parcel calculated by the Belgian Post)
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Wednesday 6 March 2024

The MacDonald Folk Group - Take One (Ultra rare 1968 UK Folk LP - 1st release on Folk Heritage)

 

Very rare and great UK Folk LP released in 1968 on the Folk Heritage label.

First release (FHR 001M) on that great label !

Listen : B1. Geordie

A2. The Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall

B3. April Come She Will

The whole LP : The MacDonald Folk Group - Take One

An ultra rare and very great UK Folk LP ! Don't miss it !


Record : VG+
Cover : VG++ (see pictures)
Price : 300,00 Euros (+ expedition costs by registered parcel calculated by the Belgian Post)
Payment : PAYPAL only to etienne.reyser@gmail.com
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Wednesday 28 February 2024

John Max Jacobs - A Prairie Dream (Rare 1984 US Private Psych Folk LP)

 

A 1984 LP but it sounds like 1974.
Rare private press from Minneapolis.
Beautiful acid folk psych!
Very well produced !

Listen : B5. Iron Butterfly

A4. Lazy Willow

& B3. Frankie Lee McKinney 

A2. Clock A-Tickin' 

 

A great psych folk album in my opinion !!!

Cover : VG (radio station copy - see pictures)
Record : VG++
Price : 100,00 Euros (+ expedition costs calculated by the Belgian Post Office)
Payment : PAYPAL or Bank transfer (ask for my account number)
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Hermanas Misioneras Catequistas Guadalupanas - El Mensaje de la Juventud (Rare 1966 Private Xian Garage LP from Mexico)

 

Rare Xian Garage Rock LP privately released in 1966 in Mexico by Las Misioneras de la Montaña (aka Hermanas Misioneras Catequistas Guadalupanas).

Mexican Sisters Mission, in the vein of pop rock in Mexico.
H. Aida Sansor, founder of the "Las Monjitas a go go" band (commercial name by discos rca).
Real band name "Las Misioneras De La Montaña".
From Morelia Michoacán, Mexico. 

 

Listen : A1. La Felicidad

B2. ¡Oh, Si! 

& A5. Alegrense Todos  

& A4. Hay Que Dejarse Pescar

Weird album not devoid of charm and interest !


Record : VG+
Cover : VG+
Price : 40,00 Euros (+ expedition costs calculated by the Belgian Post office)
Payment : PAYPAL only !
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Wednesday 31 January 2024

Bill Vanaver - ST (Rare 1972 US Loner Folk LP on Swallowtail Records)

 

Scarce and surprisingly good album by this great guitar and mandolin player.
Recorded in January 1972 on Swallowtail Records.

Listen : A3. The Haunted Hunter (or The Walker In The Snow)

and A5. I Gave Myself to the Highway + A4. 1940


 

Record : VG++
Cover : VG++
Price : 50,00 Euros (+ expedition costs calculated by the Belgian Post office)
Payment : PAYPAL only !
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Tuesday 30 January 2024

Tom Rosplock - ST (Rare 1974 US Psych Folk gem on Johnny Dollar Records)

 

Very rare US Psych Folk LP released in 1974 on Johnny Dollar Records.
A little gem that continues to offer new delights upon repeated listens.


Listen : A5. Now You've Gone and Married


 A great album from start to finish ... in a great condition !


Record: EXC
Cover : EXC (still in shrink)
Price : 130,00 Euros ( + the expedition costs calculated by the Belgian Post office)
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Tuesday 12 December 2023

Dan Lewis - Towards the Light (Excellent 1979 US Private Psych Folk LP)

 

Rare original vinyl LP album of "Towards the Light" by Dan Lewis !
This album was released in 1979 by a small private press label called Imaginary Records with the catalog number IM-001. A total of 1.000 LPs were pressed in 1979.
Imaginary Records was the name that the artist chose to use, because there was actually no record company; hence, "Imaginary" Records.

"The soul of a mountain child shines through his music"  reviewed by The Native Stone, Asheville, NC 1979
This unique collectable recording is a private press release from 1979, created by a young folk songwriter in the Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina. Containing 12 songs, Dan Lewis wrote all the words and music, and performed on 12 instruments on the various songs, including acoustic guitars, bass guitar, electric slide guitar, mandolin, harmonicas, tambourine, talking drum, folk harp, 32 string ukelin, piano, organ and synthesizer. Lewis also drew the front cover art and liner notes art ...

With the rare insert !

Listen : A3. Love From Afar

A5. Hometown

& A2. When I See You 

B6. Time

B2. Right Here


Dan Lewis is from Asheville, located in the mountains of North Carolina and he really seemed to capture the essence of this city. This is a special little album that sounds almost magical. Most of the songs are in a quiet psych folk vein with a few being more up tempo with a band. This is one record that probably didn't make it to far out of the mountains but deserves to be heard by those who care. (from popsike)

 

Record : EXC
Cover : VG++ (see pictures)
Insert : EXC (see picture)
Price : 180,00 Euros (+ expedition costs by registered parcel calculated by the Belgian Post)
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Monday 11 December 2023

Andy Jones - The First Not The Last (Amazing US Private Downer Folk LP from the 70s)

 

 

"... Seldom seen private 70's downer folk style ... focus is more on groove and emotional presence ... the mood is intense with energetic acoustic guitar strumming ... uses echo to fine effect ... even a melodic number that brings in mellotron". (from Acid Archives)

A little gem in my opinion !


Listen : A1. Get Down

B2. The Wisdom to Know the Difference

Some other tracks on Sébastien's blog - The Strange Experience of Music :

Andy Jones


"Dark acoustic folk that hits all the private press buttons. Very few copies pressed, don't sleep on this one !" (Alex 'PsychedelicGuy' Kerner)


Record : EXC
Cover : VG+ (ringwear - see pictures)
Price : 250,00 Euros (+ expedition costs by registered parcel calculated by the Belgian Post)
Payment : PAYPAL only to etienne.reyser@gmail.com
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Sunday 10 December 2023

Rick Wooley - Salt Water Highway (Rare 1980 US Private Folk LP)

 

 

Another 80s oddity with amazing psych folk tracks.
The best tracks being the originals written by Rick Wooley himself.
A great album !

Credits:
Pat Ringley - Bass
Bobby Patriquin - Drums + other explosions
Michael G. Brown - Piano, harmonica on "Calcutta Monsoon"
Betsy Braud - Flute
John Holland - Cello on "Song for Charlie Smith"
Walter Holland - Tenor sax on "Salt Water Highway"
Rick Wooley - Vocals, guitar, kalimba, congas, percussion, wind & coyote, harmonica

Recorded 1980 at Sountrax, Inc. - Baton Rouge, La. 70806


Listen : A1. Ferris Wheel


Record : VG++
Cover : Exc
Price : 80,00 Euros (+ expedition costs calculated by the Belgian Post Office)
Payment : PAYPAL only to etienne.reyser@gmail.com
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Wednesday 22 November 2023

Carey Rowland - Revelation 5:9 (Great 1979 US Private Xian Folk LP)

 

Good homey arrangements with an accent on backwoods rural simplicity decorate this multi-faceted cutting-edge country folk obscurity. Sort of a mysterious project housed in a flimsy insert-like cover that opens on the top, with blank white labels on the record. Takes some digging in the credits to realize it’s mainly the work of a one L Carey Rowland. Instruments include guitar, violin, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, bass, drums and slide, plus piano from jazz-man Howard Hanger. Quite a bit of variety here, from the Dixieland-ish cover of ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’ to the hushed gospelly acoustic rendering of ‘Amazing Grace’. ‘Baptism’ has an easygoing country rock flow while ‘Spirit Of The Lord’ supplies a loungy nightclub mood with soft trumpet and Hanger’s smoky piano backing. Some relaxed bluegrass roots crop up on ‘Let Us Shout’, ‘Life’s Railway To Heaven’ and Hank William’s ‘I Saw The Light’ (which begins with the group opening in prayer). Title tune is a reading of Revelation 5:1-9 backed only by George Winston-like solo piano. Rowland’s guitar work flowers on the lengthy standout track ‘Follow The Way’ which has a creative progressive flavor akin to Bruce Cockburn’s early acoustic works. Recorded in North Carolina. (The Archivist, 4th edition by Ken Scott).

Listen : Carey Rowland's 2nd LP - The whole LP

 


 

Record : VG++ (light warp that does not affect the play)
Cover : EXC (see pictures)
Price : 80,00 Euros (+ postage costs by registered parcel calculated by the Belgian Post office)
Payment : PAYPAL only
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