Psycheground Group - Psychedelic And Underground Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Seelie Court - the world's premier tag for rare and previously unreleased archive recordings of underground folk, rock, proto-metal, and psychedelic music presents Baby Bertha. A British heavy blues/metal band formed in late 1971 from the remnants of the band Relative. The group initially underwent several lineup changes before solidifying with Dave Ellis on guitar and vocals, Desmond Law on drums, Ian McLaughlin on bass, and Roger InchProffInch Perry on rhythm guitar. Throughout 1972, Baby Bertha performed extensively across the south coast of England, from Hastings to Southampton, developing a reputation for their energetic live shows and powerful, guitar-driven sound. This blistering heavy blues rock LP was issued in 1972 in an edition of only 50 copies, making it twice as rare as their legendary 1973 follow-up as Charge. Led by searing heavy guitar somewhere between Mayall and Hendrix, original copies of Baby Bertha are thought to be worth £3000+

Ramsey Thornton makes modern-day folk music for early mornings and quiet hours. It's a warm, rhythmic sound, fueled by intricate fingerpicking and the observational storytelling of a lifelong musician who's still discovering new horizons. Long before he became an unsung hero of Tulsa's music scene - playing banjo in Ken Pomeroy's band, drumming for jazz combos, and collaborating with hometown heroes like Wilderado - the Oklahoma native began drumming at 6 years old. By his late-teens, he was playing stringed instruments, too. Banjo came first. Acoustic guitar followed, with Ramsey developing a hypnotic, percussive style - including intricate rhythms and uniquely phrased arpeggios - that seemed to nod to the two instruments he'd already learned. Ramsey recorded I Called It! In Brooklyn, where he teamed up with Isaac Stalling and Sam Skinner (Pinegrove) in a Bed-Stuy studio. They anchored each song with a live performance of guitar and vocals, adding other instruments - from the interlocking layers of strings that sweep through InchTony's Song,Inch a gorgeous duet with Ken Pomeroy, to the brushed percussion and keyboards that punctuate InchBackyardInch - for textural effect. Back home in Oklahoma, Ramsey tapped Chad Copeland (Broncho, Wilderado) to contribute synth, drones, and other atmospherics to tracks like InchFourth of July.Inch Even so, I Called It generally unfolds like a one-man show, capturing Ramsey Thornton in his element intimate, locked-in, and focused on the present moment. InchI like my music to sound natural,Inch he says simply. InchThese are songs that I wrote around my kitchen table. I recorded them with my friends. I hope they just sound like me.InchWith I Called It!, Ramsey Thornton keeps his eye on the outside world and his hands on the fretboard, creating a gentle, guitar-driven soundtrack to everyday life.

Arlo Parks sophomore album, My Soft Machine, is a deeply personal body of work; a narration of Parks' experiences as she navigates her 20's and the growth intertwined. It follows her highly-praised debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, which received two GRAMMY nominations for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album, won the BRIT Award for Best New Artist, received the Honda Mercury Prize, won the BBC Introducing Artist Of The Year Award, was nominated for Breakthrough International Act at the BET Awards and reached the top 3 on the UK Album Charts. Parks shares about how the new album and album title came to fruition InchThe world/our view of it is peppered by the biggest things we experience - our traumas, upbringing, vulnerabilities almost like visual snow. This record is life through my lens, through my body - the mid 20s anxiety, the substance abuse of friends around me, the viscera of being in love for the first time, navigating PTSD and grief and self-sabotage and joy, moving through worlds with wonder and sensitivity- what it's like to be trapped in this particular body. There is a quote from a Joanna Hogg film called The Souvenir, it's an A24 semi-autobiographical film with Tilda Swinton - it recounts a young film student falling in love with an older, charismatic man then being drawn into his addiction - in an early scene he's explaining why people watch films - 'we don't want to see life as it is played out we want to see life as it is experienced in this soft machine.' So, there we have it... My Soft Machine.Inch The album was recorded between London and Los Angeles throughout 2021/2022. Arlo worked alongside producers including Paul Epworth, Ariel Rechtshaid, Romil Hemnani (Brockhampton), Frank Ocean-collaborator Buddy Ross, and Carter Lang (SZA), whilst also self-producing a run of material on the album. The record features a guest vocal from mus