Saturday, April 30, 2022

Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies: The American Metaphysical Circus 1969

 

Joseph Hunter Byrd, Jr. (born December 19, 1937) is an American composer, musician and academic. After first becoming known as an experimental composer in New York City and Los Angeles in the early and mid-1960s, he became the leader of The United States of America, an innovative but


short-lived band that integrated electronic sound and radical political ideas into rock music. In 1968 he recorded the album The American Metaphysical Circus, credited to Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies. After working as a record producer, arranger, and soundtrack composer, he became a university teacher in music history and theory. After receiving his M.A.(Master Of Arts), from Stanford in 1960, he relocated to New York City to study with avant garde composers Morton Feldman and John Cage; according to Byrd, he became Cage's last student. Byrd became a part of the proto-Fluxus experiments that were emerging at that time in conjunction with Young, Charlotte Moorman (Byrd's girlfriend at one point), Yoko Ono, Jackson Mac Low (he participated in An Anthology of Chance Operations) and others. Byrd took an eclectic approach in his compositions. He continued to work with La Monte Young, who organised the first concert of Byrd's music in Yoko Ono's loft in March 1961.
                                                        


The American Metaphysical Circus is a 1969 album by Joseph "Joe" Byrd. It was recorded after his departure from the band The United States of America, and featured some of the earliest recorded work in rock music extensively utilizing synthesizers and vocoder, along with an extended group of West Coast studio musicians Byrd named "The Field Hippies"

The subject of critical acclaim, the album spent over two months in the lower regions of the Billboard charts; still, the United States of America disbanded soon after, with Byrd resurfacing in 1969 with The

American Metaphysical Circus, credited to Joe Byrd & the Field Hippies, a group of a dozen musicians including vocalists Susan de Lange, Victoria Bond, and Christie Thompson. A critical and commercial failure, the LP was his last until 1975, at which time he released Yankee Transcendoodle, a collection of synthesizer pieces. Three years later, Byrd also produced Ry Cooder's Jazz album, and in 1980 he issued another synthesizer record, Christmas Yet to Come. He additionally wrote for films, television, and advertising jingles. Fellow United States of America alum Dorothy Moskowitz, meanwhile, later resurfaced in Country Joe McDonald's All-Star Band, with the remaining members of the group essentially disappearing from the contemporary music scene.

Byrd then received the support of John McClure, head of Columbia's Masterworks classical music division, to record a second album. He recorded The American Metaphysical Circus, credited to Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, later in 1968. The album again made use of synthesizers and vocoder, along with an extended group of West Coast studio musicians including Tom Scott, guitarist Ted Greene, and uncredited bassist Harvey Newmark.[13] According to Byrd, the whole album was written and recorded within a few weeks, apart from one song, "You Can't Ever Come Down", originally written for the United States of America. He said: "It was a real chaotic time... frantic.... The songs had to be churned out, and ultimately there was not enough material.... Columbia decided that no rock musician could be called Joseph, and told me they were going to call it Joe Byrd and…. The musicians had been close during the traumatic sessions, and Ted Greene, pointing out that we were really not city hippies, called us The Field Hippies, so I used that name. By then I was exhausted fighting for stuff."
                                                            

As a "conductor" and organ/electronic synthesizer player, Byrd is very much the leader of this circus. With a couple drummers, a half-dozen horn players (including a young Tom Scott), three female vocalists, and a half-dozen or so other musicians popping up over the course of the album, there are a

lot more people involved in this project than there were in the (relatively) stable lineup of the United States of America. Despite the ambition of this LP, it ultimately serves to illustrate just how Byrd benefited from the unique synergy provided by the other members of the U.S.A. There are all kinds of adventurous electronics and eclectic ideas bouncing back and forth, but the songwriting is simply not as strong as that of Byrd's previous group. The best songs are the ones which most strongly recall the U.S.A. in their spacy melodicism ("Moonsong: Pelog") and driving psychedelic pulse ("You Can't Ever Come Down").  

Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies – The American Metaphysical Circus
Label: Acadia – ACAM 8144
Format:    CD, Album, Reissue 2007
Country: UK
Released: 1969   
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental

TRACKS

                                                        


The Sub-Sylvian Litanies   
01. Kalyani  (Lead Vocals, Voice [Electronic Voice] – Victoria Bond)  3:50
02. You Can't Ever Come Down  (Backing Vocals – Joseph Byrd, Vickie/Lead Vocals – Susan De Lange)  2:58
03. Moonsong: Pelog  (Lead Vocals – Susan)  3:47
American Bedmusic I - Four Dreams For A Departing President   
04. Patriot's Lullabye  (Lead Vocals – Vickie)  2:44
05. Nightmare Train  (Lead Vocals – Joseph)  3:23
06. Invisible Man  (Lead Vocals – Joseph/Music By – Pot)  3:31
07. Mister 4th Of July  (Lead Vocals – Christie Thompson/Written-By – Lisa Kindred)  1:46
Gospel Music For Abraham Ruddell Byrd III   
08. Gospel Music  (Performer – The J. Hunter Byrd Gospel Band)  4:28
The Southwestern Geriatrics Arts And Crafts Festival   
09. The Sing-Along Song  (Vocals – Joseph)  4:00
10. The Elephant At The Door  (Backing Vocals – Joseph, Vickie/Lead Vocals – Susan)  5:10
11. Leisure World  (Lead Vocals – Vickie/Voice [Announcer] – Ernie Anderson)  1:33
12. The Sing-Along Song (Reprise)  (Vocals – Joseph)   0:44

Bass Trombone – Chuck Bennett
Clarinet – Fred Selden, Tom Scott
Conductor – Joseph Byrd, Pot
Cornet – Don Kerian
Flugelhorn – Ed Sheftel
Flute – Dana Chalberg, Fred Selden, Meyer Hirsch, Tom Scott
Guitar – Ted Greene
Guitar [Classical] – Michael Whitney
Organ, Synthesizer [Electronic] – Joseph Byrd
Percussion, Drums – Gregg Kovner, John Clauder
Piano, Harpsichord – Pot
Piccolo Flute [Piccolo] – Dana Chalberg
Producer – Joseph Byrd
Producer [Assistant Producer] – Dana Chalberg
Saxophone – Fred Selden, Meyer Hirsch, Tom Scott
Tabla – Larry Kass
Trombone [Tenor], Tuba – Ray Cappocchi
Trumpet – Don Kerian, Ed Sheftel
Vocals – Christie Thompson, Joseph Byrd, Susan De Lange, Victoria Bond
Written-By, Arranged By – Joseph Byrd

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

The United States Of America: The United States Of America 1968

 

Despite releasing only one LP, the United States of America was among the most revolutionary bands


of the late '60s, grounded equally in psychedelia and the avant-garde,
their music eschewed guitars in favor of strings, keyboards, and haunting electronics, predating the ambient pop of the modern era by several decades. The United States of America was led by composer and keyboardist Joseph Byrd, a Kentucky native raised in Tucson, AZ; there he appeared with a series of rock and country bands while attending high school, subsequently playing vibes in a jazz outfit as a student at the University of Arizona.
                                             

Despite winning a fellowship to study music at Stanford, Byrd instead relocated to New York, intrigued

by the avant-garde experiments emerging from the city's downtown music scene; there he began earning international renown for his own compositions, at the same time working as a conductor, arranger, associate producer, and assistant to critic Virgil Thomson.
                                                        

Byrd eventually returned to the west coast, accepting an assistant teaching position at UCLA and

moving into a beachfront commune populated by a group of grad students, artists, and Indian musicians. He soon began studying acoustics, psychology, and Indian music, but quickly turned back to experimental composition, leaving the university in the summer of 1967 to write music full-time and produce "happenings.
                                                  

" To perform his new songs, material inspired in no small part by the psychedelic sounds produced during the Summer of Love, Byrd recruited a group of UCLA students (vocalist Dorothy Moskowitz, bassist Rand Forbes, electric violinist Gordon Marron, and drummer Craig Woodson) to form the United States of America; the group's lone self-titled LP, produced by David Rubinson, was recorded for CBS in 1968, its unique ambience due largely to their pioneering use of the ring modulator, a primitive synthesizer later popularized by the Krautrock sound.

By Jason Ankeny
                                                     


The United States Of America – The United States Of America
Label: Sundazed Music – SC 11124, Sundazed Music – 11124
Format:    CD, Album, Reissue  2004
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental

TRACKS

                                                         


01. The American Metaphysical Circus  (Lyrics By – Joseph Byrd)  4:56
02. Hard Coming Love    4:41
03. Cloud Song    3:18
04. The Garden Of Earthly Delights    2:39
05. I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar    3:51
06. Where Is Yesterday  (Lead Vocals – Gordon/Lyrics By – Dorothy Moskowitz, Bogas, Gordon Marron/Vocals – Dorothy, Joseph, Rand)  3:08
07. Coming Down    2:37
08. Love Song For The Dead Che  (Lyrics By – Joseph Byrd)  3:25
09. Stranded In Time  (Lead Vocals – Gordon)  1:49
10. The American Way Of Love    (6:38)
10.I.Part I - Metaphor For An Older Man  (Lyrics By – Joseph Byrd)
10.II.Part II - California Good-Time Music  (Lyrics By – Joseph Byrd)
10.III.Part III - Love Is All  (Lyrics By – Craig Woodson, Dorothy Moskowitz, Gordon Marron, Joseph Byrd, Rand Forbes)

BONUS TRACKS    

11. Osamu's Birthday  (Lyrics By – Joseph Byrd)  2:59
12. No Love To Give    2:36
13. I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar    3:45
14. You Can Never Come Down  (Lyrics By – Joseph Byrd)  2:32
15. Perry Pier    2:37
16. Tailor Man    3:06
17. Do You Follow Me    2:34
18. The American Metaphysical Circus  (Lyrics By – Joseph Byrd)  4:01
19. Mouse (The Garden Of Earthly Delights)    2:39
20. Heresy (Coming Down)    2:32

 
Bass – Carmie Simon (tracks: 15 to 17), Stu Brotman (tracks: 18 to 20)
Drums – Dennis Wood (tracks: 15 to 17)
Drums [Electric], Percussion – Craig Woodson (tracks: 1 to 14, 18 to 20)
Electric Bass – Rand Forbes (tracks: 1 to 14)
Electronics [Electronic Music], Harpsichord [Electric], Organ, Performer [Calliope], Piano – Joseph Byrd (tracks: 1 to 14, 18 to 20)
Engineer [Original Recordings Engineered By] – David Diller
Guitar – Jeff Marinell (tracks: 15 to 17)
Keyboards – Richard Grayson  (tracks: 15 to 17)
Lead Vocals – Dorothy Moskowitz
Music By – Dorothy Moskowitz (tracks: 2, 12, 15, 16), Ed Bogas (tracks: 6, 9), Gordon Marron (tracks: 6, 9), Joseph Byrd (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 8, 10.I, 10.II, 11, 13, 14, 18 to 20), Kenneth Edwards (tracks: 17)
Organ – Mike Agnello (tracks: 18 to 20)
Organ [Occasional], Piano, Performer [Calliope] – Ed Bogas (tracks: 1 to 14)
Other [Instrument Design Engineer] – Richard Durrett
Producer – David Rubinson
Remix [Original Re-mix Engineering] – Arthur Kendy, Glen Kolotkin
Violin [Electric], Effects [Ring Modulator] – Gordon Marron (tracks: 1 to 14)
Words By – Dorothy Moskowitz (tracks: 2 to 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20), Ed Bogas (tracks: 9), Gordon Marron (tracks: 9), Joseph Byrd (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 7, 13, 19, 20), Kenneth Edwards (tracks: 17)

Mastered at Sundazed Studios, Coxsackie, NY. Originally issued as Columbia CS 9614 on March 6th, 1968.

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Monday, April 25, 2022

Electric Eye: Pick-Up, Lift-Off, Space Time 2013 + Different Sun 2016

 

Electric Eye are a psychedelic rock group from Bergen, Norway formed in 2012 by Øystein Braut, Njål


Clementsen, Anders Bjelland and Øyvind Hegg-Lunde. After their first single "Tangerine" they released their debut album "Pick-up, Lift-off, Space, Time" in 2013.
                                                            


Electric Eye formed in 2012 and had their first appearance at Hulen in Bergen, May 3, 2012. Electric

Eye play droned out psych-rock inspired by the blues, Indian folk music and Rock n' Roll. Electric Eye released their debut LP “Pick-up, Lift-off, Space, Time” in April 2013 on Norwegian Klangkollektivet and UK label Fuzz Club Records.[1] After the debut release, the band have been touring all over Europe, including appearances at Iceland Airwaves 2013, Eurosonic 2014, South By Southwest 2014 and The Great Escape Festival 2014.
                                                                

To quote the famous French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau, Electric Eye’s ‘Horizons’ LP sees the Norweigian psych-rock group venture into the depths of “a different kind of music, the sounds from the

ocean floor.” Spending a week locked away from civilization in a lighthouse on the tiny Norwegian island of Utsira, Electric Eye’s new album ‘Horizons’ – due out November 5th on Fuzz Club Records – is a record “inspired by volcano eruptions, sub-sea adventures and the raw power of the surrounding sea.” The result is an album of oceanic psychedelic rock wig-outs that submerge the listener in a whirlpool of hypnotic space-rock, kosmische garage-blues, dystopian acid-prog and experimental electronics.

Studio albums
                                             

Pick-up, Lift-off Space, Time (2013, Klangkollektivet, Goomah Music)
Different Sun (2016, Jansen Plateproduksjon)
Live At Blå (2016, Jansen Plateproduksjon)
From The Poisonous Tree (2017, Jansen Plateproduksjon)
Horizons (2021, Fuzz Club Records)

PICK - UP, LIFT - OFF SPACE, TIME 2013

                                             


The super group quartet, Electric Eye, opens up a new chapter in Norway’s strong and long lasting tradition for psychedelic music. Spacerock, inspired by blues, India and the ever-expanding boundaries

of the great unknown, are key components in Electric Eyes sonic landscape. The album will serve to showcase, for the first time, the talents of seasoned musicians (Øystein Braut, guitarist of The Alexandria Quartet; Njaal Clementsen of Bergen noise-rockers The Megaphonic Thrift and Low Frequency in Stereo; underground studio-guru and guitarist in art-rocker act, Hypertext, Anders Bjelland; and Jazz/Noise/Drone-drummer, Øyvind Hegg-Lunde)
                                                                    

Their first album Pick-up, Lift-off, Space, Time, released in 2013, is a psychedelic breeze of fresh air since it's composed by early Pink Floyd influences, hypnotic Krautrock-like guitar and keyboard work, Indo-Prog and Blues Rock excursions and clear elements of the recent Neo-Psychedelic scene.
                                                    

The A-side of Pick-up, Lift-off, Space, Time features only three songs, which together form the albums most «trippy» parts. The kraut-inspired single “Tangerine” concludes the first part of the record with

nine-minutes of pure dynamic and monotony. The song, which begins with the sound of the sitar and drone instrument Tanpura, ends in a cacophony of sound, bongo drums applied through a Roland Space Echo, screaming organs and tremolo-ridden guitars. While the B-side is a bit more up-tempo, and makes use of more classical song structures, before the album fades out into the self-titled tune “Electric Eye”, a duet with The Megaphonic Thrift’s lead singer, Richard Myklebust.
                                                             

The Black Angels, Wooden Shjips, Pink Floyd in Pompeii and The Flaming Lips “Embryonic” are all references for Electric Eye’s catchy clash of Psychedelia and krautrock. Whereas other Norwegian psychedelic acts have aspired to perfect the shoegaze-style, this band has more edge, attitude and

defined melodies. This places them closer to the more recent neo-psychedelic-scene, spearheaded by The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols in the nineties. This particular branch has little in common with hippie-bands and flower power, or newer psychedelics fascination with pastel-colors. Neo-psych combines a darker expression, lots of reverb, fuzz-guitars and jam-based music. Electric Eye borrows freely from the different psychedelic decades, combining their key elements into a unique mix of psychedelic space rock and blues.

MEMBERS

                


Bass, Synth [Synths], Vocals – Njål Clementsen
Drums, Percussion – Øyvind Hegg-Lunde
Guitar [Guitars], Sitar [Sitars], Vocals – Øystein Braut
Keyboards [Keys], Synth [Synths], Vocals – Anders Bjelland

TRACKS

                              


01. 6 AM - 7:06
02. Lake Geneva - 6:56
03. Tangerine - 9:11
04. Morning Light - 4:57
05. The Road - 4:09
06. Kruskontroll - 5:15
07. Electric Eye - 7:42

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DIFFERENT SUN  2016

                                               


January, 2015: A new year’s hurricane is ravaging Bergen. Its aftermath rips and tears into the Western

Norwegian town for a week. In Broen Studio, where Electric Eye are plugged in, the walls constantly shake from lightning, thunder, violent downpours and wind. It probably isn’t a coincidence that “Different Sun”, album number two from the quartet, is a record full of fickle and dramatic energy. It’s veritably crackling from fuzz guitars and psychedelic organs. Electric Eyehave definitely landed. In the eye of the hurricane.
                                             

Through 40 minutes the listener is this time taken on seven journeys, all drenched in tape echo, sitar sounds, backwards guitar solos, bongos and monotonous fuzz bass. A dynamic rollercoaster where the

landscape soon fluctuates between open and calm desert moods, and then suddenly ignites the rocket engines and leaves the atmosphere once and for all. The Bergen-based group, consisting of Øystein Braut (guitar, vocals), Njål Clementsen (bass), Anders Bjelland (keyboards) and Øyvind Hegg-Lunde (drums), are thus following up their debut album “Pick-up, Lift-up, Space, Time” from 2013 in a brilliant way.
                                            

That the phrase “the journey is the goal” may seem tired doesn’t make it less truthful. ForElectric Eye this is the fundament for their musical existence. Long musical journeys in wide landscapes where the moods and the overwhelming, absorbing and repeating themes play a key role. As a listener you have

two choices: either you’re with it, or you leave it. With «Different Sun» on the turntable, the choice is easy. Electric Eye’s own journey must be considered to be modest seen from a universal perspective, but with the members’ previous experiences from solid musical projects like The Megaphonic Thrift, The Low Frequency in Stereo, Hypertext, The Alexandria Quartet and Junip, the quartet have built for themselves ia well-constructed spaceship. «Different Sun» was mixed by Anders Bjelland in Broen Studios and mastered in Duper Studio by the honoured Jørgen Træen, so it sounds beautiful.
                                                  

After their debut album the quartet received a lot of attention, especially from abroad. The music press and the bloggers were effusive in their praise of the band, who turned up on many best-of-the-year lists

and were played a lot on radio stations in the USA, England, Argentina, Mexico, Holland, Denmark and Belgium. Electric Eye have drawn notice as a live band, too. Since 2013 they’ve toured both Europe and the USA, plus participated in music biz conferences like Eurosonic, SXSW, The Great Escape, Iceland Airwaves and the Spot Festival in Denmark. The response has been overwhelming – the biggest coming from the psychedelic music scene, who in every way have had their eyesand ears opened to the band.
                                         

It’s fully possible to hear traces of the golden psychedelic reveries of the 60s and the lyrical and scenic

progrock of the 70s in Electric Eye’s music. A dose of motoric, German sounds must be mentioned, plus Indian drone music. But «Different Sun» is first and foremost proof of Electric Eye as a band who in every way are present in the moment, where they guide the listeners on a perpetual musical journey full of surprises. Fasten your seatbelts and look for a different sun!
                                       

Brilliant album, outstanding. Starting with a Can beat always gets me anyway. But there's a lot more to it, like taking a T.Rex motive to a higher level, evolving a Barrett-harmony further on, crescendos like a slightly softer Motorpsycho, defining a new own voice in psychedelic prog. Well done!

MEMBERS

   


Bass, Synth [Synths], Vocals – Njål Clementsen
Drums, Percussion – Øyvind Hegg-Lunde
Guitar [Guitars], Sitar [Sitars], Vocals – Øystein Braut
Keyboards [Keys], Synth [Synths], Vocals – Anders Bjelland
Vocals [Sings] – Arne Håkon Tjelle (tracks: A3), Linn Frøkedal (tracks: A1, A3), Richard Myklebust (tracks: A2, A3, B6)
Written-By, Arranged By, Performer – Electric Eye

TRACKS

                                                      


01. Silent By The River - 5:05
02. All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again - 6:12
03. Mercury Rise - 5:22
04. Bless - 4:14
05. Heavy Steps On Desert Floor - 7:43
06. Never Fade Away - 3:58
07. Part One - 6:08

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Sunday, April 24, 2022

Σταύρος Λογαρίδης 21-09-1953 14-04-2022 / Δημήτρης Πουλικάκος + Σταύρος Λογαρίδης: Τα Παιδία Παίζει 2009

 

Ο Σταύρος Λογαρίδης είναι αλήθεια πως υπήρξε πολύ μεγάλο ταλέντο, ένας καλλιτέχνης με τεράστιες


δυνατότητες, ερμηνευτικές και συνθετικές, που χάθηκε, για πάντα, πριν να συμπληρώσει τα 70 χρόνια του – με τον κόσμο να τον αγαπά πολύ, καθώς τον ένοιωθε να βασανίζεται και να παλεύει, σκληρά, με ορατούς και αόρατους δαίμονες.
                                                   

Ο Λογαρίδης γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη στις 21 Σεπτεμβρίου 1953, ξεκίνησε τη μουσική πριν πάει δημοτικό με την καθοδήγηση του παππού του που ήταν άρχων πρωτοψάλτης στο ναό του Αγίου

Γεωργίου στο Πατριαρχείο χειροτονημένος από τον Αθηναγόρα. Από παιδί είχε κλίση στον ήχο καθώς και στην ρυθμική αγωγή. Όταν ο παππούς του κατάλαβε ότι ο μαθητής του δεν ήταν παιδάκι που συγκεντρωνόταν εύκολα για να τον μάθει γραφή, άρχισε να του μαθαίνει ήχους και ρυθμούς: τον έπαιρνε μαζί του στην εκκλησία και τον άφηνε να ακολουθεί τους ψάλτες εξ ενστίκτου με τενούτες που αυτοσχεδίαζε ο μικρός Σταύρος. Ο πατέρας του έπαιζε κιθάρα και η μητέρα του ακορντεόν. Απεβίωσε στις 14 Απριλίου 2022.
                                                

Ο τότε διευθυντής της Polydor Ν. Αντύπας επιμένει να τον γνωρίσει σε κάτι μουσικούς με «πολύ ωραία τραγούδια», όπως έλεγε, για να δημιουργηθεί ένα συγκρότημα το 1970. Ο Σταύρος προσπαθούσε να εξηγήσει στον Αντύπα ότι τα συγκροτήματα δεν φτιάχνονται με συνοικέσια εταιρειών αλλά μέσα από φιλίες. Μετά όμως από επιμονή και πιέσεις τον πείθει να πάει στο σπίτι των μουσικών να ακούσει τα τραγούδια και να τους γνωρίσει.
                                            

Εκεί γνωρίζεται για πρώτη φορά με τον Κ. Τουρνά, τον Robert Williams και τον Κ. Παπαϊωάννου.

Ενθουσιάζεται από τα τραγούδια, και τιμά τίς αρχές του περί «group φιλίας». Ξεκινάνε οι πρόβες και φτιάχνεται το συγκρότημα Poll που θα κάνει δύο μεγάλους δίσκους ορόσημο στην ελληνική σκηνή, το Άνθρωπε και το Λευκό Album. Καθώς και μια σειρά 45άρια singles. Ο Σταύρος αποχωρεί από το συγκρότημα όταν οι υπόλοιποι του συγκροτήματος παίρνουν την απόφαση να εμφανιστούν στο φεστιβάλ Θεσσαλονίκης το 1972.
                                          

Φτιάχνει το συγκρότημα Ακρίτας, κυκλοφορεί ομώνυμο άλμπουμ που πουλιέται στη Γερμανία, Ιαπωνία και θεωρείται ένα από τα πιο προοδευτικά άλμπουμ όλων των εποχών στον κόσμο. Το συμπεριλαμβάνουν και το μνημονεύουν ακόμα και σήμερα τα πιο προοδευτικά sites μουσικής σε

Ευρώπη και Αμερική. Στην Ιαπωνία κυκλοφόρησε με γιαπωνέζικο εξώφυλλο, που θεωρείται σπάνιο συλλεκτικό αντικείμενο στους κύκλους των μουσικόφιλων σήμερα. Οι Ακρίτας συνεργάστηκαν live με τα Μπουρμπούλια της εποχής εκείνης και ηχογράφησαν έξι τραγούδια στη Γερμανία με τον Δ. Παπαχρήστου, τον Α. Τασούλη και τον Γ. Τσουπάκη. Αργότερα θα έρθει στο συγκρότημα και η Α. ΜacKinnon και ο Γ. Παπαδόπουλος με τους οποίους ταξίδεψαν στο Λονδίνο για να γράψουν με τον Βαγγέλη Παπαθανασίου. Ηχογράφησαν 5 τραγούδια που έχουν μείνει ακυκλοφόρητα μέχρι σήμερα.  

ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΠΟΥΛΙΚΑΚΟΣ

                                                       


Ο Δημήτρης Πουλικάκος (21 Ιανουαρίου 1943) είναι Έλληνας τραγουδιστής, συνθέτης, ηθοποιός,

ραδιοφωνικός παραγωγός, εκφωνητής διαφημιστικών αλλά και μεταφραστής λογοτεχνίας. Γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα στις 21 Ιανουαρίου του 1943, επί της οδού Πατησίων, από σχετικά εύπορη αστική οικογένεια. Ο πατέρας του ήταν φημισμένος καρδιολόγος της εποχής και η μητέρα του επίσης γιατρός (μικροβιολόγος-βιοχημικός). Η αδελφή του πατέρα του ήταν σύζυγος του πολιτικού Παναγιώτη Κανελλόπουλου.
                                        

Ο Δημήτρης Πουλικάκος συμμετείχε στην έκδοση του περιοδικού Πάλι μαζί με τους Νάνο Βαλαωρίτη,

Παναγιώτη Κουτρουμπούση, Μαντώ Αραβαντινού, Κώστα Ταχτσή, Ανδρέα Εμπειρίκο, Γιώργο Μακρή κ.α., με δικά του κείμενα καθώς και μεταφράσεις. Για πολλά χρόνια έκανε ραδιοφωνικές εκπομπές, αυτοαποκαλούμενος "Θείος Νώντας" (έτσι τον αποκαλούσε και ο Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος, τον οποίο ο ίδιος αποκαλούσε ανηψιό), σε διάφορους σταθμούς (ποτέ δεν χρησιμοποίησε το πραγματικό του όνομα σαν ραδιοφωνικός παραγωγός).
                                               

Υπήρξε μέλος του συγκροτήματος MGC, το οποίο οφείλει το όνομά του στον ηθοποιό Ντίνο

Ηλιόπουλο, και αρχηγός του ροκ συγκροτήματος Εξαδάκτυλος και των Αχ-Βαχ (στους οποίους έπαιζαν εκτός των άλλων, μπάσο-φωνητικά ο Σταμάτης Σπανουδάκης και πλήκτρα ο Άλεξ Σπυρόπουλος, γνωστός από το αγγλικό συγκρότημα των δεκαετιών 1960-1970 Nirvana). Συνεργάσθηκε ως συνθέτης, εκτελεστής, παραγωγός και μουσικός με πολλούς άλλους Έλληνες rockers και συγκροτήματα (Θανάσης Γκαϊφύλλιας, Βλάσσης Μπονάτσος, Σταύρος Λογαρίδης, κ.ά.).
                                               

Έγινε γνωστός με τις εμφανίσεις του σε ταινίες και τηλεοπτικές σειρές από τη δεκαετία του 1970 έως και τη δεκαετία του 1990. Κυριότερες εμφανίσεις: Οι τεμπέληδες της εύφορης κοιλάδας (1978), Άρπα Κόλλα (1982), Ο δράκουλας των Εξαρχείων (1983), Βίος και Πολιτεία (1987), Made In Greece (1987),

Το μετέωρο βήμα του πελαργού (1991), Θηλυκή Εταιρεία (1999), Σαπουνόπετρα (1995) κ.α. Οι κυριότερες τηλεοπτικές του εμφανίσεις είναι στις σειρές Οι Αυθαίρετοι (1989), Δύο Ξένοι (1997), Επτά Θανάσιμες Πεθερές (2008) κ.ά. Θεωρείται ένας από τους κυριότερους εκπροσώπους του ελληνικού ροκ. Ο δίσκος του Μεταφοραί Εκδρομαί Ο Μήτσος αποτελεί τον πρόδρομο της ελληνικής rock 'n roll δισκογραφίας. Η συναυλία του στα τέλη της δεκαετίας του '70 στου Ζωγράφου αποτελεί σταθμό στην ελληνική rock μουσική ιστορία.  

ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΛΟΓΑΡΙΔΗΣ - ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΛΟΓΑΡΙΔΗΣ  1978


     



TRACKS


01. Το Πρώτο Τραγούδι    3:40
02. Πόλεμος    3:25
03. Pάντη (Oρχηστρικό)    2:23
04. Σνιφ Σνιφ (Oρχηστρικό)    3:54
05. Jane    3:48
06. Close The Door    5:06
07. O Aπελπισμένος    3:01
08. Light    3:19
09. Παρ 'Ολίγο    3:24
10. Βέρα Κρουζ Εξπρές (Ορχηστρικό)    3:43

Flac  Size: 230 MB


ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΠΟΥΛΙΚΑΚΟΣ + ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΛΟΓΑΡΙΔΗΣ - ΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΠΑΙΖΕΙ  2009

                                                                          



Δημήτρης Πουλικάκος / Σταύρος Λογαρίδης – Τα Παιδία Παίζει
Label:    Corteca Productions – none, Ελευθεροτυπία – none
Format:    2 x CD + DVD Box Set
Country: Greece
Released: Dec 20, 2009
Genre: Rock

DISC 1.

                                                          

  
CD1-1    Σ.Λ.–    Η Συνοικία
Written-By – Νίκος Ζούγδιαρης
3:48
CD1-2    Σ.Λ.–    Μη Ρωτάς
Written-By – Λ. Δημοπούλου, Σ. Λογαρίδης
2:59
CD1-3    Σ.Λ.–    Γλυστράω
Written-By – Κ. Λειβαδάς, Σ. Λογαρίδης
2:59
CD1-4    Σ.Λ.–    Tipo Melancholico
Written-By – Ε. Ζιώγα, Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:21
CD1-5    Σ.Λ.
–    Κάποιος Περνά
Written-By – Π. Σιδηρόπουλος, Σ. Λογαρίδης
4:11
CD1-6    Δ.Π.–    Φράγκοι Πατήσαν Τον Μοριά
Written-By – Δ. Πουλικάκος
3:37
CD1-7    Δ.Π.–    Ο Μπάμπης Ο Φλου
Written-By – Π. Σιδηρόπουλος
3:17
CD1-8    Δ.Π.–    Ταξίδεψα Στα Σύννεφα
Written-By – Δ. Πουλικάκος, Π. Βασιλοπούλου
1:25
CD1-9    Δ.Π.–    The Letter
Written-By – Wayne Carson Thompson
2:19
CD1-10    Σ.Λ.–    Τζόνυ
Written-By – Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:25
CD1-11    Σ.Λ.–    Είμαστε Όλοι Εδώ
Written-By – Κ. Λειβαδάς
3:24
CD1-12    Σ.Λ.–    The Jean Genie
Written-By – David Bowie
4:15
CD1-13    Δ.Π.–    Από Το Δάσος Του Sherwood Στον Μέλανα Δρυμό
Written-By – Heinrich Heine, Δ. Πουλικάκος
3:36
CD1-14    Δ.Π.–    Στον Καθρέφτη
Written-By – Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:27
CD1-15    Δ.Π.–    Ms Hot Lips (Instrumental)
Written-By – Δ. Πουλικάκος
2:12
CD1-16    Σ.Λ.–    Εσύ Αν Ξέχασες, Εγώ Θυμάμαι
Written-By – Κ. Λειβαδάς, Σ. Λογαρίδης
2:48
CD1-17    Σ.Λ.–    Σόνια
Written By – Ι. Λαγός
Written-By – Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:10
CD1-18    Σ.Λ.–    Θα Σε Βρω
Written-By – Κ. Λειβαδάς, Σ. Λογαρίδης
2:44
CD1-19    Δ.Π.–    Crazy Love
Written-By – Paul Anka
3:22
CD1-20    Δ.Π.–    Άνευ Ουσίας, Άνευ Σημασίας
Written-By – Αντώνης Τριανταφύλλου, Δ. Πουλικάκος
7:26
CD1-21    Δ.Π.–    Τι Μας Λες
Written-By – Δ. Πουλικάκος, Κώστας Δουκάκης
3:03
CD1-22    Σ.Λ.–    Μενεξεδένια Πολιτεία 1974 (Instrumental)
Written-By – Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:11

Flac  Size: 517 MB

DISC 2.

                                                                 


CD2-1    Δ.Π.–    Φτάνει Πια
Written-By – Δ. Πουλικάκος
4:34
CD2-2    Δ.Π.–    Dead Flowers
Written-By – Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
4:54
CD2-3    Δ.Π.–    I Can Tell
Written-By – Elias McDaniel
4:35
CD2-4    Σ.Λ.–    Τώρα
Written-By – Π. Γιαλλελής, Σ. Λογαρίδης
2:55
CD2-5    Σ.Λ.–    Κοίτα
Written-By – Λ. Δημοπούλου, Σ. Λογαρίδης
4:22
CD2-6    Σ.Λ.–    Βάλε Την Τηλεόραση, Έχει Εμένα
Written-By – Ε. Ζιώγα, Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:18
CD2-7    Σ.Λ.–    Εκδρομή
Written By – Ι. Λαγός
Written-By – Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:35
CD2-8    Δ.Π.–    Να Φύγει Αυτός Ο Χειμώνας
Written-By – Δ. Πουλικάκος
4:44
CD2-9    Δ.Π.–    Κάλλιο Μιας Ώρας
Written-By – Αντώνης Τριανταφύλλου, Δ. Πουλικάκος
4:07
CD2-10    Δ.Π.–    You Keep Me Hanging On
Written-By – B. Holland / L. Dozier / E. Holland
4:30
CD2-11    Σ.Λ.–    Superman
Written-By – Π. Σιδηρόπουλος, Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:41
CD2-12    Σ.Λ.–    Της Φυλακής Η Μοναξιά
Written-By – Σ. Λογαρίδης
4:33
CD2-13    Σ.Λ.–    Της Νύχτας Το Όνειρο
Written-By – Σ. Κλιούμης, Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:38
CD2-14    Σ.Λ.–    Περασμένος Αιώνας
Written-By – Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:03
CD2-15    Σ.Λ.–    2000 Light Years From Home
Written-By – Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
4:19
CD2-16    Σ.Λ.–    Ποτέ - Ποτέ
Written-By – Λ. Δημοπούλου, Σ. Λογαρίδης
3:02
CD2-17    Δ.Π.–    Και Το Ξέρεις Πως Ξέρω
Written-By – Δ. Πουλικάκος
2:54
CD2-18    Δ.Π.–    Mercury Blues
Written-By – K.C. Douglas
3:02
CD2-19    Δ.Π.–    Υπάρχω
Written-By – Πυθαγόρας, Χ. Νικολόπουλος
3:46

Flac  Size: 520 MB


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