It’s the early seventies. My friends and I have gathered on a large meadow just outside the city. We are sitting on blankets, drinking red wine, eating snacks and we enjoy the sunny summer’s day. In front of us is a stage where our buddies in the ensemble My Enhanced Little Rhubarb perform the musical “In Memory of Rupert Cloud”.

That image passes before my eyes as I listen to My Little Rhubarb’s album “In Memory of Rupert Cloud”. The story takes place in the fantasy land Rhubarbland, inhabited by a number of strange characters. Among them is Rupert Cloud, from the album title, who dies tragically when his own rhubarbs eat him, and Selma the tree who’s fallen in love with John, one of her own apples.

You can listen to the album on their Bandcamp page. You’ll also find them  on Facebook. Here are two songs from the album:

Selma’s Fourth Fall
Enter Cloudman

Barrett Elmore started out as a trio in 2008 and played from the beginning a raw, instrumental blues. Soon they moved over to psychadelia and music inspired by this and when the singer Mikaela joined the band they found the style and sound which is reflected in their music today.

This has resulted in their debut album “Woodlands” which was finished a few days ago. It’s obvious that Pink Floyd is one of the big influences, as they also state in the band name, but they bring more ingredients to the sound. Overall there is a soothing, nature-mystique ambience in the album, which reminds of the endless, eternal, nordic woods, which is the theme of the album, and the spots of swedish folk melancholy emphasizes this further.

An interesting album you can probe at their Soundcloud page. You can also find the band on Facebook.

The Nixie
Dusk (Dance of the Pixies)

Psychadelia band Mono Stereo are preparing for the launch of their debut album, to be released later this summer. As a first taste of  the album they are releasing the two-track single “Girl, I Love Yo”, where you can listen to the title track here below. One of their best songs so far I think.

You can find Mono Stereo on their site and on Facebook.

Girl, I Love You

It’s hard to imagine more retro-sixties’-psychadelia vibes than The Orange Revival‘s album “Lord I’m Gonna Shake It”. From the starting sitar-Flower Power-instrumental they get into sixties’-sounding psychadelia rock in various ways, almost like it’s taken from one of the Nuggets-albums, but I also get the feeling that Rolling Stones has been the inspiration in some track and Velvet Underground in others, especially in “She Couldn’t Imagine”.

You can enjoy the entire album on Bandcamp and you can follow the band on Facebook.

Give Me Your Love
Well Well

The story about Roí Höttur that started last year has now been crowned with their album debut “Imaginarium”. They continue on the album to develop their psychadelia and the impression of Pink Floyd, being a source of inspiration, is even more obvious now, I think.

The debut single “Dream of Papaver” has been trimmed and now has a sequel on the album in “Dream of Papaver (reprise)”. The end is a brilliant effort by Elin Larsson in a “The Great Gig In the Sky”-inspired part. Listen to the song here below.

You can listen to the album on Roí Höttur’s Bandcamp page. Follow the band on Facebook.

Dream of Papaver (reprise)