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Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine has been pushing the Milky Way-wide padded envelope of minimal music and maximal art since the middle of the 20th century. Starting out in New York City in the late 1950s…
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Joseph Byrd
Joseph Byrd, circa 1961. Joseph Byrd is a composer and music teacher who’s been working since the 1950s. After starting out playing in pop, jazz and country bands as a Tucson, Arizona teen,…
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Shocking Blue
One time in a restaurant, I encountered by chance a super rad-sounding ’60s song blasting out of the speakers that seemed vaguely familiar. No matter how hard I tried, though, I couldn’t quite…
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Sonny Sharrock
Sonny Sharrock (1940-1994) was one of the original wild jazz guitarists. After starting out with a little doo-wop singing in the late 1950s, he wanted to play sax after falling under the spell…
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Debris – Static Disposal
Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time! Proto art punk band Debris formed in 1975 in Chickasha, Oklahoma–of all places–and immediately splattered their dull yee-haw surroundings with buckets of…
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Arcane Candy’s 2020 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Sir Richard Bishop – Oneiric Formulary LP (Drag City) • Arnold Dreyblatt and The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Star Trap LP (Black Truffle)…
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Dom – Edge of Time
Dom was a krautrock band that was more obscure than your first pair of socks. They made a personal appearance on Earth–more precisely Dusseldorf, Germany–from 1969 through the early ‘70s and recorded a…
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Brainticket – Cottonwoodhill
Brainticket was an experimental quasi-Krautrock band who were belched out of the hub of the spiral galaxy known as Switzerland in 1968. The band released an astounding psychedelic / musique concrete artifact in…
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Fifty Foot Hose – Cauldron
Fifty Foot Hose was a San Francisco psychedelic rock / electronics band that originally operated for a hot minute in the late 1960s. A little bit more short-lived and obscure than your average…
