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Essen 1970
A document of one of British folk-rock's great might-have-beens, captured just weeks before it ended. Recorded live at the Grugahalle in Essen on 23 October 1970, during the third Essen Pop & Blues Festival, Essen 1970 finds Fotheringay - the short-lived band Sandy Denny formed on leaving Fairport Convention - at the height of its powers, playing with the confidence of a group that believed it had years ahead of it. Within three months, it would be gone.
Fotheringay took its name from Denny's ow…
Standing Stone (LP)
2026 Repress Black vinyl. LP + Download Card. Hard cardboard sleeve + OBI. Insert with liner notes by Richard Allen & rare photos. Sourced from the original master tapes. Part-time farmer / musician Oliver Chaplin is the person behind one of the rarest private pressings from the UK.
His cult masterpiece “Standing Stone” was recorded in early 1974 at a remote farm in Wales, using a portable 4-track Teac reel-to-reel machine. Helped by his brother Chris at the controls (an experienced BBC engineer…
Oar
Canadian-born Alexander 'Skip' Spence was the co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. In the same year he released his only solo album: Oar. The album was recorded after Spence had spent six months in a mental institution following a delusion-driven attempt to attack his Moby Grape band mates with a fire axe, after having ingested LSD. As the urban myth goes, on the day of his release he drove a motorcycle - dressed in only his pyjamas - directly to Nashville to record …
At The Emerald Pool
Netherlands-based artists Tomo Katsurada (Ex-Kikagaku Moyo / Future Days Radio) and Jonny Nash (Melody As Truth) combine forces for an exploration into the sonic potential of the guitar duo, rooted in their experiences performing together over the last 12 months. Friends and admirers of each other’s work for a decade, their musical collaboration began in 2024 with Katsurada asking Nash to contribute guitar to his debut EP ‘Dream Of The Egg’. Sensing the need to explore this further, they spent t…
Dino Valente
Dino Valente (1968) is the first and sole solo album by American singer‑songwriter Chester (Chet) William Powers Jr., widely known as Dino Valenti or Valente and celebrated as a founder and early leader of Quicksilver Messenger Service. Blending rock, folk and country with psychedelic undertones, the record pairs introspective, evocative lyrics with the quintessential West Coast sound of the era. Though it was largely overlooked upon its original release, the album has since been embraced as a c…
Jugatsu no Ame
*300 copies limited edition* A lost jewel of 1970s Japanese psychedelia. Recorded by high school friends Minoru Sasaki and Masanori Nishigaito who spent their days rehearsing in a decrepit abandoned hospital, supported by their friends’ band Momonga. Self-released in 1974 in only 100 copies on the highly collectible Mountain Fuji Record imprint, most surviving copies have surfaced without jackets, further adding to the record’s mystique. For fans of private press psych and Japanese folk rock act…
With You in My Arms
With You in My Arms by John Michael Roch is a once‑lost mid‑’70s Los Angeles private‑press gem: fragile pop‑rock‑psych songs that sit perfectly beside Michael Angelo and Justen O’Brien & Jake, now finally restored from total obscurity with the care they always deserved.
Issue 73 (Magazine)
*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as an edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Spectrum Orchestrum - French underground today. Plus: Celebrating 5 years since the Audion relaunch as a complete multimedia archive, and with 25 new issues!, Denmark - Scandinavian fusion legends 10, Phog - a French one-man band,…
Issue 71 (Magazine)
Audion 71 catches Audion Magazine in full cartographic mode, tracing how progressive, psychedelic and experimental tendencies have leaked across borders, labels and generations. The issue opens with a feature on Acid Rooster, cast here as “new space-trekkers from Germany”, picking up the kosmische thread with extended jams that feel closer to orbital slingshots than retro homage. The piece listens closely to their long-form structures, guitar textures and rhythmic drift, showing how they tap int…
Issue 85 (Magazine)
*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as first edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for full contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.Audion 85 contents... The interstellar cementmixers - 20 questions with Japanese oddities and curiosities, Norway - scandinavian fusion legends 12, Panzerpappa - unclassifiable music from Norway; choice french label classics: Gratte-Ciel…
Issue 84 (Magazine)
*50 copies limited edition* 44 page magazine first printed as an edition of 50 copies, and now (12/12/2025) on its second 50-copy run. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Dave Newhouse - Beyond The Muffins. Plus: The untold history of Düsseldorf's Creamcheese, Scandinavian fusion legends 11: Finland, Finnish Oddities and Curiosities, Jim Tetlow …
Issue 83 (Magazine)
*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as an edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Spectrum Orchestrum - French underground today. Plus: Celebrating 5 years since the Audion relaunch as a complete multimedia archive, and with 25 new issues!, Denmark - Scandinavian fusion legends 10, Phog - a French one-man band,…
First Utterance
There are albums that defy categorization, records that exist in a space entirely their own. Comus' 1971 debut is one such work - an album that, over fifty years later, still sounds like nothing else ever recorded. Formed in Beckenham in the late 1960s, Comus emerged from the same South London arts scene that nurtured a young David Bowie - indeed, they performed at his legendary Beckenham Free Festival in August 1969. But while their contemporaries in the British folk revival looked back to trad…
Parallelograms
Combining fragile and beautifully melodic acid folk with perfectly-rendered electronic effects, this remarkable album consists of what its creator describes as ‘visual music’. First released in 1970, it has gone on to become one of the most legendary and well-loved recordings of its time. It’s presented here with the full collaboration of its enigmatic creator.
Disappointment - Hateruma
Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Yoshiko Sai reissue program with the release of "Mikkou", the Japanese singer-songwriter's 2nd album released in 1976 on Black Records. The album, produced by ace arranger Isamu Haruna, keeps the same formula as "Mangekyou" with Yoshiko Sai's beautiful songs and dreamy vocals over cool funky arrangements, this time featuring legendary guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka. This is the first time "Mikkou" is widely available outside of Japan, with remastered audio…
The Unicorn / The Garden Of Love
Urban hillbilly one-man-band “outsider artist” private press album from 1974. “The first psychedelic country concept album." Features bluegrass mountain music Americana from the twilight zone mixed with tape effects, musique concrete, fuzz guitar, surreal lyrics imagery and themes from religion, death, sex and other timely concerns. ”If you want to go as far out as it gets, this underground cult album from a NYC visionary provides a map. This is one of the more remarkable LPs I‘ve heard. The van…
Mikko
Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Yoshiko Sai reissue program with the release of "Mikkou", the Japanese singer-songwriter's 2nd album released in 1976 on Black Records. The album, produced by ace arranger Isamu Haruna, keeps the same formula as "Mangekyou" with Yoshiko Sai's beautiful songs and dreamy vocals over cool funky arrangements, this time featuring legendary guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka. This is the first time "Mikkou" is widely available outside of Japan, with remastered audio…
Byzantium
Byzantium by Byzantium navigates the lush crossroads between British psychedelia, progressive folk, and classic rock. Released in 1972, the band’s sophomore LP intertwines ringing acoustic guitars, harmony-laden choruses, and searching, poetic lyricism—a cult artifact, shrouded in rich three-part singing and midnight-stained atmosphere.
Eg Meini Teð
*2025 stock* Feo, the blind-polkied ensemble born in the Danish scene of the early 1970s, re-emerges with Eg Meini Teð, their pioneering progressive folk LP originally released in 1971. This reissue, presented by Orpheus Records, revisits a landmark work that captures the group’s stark, acoustic sensibilities and intricate interweavings of traditional motifs with forward-thinking arrangements.
A historically significant release, Eg Meini Teð stands as Feo’s emblematic exploration of mood-driven …
Satan Is A Woman
*2025 stock* The Bobby Tenderloin Universe unveils Satan is a Woman, a bold new chapter in the Edmonton scene that proves mishaps can become miracles and dreams can find their sound.
From the first notes to the last chorus, Satan is a Woman blends hypnotic basslines, cinematic textures, and sly, storytelling lyricism to create a sonic world that’s both atmospheric and undeniably catchy. The project—led by the imaginative force behind The Bobby Tenderloin Universe—turns misadventure into a musica…