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The Cornish band's long-lost Canterbury-inspired recordings from 1974 are finally being released this Friday on Seelie Court. We caught up with the band to hear the stories behind the recordings. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/marv...

Really enjoyed putting this one together. A long conversation with Russell Hoke about his music, handmade records, poetry and much more. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/russ...

Australian composer Ben Carey spent two years working with analogue synthesisers, tape machines and laboratory electronics for 'INVENTIONS', recording in studios from Sydney to New York and leaving plenty of room for unexpected discoveries.

Toronto’s Ayal Senior has made a lovely new record with ‘Yutori’, bringing together 12-string blues and more experimental ideas, partly inspired by his travels in Japan and recorded with friends back home, with Sandro Perri producing.

Ive just published a new interview with British guitarist Mike Cooper, whose sixty-year career has taken him from blues and folk to free jazz, Hawaiian music and experimental sounds. Plenty of wonderful stories along the way! www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/mike...

Berlin’s Sacred Buzz have made a terrific debut, with the four-piece bringing together psych rock, a love of science fiction and some rather strange ideas about dreams and reality across eight songs.

Born in Morocco and recorded in Montréal, San Koupbol’s debut is a wonderfully strange little trip through psych, full of dreamy passages, unexpected turns and ideas that seem to wander wherever they please.

Marius Constant is best known for The Twilight Zone, but theres so much more to his music. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/anth...

Heres a wonderful little-known British psych-folk band, Mourning Phase (originally General Services), pictured at the Lamplight Club in Wallasey, circa 1971. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/mour...

A new interview with Arnaldo Baptista, founding member of the legendary Os Mutantes. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/arna...

Howard Eynon looks back on his remarkable 1974 album ‘So What If I’m Standing in Apricot Jam’, the recording sessions at Spectangle Studios, his adventures on ‘Mad Max’, and performing alongside Hunter S. Thompson. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/howa...

Ancient Grease Records has brought back ‘Sem Nada,’ a wonderful slice of heavy Brazilian psychedelia from A Bolha, originally released in 1971. I had the pleasure of interviewing bassist Arnaldo Brandão a few years ago, so writing the liner notes for this reissue was particularly special.

In our new in-depth interview, he takes us back to the wild days of Japan’s underground, recalling Lost Aaraaf, his years with Takashi Mizutani in Les Rallizes Dénudés, and the extraordinary experiments of Eternal Womb Delirum. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/hiro...

John Hams and Colin Ferguson’s ‘Wall of Lanterns’ is a fascinating piece of experimental improvisation, full of delicate, gamelan-like chimes and gently shifting sounds. Recorded live on just two iPhones and released by Minor Cone In Ore in a tiny edition of only 20 vinyl copies.

Really pleased to share this one. An in-depth conversation with legendary producer Joe Boyd, whose extraordinary career includes work with Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, the Incredible String Band and so many others. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/joe-...

From Caravan to Hatfield and the North and Camel, Richard Sinclair has quite a few stories to tell. A wonderful conversation with Dereck Higgins about the music, the people and the memories from those years. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/rich...

Gentle Giant in their own words. Derek Shulman, Gary Green, Kerry Minnear and John Weathers look back on the bands history in conversations with Dereck Higgins. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/gent...

Roger Knott discusses his new album ‘Gateway Songs’, revisiting material from his Lifeblud days, working with Nashville musicians, and the recordings he hopes to release next. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/roge...

New interview with Tamio Shiraishi! We talked about Fushitsusha, Keiji Haino, Tokyo’s underground scene and his years of playing saxophone in New York subway stations. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/tami...

A wonderful conversation with Jackson Wingate about Burnt Hills, Albanys underground, and the wild nights at Helderberg House. More than twenty years of making noise with friends, and some incredible stories along the way. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/burn...

“You hear something beautiful, you move toward it.” A new interview with Cyrus Faryar, from Greensleeves and The Modern Folk Quartet to Monterey Pop and beyond. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/10/cyru...

It’s dark and strange. Magick Knives release their debut on Library of the Occult. Well worth diving into.

A genuinely lost piece of late-’70s British underground music. Recorded in 1979 but left unreleased at the time, ‘Phoenix’ catches Julian Mount and Helix somewhere between folk rock, prog and Mount’s own wonderfully strange idea of “Fantasy Rock.”

That wonderful footage of Chika Asamoto playing in Hong Kong...In our new interview, Chika tells us how it came about, and looks back on Art Pepper, ‘Gypsy Moon’, Jeff Mills and the many turns her music has taken since. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/chik...

A rare new interview with Ken Weaver of the Fugs, one of his first substantial interviews in over twenty years. Also: Chuck Smith on ‘Fugs Film!’ and Ed Sanders on the beginnings of it all. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/the-...

Article about Zyma from the Heidelberg/Mannheim area, whose two albums ‘Thoughts’ (1978) and ‘Brave New World’ (1979) combine progressive rock, jazz-rock and improvisation. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/zyma...

From – ‘Power On!’ (1972), reissued by Cinedelic, is a fantastic deep cut from the German jazz-rock underground, full of heavy Hammond, sax, electric piano and a wonderfully loose, exploratory groove.

This article by Patrícia Marcondes de Barros explores the story of Módulo 1000, their place in Brazil’s underground rock scene, the making of ‘Não Fale com Paredes’, and Luiz Paulo Simas’s memories of the band’s music, censorship, experimentation,... www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/modu...

Angelo Repetto’s ‘Between Worlds: Interference’ is a really lovely trip through kosmische electronics, bubbling sequences and a wonderfully spacious late-night atmosphere, with plenty of room to get lost in.

Ken Walker looks back on Kennélmus and the band’s 1971 cult psych album ‘Folkstone Prism’, the local Phoenix scene and how it all came together. On the photo: Mike Shipp of Kennélmus. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/kenn...

Back in 1974, before Brian James joined The Damned, he was playing in Bastard with Alan Ward. They were playing biker clubs and rough bars, and Alan was even being carried on stage in a coffin. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/bast...

Galaxy from Bremen, and the story behind their remarkable private pressing ‘Visions’, told by the band themselves. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/gala...

Earthen Vessel’s ‘Hard Rock’ is among the most exciting Xian rock records of the era, with male and female vocals and loud fuzz-wah guitar all over it. Out via Guerssen.

Amazing to finally unravel this psych-prog mystery. For decades they were known as Shuttah. This is Zac. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/zac-...

Ten Years After revisit 'Cricklewood Green'. Leo Lyons and Ric Lee look back on the album, Fillmore East and life on the road. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/leo-...

Nelson Pass in the workshop. We spoke with the legendary audio engineer and designer about Pass Labs, First Watt and a lifetime in high-end audio. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/nels...

A lovely, hazy bit of New York psych pop, with warm guitars, synths and songs that drift somewhere between dreamy and slightly strange. ‘Wendekind’ comes from Lukka, led by Franzi Szymkowiak, with Simon Fishburn on drums and percussion and Abe Seiferth on bass, guitars and synths.

Simon Kirke looks back on Free, Koss, Bad Company and everything that came after. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/simo...

Louise Trehy and Mike Mason look back at Swallow, making ‘Blow’ for 4AD, reworking the album as ‘Blowback’, the years that followed and returning to the music more than three decades later. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/swal...

The Birth of Electronic Music in Bulgaria www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/simo...

Diabolus’ only LP was recorded at Sound Techniques in London in 1971 but never released in the UK, instead appearing on the German Bellaphon label. A fine mix of heavy psych, prog, folk and jazz-rock, with plenty of flute and saxophone.

"David and I just wanted to sound like ourselves." www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/jad-...

Originally released in 1974 in a pressing of just 300 copies, ‘Savvas’ has spent most of the past half-century out of sight. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/sava...

From hearing Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders as a teenager to 501 Canal Street, the rediscovery of ‘Valley of Search’ and the new ‘Anthem for Peace’, Alan Braufman looks back on a lifetime spent searching for his own sound. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/alan...

There were only two afternoons. Marshall Allen had turned 100 two days earlier, the musicians were gathered in a Philadelphia studio, and Jan Lankisch still had no real idea what the record was going to sound like. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/jan-...

Las Robertas’ ‘All We Need is Now’ folds ’60s psychedelia into the hazier end of ’90s alternative rock and shoegaze. The Costa Rican band sound bright and expansive throughout, with fuzz, melody and plenty of space… (Kanine Records / Spinda Records)

From Austin punk clubs and the first stirrings of cyberpunk to ‘Glimpses’, Brian Wilson and the lost music of the 1960s, Lewis Shiner looks back on more than fifty years spent writing about art, failure and the things people ask music to save... www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/lewi...

Brian Willey started The Black Drumset in Austin in 2009, and ‘Charged’, released ten years later, is a good example of how far he could take a fairly spare set of materials without making a great fuss about it.

Denny Zeitlin is an American pianist, composer, improviser and psychiatrist who has, for more than six decades, sustained two demanding careers in parallel. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/denn...

As a founding member of Van der Graaf Generator and a prolific solo songwriter, Peter Hammill has spent more than half a century making music with an unusually personal vocabulary. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/pete...