TRAIL RECORDS ************* Distr. : NE - Shiny Beast / Style : reissue / prog. rock / psychedelic / TR 4 SIDDHARTHA TRIP TO INNERSELF CD 06.2012 1. A Trip To Innerself (10:15) 2. The Explorer (6:51) 3. Desert (3:30) 4. Baroque (3:57) 5. Nervous Breakdown (11:51) 6. Beyond Destiny (9:33) 7. Distant Cry (6:42) 8. Black (8:45) 9. Baroque (reprise/bonus) (3:15) Amazing and colourful rock'n'sutra from Turkey! SIDDHARTA swings you mood from serene and tranquil to wild'n'heavy, and throws in some acid balladry for good measure. The result is a progressive/psychedelic space cocktail, with at times jammy elements, suitable for fans of Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, a.s.o. This is an intelligent and well crafted masterpiece that sounds relevant even a decade after it was recorded. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 5 SKY CRIES MARY SPACE BETWEEN THE DROPS CD 04.2009 1. Corner Man (5:30) 2. Elephant Song (8:03) 3. Rain (8:10) 4. These Old Bones (4:01) 5. Slow Down Time (5:51) 6. Four AM (14:47) 7. An Ant, The Stars, An Owl and It's Prey (5:48) 8. Want (6:04) (Extended Version) 9. Gliding (5:07) (Remake version 2006) 10. Land of All (5:12) 11. Missing (5:24) SKY CRIES MARY is a respected trance rock unit from Seattle. 'Space Between The Drops' collects some of the finest trippy recordings from the band's previous releases, and also offers tracks that are exclusive to this title. You may expect beautiful psychedelic music, with ambient elements, poetry, appealing female vocals, use of acoustic instruments, excellent musicianship and passion for detail. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 6 BEYOND-O-MATIC TIME TO GET UP CD 05.2010 This album by San Francisco's space rockers Beyond-0-Matic offers a mixture of psychotic mind bending melodic jams and extended trippy Can-like loopy textures. The use of conventional as well as non-conventional instruments provides the music with a special appeal. Seven tracks, recorded in 2003-2004. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 8 OLE LUKKOYE PETROGLYPHES CD 12.2010 1. Zapara (8:10) 2. Ankara Karachi (5:36) 3. Became A Sky (7:43) 4, Children (5:48) 5. Melting (7:55) 6. White Stone (9:12) 7. Zagoralos' (11:57) 8. Sleepy Herbs (6:48) 9. Horse-Tiger [unreleased 2002 version] (7:31) This is an interesteing 20th anniversary collection from St. Petersburg's ethnic influenced band Ole Lukkoye. They describe their music as "folklore from nowhere", which in practice is a fusing of ancient shamanistic Siberian folk with modern contemporary music. Expect an amazing combination of electric and acoustic material with tribal beats, played on ethnic instruments (f.i. ocarina, darabuka, vargan, djemde) from all over the world. 'Petroglyphs' contains the most trippy 'hits' the band ever recorded, but also includes some tracks exclusively written for this compilation. Released with improved sound quality in a limited collectors edition fold out digipack. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 9 SKY CRIES MARY : TAKING THE STAGE-LIVE 1997-2005 CD 09.2011 1. Taking The Stage (5:03) 2. Rain (7:39) 3. Walla Walla/Moving Like Water (7:39) 4. Corner Man (6:14) 5. Don't Forget the Sky (5:16) 6. The Ant, The Stars, The Owl And Its Prey (5:27) 7. Remember Me the Wind (6:38) 8. Nowhere (7:02) 9. Want (6:46) 10. Gliding (5:10) 11. Elephant Song (6:19) 12. Walk of Nothingness (4:08) 13. California Dreamin' (bonus track) (3:32) Here's another interesting title from SKY CRIES MARY, the excellent trance rock unit from Seattle. This is a selection of the band's best live recordings dating from the years 1997-2005. You get highlights from a number of stunning performances, very psychedelic and with adventurous jam vibes. This is your ticket for a truly cosmic audio experience. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 10 V / A TRIPWAVE 1 CD 05.2011 01. Eastern Syndrome Celt 02. The Moon Pierrot Moon Dream 03. Do Major To Rake Your Fingers Through The Grass 04. Decadance Dream #5 05. Disen Gage Solaris 06. Rada & Ternovnik Interlude 07. KRTL Soda 08. Deti Picasso Happy End Is Inevitable 09. Vespero Inna Burst Into Tears 10. Kafedra.org Entrance To Invisibility 11. Liompa Thee --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 11 IN THE LABYRINTH ONE TRAIL TO HEAVEN CD 12.2011 We were lucky to meet one of the brightest representatives of the Swedish progressive psychedelic music scene, the artist and musician Peter Lindahl and his psychedelic folk band "In The Labyrinth". He founded the band In the Labyrinth and in the mid to late 1990s recorded a number of engaging albums in which Northern psychedelic folk blends harmoniously with Middle Eastern music. The band's new compilation album "One Trail to Heaven" includes their most fascinating compositions as well as some previously unreleased material and alternate versions of songs from Peter's exclusive personal archive. Produced and engineered by Peter Lindahl in his studio in Stockholm, Sweden. Compilated and released with an improved sound quality on Trail Records in 2011. Limited collector edition. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 12 BARRETT ELMORE WOODLANDS CD 05.2012 Barrett Elmore was founded in 2008 in Sweden. The band started out as a trio that played raw instrumental blues. Soon they moved on to psychedelic and progressive inspired music. When singer Mikaela Eriksson joined the band, they finally found the sound and style reflected in their music today. This has resulted in their debut album 'Woodlands'. Pink Floyd is obviously one of the main influences, together with the atmospheres of the Nordic woods (the album's main theme) and melancholic Swedish folk music. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 13 V / A : DISCOVERY-PSYCHEDELIC WORLD MUSIC CD 06.2012 1. Cosmic Vibration Aurora (Germany) (6:54) 2. Triptych Origins of Life (UK) (6:19) 3. The Misteriosos The Sun (USA) (9:09) 4. Mouches A L'orange Sixty Nine (Belarus) (6:50) 5. Deti Picasso Kele Lao (Armenia) (6:45) 6. Grey Mouse Snow (Russia) (7:24) 7. Plootoh Caronte (Italy) (6:06) 8. The Narcotic Daffodils:The Crazy Dwarf (Belgium)(6:48) 9. Zhaoze : Fishing For The Stars (China) (6:25) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 14 BEYOND-O-MATIC : RELATIONS AT THE BORDERS BETWEEN CD 10.2013 Led by vocalist/multi instrumentalist Peter Fuhry , San Francisco's Beyond-O-Matic has been 'putting the fun back in trippy space rock since 1995'. True to the word, this album takes you on a tongue-in-cheek trip into the cosmos with droning riffs and hypnotic beats. Expect extended emotional sonic adventures that sizzle with drama, humility and humanity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 15 POLSKA RADIO 1 COSMOS INSIDE CD 01.2014 Polska Radio One is a group from the cold and gloomy Ural city of Yekaterinburg. They started out as a garage combo but soon drifted towards seriously psychedelic territory. The music is a combination of influences, including British '60s psych-rock, modern fuzz-psych and '70s Kraut. This awesome debut full-length is sure to please fans of a.o. early-mid period Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and Can! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 16 OLE LUKKOYE DYTLY CD 05.2015 Whatever the category, OLE LUKKOYE plays music that is captivating and exotic, incorporating hybrid sounds from Russia, Siberia and East Asia. Aside from the Russian vocals, the band uses mesmerizing shamanistic and Siberian vocal styles, as well as elements of psych, dub and native American chanting. They have a clear bias towards ethno flavoured songs with a tribal percussion background. A world beat sound that contains space, folk, eastern, jungle, ambient, Shaman and even electronic tribal music in the vein of Dead Can Dance, Suns Of Arqa and Korai Orom. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 17 ZHAOZE INTOXICANTINGLY LOST CD 04.2016 Zhaoze is from Guangzhou, China. They have built an inimitable sound, blending Chinese classical aesthetics with modern western rock. Most notably, the sound of the guqin (a Chinese traditional instrument) is prevalent through much of the album. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 18 V / A TRIPWAVE 2 CD 10.2016 'COLLECTION OF MODERN RUSSIAN PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC' 1. Ciolkowska Below The Grass 2. Rada & Blackthorn Ethno-Song 3. Bowl Of Knowledge Ganja Yoga 4. Sonora Canyon 5. Cosmic Triggers Syndicate 6. Ole Lukkoye Dyatly (Edit) 7. Dead Man Tell No Tales : Suicide Trip 8. Kamni Forest Song 9. Polska Radio One Shangri-La --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 19 EASTERN SYNDROME CELT CD 06.2017 Third release in a series of albums by the legendary neo-psychedelic band Eastern Syndrome from Magadan, one of the major sensations in Russian '80s/'90s alternative psychedelic rock. It's a collection of the best and the most memorable tracks from their first two albums, with the addition of rare versions and unique bonus tracks. Connoisseurs can certainly identify the influence of The Talking Heads and King Crimson. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 20 SPACIOUS MIND THE DRIFTER CD 09.2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 21 SONORA SUNRISE THE ROUTE THROUGH THE CANYON CD 01.2019 Sonora Sunrise is a Russian band from Altai. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR 22 SKY CRIES MARY SECRETS OF A RED PLANET CD 03.2020 This band, founded by Roderick Wolgamott and multi-instrumental songwriter Ben Ireland blends Cabalistic poetry, mysticism, electronic synthesis, with ethereal vocals sung by Roderick and Debra Reese. Curt Eckman's brooding intentioned bass and meandering licks by guitarists Kevin Whitworth and Jack Endino create set and setting for a psychedelic sonic journey. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================================= www.shinybeast.nl