Steve Palmer - Unblinking Sun (2014)

Steve Palmer is from Minneapolis, MN and plays psychedelic folk that bears heavy influence from both krautrock and the American Primitive of John Fahey. Unblinking Sun is a hard-to-predict album because eccentric influences, and that unpredictably is truly an asset. Parts of it are undoubtedly pulled straight from the guitar picking tradition that Fahey inspired, of which I can never get my fill, and like Fahey himself Palmer wasn't afraid to get experimental with it. It has the trappings sound collage with touch ambient noises and spoken word that provide the far out psychedelic folk with a theatricality. Nonetheless, it really is Palmer's amazing skill with the guitar the makes this album anything at all, and boy howdy can he play.

Normally I would not share a link to an incompletely streamable album, but it is my bad that I failed to share this in the window where it was fully listenable and also(I got a link for the full streaming for those of you interested in hearing it all before purchase), these are our buddies over at Dying For Bad Music putting the album out. I defer to their wisdom and will tell you that you'll have to believe me that the second half of this album is as good as the first.

To be had here:
Steve Palmer - Unblinking Sun

Voice Of The Seven Thunders - Voice Of The Seven Thunders (2010)

Voice Of The Seven Thunders is a similarly named but technically separate project of Rick Tomlinson, who's other band is called Voice Of The Seven Woods. Like much other recently posted albums, this is an instrumental project that is heavily influenced by krautrock. As long as I'm stuck inside due to the resurgence of Michigan's harsh ass winter I have been pleased to have some of these epic jams to hear. Voice Of The Seven Thunders is very much along the same lines as People of the North from a few days back, but seems to have more of a eastern feel to it, almost reminds me of Les Mogol or Bröselmaschine at the mellower parts. The versatility of the album is one of the stronger aspects, as it goes between heavy, slightly drone, psychedelia and lighthearted acoustic tracks. Pretty solid all around.

To be had here:
Voice Of The Seven Thunders - Voice Of The Seven Thunders [320 kbps]

Bröselmaschine - Bröselmaschine (1971)

This is another album I got off of Lost-in-Tyme that I found wonderful. Very different from the Les Napoleons album, in fact completely different. Bröselmaschine was a German band, hailing from an era of some fantastic music generally referred to as Krautrock. However, Bröselmaschine was a bit of a variation on this theme, being what can be called Krautfolk. What is for sure is that they made a brilliant album here that is far underrated in my opinion. Something I normally don't point out is that I love this album's cover, it makes me think of something almost exactly like the music created in my mind when I first heard it. After I got over the fact that German wizards read my future thoughts before my birth I thought it was neat. The music is great too, trust me, it has Eastern and psychedelic blended into there sweet folk makings.

To be had here:
Bröselmaschine - Bröselmaschine [320 kbps]