Pete Yellin - Mebakush

Some great songs are fleeting and complicated, such that you have to think through them, imagining where they're going to be before they get there. Pete Yellin's Mainstream debut Mebakush is a perfect example. This nine minute workout, produced by Bob Shad, is psychedelic jazz at it's finest. The subtle interplay between Kenny Barron's spaced out electric piano, bassist Stanley Clarke, and drummer Billy Hart --ably assisted by Shad's weirdo mud-soup production-- conspires to imply a totally different song from the one you're actually listening to.

Amason - Margins

Dungen, Little Children, The Amazing, Amason. It's like some kind of weird free association poem.

The Life and Times of Tommy Vann

This is some weird synchronicity that started with Donnie & Joe Emerson. Tommy Vann is a blue-eyed soul singer from Baltimore who had several regional hits from the early 60s to the 70s. Here is a fan made, brief retrospective of his career. The first six minutes are pretty interesting, and if you can make it that far, pay special attention to 5:08. Peculiar indeed.

Little Beaver - Let The Good Time Roll

hello, old friend.

EK Bunch - Banana

Before they had a hit with their 1969 Skinhead Moonstomp album and tried their name on backwards, Symarip were The Pyramids and cut this one-off single under yet another name, The EK Bunch. Here's looking at a good 2014.