Sky Sunlight Saxon and The Seeds
Information and reviews for 1960s psychedelic garage-rock pioneers The Seeds. Including Sky Saxon's numerous projects 1960-2009 and beyond.
Album of the day
Sky Saxon recorded some music around 1973 or 1974 with some of the musicians in the Source Family; these resulted in a vinyl LP called Yodship, released rather after the fact in 1977. Companion records called In Praise Of Our Father and Lovers Cosmic Voyage were also released around the same time. The musicians on Yodship, as reckoned by Source Family musician Djin in latter-day interviews, were Sky Saxon (aka Sunlight), Osiris, and Sirius. If this is true then there must have been overdubs (highly unlikely), or Sky must have been on bass, because sometimes even three people don't seem to account for the different instruments. In fact, it seems that others would wander into the room periodically and pick up an instrument for a couple minutes, especially towards the middle of Side 2. The album is thirty minutes long, fifteen minutes per side of vinyl. It consists of long, continuous performances, spliced together from three different recordings. Yodship's music consists of an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, a flute, occasional maracas, and a bouncy bass. (Not all are present simultaneously.) Sky Saxon, and occasionally others, talks/sings over
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
"Kick Kick" may be short but it's a definite highlight of the 1988 Fire Wall album World Fantastic. The chant-along chorus is maddeningly catchy, Sky sounds great
Sky Saxon often saved the last track on his many albums to do something different, to offer a musical left turn that stood in contrast to the preceding album. Well, "Space
When the song "East Meets West" begins, you'd be forgiven for not recognizing it as a Sky Saxon performance. The crisp synthesizer pop comes on like a forgotten Duran Duran
"Moth And The Flame" appeared on the 1967 LP A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues, credited to The Sky Saxon Blues Band but in fact a project by otherwise-psychedelic The
The song "Just Moving On" was on the Golden Sunrise 8-track-only release of 1977. It does not feature Sky Saxon, only the other members of the ad-hoc Fire, Water
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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