Triple CD set collecting rare cuts and cult favourites from the worlds of psychedelic, pastoral and funky folk, 1968-1975. Focusing on the outpouring of psychedelic folk flavours that emerged swiftly after the first psychedelic era. Featuring some wonderful selections from long collectable acts such as Sunforest, Mellow Candle, Trees, Heron, Trader Horne, Christine Harwood and many more. Compiled by Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve/The Grid), the compilation is themed around UK and Irish music from that hallowed period, and comes with a 7000 word essay and sleeve notes from the musician/producer. Celebrating the collision of traditional folk with new psychedelic studio techniques, new and exotic textures, and a developing groove. It's a wide and broad range of styles, drawing from folk, its oral storytelling tradition, and also from jazz, beat, rhythm and blues, and the more mind opening sounds of psychedelia.

Stunner of a triple CD compiled by Richard Norris that hones in on the funkier, head-nodding side of the genre. When a lot of hiphop/electronica artists and balearic DJ's were looking for deeper sounds they'd delve into the psych-y and freak-folk scenes for percussive grooves and far-out freakiness to enhance their sounds. This compilation taps into that and gives us a real look into just why so much of this brilliant and super rare music is being rediscovered and given a new lease of life far beyond it's original audiences.

By Matt