Banana / Bauer / Kane

...Issued on the Youngbloods Racoon imprint (via those 'hip capitalists' at Warner Bros), Crab Tunes/Noggins was not ever likely to set the woods on fire with its weird 'out-of-time' rural jazzbo grooves, its playful avant slant on rustic mystic wobbliness ain't going to settle on too many hippies record decks for long, it's just going to derail the vibe and the reason is the sheer apparent repetitiveness going down. ...Basically what Banana/Joe Bauer/Michael Kane are doing is getting busy with a couple of tunes (crab and noggin) and just having a blast trying to get the right groove on the move. A few takes and attempts to get them the way they want, the listener is eaves dropping on an afternoon spent in a marijuana fog at the Youngbloods backwoods studio as the tunes evolve/devolve in frothy muggament, the fragments appearing and reappearing dislodging the time continuum whilst the unsuspecting stoned listener imagines the record is scratched and ponders the thoughts of offloading offending disc at the 'second hand store', but its cool, its only some hippy prank with pretensions to Thelonious Monk at Big Pink jamming with Zimmy. ...As with all Youngbloods related endeavours there's a cheery good nature floating around woozily on a pot cloud of optimistic nicety, to live life in the Youngblood universe is to be savoured and valued for it don't get much cooler than time spent at Point Reyes on a sunny afternoon. ...This surely is a most worthy piece of 'left field' grist thats strangely addictive and if this had been made by three unknown stoners it would be going for a heavy amount of change on the collector circuit and thats a fact. Well worth an earful and watch out for that pesky cyclist...

10 comments:

  1. Thanks for this spacedsaviour
    In my blog I recently posted joe bauer´s moonset

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  2. That's another great Racoon release.

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  3. Mr Spaced - had to get this just to see what the hell it was/is... it is great... sounds like spider johns 'runnin jumpin standing still' left over practice tapes...and then they pressed an lp... some of the tunes sound like a drunk Charlie Brown TV show soundtrack..which is awesome... LOVE IT... also here some RedKrayola circa Coconut Hotel - actually if Coconut Hotel sounded like this i would LIKE IT!!! - very stoned grooves - sounds like an awesome tuesday afternoon or two... would never have heard this if not for you... thank you thank you thank you! D in TX.

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  4. Glad you're enjoying this, it's pretty addictive.

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  5. i want to download it but where is the link?

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  6. This is what happens when you give hippies their own label.... Actually I like it - in fact I requested it on the old spacedsaviour site a couple of years ago - I knew you'd get there in the end. Only just found the new site & glad the link for this still working.
    Crab Tunes used to be impossible to get in UK (a bit like Skip's OAR) - there was a high priced copy in the collectors section in Honest Johns record shop in Camden Town for about 10 years. I used to like looking at the cover, even though I knew I could never afford to buy it. I was kind of upset when it finally disappeared from the shop.
    Thanks also for the link to Moonset - a fine record. The Banana & the Bunch LP did the rounds on the internet a while back - another goodie & bit more mainstream than Crab Tunes. Any more Racoon stuff would be welcome.... Cheers HJ

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  7. The link is the word Noggins on the second line...
    I've got a few more Racoons (jeffrey cain/B&the B/Hurley/youngbloods) so in the future I'll get them up as interest is around.
    Good to see some people enjoying these jazzed out hippies.

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  8. Thank you so much!
    What a great side i stumbled upon!!

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  9. Here's a cool album from Kenny Gill:

    http://hoochiecoochiejazz.blogspot.com/2010/11/kenny-gill-what-was-what-is-what-will.html

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