The Mickey Guitar Band ‎– From The Beaches

Continuing where the album with Gerogerigegege left off, Mickey Guitar Band offer yet another hazy and zoned-out piece of acid-drenched psychedelic and kosmische rock. Yeah! 2019 cd on Bam Balam.

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Mickey Guitar Project ‎– Flowers

Spacey and fizzy psychedelic ambient music with slight new age leanings and heavy inspirations from science/space documentary music by Ken Matsutani. Seventy 1-minute tracks that seamlessly blend into each other and gradually add more levitation. 2007 cd on Captain Trip Records.

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The Mickey Guitar Band ‎– Mickey Guitar tape

Their other release (minus Gerogerigegege, who, however, is the recording engineer here) is even more heavily focused on the guitar; side 1 is 27 minutes of ambient guitar effects of ambient nature and even similar to 1980s science documentaries. Again I find a Frippertronics element here. Side 2 is a live recording of the full band with a much grittier sound than in the LP; I get a jam/improvisation/noise feeling over the guitar solos that kinda akin to Les Rallizes Denudes and Taj-Mahal Travellers and slightly Can. Good shit. 2017 tape on Captain Trip Records.

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The Mickey Guitar Band Feat. The Gerogerigegege ‎– From The Deep LP

From the moment I learned of the existence of this, I was wavering on whether I should buy it due to the price, but eventually I did. Second kind-of-mass outing of Gerogerigegege after the amazing out-of-nowhere return of Moenai Hai is this collaboration lp with Japanese psych rock band The Mickey Guitar Band. Gero is listed as playing percussion, which is not that audible actually, as well as handling the production. So what we got here is psychedelic rock heavily focused on guitar solos combined with fizzy, levitating ambient pieces generated mainly by guitar effects akin to 1970s Robert Fripp. I'd say this sounds like a mix between Hawkwind and Popol Vuh, but don't take my word. It ain't that Gero-weird, but it's a good psychedelic record with a nightly sound ideal for night drives and such. 2017 LP on Psych.KG.

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