Brazda Brothers - Brazda Brothers (1973 Ontario, Canada) | Psych Folk | Vinyl Stream

For today’s psychedelic trip this morning I’m spinning the Brazda Brothers self-titled LP on Dominion Records LPS-93077, a 1973 Canadian pressing from a Slovak-born brother duo working out of Galt, Ontario. 00:00 Intro 01:48 Acid Archives reading 03:33 Album starts 23:09 Flip over the record 43:23 My thoughts and bonus tracks Two brothers, Bystrik (Gin) and Andy Brazda, who settled in rural Ontario in the early ’70s after emigrating from Slovakia. They wrote every track, composed and arranged everything together, and made exactly one record before disappearing from the recording scene. Rumor is they cut the entire album in a single six-hour session at RCA Studios in Toronto - unconfirmed but widely repeated. Dominion Records was a Canadian-owned label operating out of Toronto. The LP sits on the quiet, warm end of psych-folk, closer to Americana than fuzz, but there’s real psych in here when it surfaces. “Walking In The Sun” opens with a Cordovox - an electronic keyboard built around a piano-accordion controller, distributed in the US by the same company that handled Farfisa organs. Vince Romano gets the accordion credit and likely handled that opening part. Vinston Dookie runs congas under the whole record, Mac Babb plays bass and sings, Fred O’Quinn pulls double duty on guitar and vocals, Jim Skriboleit keeps time on drums. “Gemini” is the psych centerpiece on this LP - fuzzed guitar, Hammond organ, and Eastern European-tinged harmonies from the brothers. “Share With Love” is reverb-heavy garage-folk-rock sitting between warm and uneasy. “Lonely Time” is a quiet, melancholy ballad that Panda Bear sampled for his 2008 remix of The Notwist’s “Boneless” - confirmed on WhoSampled. Hallucination Records out of New Jersey reissued it on CD in 2009 in a limited run of 1,000 copies. Void Records brought it back on vinyl later. The original Dominion pressings have gotten expensive. This record is on short lists of best Canadian psych LPs, consistently name-checked as a lost classic. Good timing to spin it too - I’m heading to Canada on Wednesday. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #BrazdaBrothers #CanadianPsych #VinylStream #VinylPiper #PsychFolk