LITTLES PAIA

Complete Discography pt.1

2011-03-28T11:36:00.001-07:00

Bad Weather California - Get a Grip
Produced by Seth Olinsky of AKRON FAMILY
Recorded by Chris Koltay in Detroit
Littles Paia CC#4

Bad Weather California - get a grip from Bad Weather California on Vimeo.

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Bad Weather California - Live Jammers EP 2010

When i die by Littles Paia

I don't know by Littles Paia

Bad Weather California's three-day residency with Akron/Family at Quixote's in May is still panning out. Not only is the eminent avant-folk band taking Bad Weather on tour later this month, but its members make a guest appearance on Live Jammers, a new, live Bad Weather EP released just in time for the road trip. Recorded in a living room during a snowstorm — and sounding accordingly intimate — these six tracks flawlessly capture Chris Adolf and crew's primal, soulful, shaggy psychedelia. Rangier and more atmospheric than the band's recent studio output, these loose yet focused renditions of "Lord Take Me Away" and "When I Die" feel perversely life-affirming. And then there's the Bo Diddley bombast of "Gimme More," a stomping call-and-response as sinuously sinful as some pagan ritual. That is, after all, what live music is supposed to be about.

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have a song on the new 1190 radio comp.

Cyberpunks not Dead (for carls & tom murphy) by Littles Paia
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2007/2008 Dew on the Needles CD

There isn't a song on Dew on the Needles that doesn't incorporate an unexpected twist or pleasant surprise. Songs will start out one way, set a nice groove, then take a hard left into weird territory; fairly straightforward tunes will suddenly give way to an extended sample of a woman talking about relationships. There are plenty of rough edges on this disc, but they in no way obscure the spark of genius that drives the entire album. With an impressive supporting cast that includes Chris Adolf and Joe Sampson, Littles Paia has produced something special: ten tracks of beautifully fractured folk rock swathed in a dusty, fly-specked steam-punk electro aesthetic that's both intimate and alien, warm and weird, and ultimately wonderful.

That girl she (dont show me no love) by Littles Paia
If it snows tonite (can i come over) by Littles Paia
Goodnight my baby's by Littles Paia
Its ok (to love again) by Littles Paia

Buy CD here-

or on itunes here-

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Contracrostipunctus Carol project #1 ( blue oyster cult )
songs for music videos.

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Complete Discography pt.2

2011-03-28T11:29:00.001-07:00

2005/2006 All Please Sound CD
i just listened to your album; not for the first time; but i am going through a particularly difficult time sleeping and it was really great.
I had never really dug the lyrics at the end about your guitars and sax being stolen - i feel great empathy, having had my first love stolen from the stage in 1995, a red strat copy worth £70.
Ben
COUNTRY TEASERS
Kik ik ik by Littles Paia
T'was a blue moon the night the guitars were stoled by Littles Paia
snowstorm by Littles Paia
Bad energy by Littles Paia

Buy MP3 Album on itunes here___

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Littles Paia / John Thill split cassette on starshipstereo 2007

Breast milk blues by Littles Paia

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2001 -2002 Littles Paia - silver cdr

Pocket full of pop rocks by Littles Paia
said a spell by Littles Paia
I need to bury everywoman by Littles Paia
Dreaming of you by Littles Paia
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Complete Discography pt.3

2010-04-02T16:41:00.001-07:00

2007/2008 Littles Paia presents DJ FREEDOMHATER
(featuring king tornado)

Vagina Power by Littles Paia
King tornado by Littles Paia
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2003-4ish Navy Girls

White Gold by Littles Paia
lion in oil ( live at lost lake ) by Littles Paia
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Hawaiian dorm room songs w/ BigDaddyMugglestone 1999/Y2K

Some people by Littles Paia
Keep the dream by Littles Paia
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1997/98 KA-TET CASSETTE

Morning Bringer by Littles Paia
chambers ride by Littles Paia
Ruin yr life by Littles Paia
Rochester girls by Littles Paia
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2006/07 HAWKS & DOVES

Hawksndoves gypsy st by Littles Paia
Hawksndoves fabricated myth by Littles Paia

Conplete Discography pt.4

2010-04-02T15:56:00.000-07:00

Bad Weather California-
played gtr/pedal steel on some of this stuff.

2005 Fear Not my Brother, Fear not my Sisters, I Have seen the Future...

Iwill b here by Love Letter Band
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2009 Young Punks

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2008 Bad Weather California / High Water Marks record club split

vineland ( on everything ) for Alan Watts this is IT

2008-09-04T20:19:00.000-07:00

ARTIST: Alan Watts
TITLE: This Is IT
YEAR: 1962
LABEL: MEA - Sausalito CA

CONDITION: Sleeve is VG+ some dirt and wear but altogether nice & sturdy no major flaws.
Vinyl is EXCELLENT! - There aren't many of these around and this one is Beautiful.
2 or 3 light marks, thats it, nice full gloss and sounds crystal clear.

INFO: Excellent Copy of what is considered the FIRST PSYCH LP!!!!!!!!!!
Last one sold according to popsike.com in 2004 for $450!

Watts, a leading figure in the Beat and Zen movements of the 50s-60s was about to publish his book The Joyous Cosmology on his experience with magic mushrooms and this LP, issued privately in a pressing of a few hundred copies sold mostly through bookshops, was recorded on his houseboat off of Sausalito by Watts & friends higher than God on the food of the Gods.

Below is part of the lengthy review at the Acid Archives site:

Alan Watts' key psychedelic work is the slim volume "The Joyous Cosmology", published in 1962. Essentially an extension and variation on Aldous Huxley's "Doors Of Perception" it is a tremendous reading experience, more concrete and direct than Huxley's famous work. Both are building blocks in the psychedelic canon.

Much less known is the LP Alan Watts recorded and released the same year. Titled "This Is IT" the album is in fact missing from all Watts bibliographies I've seen, and it ranks as one of his rarest works. The record's importance and uniqueness is only now beginning to see recognition, and its earliest advocates were esoteric record collectors rather than Watts admirers or psychedelic archivists. Its rarity is somewhat puzzling as Watts had recorded and released two albums in the same series and on the same label (MEA) in 1958-59, and these aren't half as obscure.

The record is not easy to describe, and much in line with its theme it remains an aural experience impossible to analyse in a structured way. A key word to suggest its nature might be tribal. Referred to on the back cover as a "spontaneous musical happening", its relationship with the LSD testimonies in The Joyous Cosmology is made clear by explicit mention and extensive quotes from this book.

The LP begins with "an explosive dialogue" wherein Watts and associate Roger Somers rap and ramble over a crude piano and percussion backdrop; an extraordinary intensity rapidly builds and culminates in voices screaming and chanting "loveyouloveyouloveyou", abrutply cut off with a state of the art (for 1962) psychedelic echo effect. It's too tribal to be avantgarde art, too crude to be free jazz, too freaky to be rock'n'roll - it just is "IT", and that's all you can say about IT.

We are then greeted by Watts' delightful voice introducing the "Onion Chant". The confident mid-Atlantic lecturer tone that was such a hit with Bay Area radio listeners briefly recaps a theme from the acid visions of "The Joyous Cosmology", namely that the spiritual student finds himself in an infinite regress of self-realization, where he steps out of his phony egos over and over, like peeling the skin of an onion, until he reaches a point wherein there is almost nothing "genuine" left -- and the subsequent realization isn't moksha, but rather the insight that one is a fake. "He is artifice and insincerity, through and through and through...". This rather harsh message of liberation gives way to an extraordinary uptempo chant with conga drums supporting Watts' seemingly ad libbed trip into an aboriginal tribesman past. You can pick up the word "LSD" early in the chant, but this may be coincidental.

Watts was, among many other things, a great admirer of Japanese culture and tradition, which is echoed in the brief third track of instrumental music. This is followed by an obviously improvised "floating soliloquy" wherein Watts rambles like a true freak about whatever comes through his mind, sounding more like a Shakespeare stage actor zonked on acid than his eloquent lecturer self. "I am so strange in this... queer dark old stupor..." is just the beginning of the trip, which leads way to some heavy metaphysical poetry about the human body and a rendezvous of friends "high in the sky like the moon". This "Fingernail pairings", supported by feeble avant-jazz snips, is as psychedelic as anything you're ever likely to hear.

Side 1 closes with "Umdagumsubudu", a "controlled accident" with frantic drumming and incomprehensible chanting back and forth, exploring in full the African/Caribbean tribal voodoo feel present throughout the album. It's spooky like an old Nonesuch field recording, except that this is a bunch of white beatnik heads aboard a Sausalito house-boat in 1962, rather than some age-old initiation rite. Uncontrolled laughter and an outburst of Watts coughing puts the listener right inside their freak scene.

Another strand in the colorful ball of "This Is IT" is the influence from religious music of the ecstatic, devotional type. Some of the rants have a tongue-speaking quality, while there is a clear presence of liturgical wailing at the beginning of side 2. This is the "Metamatic Ritual", a 14-minute "contemplative ritual mounting slowly to ecstasy". The whole gang joins in with various percussion instruments and chanting voices half-buried in the soundscape, the total impression being very effective and enchanting. Although improvised, it seems obvious that there was a clear group-mind at play here, much like you can find on tribal acidrock albums such as Beat Of The Earth, Yahowha 13 or Furekaaben; some call-response passages also recall the Merry Pranksters recordings from 1965-66. "Metamatic Ritual" is also the track which best displays the quality of the musicians, with some excellent drum/conga interplay.

"The End" naturally takes us back to the beginning, as it is partly the same track that opened the LP. There is some atmospheric, low-key wailing from Watts and Roger Somers, before the craziness creeps back in, with eerie piano excursions, percussion and incomprehensible ramblings in invented languages; an excellent use of stereo is demonstrated with the chanting voices taking up one channel each (side 1 is mono).

"This Is IT" is an extraordinary album on every level; it must be taken into account in any serious chronicle of psychedelia. Even in the 2003 the album appears highly advanced and challenging, its intensity certain to surprise those expecting some bongo-beating beatniks mumbling about nirvana. Timelessness, courage and a sense of absolute freedom makes it a truly essential experience. The fact that it was created by one of the portal figures of the mid-century's spiritual revolution is just one aspect of its importance and appeal.

Participants listed as:

Alan Watts - incantations
Roger Somers - drums and chanting
Leah Ananda - conga drum
Joel Andrews - falsetto and evocations
Henry Jacobs - piano and French horn
William Loughborough - bass marimba and lujon

bono

2008-05-07T18:27:00.000-07:00

Sonny Bono drops acid, frolics in the Summer of Love, and then makes an album that sounds like one of the Kids of Widney High backed by a string section. Decades before he crashed into that tree, Sonny Bono crashed into something else when he cut the 12+ minute track, "I Just Sit There" that starts off this album.

From the opening verse, when he begins warbling "Inside outside upside down/ Everything is turning round/ Backwards forwards which is right?/ Black is day and white is night/ Smell the air it's real uptight", you know you're not in good hands. Yeesh, even Mike Nesmith came up with better "psychedelic poetry".

The best song here might be the good-girl-gone-into-prostitution tale, "Pammie's On a Bummer" because it has the best title. It also has a lengthy instrumental intro that gives you a break from Sonny. "My Best Friend's Girl is Out of Sight" is also okay as long as you imagine it being performed by a Neil Hamburger-like weary lounge lizard.

in a world thats full of funny changes

2008-04-07T21:54:00.001-07:00

my band Bad Weather California opened for then backed up Daniel Johnston
at his show at the ogden this weekend - what a pleasure and real high.
He's drinking diet mountain dew now. seemed pretty happy.
He had a great audience and packed one of the larger smaller halls in town.
my favorite was between songs a girl yelled "I love You!" and he mumbled "who cares"
while searching through his lyric book for the next song.

Here are some pics of Jersey Boys i got from a friend.

found.

2008-03-27T18:34:00.000-07:00

Twist & Shout is a Record Store in Denver. It used to be split in two, with Cd's in one & the Vinyl in another store.
There was a great collection in the back and in the employees bathroom of
items found in LP Sleeves.
Here is some of whats left after we moved and most of it got lost, junked, or taken.
awesome.

found in blues brothers record.

existential gay love....?

everyone i know has gone to school here.

abc/dunhill

I'm sorry Tony Jr. your dad was a lawyer AND christian. It's cool to polish the knob every once in awhile. Don't Worry.

hmmmmm..... and sold!

i hear ya bro

it's all here.