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The follow-up to the universally acclaimed 'A Day in My Mind's Mind' features 27 Kiwi psychedelic trips from the years 1967 to 1972. These are great songs and weird productions that open a window on this kaleidoscopic period in Kiwi rock. Tracks 18 and 23 are previously unreleased and the 12-page booklet comes with pics & notes from Graham Reid -- each track is annotated. 'The exciting thing about this on-going series of psychedelic music from New Zealand in the late 60s and early 70s is not just that it brings back some great songs and weird productions. It also opens a window on this kaleidoscopic period in Kiwi rock, one that has most often been written out of local music histories. I know of no book on Kiwi rock which mentions a band like The Top Shelf, here with the terrific post-pop track The World Really Turns, which to me sounds the equal of famed British rockers The Move from the same period. What this collection also proves is how ingenious New Zealand producers and arrangers were during this exciting period: check out the orchestration (and drumming) on the Dave Miller Set's ambitious Mr Guy Fawkes -- which is also saturated in phasing. Or the stacked-up horns on Fourmyula's Beatlesque Cozy Picture Theatre. Strange as it may seem at this great distance from that day-glo world, but back then we were listening to on radio -- and can now hear again courtesy of this series -- the woozy Dahli Mohamed by Timberjack Donoghue; the Avengers' glistening Everyone's Gonna Wonder which segues into short snippets that Ray Davies or Paul McCartney would have been proud of; Fourmyula's gorgeously intimate then anthemic Come And See Me; and The La De Das gritty Find Us A Way.' Graham Reid - www.elsewhere.co.nz