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Previous Grapefruit genre anthologies have shown how the various strands of British psychedelia developed tangentially in subsequent years: I’m A Freak Baby observed how the blues-based, harder-edged element of the genre gradually morphed into hard rock/proto-metal, Dust On The Nettles examined the countercultural psychedelic folk movement, while Come Join My Orchestra looked at the post-“Penny Lane” baroque pop sound. Our latest attempt to document the British psychedelic scene’s subsequent family tree, Lullabies For Catatonics charts the journey without maps that was fearlessly undertaken in the late Sixties and early Seventies by the more cerebral elements of the underground, inspired by everyone from Bartok, Bach and The Beatles to Dada, Dali and the Pop Art movement. Suddenly pop music was no longer restricted to moon-in-June lyrics and traditional song structures. Instead, it embraced the abstract, the discordant and the surreal as pop became rock, and rock became Art.

'Just One Mo' Time' is Jasmine's second volume of classic recordings by the Isley Brothers. The first release back in 2010 was 'You Make Me Want To Shout' (JASCD561) which contained 23 recordings from the very beginning of their career. This new set kicks off with the self-penned, 'Open Up Your Heart' and a bizarre, but fun, doo wop styled rendition of Victor Herbert's 'Gypsy Love Song' from his operetta 'The Fortune Teller'. The song is also well known via Mario Lanza.