The Forest

Freebeat Music Records presents The Forest Chill Lounge (Deep Moods Music with Smooth Ambient & Chillout Tunes). Artenovum, Jean Mare, Richard Bonnee, Book of Dreams, For Found Future, Blackbox Ego and many more.

Freebeat Music Records presents The Forest Chill Lounge (Deep Moods Music with Smooth Ambient & Chillout Tunes). Artenovum, Jean Mare, Richard Bonnee, Sunscapes Project, Pascheba, Frank Doberitz and many more.

Freebeat Music Records presents The Forest Chill Lounge (Deep Moods Music with Smooth Ambient & Chillout Tunes). Jean Mare, Artenovum, Richard Bonnee, Buddhatronic, The Space Ensemble Project and more.

Freebeat Music Records presents The Forest Chill Lounge Vol. 18 (Deep Moods Music with Smooth Ambient & Chillout Tunes). Jean Mare, Artenovum, Richard Bonnee, The Space Ensemble Project, Book of Dreams and others.

Although it ironically coincided with the compact disc format's slow but inexorable march toward likely extinction, the third millennium's first decade witnessed an incredible boom in CD reissues of obscure ‘70s hard rock bands; bands whose careers quickly floundered or never even took off due to any number of reasons, like the subject of this review, London's Steel Mill. Like many of these commercially failed entities, Steel Mill made the fatal mistake of attempting to partake in the relatively isolated worlds of both progressive and heavy rock, instead of committing to just one or the other, and so their sole LP, 1972's Green Eyed God, fell through the cracks of consumer tastes and wasn't even released in the U.K. until 1975, three years after the group's demise. Be that as it may, few heavy prog bands favored such a dramatic clash between their artier musical pretensions and more visceral instrumental instincts than this London quintet, resulting in fascinatingly schizophrenic numbers boasting as much inner city grime and bluster as they do pastoral purity and whimsy…

Sounding like an American Donovan, Paul Parrish burst onto the scene in 1968 with this ambitiously produced gem of a record filled with psychedelic strings, flutes, tympani, and sunshine dipped effects. Wide-eyed rainbow-coloured imagery abounds!
Replete with flute, strings, and slight psychedelic effects, the album gets by on the strength of Parrish's songs, especially tracks like "English Sparrows," "Suzanne," and "Flowers in the Park." Each track is ripe with rainbow-colored imagery and the requisite amount of forest/meadow scenarios. Even the covers of the Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and the Holland-Dozier-Holland classic "I Can't Help Myself" fail to disappoint, and instead help put the album further into a detached yet pleasant, love-struck, and extremely wide-eyed version of psychedelic sunshine pop…

The Rolling Stones‘ 1973 album Goats Head Soup will be reissued as a super deluxe edition box set in August. The 3CD+blu-ray package will offer a brand new stereo mix, a 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos mix, a disc of rarities and alternate mixes and the much desired ‘Brussels Affair’ concert, recorded live at the Forest National Arena in October 1973 is reissued on CD for the first time outside Japan.