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Brainticket/Psychonaut

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4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches; 2.83 ounces
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 8, 2010
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000076CXP
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended for those who have "experienced"
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015
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Fascinating, hardcore psychedelic rock! Once you buy your "ticket" you will find your mind traveling through different moods, musical styles, and sonic explorations. Highly recommended for those who have "experienced"!
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BENJAMIN MILER
5.0 out of 5 stars Great first two albums that seem like polar opposites
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2007
Brainticket was one of those groups never known for a steady lineup, and even their nationality was purposily obscured thanks to a multi-national lineup. Joel Vandroogenbroek was the leader of this group. Many people thought this group was Dutch because of Joel's name, but actually he was born in Belgium (in the Flanders region where the Flemish variety of Dutch is spoken). Many people think they were Swiss because they resided in Switzerland. And then they get considered Krautrock because they have all the elements of the German scene of the time.

OK so this is a package of their first two albums. First one being Cottonwoodhill, originally released on the Hallelujah label. "Black Sand" and "Places of Light" are nice, pleasant organ-driven numbers with Dawn Muir giving us some spoken dialog. The rest of the album is consumed by "Brainticket Part 1 & 2". This is based on a repetitive organ riff with lots of bizarre sounds effects, as well as sounds of motor vehicles, crowds, and Dawn Muir tripping out real bad. How did an album like this get released? I don't know, but what I do know is there's two warnings on this album that go: "Listen only once a day to this album. Your brain might be destroyed" and "After listening to this album, your friends won't know you anymore". Yes, it's a really disturbing album, so they didn't put up that warning just for fun. It's also thanks to this warning, and the musical content that caused the album to be banned in many countries (like Spain and Portugal, where they were under dictatorships, and I'm more certain, the communist countries). Not the kind of album you want your next door neighbors to hearing (because you have it cranked too loud), especially if that next door neighbor is a Lawrence Welk devotee or watches The 700 Club on a regular basis.

1972's Psychonaut, originally released on the German Bellaphon label seems like Cottonwoodhill's polar opposite. Except for Joel himself, the band had a complete change in the lineup. Most importantly is drummer/percussionist Barney Palm who will be on all the following Brainticket albums (including their early '80s reunion efforts, Adventure and Voyage). Here the band actually focuses on music, making it a song-based album, but still keeping a psychedelic edge, especially with the strong ethnic bent (sitars, tablas, and various ethnic instruments used along the usual rock instruments). "Radagacuca" is that opening cut, with droning organ, percussion, sitar, and then when the vocals kick in, you can tell they were actually concerned with creating some catchy songs, but hardly selling out. "One Morning" is a great little song with nice use of piano and strange percussion. "Watchin' You" really rocks out big time with nice female vocals, with an unexpected twist at the end, with sitar and organ. "Like a Place in the Sun" features spoken dialog from Carole Muriel (new to this album, and would appear on their 1973 followup Celestial Ocean), and the band tries to be heavier here with heavily fuzzed organ. "Feel the Wind Blow" is a pleasant acoustic number with a psychedelic feel. "Coc'o Mary" is the album's closing piece and is instrumental and sounds very much like Jethro Tull meets Santana, with Tull-like flute and Santana-like percussion. Psychonaut is one of those progressive rock albums that still show their psychedelic roots, in fact this only proves how much that kind of music had their roots in psychedelia, and that prog rock often still kept their psychedelic roots intact as late as 1972, as this album proves.

Two great and fascinating albums, really hard to believe it's by the same group (because technically it wasn't thanks to an almost completely different set of musicians involved in both).
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Mike Reed
5.0 out of 5 stars Brainticket - 'Cottonwood Hill + Psychonaut' (Red Fox)
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2007
An absolute must-have two-fer CD release by the Swiss space {tripping} rockers none other than Brainticket. Although some have been led to believe this band was a krautrock ensemble from Germany, they're actually Swiss. Here you get two priceless pieces of early seventies progressive space rock, Brainticket's first two efforts, 'Cottonwood Hill' {'71} - see my review and 'Psychonaut' {'72} where I've always dug a bit more so than their first album. Tunes off this 2nd release that make the two-for a 'to die for' disc are the ethnic folk-like "Radagacuca", the rocking "Watchin' You" and "Coco Mary". Founder Joel Vandroogenbroeck's organ playing is Brainticket's main asset. 110% essential.
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Achim Bohn
5.0 out of 5 stars Psychedelischer Trip
Reviewed in Germany on March 12, 2024
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Zwei musikalisch unterschiedliche Tonträger auf einer CD vereint.
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Sean dopermean*
5.0 out of 5 stars 100 out of 10
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2014
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I've been after it for 20 yrs. its amazing 100 out of 10
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Sin Nachtigall
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh darkness, oh darkness...
Reviewed in Germany on July 9, 2016
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Das ist wie beim Memory-Spiel gewinnen.
Ich habe mir die CD „Cottonwoodhill/Psychonaut“ von Brainticket zum einen deswegen bestellt, weil ich die Adaptionen des Hauptstücks von Nurse With Wound schon länger kenne, zum anderen, weil ich Psychedelic Rock der Sechziger und Siebziger Jahre mag. Die zwei Adaptionen „Brained“ und „Brained (unconscious mix)“ befinden sich auf den beiden brillanten Alben „Large Ladies with cake in the oven“ von 1993 und „Sugar fish drink“ von 1992. Nurse With Wound machen Industrial Music in der Art von surrealistischen Klang-Collagen. Man könnte das auch Dark Ambient nennen. Die Musik ist zum Teil also ziemlich verrückt und auch düster. Auf „Brained“ übernimmt John Balance von Coil den Sprechpart, begleitet vom Gesang und Gejauchze der N.W.W. - Hexen. In der Mitte der Neunziger war ich geradezu verliebt in diese Songs und habe mir gewünscht, der rhythmische Sample mit der Orgel und der Gitarre könnte viel länger dauern. Mein Wunsch ist in Erfüllung gegangen. Denn ich habe vor einiger Zeit (via Internet) herausgefunden, daß es sich hierbei um ein Klangzitat vom Album „Cottonwoodhill“ handelt. Da ich sehr viel düstere und auch experimentellere Musik zu hören gewöhnt bin, klingt das dreiteilige Original „Brainticket one and two“ geradezu auf beglückende Weise harmonisch. Mir gefällt der Song, genauso wie ich die Version von Nurse With Wound liebe. Das ist ein einzigartiges Klangkunstwerk, für daß es in der Musikgeschichte, glaube ich, nichts Vergleichbares gibt. Wer psychedelische Musik mag, aber auch Industrial Music, in der Art von Throbbing Gristle, Psychic T.V., Coil und Nurse With Wound, der kommt an dieser CD nicht vorbei.
Der Rest des Albums „Cottonwoodhill“ sowie das Album „Psychonaut“ bieten liebliche Hippie-Psychedelic der besonderen Art. Da waren wohl auch professionelle Musiker am Werk.

Soviel noch über den angeblichen Drogenkonsum der Musiker. Daß Künstlern der Genuß von halluzinogenen Rauschdrogen unterstellt wird, ist oft nur ein Zeichen für das Extraordinäre und Bezaubernde in ihrer Kunst. Sie leisten Erstaunliches, da denken sich viele, „die waren währenddessen auf einem L.S.D.-Trip“. Mati Klarwein, der Maler des genialen Albumcovers von Santanas „Abraxas“, hat jedenfalls sein ganzes Leben bestritten, jemals psychedelische Drogen konsumiert zu haben. Ich glaube ihm, weil ich weiß, daß Dichter, Künstler und Musiker von Natur aus manchmal zu außergewöhnlichen Leistungen fähig sind, die jenseits der Möglichkeiten des Durchschnittsverstandes liegen. Ob man durch kreativen Fleiß, Yoga, Tantra oder durch das Experimentieren mit Rauschgiften dazu gebracht wird, ist, meine ich, unerheblich. Vielleicht gibt es zwischen einem Künstler und einem Psychotiker nur den Unterschied, daß der Künstler trotzdem seinen gesunden Menschenverstand beibehält und infolge seiner kreativen Höhenflüge trotzdem nicht am vernünftigen Arbeiten und Weiterleben gehindert wird.

Zum Schluß will ich noch anmerken, daß die Songs „Black Sand“ (von „Cottonwoodhill“) und „Feel the wind blows“ (von „Psychonaut“) auch enthalten sind auf dem dreiteiligen Psychedelic-Rock-Sampler „The Psychedelic Journey – A mind blowing Trip through the Best of the Psychedelic Era“, das ich jedem weiterempfehlen kann, der sich für diese Art von Musik interessiert und die gängigen Psychedelic-Rock-Klassiker - von „White Rabbit“ bis „In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida“ - schon kennt. Auf diesem Sampler befinden sich, ebenso wie auf den ersten beiden Alben von Brainticket, bezaubernde und verbotene luziferisch glitzernde Schätze.
Übrigens scheinen mir auch The Legendary Pink Dots (und Edward Ka-Spel) stark inspiriert zu sein von Brainticket.

Wie schön ist doch die Welt, daß es so etwas gibt.
Wer sucht, der wird finden. Wer anklopft, dem wird aufgetan.
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droflim
4.0 out of 5 stars imaginative psychedelia
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2011
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A bargain 'twofer' given the price of individual albums this is the first two Brainticket LPs from 1971-2 on one CD: Cottonwoodhill (also known simply as Brainticket) and Psychonaut. The sound is good although the long 'Brainticket part one' track is split as it was from sides 1 and 2 of the vinyl (but that was dumb on the vinyl given other possible orders of tracks) so fades out and in again. Doubtless the inevitable remaster will deal with that.
As a European "experimental rock band, with strong psychedelic leanings" you may well have an inkling of the deal Brainticket offer here. While distinctly of it's time (although ahead of the game then) it weathers well - there's creative musical imagination at play on both albums, with "potentiometers, generators, and sound effects" adding to the mix.
Cottonwoodhill was called "one of the trippiest records ever made" - file it with 'White Noise' or 'Hapshash and the Coloured Coat' albums. Go with the flow.
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