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 Allister Thompson's Profile |
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Psychedelic folk music |
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| Location: | Toronto, Ontario |
| Country: |  Canada |
| Last Login: | May 15, 2008 (152 days back) |
About Me |
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| I am a Toronto, Canada-based singer, songwriter and guitar player. Inspired by the folk greats of the Seventies such as Tim Buckley, John Martyn, Sandy Denny and Nick Drake, I write psychedelic folk songs that you may enjoy if you have a taste for ambient tunes. Born in the UK and brought to Canada at a young age, I got my semi-pro start in music at the tender age of eighteen playing in a rock band called Sleepwalkers Union. After many years with that group, I went solo for two years and demoed a number of songs before joining 70s-style glam rock group Crash Kelly CLICKHERE in 2002. My love of Seventies music being all-encompassing, I greatly enjoyed playing that style of music, but I have never forgotten my musical first love, the mixture of folk and progressive music that helped define the decade I was born in. Check out my website CLICKHERE for more audio samples. The CDs, Infinities and From a Dying World, are available as downloads with cover art via and you can listen to the albums on LAST.FM if you CLICKHERE |
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 11/4/2005Band Website: napoleonandcompany.com/astronomy Band Members: Allister Thompson: guitar, vocals, sound effects Influences: Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Steve Kilbey, The Church, John Martyn, George Harrison, Flying Saucer Attack, Brian Eno, Mike Scott, Neil and Tim Finn, Stuart Adamson, Steeleye Span, Popol Vuh, Donovan, Robert Wyatt, Peter Hammill, Barclay James Harvest, Klaus Schulze, Moody Blues, Roy Harper, Bill Nelson, Justin Sullivan, Billy Bragg, Genesis, Strawbs, Kevin Ayers, Ralph McTell, Daevid Allen, Grant McLennan, Fred Neil, Leon Rosselson, Fairport Convention, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, Terry Callier, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Claudio Rocchi, Franco Battiato, Iain Matthews, Robert Calvert/Hawkwind, Michael Moorcock, Terry Callier, Bruce Cockburn, Bob Dylan, Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, The Band, Camel Sounds Like: Get this video and more at MySpace.com Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Folk / Psychedelic / Ambient) |
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My Blog |
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New recording available for download |
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| My new recording, From a Dying World, is now available for the ridiculously cheap price of 2 pounds (5 CAD) from Woven Wheat Whispers. It's 50+ minutes of odds and sods recordings from over the years,... Posted by Allister Thompson on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:58:00 PST |
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Another kind review |
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| This review appeared online at Terrascope Online recentlyhttp://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_March07.
htm#AllisterThompstonEmbarrassingly kind, but I can take a lot of that! Posted by Allister Thompson on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:29:00 PST |
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More podcast action |
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| You Will Return was played on AMPed, the "house podcast" of the Association of Music Podcasting. It was sent in by Electric Languare and played in no 57http://amped.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=175915... Posted by Allister Thompson on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:03:00 PST |
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Electrical Language Podcast |
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| A song of mine was played recently on the excellent Electrical Language podcast.Visit http://www.electricallanguage.co.uk/podcast.html to listen. Gabor chooses some great music to play. Posted by Allister Thompson on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:39:00 PST |
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album on LAST.FM |
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| Infinities is now streaming on Last.fm...I've even made a couple of the songs free downloads. So please visit:CLICKHERETo listen in and give feedback.... Posted by Allister Thompson on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:49:00 PST |
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New Year, New Song |
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| Here's another new song...well, new to you. I've had it around for a while, and I feel that it's one of my crown jewels, so to speak...almost "pop".The song concerns my disappointment with all those b... Posted by Allister Thompson on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:00:00 PST |
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Album available for download |
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| Folks, my CD is now available for download at a price of five British pounds, or ten Canadian bucks, via Woven Wheat Whispers. They've said some very kind things that made me blush on the page you'll ... Posted by Allister Thompson on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:06:00 PST |
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A better, recent video |
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| Well, here on my page is this spanking new current video of me performing one of my greatest hits (platinum on Pitcairn Island, you know), Galaxies Turn...thanks Shannon for filming it. Posted by Allister Thompson on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:38:00 PST |
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Added value - an old video |
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| Well, for your enjoyment, I present some footage of short-haired young Allister belting out a song by the master, Bob Dylan. Its "A Simple Twist of Fate" from his classic Blood on the Tracks. I believ... Posted by Allister Thompson on Thu, 25 May 2006 12:06:00 PST |
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RIP Grant McLennan |
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| The music world lost one of its brightest lights this weekend when Australian singer-songwriter Grant McLennan died. He was a long time member of the Go-Betweens, one of the great unsung pop groups of... Posted by Allister Thompson on Mon, 08 May 2006 10:32:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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CRASH KELLY, Woven Wheat Whispers MySpace, Peter Hammill, HOW I WON THE WAR, the BROWN HORNETS, Lj, VERSOLAFINE, electrical language, Big Kitty, Bill Nelson, Thom Brennan, Robert Calvert, Phoenix Cube, Flying Saucer Attack, Art for Lands Sake, Fading Ways Music, Digital Revolution Records, Blind Dog Circus, h3ttory, HEX, Benny G Whiskers, Timo Zwarg, Jason Touhey, BILLY D, Eddie, Golconda fm94.90, Dame Nabok, Diskreetse Mango Trio, mark jones e la nave madre delle nuvole 2, Union City, Parijat, HDFEST Music- Where Musicians and Filmmakers Meet, Patrick Dorobisz, 4 Decades of Folk Rock Box Set, Official Justice For Kirsty MacColl Page, ★Hilda★, Naomi, Shannon, APE, Lando van Herzog, FLATLINED, The Alun Parry Band, Horpe, Ivan Segreto, Kim Diamond, Clepsydra, Egida Aurea, zfrogs, KACAKU, animal totem, Luca Urso, psychedelic desert, BRITISH PSYCHEDELIC, JefferyBros, Kim, Simon Atherley, FRVESCENT, Olive Drab, Zee Peach, Circus Envy
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