Brainticket released an album in 1971 called Cottonwoodhill. This album has been called by critics and fans THE most psychedelic album ever made. Anyone else heard it? Agree? Disagree? I have heard it and while it is very psychedelic and experimental I think some of the other stuff I have heard is as psychedelic or more so as this is. Still its a wild album.

Ya got me on that one.. I never even heard of them...


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Here is a review of the album from AllMusic... Sounds pretty unique:
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Cottonwoodhill is one of the trippiest records ever made, capturing the intensity of the peak LSD experience far more successfully than any Timothy Leary recording, and even today, when many such documents from that era can sound silly and dated, Brainticket's fascinating debut still holds hallucinogenic potency. The record has only two proper songs, "Black Sand" and "Places of Light," with a side and a half of the album taken up by the three-part "Brainticket." "Black Sand" opens the disc with a driving funk beat and powerful organ and guitar interplay, adding in vocals distorted beyond coherency. "Places of Light" begins in a slightly lighter vein as a flute leads the proceedings, a looser jazzier piece that throws in some of Dawn Muir's odd spoken word vocals. Before one realizes what has happened, the piece has faded out and there is suddenly a crashing sound, car horns, and engines starting up. "Brainticket" is a bizarre roller coaster ride through weird sound effects and electronics, an endless organ riff, and Muir's acid-rush ramblings from hushed whisper to urgent screams, as any coherency she had earlier becomes lost to mind-expanding visions. Rather than the laid-back mellow groove of some psychedelic music from this era, Cottonwoodhill has a hyper energy in the frenetic organ riff and Muir's voice, like an acid trip out of control, while at times the various sound effects take over completely. — Rolf Semprebon


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Yeah it's a wild record I think you would like it.

Is it fairly available on CD???


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Its available as an import.

Yeah, I also just recently heard about this band, randomly, and have been meaning to check them out, specifically their album "Psychonaut" or the "Celestial" one. I think they're from Austria or Switzerland?

Anyways, I think another album that is considered one of the most psych of all-time is Amon Duul II's "Yeti" which I am awaiting the re-issue/remaster job currently. Maybe ya'll are due for a krautrock thread, or have had one...

It's definitely very psychedelic, and enjoyable in its way, but it's not an album I listen to all that often, simply because it's so repetitive. It reminds me a lot of Miles' 'On The Corner' where you have a three note bassline that goes round for about half an hour with various squiggles on the top. Here it's an (admittedly very cool) organ funk riff doing the honours for more than half the album. It's worth hearing but I do remember being slightly disappointed with it after having searched for it for years.


Their leader, the fabulously-named Joel Vandroogenbroeck, is Belgian, and the band members were a random troupe of Swiss, German and Italian descent.

As for 'most psychedelic album' I'd probably go with something by Acid Mothers Temple or maybe Walter Wegmuller's 'Tarot'. I'll second the support for Amon Duul II's 'Yeti' - now THAT is one hell of a record.