tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54105378939551542432012-01-31T20:51:55.828+02:00In Music We Trustturguthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17988340488685338278noreply@blogger.comBlogger8981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-2758768266713390752012-01-29T16:29:00.000+02:002012-01-29T16:30:33.428+02:00

turgutnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-15121617165759508652012-01-29T14:07:00.005+02:002012-01-29T14:30:59.132+02:00

"'Solar Fire' is an amazing album derived from astrology using impressions from Holst's Planet Suite. The songs are consisting of improvised parts and many spacy elements according to this main theme. Manfred Mann is a fascinating musician. In the 60s he wrote several pop songs which went up into the TOP 10. Coming from Jazz Rock with CHAPTER III he founded the EARTHBAND in the early 70's and is

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"This album really rocks your socks off. It has great music, lyrics, and humor to boot like "Behind You" and "Give Me More." The classic sound of "The Last Unicorn" and "Nightmare" take you away with Geoff Richardson's violin. Pye's singing is unique but very strong in capturing the mood set by the instruments. "Better by Far" and "Let it Shine" are sweet love songs for couples. Get this album.

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"Nexus is Argent's most progressive album. The pop indulgences of "Hold your head up" and "God gave rock and roll to you" are largely gone, to be replaced by much more structured and serious compositions.From the synthesiser driven three part instrumental opener "The coming of Kohoutek" through the dramatic "Music from the spheres" to the slightly more traditional Argent on side 2 of the LP,

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"After minor changes DELIRIUM headed for a more symphonic edge than displayed in their debut album, but still retaining it original charm and character. Once again a wide range of influences prevails on DELIRIUM's early albums with stronger and a slight harder edge. The dominance of flute and tenor sax on this album mixes superbly with the increased fusion tension explored within. Songs are

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"Hotter Than Hell (1974) is the second album from the rock group Kiss.Musically, Hotter Than Hell is darker than the band's first album. This is partly due to the murkier production values, but also to the lyrical content of some of the songs. "Goin' Blind," which details a doomed romance with an underage girl, was a song written by Gene Simmons and Stephen Coronel during Wicked Lester's

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"Jade Warrior goes wild here! This sax-driven energic hard rock/fusion record is VERY good! When I think about Jade Warrior, peaceful and delicate music comes to mind, thinking about albums like Floating World, Kites and Waves. However, Released is surprisingly hard rock. Yes, there are already some excellent peaceful & delicate passages, but they constitute a small percentage of the album

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""Waterloo Lily" was the last album which really captured in its entirety their classic 70's early sound. This album has it all... great musicianship, excellent vocals and highly developed songs. CARAVAN were exceptionally influential in helping define the Canterbury sound with their involved jazz-rock sequences and wonderful instrumentation. "Waterloo Lily" may be their most progressive effort

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"Anekdoten's Vemod is probably the most impressive (and heaviest) debut album from the last two decades along with Anglagard's Hybris, and they have little chance at being dethroned, Paatos' Timeloss included. This quartet seems to have come out of Sweden's Boreal Forest or even more north the Polar Tundra, with their incredibly somber but beautiful melancholy that one our Scandinavian brothers

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"There has never been an album quite like Birth Control's Increase-though i have not heard all of BC's albums, upon hearing Increase, i was amazed at how unique it seems. There are common influences associated with progressive rock here (and some that are not common) In the melting pot of influences there is everything from a hard rock feel, to jazz-rock and blues-rock, and even funk in a few

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"this is the second album of the art rock band Supertramp, their rawest and most rocking album they have released. This album is a rare album in the discog of this rather sophisticated band, which have on the debut and albums that are highly sophisticated albums with lots of subtle details. Indelibly Stamped is probably the least sophisticated Supertramp album i have heard (i have not gone past

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"Björk Guðmundsdóttir is a singer/songwriter from Iceland, who has been both loved and hated during her long and multifaceted career. Writing and recording music since the '70s, she's become the face of her country and known to the whole world. Her music varies from new wave punk to experimental pop and even trip-hop and progressive pop. She has also composed music to movies and musicals and has

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"Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus is one of the more bizarre albums in my collection and certainly the strangest sounding release I've heard from the RPI genre. Jacula is the brainchild of Italian musician and composer Antonio Bartoccetti, releasing two albums before moving onto Antonius Rex.The album cover sets the tone; a red cowled figure in a graveyard lets you know you're unlikely to be in for a

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"A superior follow-up to their debut 'In Blissful Company', this self-titled effort sees Notting Hill's Quintessence expand upon their exotic raga-rock sound with layers of guitars, drums, sitars and a slighly more progressive lilt. Some may find the quasi-religious mumblings a tad unbearable, and some of band-leader Raja Ram's rather indulgent noodlings do sometimes hinder the otherwise fluid

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Liquid Tension Experiment had its genesis still in the year of 1996, when Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy was contected by Peter Morticelli (head of the label Magna Carta) and Mike Varney (vice president of the label Magna Carta) and was asked to, according to Portnoy, try and "put together a couple of Super Groups (for the lack of a better term!)",. In spite of declining the offer at first,

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"Certainly this is not a fully progressive album, but considered in the context of history, it is a remarkable album in the genre. The titans of progressive rock were also only flirting with the genre in 1970. Tull's "Benefit," Genesis' "Trespass," Yes' "Time and a Word," and ELP's eponymous album could also hardly be considered fully progressive in scope. Truth is that Culpeper's Orchard's debut

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""For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night" marks a return to the CARAVAN sound i know and love.The jazz sounds that influenced "Waterloo Lily" are gone along with Richard Sinclair and Steve Miller who still wanted to pursue that direction.Enter John Perry on bass, and the returning David Sinclair on keyboards after a stint with MATCHING MOLE.The addition of Geoffrey Richardson can't be

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"In 1979, after some years of soporific avant-garde, Franco Battiato woke up and turned his attention to the public. However "L'era del cinghiale bianco" is not just an easy pop album or a bleak effort to reach a commercial success. In that period the "Halcyon days" of prog were gone and Franco Battiato, like many other artists, was looking for new musical ways. Here classical music and

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"The sound from this italian five piece band delights me from the very first moment: dazzling runs on the Minimoog synthesizer, floods of Hammond organ, majestic Mellotron waves and warm vocals. The tracks "Non ci credo piu", "Lunario" and "Passi dentro il tempo" are fluent tracks featuring powerful play on the guitar and keyboards. More mellow are the songs "Avalon" and "L'anima del cielo"

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"Here is a gem from the Early British Progressive Rock Movement, unfortunately it was both a painstaking as a hardly impossible task to find information from this elusive band. Bram Stoker was a one shot band that released their album in 1972 under the title Heavy Rock Spectacular. In 1999 the label Audio Archive released the album with the same tracks but a different cover (to be seen along with

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"Quatermass is one of the myth of the seventies subterrean scene, even because at the time they sold very little and so they couldn't bring out another albums after their self-titled debut. It was a pity, because they certainly had talent and not receiving a prize for their efforts must have been degreeding. Later, this created quite a hype among prog fans, who eventually recovered it from the

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"Yet another great album, this is actually one of my favorite prog-albums. There is great dialogue between the voice, guitar and flute. In some parts in gets pretty raunchy (pesado...pesado...) but it never looses its melodic attributes. The guitar is never to loud, all the instruments are perfectly sinqued and never does one get lost behind another. It changes mood pretty dramatically in some

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"This was originally released as a single vinyl album with 3 of the tracks (8-10) on an additional 7" EP. Here the band took the studio originals and turned them into something different. The sound quality is excellent, one of the best I've heard on a live album, and the playing is extremely tight. Songs such as "Fair Exchange" and "Blazing Apostles" work far better in a live setting, "Ships in

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""Caravanserai" is Santana's fourth album, released in 1972, and is a masterpiece of jazz/rock/Latino/space/fusion.It contains no hits like the previous three albums. It is largely instrumental, beautiful piece of work that shows great amount of talent, imagination and creativity of Carlos Devadip and his backing band. It sounds like a thematic piece, albeit not a "concept", about mysticism

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"This is the point where it all came together for Amon Duul II - where the songwriting finally caught up with the band's always-impressive improvisational capabilities. Like the previous album, this consists of one disc of composed tracks and another of improvisations, but it doesn't feel like a double album - far from sprawling out, it's over all too soon! Standout suites include the dizzying,

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"Most bands have one day the wish to realize their fantasies and one of those is to play with a philharmonic orchestra. Most of those projects are awful (Deep Purple) because the composer of the rock parts is not strong enough to use the orchestra as a single instrument. Some were under-rehearsed (Caravan), as this is so expensive to pay all of those musicians to rehearse, just for one night even

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"One of the best-kept secrets among cognoscenti of classic Italian Prog is the existence of these 1979/1980 live recordings by singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André, arranged and performed by the legendary PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI, and to these ears maybe the unrecognized pinnacle of the entire PFM catalogue. The band was performing back-up duties for the popular acoustic folk guitarist, but make

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"Another one-shot band from the huge Italian 70s progrock scenario!I'm glad I've found this excellent and mythic album in the good 2002 Akarma release.I think Murple deserves now (and deserved then) more attention by any good progrock lover. I don't know why the german label Basf didn't take care of them! It's hard and sad to imagine!The four band members are: Pino Santamaria (electric and

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""Down To Earth" was NEKTAR's 5th release and in my opinion is one of their finest albums of all time. "Down To Earth" is a concept album based around the highs and lows of life in belonging to a cosmic circus. Lovers of Hawkwind will be pleased to know that Mr. Robert Calvert is the Ringmaster throughout the album and brings a very theatrical element into this album. AS you would expect this

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"The Secret Oyster progressed in massive steps from their first album to this one in a three year period. Straight To The Krankenhaus is a tautly constructed exploration of the jazz/rock genre and an album layered with a sweet toned guitar, tons of fluid and wild saxophone playing juxtaposed with the then up and coming synthesizer, string synth, sounds of the day which would draw comparisons with

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"I don't know if Battiato's music can be defined progressive. Anyway, this is a good prog related album. There are many oriental influences that FB will exploit better in his later works, mainly from the middle east. The lyrics are hermetic, hard to be interpreted and there are lots of references to literature and history. There's an error in the track list: Bandiera Bianca is the correct title,

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"Malicorne's debut is an uneven but promising start. With Dame Lombarde they deliver a first calling card for their later achievements. It's an attractive folk song with a very nice and rhythmic interplay between electric bass and clean guitars. The melodies are good but the vocals come off a bit dusty.La Pernette has Marie on vocals and conjures up memories from Sandy Denny's songs with Fairport

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"Graced with a "prog" artwork, this gatefold album is probably the proggiest of all his albums (and a bloody lengthy one at that both asides clocking over the 25 minutes each), and maybe his jazziest as well. By 73, Stomu had left Paris and the experimental theatre scene and had relocated to London, where he will act as a catalyst are his person and help out a few new musicians get their career

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"As far as the 70's Ital-Prog scene one of the clear standout album IMHO is Sorrenti's ARIA. A strange dream-like folky prog album for sure with the centrepiece superlative enigmatic vocal escapades of Alan Sorrenti. The 70's Ital-Prog scene was watermarked with creative and many unusual yet strong and beautiful vocalists (ie.Francesco Di Giacomo, Demetrio Stratos, Gianni Leone, Linio Vairetti).

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"Audience hit their high stide on 1971's masterpiece, "The house on the hill" featuring the distinctive vocals of Howard Werth and his electric classical guitar work. Audience were definitely not a prototypical progressive rock band...more prog-folk that explores a multitude of connecting genres including jazz, baroque, fusion and even Renaissance-era. Musically, "Audience" combined classical

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turgutnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-24896979296660535692011-12-04T16:02:00.006+02:002011-12-04T21:28:46.342+02:00

""Once again" is the favourite of many BJH fans, due in no small part to the inclusion of two of their best ever songs, "She said", and "Mocking bird". Both are heavily orchestrated, and stately in pace."She said" is a powerful story of unrequited love. It is deceptively simple in structure, being vaguely reminiscent of the Moody Blues "Isn't life strange". The pop like two verse, three chorus

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"This is the album through which Stomu Yamash'ta finally gained international recognition, not least because of Winwood's presence, after Traffic's slow demise. Although there are 14 tracks (7 aside), the album is meant to be one single work, because the vinyl shows no space between the tracks. The album's artwork is derived off the East Wind/Freedom artwork, this Yamash'ta project (the wrote all

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"I'm not sure about the cover,but it looks like a guy in a dress with a sickle in his hands.Anyway it's the music that counts right? This was released as a double album in 1970.The first album having more structured songs, while the second one consisted of improvisations.Eroc from GROBSCHNITT remastered this recording.The second album is what blows me away and bumps this up to 5 stars. "Soap Shop

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"Fabrizio De Andre has been the greatest singer/songwriter to ever grace Italy.What characterized his work was his uncompromising attitude towards the music industry and the establishement in general.Therefore the subjects of his music were often of satirical nature,against politicians,the Church and the rich,about bigotry and prejudice and about marginalized and rebellious people.For example one

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"This is the last GENESIS' record that I can listen all the songs without being bored, except maybe "Follow You Follow Me", which was a big hit during those years. Despite Steve HACKETT's departure, Mike RUTHEFORD took the control of the guitar elements, and succeeds very well. We feel here that the songs are less loaded, more floating and romantic. The longest tracks are still quite progressive

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turgutnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-56847463091146339052011-11-30T18:59:00.006+02:002012-01-01T17:43:17.367+02:00

"Secret Oyster, the great danish jazz-rock-fusion combo recorded four LPs in the seventies. My personal favourites of them are Straight To The Krankenhouse and this one - Sea Son. But - in my modest oppinion - the greatest musical masterpiece of Secret Oyster ever - Karsten Vogel's longish and aspirative way to Imaginary Nirvana - Mind Movie - is the second track on this Sea Son LP...uh! And

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"SAINT JUST's debut album did not appeal to me at first, but I soon fell in love with its music. The group released two albums around 1973-74 that featured progressive music that had nothing in common with the other Italian prog groups of the time. Rather this band's music mixed psychedelic influences with an electro-acoustic progressive folk sound that sounded rather dated for a 1973 release. On

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turgutnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-61923494931989902052011-11-28T19:53:00.004+02:002011-11-28T23:19:21.331+02:00

"There are a lot of people who'll champion the Grand Hotel album, but as far as I'm concerned, it is Exotic Birds And Fruit that is the most complete album in the latter half of Procol Harum's career. In fact, I'd say this album is the best one outside of the classic first trio of albums.One of the reasons for my unqualified seal of approval is the absolutely gorgeous As Strong As Samson, which

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"This is the first live album in the Italian Progressive of the Seventies. I think its quality recording isn't so good, almost amateurish sometimes, but the level of the tracks is surely very interesting. Album include some old hits, like "Sguardo verso il cielo" and "Collage", but the long "Truck of fire" too, an unpublished and dramatic piece showing intense vocals parts by Aldo Tagliapietra

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turgutnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-43836810508796756722011-11-27T19:05:00.005+02:002011-11-27T23:39:59.593+02:00

"No amount of Lord Of The Rings soundtracks or versions will depict the very nature of Middle earth more accurately than Bo Hansson's version. This album oozes themes around Elves, Hobbits, Black Riders, The Grey Havens, Lothlorien and so on. The simplistic organ and guitar sounds together with basic percussion make this concept album an aural delight. Looking back I can see why the Charisma

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"Edgar Froese's Epsilon in Malaysian Pale is unsurprisingly similar to the music found on Phaedra and Rubycon by Tangerine Dream, of which he was one of the founders.The title-track is very slow and serene, and creates a great airy atmospheric dreamscape that kicks off with the sounds of the jungle. It's very relaxing, and the way the first half of the track drones and builds up the the second

Franco58http://www.blogger.com/profile/05389655034716825137noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-80862495569401079092011-11-27T01:45:00.002+02:002011-11-27T21:57:46.110+02:00

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"NEU's debut album would have to go onto my desert island pick (although I think by now I am bringing a million albums with me!). This is Space Prog at its finest. This was NEU's first album and truthfully sounds as if it could have been released last year! Take all the soft psychy aspects of ASH RA TEMPEL and add the mid-era FLOYD guitar sounds and you are not far off of what you can expect here

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"One of the early classics, if rather Towner top-heavy composition-wise. I prefer this version of the title track to the Solstice remake. Canyon Song is inspirational in this genre - truly timeless. Essential for an understanding of the group's development from unpolished Paul Winter Consort days to the heady exoticism and maturity of the Elektra era." - Tawn - ProgArchivesRalph Towner - Guitar,

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"One of the three best studio albums by this band for me along "Zeit" and "Rubycon"! The title track opens with the entering of howling voices, repeating melodic mantra of drums, and here with better productrion quality than their two previous recordings. This is much more concrete and aggressive music than their early albums, and there is a huge dramatic tension in this surreal composition.

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"Finnforest(Jim Russell) should be proud for having a lot to do with bringing Stefano Testa back into the public eye.I'm certainly proud of him, especially after reading the excellent interview(a must read) on this site.Lots of great information in that interview which sheds some light on the man and this album.This record happens to be a concept album about this author who's about to commit

Franco58http://www.blogger.com/profile/05389655034716825137noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-63537034570610000922011-11-13T15:42:00.005+02:002011-11-27T22:34:28.633+02:00

"Unfortunately , my copy is the old one without the bonus tracks and with the Steppenwolf Live cover album where the wolf has vanished and only smoke is left (it's probably sweet , too) but man, is this still enjoyable. You get the same still exhilarating music so fluid as you do from the Poke album and on the longer number of Darkness. However, the only surprising moment is a six minute

Franco58http://www.blogger.com/profile/05389655034716825137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-85549704131075317762011-11-13T15:33:00.003+02:002011-11-27T02:38:13.035+02:00

".This has to be the greatest band ever to come out of Denmark.A supergroup of sorts with the drummer,sax, and bass player from BURNIN' RED IVANHOE joined by the avant-garde keyboard player from CORONARIAS DANS, and the amazing guitar player from HURDY GURDY.By the way Donovan's song "Hurdy Gurdy Man" is about this guitar player Claus Bohling. This album is one of those great discoveries i come

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"Fantastically energetic, often with a new-wave edge (Brainstorm!) offset perfectly by Tim Blake' space-synths. This is one of the all-round best Hawkwind albums and not too hard to get hold of cheaply on CD.As mentioned by another reviewer, there is a 'complete 79' around - I don't own it but have heard it and 1.the mix didn't seem nearly as good to me 2. some tracks seemed to be different

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"Thank God for liner notes.I couldn't figure out what certain instruments were that they were playing,especially when the list of instruments didn't show anything that sounded like a fuzz organ for example.Well there is a detailed story about this recording session thankfully that reveals that newcomer Marc Hollander's farfisa organ's sounds were treated by fuzz and wha wha devices and ended up

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"Some of the most beautiful melodies i have ever heard.The waves of mellotron wash over the delicate soundscapes of acoustic guitar,warm,soft vocals,flute and piano melodies.There are some drums,sax and violin, as well as other instrumentation, creating heavenly sounds. "Principe Di Giorno" opens with mellotron,as violin,piano and vocals come in.Flute and acoustic guitar follow,and 2 minutes in

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"MAY BLITZ were formed by vocalist/guitarist Jamie Black who recruited Tony Newman on drums, (ex Sounds Incorporated and Jeff Beck Group), and Reid Hudson (bass, vocals) in 1969. The original lineup featured bassist Terry Poole and drummer Keith Baker, from Bakerloo, but both left before recording anything for the band. Baker had a better offer from Uriah Heep, and went to record "Salisbury" with

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"This awesome band came from Munich and made three extraordinary albums on the super-collectable Kuckuk label plus another that never got released until recently. Hennes Herring on KB (mainly Hammond organ), Remi Dreschler on guitars, Moran Neumuller on vocals and winds, Klaus Spöri and Stefan Wisheu on drums and bass respectively made an incredibly tight unit although they were prone to a lot of

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"This is one of those albums that everyone just needs to own, like Dark Side of the Moon, or something. CAN may not have the same kind of universal appeal as good ol' Floyd, but I just can't imagine life without a song like "Halleluhwah." If you've never heard it, it's basically just one fat drum groove -- actually the fattest drum groove ever -- for 18 minutes straight, with every damn artifact

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"Vampire State Building is a killer release from 70's Germany underground. The band delivers a bunch of bombastic, extremely freaked out fuzzy improvisations including jazzy tendencies. Simple Headphone Mind opens the album with a surprising hippie like groovy jazz variation that features powerful piano bases, enchanting flute line and a very catchy rhythm. The break session provides endless

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"A free form jazz mentality, avoiding musical clichés and commercialism, has always characterized the music and philosophies of German freak `n roll band GURU GURU who have categorically occupied their own special stage within the realms of modern music. From it`s LSD induced origins in the late `60s to it`s present day configuration which still rocks and grooves with intensity, countless

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"Jane at their apogee brings into focus all their subtle qualities that had by this time made them the most groovin' German band which didn't really fit into the Krautrock category with their rather simple but effective brand of heavy blues/rock on this spaced out August 1976 live performance at the Niedersachsenhalle in their hometown of Hanover, Germany. Loathe it or love it it's all here ,

Franco58http://www.blogger.com/profile/05389655034716825137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410537893955154243.post-16185032591656847752011-06-18T14:42:00.010+03:002011-06-18T16:51:34.994+03:00

"I must say i love Krautrock,i really do.When in the 70's i discovered this music i could not get enough of it.Bands like Can,Ash Ra Tempel,Popol Vuh,Tangerine Dream (how i could go trough hours of whish and whosh and repetitive sounds still baffles me today but hey those were the times )really caugth my attention.What i did not know at the time was that beneath the surface there were many more

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