Show Date: Tue. May 23, 2000
Show #120
Germany 1970's - volume 13



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Playlist:
# Artist Song (click to play) Album Year CD label
1 Eloy Future City Inside 1973 EMI Electrola
Eloy's second album is a vast improvement over their first, which was more of a basic hard-rock album. This album still finds them with a heavy guitar hard-rock style, but, much more elaborate. There are small hints of Pink Floyd's _Meddle_ album, but, the overall influence is no where near as prevalent as it would later become. The vocals sound very much like Ian Anderson, but, the music bears no resemblance to Jethro Tull. This album has just been re-released remastered with 2 excellent bonus tracks. One of my favorite Eloy albums.
Eloy Homepage
 
2 Dzyan Time Machine (excerpt) Time Machine 1973 Bellaphon
Hard-fusion with a Mahavishnu intensity at times. The band adds some space and ethnic elements as well for a very unique sound, so perhaps comparable to Embryo or Agitation Free in that regard. The guitar is deftly handled by ex-Vita Nova guitarist Eddy Marron. This is the second Dzyan album, but, only bassist Reinhard Karwatky remains from the first album. After the third Dzyan album and breakup, Eddy Marron and drummer Peter Giger formed Giger.Lenz.Marron. Anyone heard that?
 
3 Sixty-Nine Crayfish Circle of the Crayfish 1973 Germanofon (bootleg)
A keyboard and drums duo of experimental krautrock. The keys are obviously influenced by Keith Emerson at times, but, I also hear a kinship to Brian Auger. The keyboardist also plays some guitar, bass and sings. A pretty decent listen, but, not essential.
 
4 Novalis Banished Bridge (excerpt) Banished Bridge 1973 Repertoire/Brain
The first album by Novalis. The style is a lush symphonic with layers of keyboards and mellotrons. Features some very nice vocals in English that reminds me a lot of Barry Palmer of Triumvirat. In fact, the music sounds as though it could have been a big influence on the Triumvirat sound. All of their first 3 albums are highly recommended for fans of German symphonic progressive.
Novalis - Progressive Rock for Summer Evenings
 
5 Amon Duul II Surrounded by the Stars Wolf City 1972 Repertoire
This is the last of the classic Amon Duul II albums. It is slightly more commercial in it's approach than prior albums, primarily because the emphasis is no longer on psychedelic space rock. The psychedelic element is still there, just not of improvisational nature. An excellent album that is the favorite AD2 for many people. This is probably the best place to start with Amon Duul II and work backwards - but you can bypass the album _Carnival in Babylon_ as it is the weakest of the first 5 albums.
Amon Duul II - unofficial home page
 


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