| # | Artist | Song (click to play) | Album | Year | CD label | My Gnosis Rating |
| 1 | Hoelderlin | Schwebebahn | Hoelderlin | 1975 | WMMS/Music Is Intelligence | 12 |
| After Hoelderlin's first folk-progressive album and several years of silence, they re-emerged with this excellent new sound of King Crimson and Genesis inspired symphonic progressive. I find this particular song to be reminiscent of "The Talking Drum" from KC's _Larks Tongues in Aspic_. All Hoelderlin albums up to 1977 are very good and recommended. | ||||||
| 2 | Passport | Homunculus | Cross Collateral | 1975 | WEA/Atlantic | 10 |
| One of Passport's best albums, IMO. Good melodic jazz-rock led by saxophonist Klaus Doldinger. This album is named after drummer extraordinaire Curt Cress who was in Passport during their best period. | ||||||
| 3 | Pell Mell | Desert in Your Mind | Rhapsody | 1975 | Spalax | 11 |
| Pell Mell's third album sounds very classical with a strong emphasis on piano, violin, and synths that sound like orchestra strings. Comparable to Triumvirat or Stern-Combo Meissen. | ||||||
| 4 | Volker Kriegel | Fur Hector | Inside: Missing Link | 1972 | MPS | 10 |
| Upbeat guitar-led jazz-rock with Eberhard Weber on bass. Reminds me of Jukka Tolonen, Return to Forever and Jukka Hauru. Volker is a top-notch guitarist who recorded about a dozen albums in the 1970's under his own name as well as guesting on many other progressive and fusion albums of the 1970's. | ||||||
| 5 | Kraan | Holiday am Marterhorn | Andy Nogger | 1974 | Intecord | 13 |
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Andy Nogger was my introduction to Kraan and remains my favorite
of their studio albums. The music is an accessible form of progressive,
though not lacking in experimental embellishments. All Kraan albums
are being re-issued this year by EMI. On this album, Kraan often
remind me of the Welsh band Man.
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