| # | Artist | Song (click to play) | Album | Year | CD label | My Gnosis Rating |
| 1 | Triumvirat | The Earthquake 62 a.d. | Pompeii | 1977 | EMI/Electrola | 12 |
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Triumvirat's 5th and last "progressive" album. This album already sees them
moving into more pop realms, but, still very good IMO. For this album, famous
session drummer Curt Cress joins the band. This is a good slightly pop-
oriented symphonic with lush keyboard arrangements.
Triumvirat - Official Homepage | ||||||
| 2 | Gila | Little Smoke | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | 1973 | Germanofon (boot) | 12 |
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The 2nd of only 2 albums relesed by Gila. The band here is a completely
different one from the first album except for guitarist Conny Veit. Filling
out the band is Daniel Fichelscher and Florian Fricke of Popol Vuh. Fricke's
unmistakable piano style gives the album the sound and feel of prime Popol
Vuh material. The guitar style is also strongly evocative of the Popol Vuh
sound, which is not too surprising as Conny Veit played guitar on Popol
Vuh's 1974 _Seligpreisung_. Daniel Fichelscher, who plays bass and drums
on this album, would surprisingly take over the lead guitar role in Popol
Vuh with a sound remarkably like Conny Veit's.
Popol Vuh | ||||||
| 3 | Epidaurus | Actions and Reactions | Earthly Paradise | 1977 | Penner | 12 |
| An excellent symphonic album with some stylistic similarities to Novalis and SFF. There are some occassional female vocals that remind me of Magdalena of Par Lindh Project. The music features a wide assortment of analog keys and synths in a refined and calmly majestic symphonic. The band released only this one album in the 70's, but, reformed in the 1990's and recorded the incredibly lame _Endangered_. | ||||||
| 4 | Birth Control | No Time To Die | Backdoor Possibilities | 1976 | Repertoire Records | 12 (Alan's) |
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"Birth Control is a group that apparently had a long
career with many albums and lineup changes. This
album appears to be their 6th. According to the liner
notes, this is a concept album about "a typical
birdbrain employee who tries to live his life
according to certain rules and regulations until one
day he is confronted with death in a rather abstract
way." They have a German sound, somewhat comparable
to Hoelderlin, and I hear a Gentle Giant and Genesis
influence as well . The tracks flow together in one
continous story. A very good release!" - Alan Mallery
Birth Control Homepage | ||||||
| 5 | Thirsty Moon | I See You | You'll Never Come Back | 1973 | Germanofon (boot) | 11 |
| Excellent jazzy progressive that sounds mostly like Kraan to me. Their albums have not been legitimately released on CD. The music is somewhat complex like Eiliff and with a sometimes funky improv feel like Embryo. | ||||||