Show Date: Fri. July 14, 2000
Show #134
Germany 1970's - volume 27



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Playlist:
# Artist Song (click to play) Album Year CD label My
Gnosis
Rating
1 Triumvirat The Earthquake 62 a.d. Pompeii 1977 EMI/Electrola 12
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
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)
"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.
 


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