| # | Artist | Song (click to play) | Album | Year | CD label | My Gnosis Rating |
| 1 | Amon Duul II | C.I.D. in Uruk | Carnival in Babylon | 1972 | Mantra | 10 |
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Though this album is not as strong as the album to follow, _Wolf City_, or
as classic as the earlier albums, this is still a very nice album. The
songs on this album are shorter unlike the prior albums of long extended
jams.
Amon Duul II - unofficial home page | ||||||
| 2 | Passport | Eternal Spiral | Looking Thru | 1974 | Atlantic | 9 |
| I believe this is the fourth Passport release and one of their best. Good jazz rock with mainstream appeal. | ||||||
| 3 | Thirsty Moon | Love Me | Thirsty Moon | 1972 | Germanofon (boot) | 12 |
| Complex jazzy progressive with a touch of psychedelic ethnicity in the vein of Eiliff, Kraan, Cornucopia, Embryo, & Missus Beastley, to name a few. | ||||||
| 4 | Between | Uroborus | And the Waters Opened | 1973 | Germanofon (boot) | 11 |
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An interesting mix of many diverse styles, instrumentation and sounds.
Ethnic instruments and percussions abound as well as exotic musical scales,
ala Third Ear Band. Mixed with this is spacey electronics evoking Tangerine
Dream or Ash Ra Tempel. I am also reminded a little of Kalacakra's
_Crawling to Lhasa_ and Yatha Sidhra's _A Meditation Mass_.
iMusic Contemporary Showcase - Peter Michael Hamel | ||||||
| 5 | Galaxy | Warning Walls | Nature's Clear Well | 1978 | Spalax | 10 |
| Galaxy have a sound not-unlike many of the 1970's American Yes-influenced bands. But, more than anything they sound like fellow German band Sahara, which you heard on a couple of earlier German prog shows. It is often a punchy bass that makes a band sound Yes-influenced and that is evident here, as well as some guitar that often has a Steve Howe approach. But, other than those qualities, Galaxy's music is very original and worth checking out. Also comparable to Grobschnitt. | ||||||
| 6 | Schickert, Gunter | Puls (excerpt) | Uberfallig | 1979 | Greentree Records/MI Records | 10 |
| This, Schickert's 2nd solo album, was released 5 years after his first. Here he adds a drummer to his waves of echoing and pulsing guitars. Gunther uses the guitar to full effect with a barrage of rhythmic grooves as well as sound effects and lead guitar soloing, in the vein of A.R. & Machines. | ||||||
| 7 | Trilogy | Venice | Here It Is | 1979 | Musea | 10 |
| Instrumental keyboard dominated progressive in the vein of Trace, Tritonus, et al. This seems to be the only album the band released. | ||||||