Manderley - Fliegt, Gedanken, fliegt 1976 (Germany, Krautrock, Folk Rock)

O grupo de Folkrock baseado em Dortmund "Manderley" pertenceu ao melhor que o folkscene alemão dos anos setenta. Eles só gravaram este álbum, que foi lançado pela Pläne Records. 

O guitarrista Pit Budde e a violinista Klara Brandi seguiram em frente e fundaram a mais famosa banda de Cochise - provavelmente a mais quente banda política de folk rock da Alemanha desde o final dos anos 80.

Manderley foi encontrado em 1975 em Dortmund. A banda tocava folk e rock com letras políticas. Em 1976 eles gravaram em apenas duas semanas em "Ton am Dom", Colônia o álbum "... fliegt, Gedanken, fliegt ...", que foi lançado no selo Pläne.

O relançamento em CD continha duas faixas bônus que foram gravadas em janeiro de 1986 ao vivo no Fritz-Henssler-Haus, Dortmund.
 
Pit Budde (guitars, dulcimer, bass, sitar, percussion, vocals)
Helga Schmölter (vocals)
Horst W. Stölzig (banjo, bass, percussion, vocals)
Lutz Heffner (guitar, vocals)
Lothar Kraft (guitar, mandolin, vocals)
Rudi Mika (violin, bass, guitar, vocals)
Klara Brandi (flute on "Sacco's Brief") 

01:Sagt mir, wer sie sind
02:Bluhs
03:No. 6
04:Der Traum des Schmieds
05:Eine andere Frau
06:Fliegt Gedanken, fliegt
07:Da muss doch wohl ein Ausweg sein
08:Ballade vom kleinen Florestan
09:Erinnerungen an Les Saintes Maries de la Mer
10:Sacco's Brief
11:Komm mit mir
12:You'd better listen
13:You'd better listen - Live Bonustrack
14:Jeder Traum - Live Bonustrack  

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Pyramid - Dawn Defender 1976 (Germany, Krautrock, Space Rock)

Lindo projeto alemão de rock ácido. O obscuro e subestimado "Dawn Defender" é constantemente misterioso, abstrato e experimental, com paisagens sonoras eletrônicas  pontuadas por guitarra elétrica e efeitos de eco. O álbum foi originalmente lançado Toby Robinson para a gravadora Pyramid. Uma séria manifestação "kosmische" krautrock, uma viagem musical perfeita. Pra quem curte Cosmic Jokers e A.R & the Machines.
 
"Dawn Defender" é obviamente mixado de muitas sessões diferentes, e roda uma grande variedade de estilos, desde o agitado Ash Ra Tempel, com guitarras de eco e sintetizadores cintilantes até mergulhar de cabeça no território de overdrive de Hawkwind. A sensação é muito parecida com o que a Porcupine Tree e a Electric Orange tentaram mais recentemente, exceto pelas autênticas texturas de Mellotron e antigas técnicas analógicas de delay. Ao todo, um excelente álbum de Krautrock espacial. 
Um obscuro projeto de estúdio produzido por Toby Robinson, também conhecido como The Mad Twiddler. Estas sessões foram gravadas por volta de 1975-76 em Colônia para a gravadora subterrânea Pyramid, operada por Toby e seu amigo Robin Page (o artista Fluxus). Durante esse tempo, Toby trabalhou como engenheiro e assistente em vários estúdios em Colônia, incluindo os famosos estúdios Dieter Dierks, onde a maioria dos álbuns do catálogo Ohr / Pilz / Cosmic Courier foram registrados. Tendo acesso aos estúdios durante horas mortas, Toby gravou muitas sessões apenas por diversão, sem qualquer interesse comercial, com amigos e músicos que frequentavam os estúdios e a cena underground de arte / música de Colônia. Algumas destas sessões foram mais tarde lançadas em vinil em sua gravadora Pyramid com a ajuda do artista Robin Page.

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Wacholder - Crystal Palace 1978 (Krautrock, Fusion, Space Rock, Jazz-Rock, Prog Rock)

Berner, Matthias         
Ecker, Andreas         
Gerlach, Michael          
Peter, Jakob         
Rinnert, Christoph         
Rinnert, Stephan         
Röder, Martin          
Röder, Matthias

A1 Der Sünder 5:50
A2 Quasimodo-Bar-Blues 7:12
A3 Time Of Your Life 5:15
B1 Marokko 7:30
B2 Tolstefanz 5:21
B3 Känäbis 5:15

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Wintauge – Dem Anfang Ein Lied 1983 (Germany, Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock)

Arranged By – Bernhard Leiendecker
Drums, Percussion – Jörg Werner
Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Bass Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Michael Schnase
Music By, Arranged By – Rolf Muller (6)
Organ, Strings, Synthesizer, Harpsichord – Bernhard Leiendecker
Producer – R. Berres
Text By – Jurgen Philippi
Vocals, Synthesizer, Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Rolf Muller (6)

A1 Dem Anfang Ein Lied  3:29
A2 Vom Aufbruch Der Vögel  3:31
A3 Hoffnung Der Verlorenen  10:10
A4 Perspektiven  4:05
B1 Wir  5:05
B2 Requiem Für Eine Schöne Zeit  7:53
B3 Willi Will  4:34
B4 Frag Doch Die Stadt  4:39

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The Bridge - Overdrive 1972 (Germany, Krautrock, Jazz-Funk, Fusion)

Drums – Joe Nay
Electric Piano [Fender Piano], Synthesizer – Kristian Schultze
Performer [Bass] – Pawel Jarzebski*
Tenor Saxophone [Uncredited], Flute [Uncredited] – Olaf Kübler
Trumpet [Uncredited] – Dusko Goykovich
Written-By – Kristian Schultze (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to to B5)

A1 Overdrive 2:20
A2 Ambivalens 5:11
A3 Dinghi 2:52
A4 Alles Klar (Absolution) 3:27
A5 Start Written-By – Joe Nay 3:33
B1 Stupsi (Ballade 1) 4:44
B2 Recreation 3:52
B3 Don't Count It 2:37
B4 Relation (Ballade 2) 3:12
B5 Puls 2:36

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The Chaparall Electric Sound Inc - Electric Sound For Dancing 1970 (Germany, Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock)

Rudi Haubold (drums)
Rudolf Oldenburg (bass)
Harry Titlbach (guitar)
Harry Unte (guitar,vocals)

1. Hallucination
2. Love
3. Cry'n
4. Chatter
5. Speaking My Mind
6. Blues For Rosa
7. Night Mares
8. Flirtions
9. Pray For Peace

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Quintus Project - Moments 1987 (Germany, Krautrock, Smooth Jazz)

    Alto Saxophone – Uli Lask* (tracks: A3)
    Bass – Tissy Thiers (tracks: A4)
    Guitar – Peter Weihe (tracks: A4)
    Keyboards, Violin, Percussion, Vocals, Written-By, Engineer, Producer – Walter Quintus
    Piano – Joachim Kühn (tracks: B4)
    Written-By – John Rasmussen (4) (tracks: A4)

A1     Prélude     1:12
A2     Dawn     5:04
A3     Midnite Rag     5:16
A4     El Dorado     8:43
B1     Another Moment     3:52
B2     Living Is Easy     3:40
B3     Carteret     4:24
B4     Night - Flight     8:49

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Electric Sun - Fire Wind 1981 (Germany, Krautrock, Hard Rock, Heavy Prog)

- Uli Jon Roth (Ulrich Roth) - guitars, vocals, producer
- Ule Ritgen - bass guitar
- Sidhatta Gautama (Sidhatta Schwitzki) - drums, percussion

All songs written and arranged by Uli Jon Roth.
01. Cast Away Your Chains - 3:53
02. Indian Dawn - 5:14
03. I'll Be Loving You Always - 4:58
04. Fire Wind - 5:01
05. Prelude In Space Minor - 1:21
06. Just Another Rainbow - 3:53
07. Children Of The Sea - 3:21
08. Chaplin And I - 5:45
09. Enola Gay (Hiroshima Today?) - 10:36 including:
a). Enola Gay
b). Tune Of Japan
c). Attack
d). Lament

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Frederic Rabold Crew - Flair 1972 (Germany, Fusion, Jazz Rock)

Frédéric Rabold: Bandleader, Trompete, Pockethorn, Altohorn
Helmut Wilberg: Altosax, Baritonsax
Walter Hüber: Baritonsax, Baß-Sax, Baß-Blockflöte
Paul "Laps" Schwarz: Clavinet
Gerhard Bader: ak. und el. Gitarre
Billy Buchwald: Elektro-Baß
Jan Jankeje: Baß
Martin Bues: Schlagzeug
Frank Köllges: Perkussion 

1. Lapsus Penetrans  8:50
2. a) Emotion b) I Remember Renée  11:00
3. Ansia  9:30
4. Flair  9:30
5. Januschka  3:30

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Mountain Ash - Moments 1980 (Germany, Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock)

Bass, Vocals – Hans-Gerd Fuchs
Design [Cover] – Hinerk Schrader*
Drums – Thomas Menzel
Engineer [Recording] – Henry And Mac
Guitar, Vocals – Detlef Klamann
Keyboards, Vocals – Eckhard Wahlmann*
Percussion, Vocals – Uwe Bodeker
Producer – Mountain Ash (2)
Written-By – Klamann* (tracks: A3, B1, B3), Wahlmann* (tracks: A1, A4), Fuchs* (tracks: A2, B2)

A1    Salaam    4:46
A2    Moments In Our Life    4:30
A3    Island Of Peace    5:27
A4    Imagination    6:15
B1    My Child    7:25
B2    Dream    5:15
B3    Silence Is Louder Than Crying    7:42

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Pegasus - Seems A Long Time Has Gone 1975 (Germany, Krautrock)

Kolck, Charly (guitar, bass, vocals)

Kusmann, Klaus Peter (guitar, vocals)

Lemke, Dieter (drums, percussion)

Mueller, Martin (bass, guitar, vocals)

 

01. Top Of The Hill
02. Daydream (Dip Dip)
03. In Another Land
04. Seems A Long Time Gone
05. The Days Before

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Uludag - Mau Mau 1988 (Germany, Krautrock)

The original Uludag was formed in Berlin circa 1980, as an improvising band playing "anarchistisch-experimentelle-rock-musik", with one foot in the new-wave and the other in the arts. By 1983 they'd gone through a lot of changes, and settled down as the trio of Werner Cee, Peter Hollinger and Lothar Reitz, with a new musical focus, blending art-rock and jazz elements with ethnic textures. In 1985 this trio recorded their first major work "7 Für Nichts", however only an extract ever made it onto record. In parallel to all this, the duo of Sabine Schäfer and Helmut Bieler-Wendt had been working as Panta Rhei, scoring theatre and ballet works. After both bands became involved in the same project, Uludag was reborn as a quartet of Cee, Hollinger, Schäfer and Bieler-Wendt.

Uludag's album MAU MAU saw the creation of an original fusion of Oriental musics, Embryo and Missus Beastly type jazz-fusion, with diversions to Henry Cow (also Fred Frith and Massacre) type realms, in an album spanned by a single thematic suite. Peter's rhythmic structures had a kind of punk-jazz energy to them, embellished with lots of complexities, and in cohesion with Sabine's keyboards they conjured up a Chinese cum Gamelan hybrid, given even more oriental flavour by Helmut's violin work. A fascinating and complex suite from start to end, MAU MAU is one of those unique unclassifiable albums born out of the Krautrock scene. It's a great shame that they never made a sequel.

Peter Hollinger is also known as a percussion soloist, and has worked with Alfred Harth in Gestalt Et Jive, with Guru Guru's Mani Neumeier, and many other projects. Sabine Schäfer now seems to work solely in electronic music with works premiered at the German Society for Psychology of Music at Karlsruhe.


MAU MAU (1/1988)
Seite A+B
LP Review RERE 128 (1988)
Werner Cee (bass, saz), Peter Hollinger (drums, jews-harp, objects), Sabine Schäfer (keyboards), Helmut Bieler-Wendt (violin, violectra)

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Getriebe - Syncron 1975 EP (Germany, Krautrock, Prog Rock, Hard Rock)

Aqui temos um EP de 17 minutos, tempo suficiente para um lado de um LP cheio. Getriebe foi liderado por Detlev Schmidtchen, futuro tecladista do Eloy começando no álbum Dawn e terminando com Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (e depois saiu para formar o bastante sem brilho Ego on the Rocks). Ironicamente, Getriebe vai lembrar aos ouvintes  Inside ou Floating (e meu período favorito do Eloy) mais do que o sofisticado Dawn. Na verdade, Getriebe soa como muitas das principais bandas alemãs de 1971.  Detlev Schmidtchen formou este grupo em 1971 em Hanover, e em 1975 eles ganharam uma competição de bandas locais chamada "Pop 75". O prêmio foi em um estúdio de gravação local, onde eles gravaram "Syncron".  Aparentemente, eles também ganharam a chance de jantar (?!) com Eloy, que eram os headliners convidados nesta competição / festival. Eloy furtou Schmidtchen o que causou a quebra do grupo.

Here we have a 17-minute EP, enough time for one side of a full LP. Getriebe was led by Detlev Schmidtchen, Eloy's future keyboardist starting on the Dawn album and ending with Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (and then left to form the rather dull Ego on the Rocks). Ironically, Getriebe will remind the listeners Inside or Floating (and my favorite period of Eloy) more than the sophisticated Dawn. In fact, Getriebe sounds like many of the major German bands of 1971.

Detlev Schmidtchen formed this group in 1971 in Hanover, and in 1975 they won a competition of local bands called "Pop 75". The award went to a local recording studio, where they recorded "Syncron." Apparently they also won the dinner chance (?!) With Eloy, who were the invited headliners in this competition / festival. Eloy stole Schmidtchen which caused the group to break. 
 
Bass Guitar – Reza René Mertens 
Drums – Rob Perotti 
Guitar – Detlev Schmidtchen (future Eloy keyboard)
Guitar [2nd] – Olaf Schröter 
Organ – Karl Heinz Sieling 
Vocals – Claus Jülich
 
A Walk Around Yourself 7:58 
B1 Follow Me 3:48 
B2 Janis 4:18 

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Elfenbein - Made in Rock 1977 (Germany, Krautrock, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock)

Jack B. Menzel (vocals, bass)

Michael Dertscheny (guitars, vocals)

Clemens Mueller (drums, percussion)

01. Tired Anyway 03:07

02. Witch Is Burning 05:27

03. Stranger To Myself 05:25

04. Spider - Blues 05:21

05. Lazy Daisy 01:58

06. You've Done Me Wrong 04:42

07. Can't Find My Way Home 05:47

08. Lost Son 04:00

09. One More... Little Song 03:24

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Electra - Combo - Same 1974 (Germany, Krautrock, Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock)

- Stefan Trepte - vocals (01,02,04,05,07,09)
- Peter Sandkaulen - guitar
- Hans Peter Dohanetz - keyboards
- Bernd Aust - flute, saxophone, keyboards
- Wolfgang Riedel - bass
- Peter "Mampe" Ludewig - vocals (01,03,05,06,08), drums, percussion
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- Gerd Michaelis Chor - backing vocals (01,05,08)
- Volkmar Andrä - producer

01. Der Hahn mit dem roten Kamm (Peter Sandkaulen/Kurt Demmler) - 3:46
02. Die Erde is 'ne Kugel (Peter Sandkaulen/Kurt Demmler) - 4:22
03. Die Kraniche fliegen im Keil (Bernd Aust/Kurt Demmler) - 4:39
04. Einen kleinen Tag lang (Bernd Aust/Kurt Demmler) - 6:29
05. Feuer (Hans Peter Dohanetz/Kurt Demmler) - 3:47
06. Das kommt, weil deine Seele brennt (Peter Ludewig/Kurt Demmler) - 2:14
07. Augen, von der Liebe verlassen (Hans Peter Dohanetz, Peter Ludewig/Kurt Demmler) - 3:30
08. Tut mir leid (Hans Peter Dohanetz, Peter Ludewig/Kurt Demmler) - 2:51
09. Große Fenster (Bernd Aust/Kurt Demmler) - 5:50

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Frames - CXXIV (EP) 2009 (Germany, Neo-Prog, Instrumental)

Jonas Meyer (guitarras)

Manuel Schoenfeld (teclados)

Greger Röhring (baixo) 

Kiryll Kulakowski (bateria).

Ocean

G

Ruff

Insomnia

Compromise

M

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Frames - In Via 2012 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

German band FRAMES was formed in 2007, consisting of Jonas Meyer (guitars), Manuel Schoenfeld (keyboards), Greger Röhring (bass) and Kiryll Kulakowski (drums). Their aim is to create extraordinary music, constructing unique musical landscapes inspired by mosaic patterns.

So far this has lead to the EP "CXXIV" issued in 2009, with a subsequent record deal with SPV sublabel Steamhammer following in its wake. Around the time that EP was recorded, Röhring decided to leave the band, and was replaced by Julian Hoffman.

Jonas Meyer: guitar
Manuel Schönfeld: keys
Hajo Cirksena: bass
Kiryll Kulakowski: drums

1. Entrance
2. Departure
3. Encounter
4. Calm Wisdom
5. Stir
6. Reflections
7. Eris
8. Don't Stay Here
9. End Of A Decade
10. Coda

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Frames - Mosaik 2010 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Jonas Meyer / guitars
- Manuel Schoenfeld / keyboards
- Julian Hoffmann / bass
- Kiryll Kulakowski / drums

1. Intro (1:36)
2. The Beginning (4:23)
3. Agenda (4:40)
4. Transition (0:58)
5. Isp (6:56)
6. Insomnia (7:17)
7. Driving Head (5:45)
8. Intermission (1:35)
9. Horizon (6:44)
10. Audacity (4:40)
11. M (15:20)

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Black Wednesday - Black Wednesday 1979 (Germany, Krautrock, Progressive Rock, Hard Rock)

An entirely unknown Teutonic group, which nowhere else on the Web is any more information. Their only self-titled album was first released in 1978 in a bootlegging way, but only the following year it was printed on vinyl, but also privately. As for the content of the release, the opinions are rather contradictory: from "chic guitar progression" and "masterpiece of the early prog" to "nothing remarkable" ... But judging by itself is a very individual matter!

Michael Scholz-Lead Guitar,Vocal

Wolfgang Heidemeyer-Bass,Lead Vocals

Wolfgang Ober-Guitar,Vocals

Wolfgang Scholz-Drums,Vocals

01-Skylab 00:02:12
02-Sittin' By A Pillow 00:03:16
03-Sounds From The Basement 00:06:29
04-Funky Nice 00:04:10
05-Loch Ness 00:04:39
06-Can't Get Along 00:03:01
07-I Got To Go 00:03:30
08-Why Not 00:04:03
09-My Strongest Love 00:05:51

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