AMON DUUL II - 1969 Phallus Dei

The band emerged from the underground German rock scene with a very original and eccentric album called “Phallus Dei” (1969). The musicians who participated to this delirious and psychedelic experience were (among others) Peter Leopold (ex AMON DÜÜL), the front woman and singer Renate Knaup, John Weinzierl on the guitars... with guests as Holger Trützsch who plays tribal percussions (original member of Popol Vuh).
Taken from Prog.Archives enc..
With the above words Phallus Dei is fully described!
I have almost everything of Amon Duul and this one is one of my favorites with Wolf city and Yeti.
Fully recommended!!

Studio Album, released in 1969
Track Listings

1. Kanaan (3:56) 2. Den Guten, Schönen, Wahren (6:00) 3. Luzifers Ghilom (8:02) 4. Henriette Krötenschwanz (1:59) 5. Phallus Dei (20:45)
Total Time: 40:42

Line-up/Musicians

Peter Leopold / drums, percussion, piano- Shrat / bongos, violin, vocals
Renate / vocals, tambourine
John Weinzierl / bass, guitar
Chris Karrer / violin, guitar, sax, vocals
Falk Rogner / organ, synth
Dave Anderson / bass
Dieter Serfas / drums, electric cymbals
Guests:- Holger Trützsch / Turkish drums
Christian Burchard / vibraphone

Link : PD

GAZPACHO - 2007 Night

Night" is a musical description of a dream or a stream of conciousness. It explores the question of where dreams end and reality begins and the mind as the tool that has to decide what to believe. The character goes through various memories real and imagined and sees the world from the angles of different people. He travels through time and visits places across the world including old New Orleans and Ancient woods with Pagan rituals being performed. Night is about life and the various ways of interpreting existence. Pretentious? Oh yes but delicious as well... very delicious.
Taken from Gazpacho official site.
A superb band from Norway.Hear it whether it sounds like Marillion or more proggy than Coldplay,you will love them as i do.
Hear and buy their records to support them.

Tracks :

1 Dream of Stone (17:00)
2 Chequered Light Buildings (6:34)
3 Upside Down (9:41)
4 Valerie's Friend (6:29)
5 Massive Illusion (13:37)

The Band
Jan H Ohme (vocals)
Jon-Arne (guitars)
Thomas (keyboards)
Robert (drums)
Mikael (violins)
Link : Night

NIGHTINGALE - 1996 The Closing Chronicles

A few words :
NIGHTINGALE. began as a side project for noted Swedish singer/guitarist Dan Swano, famous for his work as front man with death metal troupe Edge of Sanity, and an active participant, both as musician and producer in countless important releases by other key groups of Scandinavia's bustling metal scene. Having composed a wealth of non-metal material (ranging from progressive, to gothic, to straight-up hard rock) over the years, Swano proceeded to record a two album set under the Nightingale name, starting with 1995's The Breathing Shadow (which he recorded in just a week, performing all instrumentation himself) and concluding with the next year's aptly named The Closing Chronicles. He then briefly resumed his duties with Edge of Sanity before branching out as a full-time producer and solo artist (releasing 1998's Moontower) before drafting his brother Tom Nouga (guitars) to help him resurrect Nightingale via the year 2000's simply titled I. Two years later, the duo returned with a supposedly fixed band format comprising bassist Erik Oskarsson and drummer Tom Bjorn for Alive Again: The Breathing Shadow Part IV.

Track Listings

1. Deep Inside of Nowhere (7:12) 2. Revival (4:24) 3. Thoughts From a Stolen Soul (9:00)
4. So Long (Still I Wonder) (4:47) 5. Steal the Moon (3:17) 6. Intermezzo (4:22)7
Alive Again (9:26)
Total Time: 42:28

Line-up Musicians

Dan Swanö / guitars, vocals, keyboards, drums
Tom Nouga / bass, guitars, keyboards

RECOMMENDED
Link : TCC

RICHARD WRIGHT -1996 Broken China -

It was winter 1969 when i first listened to with some friends, an imported at that time vinyl record, which i bought from an Athenian (Greece)music store.I was 15 at that time.The record : A Saucerful of secrets (Pink Floyd) with the late Rick Wright on keybords (and Syd Barett guitar).What more can i say for Rick? the history done it already.Thanks Rick from the bottom of our heart.

Enjoy his solo work.1996 Broken China.

Link:BROKEN

RANDY BACHMAN - 1993 Any Road

I could never believe that Randy Bachman ,ex -Guess Who , ex-Bachman Turner Overdrive and Brave Belt ,could play such a beautiful simple and raw Rock & Roll.But,it's true,believe me.
Link :Any Road

FRANK ZAPPA - 1974 Apostrophe

The musically similar follow-up to the commercial breakthrough of Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe became Frank Zappa's second gold and only Top Ten album with the help of the "doggy wee-wee" jokes of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow," Zappa's first chart single (a longer, edited version that used portions of other songs on the LP Over-Nite Sensation. The album contains the instrumental title cut, featuring Jack Bruce on bass; "Uncle Remus," an update of Zappa's critique of racial discord on "Trouble Every Day"; and a return to the album's earlier silliness in "Stink-Foot." Apostrophe has the narrative feel of a concept album, but aside from its willful absurdity, the concept is difficult to decipher; even so, that doesn't detract from its entertainment value. - Steve Huey -
F.Z play with ex -Mothers of Invention : Johnny Guerin,Ralph Humphrey, Aynsley Dunbar,Erroneus,Tom Fowler,George Duke,Jean Luc Ponty,Sugar Cane Harris,
Ian Underwood,Sal Marquez,Bruce Fowler,Ray Collins,Napoleon Brock(sax), Ruben Guevera
& Robert Camarena from Rubens & the Jets and JACK BRUCE on Bass!!
Enjoy it!!

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FRANK ZAPPA - 1970 Chunga's Revenge

Chunga's Revenge marks the debut of Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (among several other musicians) with the Mothers, and while their schtick has not reached the graphic proportions it later would, the thematic obsessions of the 200 Motels period are foreshadowed on tracks like "Road Ladies" and "Would You Go All the Way?" Other vocal numbers include the hard-rocking "Tell Me You Love Me," the musicians' union satire "Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink," and the doo wop-influenced "Sharleena." Meanwhile, Frank Zappa's strong instrumental music incorporates Eastern European influences ("Transylvania Boogie"), cocktail jazz ("Twenty Small Cigars"), and the percussion-only "The Clap." Zappa's guitar tone is wonderfully biting and nasty throughout; George Duke provides another musical highlight by scat-singing a "drum solo." But while there are plenty of fine moments, Chunga's Revenge is in the end more of a hodgepodge transitional album, with less coherence than Zappa's other 1969-1970 works. Still, it will appeal to fans of that creatively fertile period in Zappa's oeuvre.
courtesy:Steve Huey


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