Tag: Progressive Rock

Slapp Happy – Acnalbasac Noom (1980) (2020 Our Swimmer)

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Slapp Happy – Acnalbasac Noom 2020 Our Swimmer – WELLE102 for Record Store Day Original release 1980 Recorded with members of Faust at that band’s Wümme studio in 1973, this album was originally scrapped and then rerecorded (without Faust) and released as Casablanca Moon. This version finally surfaced in 1980, with the original title spelled backward.   I’ve seen it described as “more raw” than the rerecorded album, but don’t be fooled — these aren’t demos, this is a finished album, recorded and mixed immaculately. I love it to pieces, and although gets both the “prog” and “psychedelia” tags, there is […]

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Popol Vuh – Nosferatu The Vampyre (1978) (Original Soundtrack)

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Popol Vuh – Nosferatu the Vampyre (Original Sound Track) 2019 Reissue (Germany) Original releases, 1978, as “On The Way To A Little Way” and “Brüder Des Schattens – Söhne Des Lichts “ Werner Herzog had one of the most notable and singular relationships between a director and a composer/musician through his friendship with Florian Fricke (who was basically Popul Vuh – he did the “solo-artist-with-guests-marketed-as-a-band” thing long before the indie kids).  The soundtrack to the classic Nosferatu The Vampyre film has one of the more confusing release histories in their partnership, being drawn from music that Fricke had already released […]

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Henry Cow – Western Culture (1978) (Interzone 1980)

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Henry Cow Western Culture 1980 Interzone IZ 1001 Original UK release – 1978 Broadcast Records May Day, 2020.  Not long ago, the hashtag #notdying4WallStreet was trending on Twitter, as Vulture Capitalism quite literally proposed killing untold thousands to buoy their stock portfolios.  And this week a conglomeration of far-right Christians praying for the next apocalypse to spew forth from their divine vehicle’s tanning bed puckered sphincter-larynx, in a suicidal love-tryst with armed angry white men posing on the steps of capitol buildings demanding that a phantasmagorical Deep State restore their God-given right to choose between Coke and Pepsi.  After the […]

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David Sancious and Tone – Transformation (The Speed of Love) (1976 Epic)

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David Sancious and Tone – Transformation (The Speed Of Love) 1976 Epic Records PE 33939| Genre:  Fusion, Jazz-rock, Progressive rock If, like me, you thought that Incident on 57th Street and New York City Serenade were the high points of Bruce Springsteen’s early career, then you should probably give your attention to musical polymath and chameleon David Sancious.  Sancious was keyboardist for the E. Street Band on their first two albums, and contributed to the title track of Born To Run.  I think it would be a safe claim to say that his sensibility probably helped sculpt the “epic” sound […]

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Haboob – Haboob (1971) (HörZu Black Label / Reprise Records REP 3400)

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Haboob – Haboob1971 Hör Zu Black Label / Reprise Records REP 3400Made in Germany This is a rather difficult-to-describe rarity from a group that only made a single record, a trio of ex-pat Americans living in Germany. The driving force is James Jackson who rocks out on Farfisa, Choir Organ, and Hohner Piano. George Green, who also played in the Munich ‘drum orchestra’ band Niagara, gives a drum solo that is actually interesting (I appreciate drum solos in a live setting, when I’m there, but usually find them tedious on records.

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Goblin – Suspiria (1977) and Zombi aka Dawn Of The Dead (1978)

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Goblin – Suspiria Released 1977 Cinevox MDF 33.108 Reissued in the box set  The Awakening (2012) – Bella Casa 1 – Suspiria 6:00 2 – Witch 3:11 3 – Opening The Sighs 0:32 4 – Sighs 5:16 5 – Markos 4:05 6 – Black Forest / Blind Concert (Original Edit) 12:33 7 – Death Valzer1:51 8 – Suspiria (Celesta And Bells) 1:34 9 –  Suspiria (Narration)1:48 10 –  Suspiria (Intro)0:32 11  – Markos (Alternate Version) 4:09 12 –  Markos (Alternate Take) 3:50 GoblinZombi (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film) aka Dawn of the Dead1978 Cinevox MDF 33.121 Reissued in the box […]

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