Grobschnitt - Grobschnitt

From in Germany

Symphonic Progressive Rock

Grobschnitt - Grobschnitt - 1972

Tracks.

01. Symphony: (13:44)
a) Introduction
b) Modulation
c) Variation
d) Finale
02. Travelling (6:50)
03. Wonderful music (3:40)
04. Sun trip: (17:43)
a) Am Ölberg (Mount of Olives)
b) On the way
c) Battlefield
d) New era 
Bonus track on cd release:
05. Die Sinfonie. Live at Volkspark, Germany, Sept. 71 (29:40)
Total Time: 71:37

Members.

- Stefan Danielak (Wildschwein) / rhythm guitar, vocals
- Joachim Ehrig (Eroc) / drums, percussion, electronic effects
- Axel Harlos (Felix) / drums, percussion
- Gerd-Otto Kühn (Lupo) / lead guitar
- Hermann Quetting (Quecksilber) / organ, piano, spinet, percussion
- Bernhard Uhlemann (Bär) / bass, flute, percussion

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Abel Ganz - Shooting Albatross

At about 24 years after their debut album Gratuitous Flash (1984) and 14 years after their latest studio-album The Deafening Silence (1994), Scottish formation Abel Ganz has released a comeback CD entitled Shooting Albatross.

Since Abel Ganz started to make music in the Eighties their sound is considered as neo-prog (like contemporaries Marillion, IQ and Pendragon) but on this new album my musical impression is that the sound is a blend of Seventies inspired symphonic rock and folk music. The four long compositions (between 12 and 24 minutes) contain lots of shifting moods and a lush instrumentation like the use of the Indian sitar (electric version in Sheepish) and the Greek bouzouki (in Sheepish en Ventura).

I enjoyed the contrast between the folky interludes featuring 12-string acoustic guitars, whistles, banjo, mandolin and flute (beautifully blended with instruments like the harpsichord, Mellotron or classical guitar) and the symphonic rock parts with electric guitar (fiery, wah-wah drenched in So Far and a strongly build-up, sensitive solo in Ventura) and vintage keyboards like the Fender Rhodes elektric piano, the Hammond organ, the Minimoog synthesizer and the unsurpassed Mellotron, I didn't know that Abel Ganz was able to make such a captivating progrock! The vocals are handled by several singers, including Alan Reed (in the long track So Far), of Pallas fame but once he joined Abel Ganz.

I hope this new Abel Ganz album will got the attention it deserves, for me it was almost a musical revalation!  (progarchives)

From in UK

Neoprogressive Rock

Abel Ganz - Shooting Albatross - 2008 

Tracks.

01. Looking For a Platform (15:06)
02. So far (23:31)
03. Sheepish (12:55)
04. Ventura (14:38)
Total Time: 65:25
Members.
- Hugh Carter / ac. guitars, flute, keyboards, perc, backing vocals
- Stevie Donnelly / bass guitar
- Stuart "Mick" MacFarlane / lead vocals, ac. & elec. guitar
- Davie Mitchell / guitars
- Hew Montgomery / keyboards
- Denis Smith / drums and backing vocals

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Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

From in UK

Psychedelic / Space Rock

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1967

Tracks.

01. Astronomy Domine (4:12)
02. Lucifer Sam (3:07)
03. Matilda Mother (3:08)
04. Flaming (2:46)
05. Pow R. Toc H. (4:26)
06. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk (3:05)
07. Interstellar Overdrive (9:41)
08. The Gnome (2:13)
09. Chapter 24 (3:42)
10. Scarecrow (2:11)
11. Bike (3:21)

Total Time: 41:52

Members.

- Syd Barrett / guitar, vocals
- Nick Mason / drums
- Roger Waters / bass, vocals
- Richard Wright / organ, piano

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