The debut album from this band from Germany.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitas, electric piano, synths, bassoon and saxophones.
This band from Bavaria in the south of Germany released two albums between 1976 and 1978 before they split up. Both albums are rather obscure. I will post a review of their second album sometimes before the end of this month.
I became aware of them through ProgArchives, the main prog rock source in today's world and got my copies of these two albums. Copies not too hard to find.
The cover-art work is alluding to this being a jazz album... and that is exactly what this is. A jazz album.
The jazz here is pretty dense and a bit avant-garde. There is not many melodic pieces of music on this thirty-five minutes long album.
There is a lot of bassoon here and that gives this album a pretty dark sound. The guitars, saxophones and the electric piano brings some more sunshine to this album, though.
The first two pieces of music is pretty haunting and indeed good. The album tails of towards the end and we get some avant-garde jazz here.
This is still an album somewhere between decent and good. Fans of European jazz should chech out this album.
2.5 points
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