The sixth album from this band from Germany.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, strings, moog and vocals.
I have during the last sixteen years reviewed their first five albums plus a couple other albums for ProgArchives and # 1 + # 2 of this blog. I have now got the rest of their albums and will review all of them this year in this blog and the, from next month, upcoming # 4 of this blog.
Kraan is one of the most important fusion and jazz band ever to come out of Germany and indeed Europe.
Kraan has always been a more ethno-music band than a classic jazz/fusion band. The result has been some good albums among their first five albums.
On this forty minutes long album, the band blends fusion with jazz, krautrock, African ethno music, funk and psych rock. There are indeed strong influences from the likes of Osibasa and early The Soft Machine here.
This album more a krautrock album than anything else. The music is very playful at times.
There are some good vocals here and the band does a good job on some pretty decent songs. The sound is also good.
This is a pretty good album although it is not one of their better albums.
2.5 points
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