Minus Two - SWF Session 1972 (2010)

 

The one and only album from this band from Germany.

The band was a duo with a lineup of drums, percussion, keyboards and vocals.

This band was active as a quartet between 1971 and 1972. Just before the band recorded this session for SWF in 1972, the two other band members quit the band. Hence the name, strange name of this duo of Gunter Kuhlwein and Walter Helbig.

There is a live track with the quartet added on as a bonus track at the end. 

The rest of this thirty-seven minutes long album is keyboards and organs dominated. The music is indeed heavy, heavy influenced by ELP.

But where ELP had several other strings to play on, bass and guitars springs to mind, plus the three genious musicians in that band, Minus Two is a bit more bareboned and restricted by their not entirely sufficient talents.

There is a lot of vocals here and they are decent enough. The same goes for the music too which is in the German symphonic prog tradition. 

This is a decent enough album and well worth checking out.

2 points