Focus - Hamburger Concerto [Japanese Ed. K2HD] (1974)

Year: May 1974 (CD Dec 16, 2006)
Label: Victor Records (Japan), VICP-63667
Style: Progressive Rock, Symphonic Rock
Country: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Time: 43:08
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 298 Mb

Hamburger Concerto is the fourth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released in May 1974. It peaked at No. 20 on the UK charts. The title track is based on Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Johannes Brahms. The composition also incorporates the first two verses of the Dutch Christmas carol O Kerstnacht, schoner dan de dagen at around 15 minutes, and the Third Quarter chime from the Westminster Quarters is quoted in the track's final seconds. The first track is based on a Gaillarde of Joachim van den Hove of his work Delitae Musicae.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_Concerto)
Here is, in my opinion, the strongest album by this dutch progressive rock band. This is quite some complicated music here, however, it's pretty goofy at times too. It consists of mostly lengthy tracks void of any singing (except for the yodeling at times) and they makes use of a lot of instruments not typically found in rock music. There is a lute and a flute on the opening track which gives off a very medieval sound.
The music is quite varied offering a wide range of styles and moods. Every member contributes greatly to the final sound offering a blend of organ, piano, mellotron, flute, accordion and of course electric guitar, bass, and drums. "Birth" even makes use of a harpsichord (and it's a great song too). Of course the bulk of the album is consumed by the epic instrumental title track. The band pulls out every trick in the book on this album, which makes for a very interesting listen.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3448) Review by Fight Club. October 6, 2007. 5/5

K2HD: It is possible to expand digital data from low-grade formats (32kHz) up to high-grade formats with a maximum of 192kHz/24 bits with K2HD processing. For example, when a CD master is produced from an analog master tape, everything above 20kHz is cut during CD formatting. K2HD processing reproduces the lost high-frequency components almost the same as the analog master.

01. Delitiae Musicae (01:13)
02. Harem Scarem (05:52)
03. La Cathedrale De Strasbourg (05:00)
04. Birth (07:46)
05. Hamburger Concerto: a. Starter / b. Rare / c. Medium I / d. Medium II / e. We... (20:20)

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Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [7 bonus tracks] (1981)

Year: February 25, 1981 (CD Apr 11, 2006)
Label: Nonesuch Records (US), 79894-2
Style: Experimental, Electronic
Country: England / Scotland
Time: 59:54
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 385 Mb

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is the first collaborative studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It was Byrne's first album without his band Talking Heads. The album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques. It was recorded before Eno and Byrne's work on Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain in Light, but problems clearing samples delayed its release by several months.
The album title is derived from Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. According to Byrne's 2006 liner notes, neither he nor Eno had read the novel, but they felt the title "seemed to encapsulate what this record was about".
The extensive sampling on the album is considered innovative, though its influence on later sample-based music genres is debated. Pitchfork named it the 21st best album of the 1980s, while Slant Magazine named it the 83rd.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_in_the_Bush_of_Ghosts_(album))

01. America Is Waiting (03:38)
02. Mea Culpa (04:57)
03. Regiment (04:11)
04. Help Me Somebody (04:17)
05. The Jezebel Spirit (04:56)
06. Very, Very Hungry (03:21)
07. Moonlight In Glory (04:30)
08. The Carrier (04:19)
09. A Secret Life (02:31)
10. Come With Us (02:42)
11. Mountain Of Needles (02:39)
12. Pitch To Voltage (bonus track) (02:38)
13. Two Against Three (bonus track) (01:55)
14. Vocal Outtakes (bonus track) (00:36)
15. New Feet (bonus track) (02:26)
16. Defiant (bonus track) (03:41)
17. Number 8 Mix (bonus track) (03:30)
18. Solo Guitar With Tin Foil (bonus track) (02:58)

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The Fireman (Paul McCartney & Youth) - Electric Arguments (2008)

Year: 24 November 2008 (CD Nov 24, 2008)
Label: mpl communication ltd. (UK & Europe), tplp1003cd
Style: Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, New Age
Country: England
Time: 63:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 408 Mb

Paul McCartney (vocals, bass guitar) - Liverpool, England (18 June 1942). Youth - Martin Glover (bass, keyboards, vocals), Slough, Buckinghamshire, England (27 December 1960).
Ten years after Paul McCartney and Martin 'Youth' Glover (ex Killing Joke) released their last collaborative 'mystery disc' under the Fireman moniker (the dancey Rushes) they return. Any right-thinking musicologist may balk at the the wisdom of two bassists working together, but the pair's efforts have always borne interesting fruit. However, anyone expecting Electric Arguments to fit under the same 'experimental' or 'electronic' bracket as previous work may be surprised. Only Universal Here, Everlasting Now's collages are really mind-melting. Much like Eno and Byrne's recent reunion, this album defies expectations by featuring not only vocals and lyrics but, gasp, songs! In fact Electric Arguments is nothing less than a rather fine McCartney solo album, perhaps shoved out under the alias to show a certain label who's really boss. Whatever, it's a spry 13-track (and one hidden track) jaunt through styles a-plenty; from psychedelic folk to blues grit.
If there's any argument for calling this truly 'experimental' it's because the duo leave the endings rough as a badger's bottom and have a tendency to throw in some Mellotron, a touch of flanging to the voice, or play stuff...backwards. Wow. But this is Macca and he's on form, seemingly using the freedom of relative anonymity to stretch out, relax, turn on, tune in, drop out and make like a kid in a sonic sandbox, mixing it up and throwing some curveballs. Opener, Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight comes on like Zep meeting Beefheart, full of mealy-mouthed blues harp and Helter Skelter raging. Light From Your Lighthouse comes direct from Dylan and the Band's rootsy basement and Lifelong Passion's raga and synth mix may well be Paul's tribute to George Harrison.
Not everything convinces. Is This Love? meanders dangerously like a b-side. Sun Is Shining drones with bucolic good-naturedness but goes nowhere: Paul gets up sees the sun shining down etc etc. Lovers In A Dream ("...warmer than the sun" repeated over a trance burble) falls down a somewhat featureless hole between early Primal Scream and the Orb, while Dance 'Til We're High misses being Paul Oakenfold and instead ends up like Phil Spector.
No matter, this is a rather tasty little album that reminds us again who was the adventurous one in the Moptops. Thumbs aloft, indeed.
(bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/wjcz/) Review by Chris Jones. 2008

01. Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight (04:55)
02. Two Magpies (02:12)
03. Sing The Changes (03:43)
04. Travelling Light (05:05)
05. Highway (04:16)
06. Light From Your Lighthouse (02:31)
07. Sun Is Shining (05:11)
08. Dance 'Til We're High (03:37)
09. Lifelong Passion (04:48)
10. Is This Love? (05:51)
11. Lovers In A Dream (05:21)
12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now (05:05)
13. Don't Stop Running (10:30)

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Beck, Bogert & Appice - Live In Japan [Japanese Ed. 2CD] (1973)

Year: October 21, 1973 (CD ????)
Label: Epic Records (Japan), ESCA 5067-8
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Classic Rock
Country: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Time: 42:22, 45:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 271, 301 Mb

Live in Japan is a 1973 release by the rock supergroup power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. The album, although initially called Beck, Bogert & Appice Live, was only issued in Japan and is also known as Live in Japan. It is generally considered rare due to the fact of it being manufactured in only limited numbers in Japan. Live in Japan was the last LP by Beck, Bogert & Appice and their only live album. Within months of the album's release the band would dissolve after Jeff Beck suddenly decided to leave.
On this record, Beck can be heard heavily using a Heil Talkbox, two years before the release of Peter Frampton's landmark album, Frampton Comes Alive! (1976). The album also contains renditions of songs originally recorded by the Jeff Beck Group, "Plynth", "Going Down", and "Morning Dew" and one Yardbirds number "Jeff's Boogie".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Japan_(Beck,_Bogert_%26_Appice_album))

01. Superstition (05:17)
02. Lose Myself With You (10:49)
03. Jeff's Boogie (03:33)
04. Going Down (03:33)
05. Boogie (04:57)
06. Morning Dew (14:11)

01. Sweet Sweet Surrender (04:43)
02. Livin' Alone (06:11)
03. I'm So Proud (05:42)
04. Lady (06:16)
05. Black Cat Moan (09:13)
06. Why Should I Care (07:20)
07. Plynth , Shotgun (Medley) (05:57)

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Gypsy - In The Garden (1971)

Year: July 1971 (CD 2003)
Label: Walhalla Records (Europe), WH 90308
Style: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Time: 37:31
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 226 Mb

Gypsy was an American progressive rock band from Minnesota, formed as The Underbeats (1962–1968). Gypsy was the house band at the Whisky a Go Go, West Hollywood, California from September 1969 to April 1971 and were known in 1970 for their US Billboard Hot 100 single "Gypsy Queen Part 1", which peaked at #62. The track "Dead And Gone" was played extensively on KSHE 95 in St. Louis MO, KADI-FM in St. Louis MO, and KWK St. Louis. Most of Gypsy's music was composed and written by guitarist and singer Enrico Rosenbaum. Drummer Bill Lordan went on to play with Sly & the Family Stone and a long career with Robin Trower. Keyboardist James Walsh continued the band in various incarnations as The James Walsh Gypsy Band. The James Walsh Gypsy Band had one Hot 100 entry in 1978 with, "Cuz, It's You Girl" which peaked at #71.
The group has no relation to the British band of the same name formed in 1968, who recorded two albums for United Artists Records in the UK.
Jim Johnson died of esophageal cancer in hospice care on September 26, 2019, at age 76. James '"Owl" Walsh died of congestive heart failure at hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 4, 2023, at age 74.
In the Garden is the second album by the progressive rock band Gypsy, their second for Metromedia. It peaked at #173 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts in 1971, and was produced by Clark Burroughs of vocal group The Hi-Lo's.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Garden_(Gypsy_album))

01. Around You (05:35)
02. Reach Out Your Hand (02:44)
03. As Far As You Can See (As Much As You Can Feel) (12:10)
04. Here (In The Garden) Part One (06:43)
05. Here (In The Garden) Part Two (03:10)
06. Blind Man (04:09)
07. Time Will Make It Better (02:56)

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Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) & Robert Fripp (King Crimson) - Sacred Songs (1980)

Year: March 1980, Recorded: August 1977 (CD May 18, 1999)
Label: Buddha Records (US), 7446599604-2
Style: Rock, Progressive Rock, Pop Rock
Country: U.S. (October 11, 1946) / England (16 May 1946)
Time: 52:31
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 356 Mb

Sacred Songs is the first solo album by American singer/songwriter Daryl Hall. It was produced by guitarist Robert Fripp, who also played on the album. Its chart debut was March 29, 1980.
The album was recorded in 1977, but RCA Records did not release it for three years. According to Nick Tosches, who wrote Dangerous Dances, the authorized biography of Hall & Oates, "RCA refused to release Sacred Songs on the grounds that it wasn't commercial" (p 85). When finally issued, the album sold well, but ultimately did not yield a hit single.
In the early 1970s, Hall had formed Hall & Oates, a partnership with guitarist/songwriter John Oates. They had produced several hit pop singles, but Hall had grown to feel artistically limited and in 1977 was much more concerned with expressing his own outlook on life and music than with making more hit songs.
Fripp had dissolved his group King Crimson in 1974, and after a sabbatical, returned to music with session work and other guest appearances.
According to the notes for the 1999 CD reissue of Sacred Songs, and to Eric Tamm's book-length study of Fripp's music, Hall and Fripp first met in 1974. Already familiar with one another's work, the duo felt an instant rapport, and planned to work together.
In 1977, Hall and Fripp reconnected while Hall was writing songs for his solo debut; Hall drafted Fripp as producer and guitarist. Hall wrote all the songs, except "Urban Landscape", (a 'Frippertronics' solo), and "NYCNY" for which Fripp wrote the music and Hall the lyrics, and which appeared also on Fripp's Exposure (1979) only with different lyrics as "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me but I've Had Enough of You".
Sacred Songs was recorded in a span of three weeks, with most of the songs initially recorded with Hall singing and playing piano alongside Fripp's guitar work, followed by overdubs by Hall & Oates' regular touring band. Hall insisted on working with his own band rather than with the Los Angeles session musicians who had played on Bigger Than Both of Us (1976), the previous fifth Hall & Oates album. Although the session players were uniformly excellent musicians, Hall felt their performances were hampered by a disconnectedness from the songs. The album was originally intended to be part of a loose trilogy of sorts with Peter Gabriel's 1978 second album and Fripp's Exposure (1979), all of which Fripp produced.
Besides Hall and Fripp, the backing band for the album consisted of bassist Kenny Passarelli, drummer Roger Pope, and guitarist Caleb Quaye, all of whom were then part of the second iteration of the Elton John Band, which had started recording and touring with John beginning in 1975.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Songs)

01. Sacred Songs (03:18)
02. Something In 4/4 Time (04:26)
03. Babs and Babs (07:50)
04. Urban Landscape (02:23)
05. Nycny (04:35)
06. The Parther Away I Am (02:53)
07. Why Was It So Easy (05:31)
08. Don't Leave Me Alone With Her (06:25)
09. Survive (06:41)
10. Without Tears (02:54)
11. You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette (bonus track) (02:20)
12. North Star (bonus track) (03:10)

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Gomorrha - I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was (1972)

Year: 1972 (CD 2013)
Label: Long Hair (Germany), LHC00132
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Germany
Time: 44:03
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 319 Mb

After the disappointment of their debut I wasn't expecting much here, but they surprised me big time.There are a few reasons for the improvement. On the debut these guys could only afford to use the studio from midnight to 3am, which they did over a two week period. No producer was helping them either, so they were on their own and it showed. In fact the band quickly disassociated themselves from the debut because they just weren't happy with the results. By the way there was the original German version of the debut then an English version ("Trauma") recorded the following year. On this album they were helped by legendary producer Conny Plank who was a major help, but also Brain Records saw the potential in this band and signed them to their label.This was important as well because they gave them complete artistic freedom and the studio time to create the album they wanted.
"Dance On A Volcano" rocks out pretty good early on and vocals join in at 1 1/2 minutes. Aggressive guitar a minute later. A calm 3 minutes in. Organ 4 1/2 minutes in as it stays laid back. It's building 6 1/2 minutes in then the tempo picks up as the vocals return. Some nice bass late. "Opening Of The Sealed Book" opens with guitar, tapping and vocals only.The guitar eventually takes over making some noise.Vocals are back after 2 minutes then the tempo picks up again as drums and guitar take over. "Dead Life" picks up when the vocals stop.The keyboards before 3 minutes sound great then the vocals return.
"I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was" is a quote from the book of Revelation and they are the words of John. Strummed guitar as reserved vocals join in.This is fairly uptempo too. Percussion takes over 2 minutes in then the guitar joins in as they jam. "I Try To Change This World" opens with relaxed drums and guitar. It's heavier 2 minutes in when the vocals arrive.When the vocals stop the guitar lights it up. Nice. It settles back before 7 minutes. So good. It's dark as the vocals return in a reserved manner. "Titish Child" is uptempo with drums and guitar leading.Vocals after 1 1/2 minutes.The keyboards before 2 1/2 minutes are great.The guitar sounds amazing too after 4 minutes.Vocals are back late.
This will be joining my favourite Krautrock discs. An impressive album.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=9970) Review by Mellotron Storm. April 1, 2011. 4/5

01. Dance On A Volcano (10:01)
02. Opening Of The Sealed Book (05:45)
03. Dead Life (03:57)
04. I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was (07:48)
05. I Try To Change This World (09:32)
06. Titish Child (06:57)

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Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones) - Cancel Everything (I've Got My Own Album to Do) (1974)

Year: 13 September 1974 (CD 1985)
Label: Thunderbolt Records (UK), CD TB 2.034
Style: Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Hillingdon, Middlesex, England (1 June 1947)
Time: 47:36
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 282 Mb

If you’re looking to round out your Rolling Stones collection, you could do a lot worse than I’ve Got My Own Album To Do. Although Ron Wood wouldn’t join the Stones for another year still, his first album is a kind of early audition featuring Keith Richards, Mick Taylor and Mick Jagger. The album also features not one but two Richard/Jagger compositions: “Act Together” and “Sure The One You Need.”
Wood wastes little time in making a strong impression, bringing in Mick Jagger on the first track (“I Can Feel The Fire”) and George Harrison on the second (“Far East Man”). It’s a hard act to follow, and Wood’s vocals are more in line with Ronnie Lane than Rod Stewart (who contributes backing vocals on a few tracks), but a lot of help from a lot of friends helps to smooth out the rough edges. Not everything here is gold: a cover of “If You Got To Make A Fool of Somebody” is half baked, “Shirley” is sexist nonsense. Yet the consensus is that IGMOATD is the best of Wood’s works.
“I Can Feel The Fire,” “Cancel Everything” and “Far East Man” are better than I expected, and the interplay between Wood, Richards and Ian McLagan is a treat to hear. It’s all a bit roguish, which is what you’d expect given Wood’s legend, and more than a little fun. The album apparently slipped under the radar, strange given the success of Rod Stewart and the Stones at the time, and is well worth the discovery if you haven’t already had the pleasure.
(progrography.com/ron-wood/ron-wood-ive-got-album-1974/)

01. I Can Feel the Fire (04:53)
02. Far East Man (04:39)
03. Mystifies Me (03:21)
04. Take a Look at the Guy (02:34)
05. Act Together (04:24)
06. Am I Grooving You (03:41)
07. Shirley (05:23)
08. Cancel Everything (04:41)
09. Sure the One You Need (04:14)
10. If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody (03:34)
11. Crotch Music (06:07)

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Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) - Talk Is Cheap [MFSL-CD] (1988)

Year: 3 October 1988 (CD Feb 1992)
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (US), UDCD 557
Style: Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Dartford, Kent, England (18 December 1943)
Time: 47:07
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 292 Mb

Like Paul Hogan goading wannabe muggers in Crocodile Dundee as he unsheathed a whopping blade (“That’s a knife? This is a knife”), there were no half-measures when Keith Richards retaliated to Mick Jagger derailing the Rolling Stones in favour of his ill-advised solo career 30 years ago. Reluctantly at first, Richards formed a band that rocked and made what was hailed as the best Stones album in years.
The civil war between the two Stones flared in 1983 after Jagger sneaked solo opportunities into the band's new CBS mega-deal and released MTV-geared She's The Boss. This soured recording of Dirty Work, but touring behind his album with another band (playing Stones classics) ignited Keith's own offensive.
Like a polar opposite to Jagger’s synthesised clatter, Talk Is Cheap brimmed with humble soul and rolled like a train, with Keith in fine voice. Studded with loose, joyous rockers (Take It So Hard, How I Wish, the Jagger-directed You Don’t Move Me) and gorgeous ballads (Make No Mistake, Locked Away burnished in authentic Memphis soul), it sold a million and ignited Keith’s solo career, while precipitating the Stones’ return.
(loudersound.com/music/albums/keith-richards-talk-is-cheap-review)

01. Big Enough (03:17)
02. Take It So Hard (03:16)
03. Struggle (04:10)
04. I Could Have Stood You Up (03:13)
05. Make No Mistake (04:52)
06. You Don't Move Me (04:50)
07. How I Wish (03:32)
08. Rockawhile (04:39)
09. Whip It Up (04:02)
10. Locked Away (05:50)
11. It Means A Lot (05:21)

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Bill Wyman (The Rolling Stones) - Monkey Grip (1974)

Year: 10 May 1974 (CD 1996)
Label: Sequel Records (UK), NEM CD 846
Style: Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Lewisham, London, England (24 October 1936)
Time: 36:21
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 229 Mb

Monkey Grip is the debut album by Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. It was released in 1974 by Rolling Stones Records. Although Wyman sings on every track on the album, he had only sung lead on one song in the Rolling Stones, the 1967 song "In Another Land".
In a retrospective review, AllMusic rated the album four stars out of five. They noted "I Wanna Get Me a Gun", "White Lightnin" and "I'll Pull You Thro" as the best songs on the album and hinted approval of Wyman's vocals, describing them as "loose and joy-filled". They also praised the album for avoiding the usual egotism of solo albums: "Though these types of albums can be self-absorbed affairs, Monkey Grip is meant to be a relaxed, unpretentious outlet for the compositions that would never see the light of day in Wyman's main band – and, as a credit to the bassist, it comes off exactly that way."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Grip_(Bill_Wyman_album))

01. I Wanna Get Me A Gun (04:57)
02. Crazy Woman (02:42)
03. Pussy (02:10)
04. Mighty Fine Time (03:36)
05. Monkey Grip Glue (04:56)
06. What A Blow (05:22)
07. White Lightnin' (02:42)
08. I'll Pull You Thro; (04:23)
09. It's A Wonder (05:30)

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Jethro Tull - Crest Of A Knave (1987)

Year: 11 September 1987 (CD 2005)
Label: Chrysalis Records (Europe), 7243 4 73413 2 8
Style: Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Time: 55:35
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 364 Mb

The album was recorded after a three-year hiatus caused by a throat infection of vocalist Ian Anderson, resulting in his changed singing style. Following the unsuccessful electronic rock album Under Wraps, Crest of a Knave had the band returning to a more hard rock sound. The album was their most successful since the 1970s and the band enjoyed a resurgence on radio broadcasts, appearances in MTV specials and the airing of music videos. It was also a critical success, winning the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental in what was widely viewed as an upset over the favorite, Metallica's ...And Justice for All.
The album relied more heavily on Martin Barre's electric guitar than the band had since the 1970s. The style of Crest has been compared to that of Dire Straits, in part because Anderson no longer had the vocal range he once possessed (the result of recent throat surgery).
Ian Anderson later stated about the musical style of the album: "'Steel Monkey' was based around a sequencer riff, and it didn't have any flute in it. So it was yet another atypical Jethro Tull song that was a radio hit. By comparison, both 'Farm On The Freeway' and 'Budapest' are very typical Tull songs. 'Budapest' is the kind of song I like to write because it embodies a lot of different nuances which I think are subtly joined together. It sort of moves from classical to slightly bluesy to folk, and it just slips between them and you don't see the stitching."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_of_a_Knave)

01. Steel Monkey (03:37)
02. Farm On The Freeway (06:31)
03. Jump Start (04:55)
04. She Said She Was A Dancer (03:41)
05. Dogs In The Midwinter (04:29)
06. Budapest (10:05)
07. Mountain Men (06:21)
08. The Waking Edge (04:47)
09. Raising Steam (04:12)
10. Part Of The Machine (Bonus Track) (06:54)

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Quintessence - Quintessence (1970)

Year: 1970 (CD 2004)
Label: Repertoire Records (UK), REPUK 1016
Style: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Notting Hill, London, England
Time: 48:16
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 333 Mb

Second album by Quintessence had been in some way slightly advanced compared to their debut with more elaborate tracks and a less pop-ish sound. On the other hand it appeared as well rather incoherent with spiritual chants standing at times blatantly besides acid jamming and Cream-ish heavy blues rocking. Overall it revealed a kind of nice atmosphere not too far away from the one in early Krautrock albums. Their ecumenical hymn "Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga" which opens the album reflects very well the spirit of this record they dedicated "to Our Lord Jesus". This one's by far the only commercially sounding one on here belonging together with "Notting Hill Gate" and "Gange Mai" from their debut to the most memorable songs by them. "Sea of immortality" sounds considerably more sophisticated exploding into a jam session and here's the place where the hint to Cream becomes obvious. "High on Mt. Kailash" is an excerpt of a planned rock opera starting with birds singing and reveals droning sitar, some jingling temple bells and Shiva's haunting vocals that remind me at times a lot to Jim Morrison's. That one's quite a mysterious and fascinating track and certainly one of the highlights of this album. After that one there's a sudden skip to the live recorded very loud instrumental "Burning bush" featuring heavy jamming of wah-wah guitar, bass and drums. This track seams to be not very well placed between the previous one and the following spiritual "Shiva's Chant" and as Chris Welch suggests in his liner notes the close array of these contrasting performances presented here by the band might reflect in some way the contrast between the two aspects of their style. But in fact the rather imperfect structure of this album and its appearance as more of a compilation of songs than a coherent work is the only reason for considering it less essential. For the song material here is really substantial as demonstrated by the next two tracks "Prisms" and "Twilight Zones". The former one is all instrumental and consists of an improvised flute solo by Raja Ram with the addition of some great echo effects. This one segues seamlessly into the next track being an excellent ballad-type one dominated by Shiva's vocals and backed with flute and guitar. "Maha Mantra" is another hypnotic chant followed by the slow ballad "Only Love" whereas in "St. Pancras" the band presents us once again their live jam qualities. The short track "Infinitum" finally closes this rather strange album with a quite awkward droning sound. But overall such kind of hypnotic and droning sections which aren't not that much my "cup" usually are kept here quite shorted and I really don't find them disturbing at all.
As a summary of my review I've to say though I usually don't favour albums with religious contents this one was quite appealing to me albeit being a more difficult listen than their debut. Nevertheless it's a kind of acquired taste and some people might feel alienated by its religious background. Thus I would not consider it essential in a general Prog context but fans of Krautrock or spiritually influenced "hippie music" might check out this band. Actually I'd rate their first two releases as equally good with 3 ? stars but since I've put 3 for their debut I'll round up here to 4!
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7133) Review by hdfisch. December 2, 2006

01. Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga (05:01)
02. Sea Of Immortality (05:18)
03. High On Mt. Kailash (05:51)
04. Burning Bush (Live) (02:35)
05. Shiva's Chant (02:16)
06. Prisms (03:11)
07. Twilight Zones (05:18)
08. Maha Mantra (01:37)
09. Only Love (03:54)
10. St. Pancras (Live) (06:19)
11. Infinitum (01:45)
12. Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga (Live Version) (05:07)

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The Beatles - Help! (1965)

Year: 6 August 1965 (CD Sep 9, 2009)
Label: EMI Records (Europe), 0946 3 82415 2 2
Style: Rock, Classic Rock
Country: Liverpool, England
Time: 33:55
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 238 Mb

Seven of the fourteen songs, including the singles "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride", appeared in the film and take up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side includes "Yesterday", the most-covered song ever written. The album was met with favourable critical reviews and topped the Australian, German, British and American charts.
During the recording sessions for the album, the Beatles continued to explore the studio's multitracking capabilities to layer their sound. "Yesterday" features a string quartet, the band's first use of Baroque sensibilities, and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" includes a flute section. The North American release is a true soundtrack album, combining the first seven songs with instrumental music from the film. The omitted tracks are instead spread across the Capitol Records LPs Beatles VI, Rubber Soul and Yesterday and Today.
In the US, Help! marked the start of artistic recognition for the Beatles from mainstream critics, including comparisons to the European art music tradition. It was nominated in the category of Album of the Year at the 1966 Grammys Awards, marking the first time that a rock band had been recognised in this category. In 2000, it was voted 119th in the third edition of Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums. In 2020, it was ranked 266th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In September 2013, after the British Phonographic Industry changed its sales award rules, Help! was certified platinum for recorded sales since 1994.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help!)

01. Help! (02:19)
02. The Night Before (02:34)
03. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (02:09)
04. I Need You (02:28)
05. Another Girl (02:05)
06. You're Going To Lose That Girl (02:18)
07. Ticket To Ride (03:09)
08. Act Naturally (02:30)
09. It's Only Love (01:56)
10. You Like Me Too Much (02:36)
11. Tell Me What You See (02:37)
12. I've Just Seen A Face (02:05)
13. Yesterday (02:05)
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy (02:56)

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Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones) - The Very Best Of Mick Jagger (2007)

Year: 1 October 2007 (CD Oct 1, 2007)
Label: Rhino Records (Germany), 8122-74640-2
Style: Rock, Classic Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Dartford, Kent, England (26 July 1943)
Time: 72:12
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 533 Mb

The collection includes singles, album tracks, and collaborations with John Lennon, David Bowie, Bono, Lenny Kravitz, Peter Tosh, Ry Cooder, David A. Stewart and Jeff Beck among others. It includes three previously unreleased songs:
"Too Many Cooks", produced by John Lennon and recorded by Jagger in 1973 in Los Angeles. The track features guitarists Danny Kortchmar and Jesse Ed Davis, keyboardist Al Kooper, bassist Jack Bruce, drummer Jim Keltner and, on backing vocals, singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. Neither Lennon nor Bill Wyman, who was present at the session, appear on the track.
"Checking Up on My Baby", recorded in 1992 with L.A. blues band, The Red Devils.
"Charmed Life", recorded while Jagger was working on Wandering Spirit with producer Rick Rubin. Jagger had sketched it out (with his daughter Karis Jagger on backing vocals), but then decided the track didn't fit with the rest of the album. The version on Very Best is remixed by producer Ashley Beadle. The song was also released as a promo single with various remixes, and reached the Top 20 on Billboard's Hot Dance Singles chart in early 2008.
Jagger has promoted the album through interviews including a special for Rolling Stone, a comprehensive Q&A with fans on the BBC web site and TV appearances. He also re-launched his web site with audio, video, photos and more information about this compilation and his solo work in general.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Best_of_Mick_Jagger?ysclid=mg9rvch9u8268865162)

01. God Gave Me Everything (03:32)
02. Put Me In The Trash (03:34)
03. Just Anothe Night (05:15)
04. Don't Tear Me Up (04:12)
05. Charmed Life (03:35)
06. Sweet Thing (04:18)
07. Old Habits Die Hard (with Dave Stewart) (04:24)
08. Dancing In The Street (with David Bowie) (03:18)
09. Too Many Cooks (Spoil The Soup) (04:04)
10. Memo From Turner (04:03)
11. Lucky In Love (05:02)
12. Let's Work (04:44)
13. Joy (04:40)
14. Don't Call Me Up (05:13)
15. Checkin' Up On My Baby (with The Red Devils) (03:21)
16. (You Got To Walk And) Don't Look Back (Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger) (05:17)
17. Evening Gown (03:32)

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Charlie Musselwhite's Southside Band - Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band (1967)

Year: 1967 (CD ????)
Label: Vanguard Records (Germany), VMD 79232-2
Style: Blues
Country: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. (January 31, 1944)
Time: 45:42
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 265 Mb

Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band is the 1967 debut album of American blues-harp musician Charlie Musselwhite, leading Charlie Musselwhite's Southside Band. The Vanguard Records release brought Musselwhite to notability among blues musicians . With rough vocals and notable performances on harmonica, guitar and bass guitar, the album was critically well received. It introduced Musselwhite's signature song, his cover of Duke Pearson's "Cristo Redemptor".
Among the album's tracks, "Cristo Redemptor" has remained particularly important in Musselwhite's repertoire, standing as his signature song, although subsequent versions of the Duke Pearson cover have been longer. Musselwhite's music here is characterized by smooth harmonica a "harsh, almost strained voice" that Allmusic indicates is "considerably more affected than...later [vocals] (clearer, more relaxed)". Mandel's guitar work, influential, features what Legends of Rock Guitar describes as "relentless fuzztone, feedback-edged solos, and unusual syncopated phrasing." Allmusic highlights the guitarist's "snakey stuttering style", particularly on track "Chicken Shack" in which it "truly makes you think your record is skipping." Bass player Bob Anderson, who later played with Howlin' Wolf, has been singled out for a noteworthy rendition of the classic root-?3rd-4th progression in the song "Help Me".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Back!_Here_Comes_Charley_Musselwhite%27s_Southside_Band)

01. Baby Will You Please Help Me (03:20)
02. No More Lonely Nights (05:19)
03. Cha Cha The Blues (03:12)
04. Christo Redemptor (03:21)
05. Help Me (03:30)
06. Chicken Shack (04:17)
07. Strange Land (03:01)
08. 39Th And Indiana (04:10)
09. My Baby (02:42)
10. Early In The Morning (04:35)
11. 4 P.M. (03:14)
12. Sad Day (05:00)

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Kaleidoscope (UK) - From Home To Home [9 bonus tracks] (1970)

Year: 14 August 1970 (CD 2000)
Label: Burning Airlines (UK), PILOT 56a
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 61:43
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 387 Mb

Founded in London, UK in 1967 - Renamed as Fairfield Parlour in 1970 - Disbanded in 1972
The English band KALEIDOSCOPE (not to be confused with American band KALEIDOSCOPE which existed at the same time and played basically psychedelic rock too) is an almost forgotten band from the late sixties and early seventies.
The band started its recording activities in 1967 as KALEIDOSCOPE, but the band was formed back in 1963 with the name THE SIDEKICKS and changed to THE KEY later. In the beginning, the line-up was Eddie Pumer on guitar, Steve Clark on bass and Danny Bridgman on drums, but they later needed a new vocalist and Peter Daltrey joined (he played keyboards too). They played local venues and released singles, but when they signed a contract with Phillips, they changed the name of the band and started playing their own psychedelic rock compositions instead of the covers they used to play before. The combination of Pumer's musical arrangements and Daltrey's lyrics was the main power of the group.
In 1967 was released their first album, 'Tangerine Dream'. The album comprises fine psychedelic songs with experimentations and arrangements like many of the top psychedelic and early progressive bands from that age (THE BEATLES, PINK FLOYD, THE MOODY BLUES). They got lots of airplay and recorded many BBC sessions, but didn?t sell well. They eventually released more singles, like 'Jenny Artichoke', which was a success, but sold poorly, and another album, 'Faintly Blowing'. It was released in 1969, showing a progression of it's predecessor in terms of sound. Although still psychedelic, the compositions were getting more progressive. The album unfortunately failed to chart.
They released a final single, 'Balloon', before changing the name to FAIRFIELD PARLOUR and becoming totally progressive oriented. The band didn't achieve success and they were unlucky at the time, failing to chart and having problems (including some sabotage) in all great gigs they had, including the famous Isle of Wight, which they were the responsibles for the 'Theme Song' of the festival (released under the name of I LUV WIGHT).
WHITE FACED LADY was their last album, recorded in 1971 partly with the help of Mike Pinder, from THE MOODY BLUES. The album was a conceptual double-album with many orchestral arrangements. The band had a deal with Vertigo at that time, but the responsible quit Vertigo and moved to CBS. So they were to release it on CBS, but CBS refused to release their album and it stayed shelved for twenty years, being released in 1991 by a label they created just to release the album, Kaleidoscope Records, under the name of KALEIDOSCOPE, although recorded under the FAIRFIELD PARLOUR encarnation of the band. The band split in 1972 due to the lack of results and luck (they were offered less than 20 dollars to play the last gigs). So this was the end of this great psychedelic and progressive rock band which had talent to be one of the major progressive rock acts of their age but died prematurely due to bad luck in the crucial moments. It is highly recommended because they were one of the first progressive rock bands that evoluted with the genre and made a fantastic work, mainly their excellent conceptual album 'White Faced Lady'.
(progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2282)

01. Aries (03:18)
02. Bordeaux Rose (02:38)
03. In My Box (01:59)
04. By Your Bedside (02:34)
05. Soldier Of The Flesh (03:37)
06. I Will Always Feel The Same (01:47)
07. Free (04:16)
08. Emily (05:15)
09. Chalk On The Wall (01:04)
10. The Glorious House Of Authur (02:44)
11. Monkey (02:19)
12. Sunnyside Circus (02:42)
13. The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh (03:15)
14. Just Another Day (02:33)
15. Caraminda (01:59)
16. Song For You (01:19)
17. I Am All The Animals (01:01)
18. Bordeaux Rose (New Version (04:22)
19. Baby, Stay For Tonight (03:03)
20. Medieval Masquerade (02:37)
21. Eye Witness (03:05)
22. Let The World Wash In (04:07)

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