Mary Butterworth - Mary Butterworth (1969)

Year: 1969 (CD 2010)
Label: QCCS Productions (US), OR 97405
Style: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Art Rock
Country: Southern California, U.S.
Time: 31:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 200 Mb

In the tumultuous Spring of 1968, the Mary Butterworth band was formed. Contrary to rumors, the group originated from Southern California and enjoyed being thrust onto the incredible scene that was developing during this remarkable time for music. After a year or so of performing throughout the region in places like the Marina Palace in Seal Beach and others, they decided to record and release a debut album on their own label. In 1969, on a shoestring budget, their album was recorded, manufactured and released. However, the limited pressing was pre-sold to fans and friends only, and never even made it into stores. It disappeared as quickly as it arrived, as did Mary Butterworth, who disbanded not long after the album’s release, never to perform together again. After a decade or two, word of the album spread to rabid collectors of vinyl records and late 60s music. Somewhere in Europe during this time, a bootleg vinyl version was released; the legend of Mary Butterworth continued to grow, driving the price of the original pressing up (and up and up). In 2003, the Mary Butterworth’s song, ‘Feeling I Get,’ was included in the Golden Globe and Oscar winning movie Lost In Translation (starring Bill Murray and the delicious Scarlett Johansson), although it was not included on that film’s soundtrack album.
(lionproductions.org/pages/MARYBUTTERWORTH.html)

01. Phase II (06:10)
02. Optional Blues (04:03)
03. It's A Hard Road (05:51)
04. Make You Want Me (02:39)
05. Feeling I Get (03:58)
06. Week In Eight Days (08:50)

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Love Sculpture - Blues Helping (1968)

Year: October 1968 (CD 2008)
Label: Esoteric Recordings (Europe), ECLEC 2015
Style: Rock, Blues Rock
Country: Cardiff, Wales
Time: 52:32
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 320 Mb

Love Sculpture were founded in Cardiff in 1966 by former members of the Human Beans. The band mostly performed blues standards, slightly revved-up, but still close to the originals. Their debut album Blues Helping included the songs "Summertime" and "Wang Dang Doodle". They are best known for their 1968 novelty hit in the UK Singles Chart, a high-speed cover version of the classical piece "Sabre Dance" by Aram Khachaturian, released on the Parlophone label (R 5744), which reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1968. The recording was inspired by Keith Emerson's classical rearrangements. "Sabre Dance" became a hit after receiving air play by British DJ John Peel, who was so impressed that he played it twice in one programme. In December 1968, UK music magazine NME reported that Love Sculpture had signed a US recording contract with London Records, guaranteeing ?250,000.
The band were also given an invitation to perform "Sabre Dance" live on the German Beat-Club television programme of Radio Bremen, being broadcast in monochrome at that time. Second album Forms and Feelings followed, including the aforementioned "Sabre Dance", and additional songs including , "In The Land of the Few", "Farandole", "People People", "Seagull (West Coast Oil Tragedy)", written by Paul Korda, and the equally fast cover of Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me". The US version of the album also featured a recording of "Mars" from Gustav Holst's The Planets, but Holst's estate refused to license the tune for the UK version. They recorded for BBC Radio 1's John Peel sessions in 1968 (twice) and 1969. In 1970 Mickey Gee joined the band as a second guitarist, and Terry Williams replaced Rob Jones on drums.
Love Sculpture split up in 1970 after a US tour, having recorded just the two albums. Edmunds went on to solo number one hit success with "I Hear You Knocking" later in 1970, and collaborated heavily with ex-Brinsley Schwarz bassist Nick Lowe, eventually forming the band Rockpile with him and Terry Williams.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Sculpture)

01. The Stumble (03:03)
02. Three O'Clock Blues (05:08)
03. I Believe To My Soul (03:47)
04. So Unkind (02:56)
05. Summertime (04:02)
06. On The Road Again (03:35)
07. Don't Answer The Door (06:02)
08. Wang Dang Doodle (03:31)
09. Come Back Baby (02:45)
10. Shake Your Hips (03:19)
11. Blues Helping (03:46)
12. Morning Dew (Take Me For A Walk) (02:52)
13. It's A Wonder (02:41)
14. River To Another Day (02:36)
15. Brand New Woman (02:21)

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Peter, Paul And Mary - In The Wind [Hybrid SACD. Stereo. Audio Fidelity] (1963)

Year: October 1963 (CD 2014)
Label: Audio Fidelity (US), AFZ 181
Style: Folk, Pop, Oldies
Country: New York City, U.S.
Time: 37:58
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 226 Mb

In the 1960s, the most creatively fertile grounds in America would have to be Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in west Manhattan. It could be be argued that the counterculture of the 60s arose from Greenwich Village, as did many of the decades biggest musical acts, one of the most talented being Bob Dylan.
1963, however, was a very different year than 1965, and a guy like Dylan pretty much had no chance of making a pop crossover. Instead, his songs found their way to the mainstream with Peter, Paul and Mary, a group of Greenwich Village folkies who were formed by manager Albert Grossman in 1961. This group cut their teeth doing clean-cut folk music with sparse acoustic production and pristine harmonies, and often, their music could be quite beautiful. This can be seen on some of the traditional folk covers that appear on this album, like the lullaby "Hush-A-Bye", or the religious ballad "All My Trials". Admittedly, not all of the songs on here work for me, like "Long Chain On" or "Rocky Road", both of which I found to be largely forgettable. For the most part, I would say that this album averages out to a nice, pleasant experience that I probably won't return to. It can certainly be very pretty, and harmonies of all three are very pleasing to the ear, but it' just not as engaging as some of the other folk music that was coming of Greenwich Village. Speaking of which, the main story on this album, as least for me, would have to be the Dylan covers. The weakest of the three would be their take on "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", mainly because the scornful, passive-aggressive lyrics work best when they're coming from just one person (preferably Dylan himself), as opposed to three. On the other hand, their cover of "Blowin' in the Wind" is genuinely beautiful cover, one that absolutely does the original justice. Peter, Paul and Mary famously performed that song at the same March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech, and I think that it was a powerful moment, a highlight of their careers.
Ultimately, though, it couldn't last. Peter, Paul and Mary were old school folkies, musically much closer to the Kingston Trio than the Byrds. When Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, Peter Yarrow was in the audience, holding his head in dismay. The group had one last hit in 1969, the John Denver-penned "Leaving on a Jet Plane", and then that was it. Their brand of pristine folk music had it's moment, but it passed. Still, they'll always have that cover of "Blowin' in the Wind".
(rateyourmusic.com/release/album/peter-paul-and-mary/in-the-wind/)

01. Very Last Day (02:32)
02. Hush-A-Bye (02:21)
03. Long Chain On (04:37)
04. Rocky Road (03:40)
05. Tell It On The Mountain (02:58)
06. Polly Von (04:11)
07. Stewball (03:13)
08. All My Trials (03:18)
09. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (03:15)
10. Freight Train (02:46)
11. Quit Your Low Down Ways (02:05)
12. Blowin' In The Wind (02:57)

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Yes - Mirror To The Sky [2CD] (2023)

Year: May 19, 2023 (CD May 19, 2023)
Label: Inside Out Music (Europe), 19658777552
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 47:08, 16:30
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 329, 125 Mb

Mirror to the Sky is the their first studio album with American drummer Jay Schellen as a full-time member following the death of long-time Yes drummer Alan White in 2022 (and the first without White since 1972's Close to the Edge), to whom the album is dedicated; Schellen had frequently filled in as drummer for White since 2016, and had performed percussion as a guest on the band's previous album, 2021's The Quest.
Yes started work on the album shortly before the release of The Quest in October 2021. Like for its predecessor, guitarist Steve Howe resumed his role as producer, and the FAMES Orchestra in North Macedonia provided orchestral arrangements by Paul K. Joyce on some songs. It received positive reviews from critics, some of whom considered the album superior to its recent predecessors. 
On 10 March, Yes officially announced Mirror to the Sky on social media and their official website YesWorld, revealing the cover art, release date, and track listing. They announced that the album will be dedicated to White. On the same day, the opening track, "Cut from the Stars", was released as a digital single. The second track, "All Connected", was released as a single on 26 April.
The artwork was produced by the band's longtime cover artist Roger Dean. His design was inspired by a story that video game designer Henk Rogers had told him, which involved Rogers paddling to the middle of a lake at night during a camping trip. When the ripples of the water had settled, Dean said that "the lake became a perfect mirror to a very brilliant night sky", an experience that Rogers said was like being in space. The idea caught Dean's imagination and wanted to portray such a concept into one of his designs. He added: "I started with a horizon low down with a lot of sky but then I realised, no, I'll show with ocean in the main area with a sky just a sliver, enough to show it is mirrored. Then I decided to put in a rock formation–a viewing point for the sky." An early design of the band's logo for the cover featured a colour scheme and texture based on the Nebra sky disc, an artefact from the Early Bronze Age discovered in Germany in 1999 that Howe had suggested to Dean. It was not used as the colours did not complement the rest of the design.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_to_the_Sky)

01. Cut From the Stars (05:26)
02. All Connected (09:03)
03. Luminosity (09:01)
04. Living Out Their Dream (04:46)
05. Mirror to the Sky (13:54)
06. Circles of Time (04:55)

01. Unknown Place (08:15)
02. One Second Is Enough (04:04)
03. Magic Potion (04:10)

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Chris De Burgh - Footsteps 2 (2011)

Year: 2011 (CD 2011)
Label: Starwatch Entertainment (Germany), 88697946632
Style: Pop, Soft Rock
Country: U.S. / U.K. / Santa Fe Province, Argentina (15 October 1948)
Time: 49:36
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 343 Mb

Footsteps 2 is British singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh's nineteenth album. It was released in Germany, Switzerland and Austria on 14 October 2011, and in the UK and Ireland on 17 October 2011.
Footsteps 2 follows the concept with that of Footsteps, creating cover versions of the songs which have inspired him over the years, along with a few new compositions.
As de Burgh said upon releasing Footsteps, "Listening to the great songwriters was the inspiration for me to try and become a good songwriter myself," he says. "I’m talking about the likes of Lennon & McCartney and Bob Dylan; people as good as that just don’t seem to exist any more. I learned my trade, my craft, almost at the feet of the Great Masters. And that is my musical journey. Those songs are my footsteps."
This album peaked at number 10 in the German album chart, and reached number 38 in the UK Albums Chart.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footsteps_2)

01. While You See A Chance (04:58)
02. Let It Be (04:07)
03. The Living Years (05:37)
04. Blue Bayou (02:40)
05. S.O.S. (03:21)
06. Seven Bridges (03:53)
07. Lady Madonna (02:21)
08. Time In A Bottle (02:33)
09. Already There (03:46)
10. In The Ghetto (03:46)
11. Long Train Running (03:39)
12. On A Christmas Night (03:33)
13. Every Step Of The Way (03:18)
14. The Footsteps 2 Theme (01:57)

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David Byrne (Talking Heads) - Miss America [Single] (1997)

Year: 1997 (CD 1997)
Label: Warner Bros. Records (Germany), 9362-43874-2
Style: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Dumbarton, Scotland (May 14, 1952)
Time: 13:57
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 101 Mb

David Byrne (born May 14, 1952, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland) is a Scottish-born musician and interdisciplinary artist who was best known as the front man of the influential American art-rock group Talking Heads. He went on to gain respect for an eclectic solo career.
As a child, Byrne moved with his Scottish parents to Canada and then to the United States. While attending the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s, he cofounded Talking Heads, serving as the group’s principal singer and guitarist. Identified with the punk and new wave movements, the band released its debut album, Talking Heads ’77, in 1977. It was followed by releases-including Remain in Light (1980), Speaking in Tongues (1983), and the concert-film sound track Stop Making Sense (1984)-that reflected Byrne’s interest in experimental pop and African rhythms. After issuing the album Naked (1988), the group dissolved.
Even at the peak of Talking Heads’ popularity, Byrne pursued other creative projects. During a band hiatus in the early 1980s, he wrote the score for choreographer Twyla Tharp’s The Catherine Wheel (1981) and collaborated with Brian Eno on the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981), a groundbreaking collage of rhythmic grooves and vocal samples. Byrne subsequently wrote and directed the offbeat film True Stories (1986), and his contributions to the score of The Last Emperor (1987) earned him an Academy Award. Also during the 1980s he provided music for two theatre works staged by director Robert Wilson.
(full version: britannica.com/biography/David-Byrne)

01. Miss America (Clean Radio Edit) (03:39)
02. Miss America (04:20)
03. Miss America (I Live America Mix) (05:57)

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Arne Domnerus - Antiphone Blues [K2HD] (1974)

Year: August 26, 1974 (CD April 2008)
Label: Lim Records (US), LIM K2HD 026
Style: Jazz, Classical, Saxophone, Clarinet
Country: Stockholm, Sweden (20 December 1924 - 2 September 2008)
Time: 38:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 183 Mb

Sven Arne Domnerus (20 December 1924 – 2 September 2008) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
He began to play the clarinet at the age of 11 but had taken up the saxophone by the time he left school and then turned professional. In 1949 he performed at the Paris Jazz Festival and with Charlie Parker when Parker was on tour in Sweden in 1950. A few years later he recorded with Clifford Brown, Art Farmer, and James Moody. From the middle 1950s to the middle 1960s he was a featured soloist in the Swedish Radio Big Band. He wrote for film and television and recorded with Lars Gullin and Bengt Hallberg.
With Bengt-Arne Wallin, Rolf Ericson, and Ake Persson (the latter two were former members of Duke Ellington's Orchestra), he participated in the Jazz Workshops organised for the Ruhrfest in Recklinghausen by Hans Gertberg from the Hamburg radio station. He recorded several times with Quincy Jones in Sweden and is featured throughout, "The Midnight Sun Never Sets", composed and arranged by Jones and recorded under Jones' direction by Harry Arnold's orchestra in 1958. Domnerus' playing in his early career was typical of the cool, sophisticated, technically accomplished and lyrical style of Swedish modern jazz during the 1950s. Domnerus' health declined in his last years, and he retired from playing.
He was awarded the Illis quorum by the Swedish government in 1994 and the Litteris et Artibus in 2002.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Domnerus)

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. Traumerei (04:34)
02. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (02:29)
03. Antiphone Blues (03:23)
04. Nobody Knows The Troble I've Seen (03:13)
05. Jog Vet En Dejlig Rosa (03:12)
06. Entonigt Klingar Den Lilla Klockan (02:43)
07. Heaven (04:37)
08. Come Sunday (03:14)
09. Den Signade Dag (03:39)
10. Almighty God (03:49)
11. Largo (03:09)

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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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