Birdland "Darkness Of Light" (1980,former-YUGO,jazz rock)

Birdland "Darkness Of Light" (1980,former-YUGO,jazz rock)

You can read the information of this band  here.

This first album  is the masterpiece as well as the 2nd album.

I will UL only WAV(LOSSLESS) file because mp3 is ULed  here

The mp3  file  has also good sound quality .

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ふるさとのなつかしい民謡 Furusato no natsukashii minyoh (1970,jazz rock,Japan ,omnibus)

ふるさとのなつかしい民謡　Furusato no natsukashii minyoh (1970,jazz rock,Japan ,omnibus)

This is a LP that was released as a series for the instrumental easy listening music.The series were released   at leaset about 15 LPs from 1970 to 1971 in Japan as mail order only ,not sold in the shops at all.

This album is the tenth album of the series and all of the tracks are Japanese traditional music called 民謡　"Minyoh".Some  sing,others dance to the song.But in this album ,Minyoh are cooked as jazz rock.

Very delicious and cool !!!!!

side A

1. そうらん節　Sohran Bushi  1:01
2. 北海盆唄　Hokkai Bon Uta  1:45
3. 斉太郎節　Saitara Bushi  1:40
4. 花笠踊り　Hanagasa Odori  1:20
5. 相馬盆唄　Sohma Bon Uta  2:09
6. 草津節　Kusatsu Bushi  1:31
7. 小諸馬子唄　Komoro Mago Uta   2:07

side B
1. 佐渡おけさ　Sado Okesa  2:21
2. 串本節　Kushimoto Bushi  1:39
3. 安来節　Yasugi Bushi  2:23
4. よさこい節　Yosakoi Bushi  1:41

5. 黒田節　Kuroda Bushi  2:10

6. おてもやん　Otemoyan  2:04

played  by...

ジミー竹内とザ・エキサイターズ　Jimmy Takeuchi & The Exciters

A-1,6,B-2,6

中島安則とラテン・リズム・キングス Yasunori Nakajima & Latin Rhythm Kings

A-2,4,5

中村八大とニューサウンズ・オーケストラ　Hachidai Nakamura & Newsounds Orchestra

A-3,7,B-1,4

原信夫とシャープス・アンド・フラッツ Nobuo Hara & Sharps and  Flats

B-4,5

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Gold - "Night Ride" {USA} [1979]

Killer little known private press with all original songs written by lead singer/guitarist Bob Wamnes. Great driving hard rock/blues rock/classic rock with some good fuzz guitar and rough vocals thoughout. Sort of a garage/bar band feel. Recorded in Florida. Sounds more early to mid 70's. Label - Sun Song 7783 - Florida private press rock LP. Interesting stuff, ranges from straight-up hardrock to a couple laid-back numbers to the prog / jazzrock style "New York, New York". Somewhat lo-fi recording (done on a Teac 3340S, according to the back cover) - http://www.popsike.com/



01 Boogie
02 Rock and Roll
03 Everlasting End
04 Love City
05 Night Ride
06 Ain't nobody
07 Hard lovin woman
08 You (know my secrets)
09 New York New York
10 Til you go

Thanks to Osurec :o)

Side A...
Side B...

link in comments...

Jun Fukamachi "Alien Majyu Kyo" (1985,prog fusion,Japan)

Jun Fukamachi "Alien Majyu Kyo" (1985,prog fusion,Japan)

Alian Majyu Kyo (エイリアン魔獣境) was very famous SF novel in Japan at that time.

This album is a imaginary  original soud track of the novel.

It has never been released as CD format  since  the first release in 1985.

I believe it is a forgotten Japanese prog fusion gem.

Enjoy !!!!!

All composed and arranged by Jun Fukamachi

personel

Jun Fukamachi 深町純　....key

Hideo Yamaki 山木秀夫....ds  (ex,KAZUMI BAND、SHOGUN、近藤等則IMA )

Yasuo Tomikura 富倉安生.....eb

Akira Wada　和田アキラ .....eg  (Prism)

All of the members are from  a Japanese fusion band "Keep"

track list

エイリアン魔獣境 (side A)

1. Requiem  7:29

2. Treasure Hunter  4:07

3. The Dinosaur Age   4:41

4. Twilight Zone   2:55

エイリアン魔界航路(side B)

1.Neptune  4:50

2. The Legend of the Ark  4:34

3. Lima 3:20

4. Wandering in the World of Spirits  6:16

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Messengers - First Message (Germany,1975)

"We're not trying to start a revolution
With words we may say,
We're not trying to practise prostitution
With music that we play--
We just enjoy what we do,
Hope you enjoy it too--"






This is the forward to the record written by the band. Great, huh?

Some time ago we shared the second album from this huge german band (Children of Tomorrow), the highlights of which were the Stravinsky homage, Sacrewinsky, and the Colony Suite. This is their debut effort, less adventurous and more soul-rock. Most songs are written by the amazing Bernhard Jobski, although the band has about a dozen members. Note that this is the same man who is responsible for the masterpiece one-off symphonic record Einstein in Eden from 1981.

A good point of comparison for this record would be Morse Code from Canada, in their earlier days, or Dr. Music. The simplicity of the songs is surprising considering the education of Jobski. Vocals are by Antonia Maas, who sounds sometimes like a german Mary Hopkin. To me, it's a bit annoying and distracting that a cover version of Stevie Wonder's All is fair in love appears as the first song on side 2. The next song Ballerina is my definition of a throwaway song with no redeeming qualities. If this was a person, it would be a dangerous offender on death row that lost all his appeals and is due to be electrocuted tomorrow and hopefully, the chair will malfunction and there will be hours of smoke. Subsequently "Actions" demonstrates a few progressive soul moves. Note the unfortunate title "Gang bang" (another Jobski composition, a bluesy rocker), and listen carefully to the lyrics, "Being the only girl in a rocknroll band... she never wants a f---ing gang bang." No kidding?
The last track is recorded live in Berlin at the "Treibhaus", very reminiscent of Chicago, standard american horn-rock.
Otherwise, the songs are pretty accessible and enjoyable.

What led them to abandon the fm-radio tunes for a full-out progressive album their next time round? I'm guessing the 'time was right' in Germany, the late seventies were without a doubt a heyday for prog in that country although it had been abandoned elsewhere. How sad that this heyday only lasted a few short years before being swept away by synthesizers, new wave and punk. Yet in that brief shining moment we have uncountable treasures still to explore... So stay tuned in the next couple of weeks...

Members:
Antonia Maas (lead vocals), Joe Körner (trombone, [tenor horn] saxhorn, vocals), Peter Förster (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute), Bernhard Jobski (trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo, backing vocals), Thomas "Doc" Neviger (trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion, vocals), Peter Tüllmann (trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion, backing vocals), Nono (keyboards, backing vocals), Michael Gechter (guitar, violin, vocals), Thomas "Keule" Schiedel (bass, piano, 12-string guitar), Olaf "Vicking" Gustafsson (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Stefan Holm Jr. (percussion, congas), Erling Jensen (vocals), Jürgen Scheele (trumpet, flugelhorn), Thomas Glanz (keyboards), Earl Stanley Bostic (bass), Frank Lüdeke (woodwinds)

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Gangbang:

Natdamperen - Boogieman eats "frikadeller" 1976

Continuing on with Natdamperen, this from 1976 carries on with the long drawn out jazz jam sessions a la From, here in particular the band is performing live, you can hear a bit of applause and the sound is far from perfect compared to the previous studio recording (even taking into account some warps on the first record and scratches on this rip). It's all instrumental, and very little of the simple kebnekajse folk-jazz appears, except in a reprise of the song pa gaden from the first album and the last song, by Nordenhof (who is the pianist). All tracks are written by saxophonist Ole Kuhl, except where I've indicated others, and the live concert took place at the Peoples House in Arhus on June 3 and Aug. 6, 1976. Note that their last album, Visions, went on to more accessible and listener-friendly fuzak, with tighter songs and simpler melodies.

And the cover? Apparently a menhir or dolmen with a face, with the band name written in sci-fi font, what a crazy drawing! This time by Teddy Sorensen.

Now stay tuned to our blog because in the next few weeks in addition to what I've already mentioned we'll be killing time with more private pressed progressive new wave as well as some really tasty and salty early rock, still geologically mining the past decades for those beautiful lost gems.

Davistime:


Pa gaden:

April Orchestra presente Michel Magne Vol. 21 (1977)

I got this record in honour of all the wonderful library sites that share April Orchestra and all the other musicians and composers who made this particular genre. Michel Magne is well known in progressive circles of course as creator of albums La Terre and L'eau. I presume it's the same person as here. Mostly he was involved in film scores, I noticed he is credited with "Barbarella" which is one movie I think everyone should see as a taste of the craziness of sixties culture and film.

This record is mostly orchestral works that sound very much like soundtrack pieces. The first side is co-composed with Pierre Delanoe while the second side is only Magne. B is a little bit more adventurous and experimental with some highly enjoyable compositions, e.g. the toccata. On the fourth and fifth tracks some great choral singing is featured. The second last track, Butterflies of crystal moons in two parts is a particular standout with its Messiaen-like composition.

If this was shared before in some other blog I apologize, especially to myself since this makes purchasing the vinyl a waste of money for me.

In any case this rip goes out to the folks who found and shared so many incredible library records on their blogs. It never ceases to amaze me how these european composers spent so much time and effort writing music for these records destined to be shelved.

A1 Chanson Pour Pleurer A Deux 4:06
A2 Les Amoureux De Californie 4:37
A3 Le Village Englouti 3:53
A4 Le Pays De L'Amour 4:00
A5 La Lettre Et La Réponse 4:30
A6 Noël Sans Cheminée 2:56
B1 Galop En Fusion 1:17
B2 Cuivres En Chasse 1:08
B3 Toccata Délices Et Orgues 2:36
B4 Délivrance 2:06
B5 Coeur Fêlé 1:05
B6 Nocturne Des Profondeurs 2:06
B7 Magnamagma 0:45
B8 Papillons Des Lunes De Cristal Part 1 2:56
B9 Papillons Des Lunes De Cristal Part 2 1:20
B10 Papillons Des Matins Endormis


Toccata:


Papillons des lunes de cristal:



Coming soon: completions of some rare private pressings from Germania and another lost album from one of the great masters of progressive and jazz from that great and amazing musical country.

Yasuo Inada & Bemi Family "Kankaku Shikou"(Japan,prog,1974)

Yasuo Inada & Bemi Family "Kankaku Shikou"(Japan,prog,1974)

About 1973,A.R.P(5 members) played in Tokyo,Japan.They played funk music at that time .
Yasuo Inada was a member of the band.
In 1974,the band disbanded and re-unioned.It was called "ARP",not "A.R.P".
The members were
稲田保雄　Yasuo Inada....Key
福田郁次郎　Ikujirou Fukuda....B
福田幾太郎　Ikutarou Fukuda....G
藤井章司　Shouji Fujii....Ds

The band released the only single "サンシャイン"(means ..Sunshine)
but surprisingly,the name of the band was changed into "Yasuo Inada & Bemi Family" on the cover of the single.So the three members except Inada got angry very much .The three members didn't know about the changing of the band's name.
After that ,the member was changed partly.

稲田保雄....Key
藤井章司....Ds
志村昭三 Shouzou Shimura....E.G

By these three members,"感覚思考" (kankaku shikou) was recorded in 1974.
After that,this band changed into "Bemi Family" but no studio recording at all ... one live track in a compilation album(in 1977) was left.It seems that it was a just pop rock .

side A
01 original No.1 (from Claude Debussy)....19:22
side B
02 original No.2 (from Beethoven).....10:33
03 original No.3 (from Beethoven).....6:07

We can enjoy this mp3 file thanks to my friend who shared this mega rare gem..

Enjoy !!!

More information

here thanks to Tom

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Natdamperen 1975 (Denmark)

Think Kebnekajse hybridized with Swedish Ibis or German From and you've got the idea here. Half the instrumental tracks are rocked scandinavian folk songs and half are drawn-out jazzy jams, mostly in the key of A. Unfortunately the crosspollination procedure is not quite seamless since the tracks simply alternate, with the folk songs being tracks 1, 3, 6, and 8, and the jams being 2, 4, 5, and 7. Not much info that I can find about this band, who went on to produce two more albums. Let's hope the next double-lp turns up soon ;-).

All songs are written by the sax player, Ole Kuhl.

The cover is a very odd black and white drawing, by one Mogeus Gissel, consisting of flying figures with wings and flying hearts drawn as if in the shape of crumpled pieces of paper. Also there are saxophones, waves, lightbulbs, airplanes, and oil derricks-- kinda odd, huh?

Track 1 Lille:



Track 5 Pa Gaden:

Orexis Communication 1980

Happy New Year to everyone out there in the blogosphere, and I promise we will be exploring tons of interesting stuff in the next little while, unearthing lost audiological treasures from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, mining this thick vein of apparently inexhaustible ultra-precious musical metals... with no end in sight, it looks like there is still more to discover for sure.

Our last installment in the Orexis file before we move on to completion of other bands, this one doesn't disappoint. In fact this entry is one of the best, without a doubt. Here's a band / artist who maintained incredibly high musical and imaginative standards through 5 albums -- Orexis, Inspiration, Reflection, Communication, and Georg Lawall Live, without really letting up at all the progressive spirit (similar to Alcatraz). This last album takes us out to 1980, when the world had pretty much given up on progressive music, but here nestled in Deutschland we still see the eagerness to fuse together every strand of human audiological experimentation: folk, classical, jazz, and blazing-fast virtuoso playing. The one element missing is the electric guitar. I cannot believe how sustained the compositions are and how unfair it is that Georg Lawall's work is lost to posterity and I hope the artists see it the way I do -- to share this immense priceless treasure from the past with as many people as possible.

I was excited to see the remarkable Budi Siebert playing saxes and flutes on this record along with Georg Lawall and the rhythm section of Lauer and Koinzer. What an incredible, amazing musician Siebert was / is and you can hear it in every note he plays on this set. Everything he touched turned to gold in this period of time.

We start with a quick uptempo ethno-folk jazz number called "Six o'rock." Here, use of the whole tones throughout make for a very interesting dreamy sound despite the uptempo. Thereafter a very beautiful evocative flute song called "Septemberly" really showcases our man Budi. Despite the old school jazz title this is a very progressive composed piece with odd changes.

The last piece on side 1 is another beautiful acoustic composition with an odd title (as seems the case throughout this record); it weaves together all kinds of gorgeous strands before kind of drifting out into nothingness at the end. Note the use of bowed playing of the double bass for deep sustained bass notes, later moving on to a cello-like use of plaintive high string notes with the bow. As mentioned before, these sustained notes on cello or (as here) on double bass always evoke the feeling of plaintive lamentation.

Side 2 opens with the awkwardly named Thelonious Harmonious, dedicated to Hermann Hesse (because of Siddhartha?). Part 1 (Communique) includes the Herbert Klein Tenor and altussolo and the choir of the god-vibration-monks introducing us with a classical choir composition getting us into a nice funereal mood. It passes into a pretty standard acoustic guitar E minor pattern with Budi's soprano sax singing out the song into more progressive territory (Vita Posterior). Really awkward title considering this song seems to be about reincarnation and death and has nothing to do with Thelonious Monk, musically.

Again the bassist is highlighted with a song, called "Bassicly". I admit to being a bit disappointed by this one slight dip in the musical quality since for the most part we hear an extended bass solo. The next track is one of the those typical german ethno-folk languorous slow evocative sunrise tracks with sitar playing from Lawall, e.g. Agitation free, Embryo, Dauner's Et cetera, etc. At least it builds up a bit of interest with Budi bringing in some sax winds to blow away the torpitude. Unfortunately we then get treated again to the descending minor guitar pattern (Led Zep's Babe I'm gonna leave you). This is the track that is co-written by Siebert. Probably this means it was mostly improvised.

The final track is a humourous jazz guitar thing. We've seen this on Lawall's records before. It reminds me a lot of association pc's toto blanke, which was almost 10 years before this record, showing how early and advanced association pc was in the sphere of complex euro-jazz.

Credits:
All compositions are by Lawall, except 5 which is by Lauer and 6 which is by Siebert and Koinzer. Lauer plays a bow by Dorkler Bubenreuth. Album was recorded June 1980at Tonstudio Bauer by Carlos Albrecht.

Great cover photo again-- the band in a paper cutout stand up next to a turkish pipe and other odds and ends on a table.

Septemberly:


So Jetzt: