IN MEMORIAM PATRICK GLEESON: DR. PATRICK GLEESON & BENNIE MAUPIN - Driving While Black (1998 / Intuition)
Durante el extremadamente tórrido tiempo vacacional, me entero del fallecimiento en Julio de Patrick Gleeson. Pionero sintetista y contemporáneo de Walter Carlos. Sus "Switched on Bach" fueron para él, una gran influencia. Ya lo hemos traído por aquí en alguna ocasión. Innovador con el Modular Buchla (en sus inicios, ante todo), en la San Francisco de finales 60 y sus hippiosos días de Contracultura ideológica. Colaboró intensamente en los 70 con Herbie Hancock ("Crossings" / "Sextant"), en la particular búsqueda de éste por nuevos caminos para el jazz del futuro. Algo de lo que Gleeson tomará buena nota. Seguramente de su relación con Hancock, sale éste disco que hoy traemos junto al ex-Head Hunters, Bennie Maupin. Asiduo saxofonista y vientos en cualquier proyecto de Herbie Hancock desde los 70. Aquí es Patrick Gleeson quien ocupa su puesto en las teclas, con una apertura de álbum autoría del ícono psico-funk, Norman Whitfield, "Smiling Faces...
I sometimes wonder what it was like to be a music lover in the seventies. So many bands with so many records and so many of them obscure…was it as big a treat as it is today to find something incredibly rare. Blackwater Park "Dirt Box" [Spalax]
ResponderEliminarTheir lone (only one album) with 1972 this German hard rock outfit with an English vocalist,combined elements from multiple extant and budding rock subgenres to construct their complex sound: hard rock, blues-rock, jazz-rock, acid rock, prog rock, and even proto-metal.
Blackwater Park is an obscure band that emerged from the Berlin underground scene. They released their unique album "Dirt Box" in 1971, published on BASF in 1972. The group delivers a captivating, effective bluesy-heavy rock "trip" with lot of incisive guitar riffs, progressive Hammond Organ's arrangements, melodic heavy vocals and psychedelic effects that are part of the mix. His British singer had a strong voice. Especially the third and heavy track "Indian Summer", which clearly shows us the quality, engaging and virtuosity among its members. Remember that the last song is beautiful version of "For No One", composed by Lennon and McCartney,with the album 'Revolver' issued in 1966.
(Accessible) kraut power band whose work is essential for collectors. "Dirt Box" has been recently reissued on CD by record labels Second Battle.
Excelente banda!!!. La conoci el año pasado. Tienen una mezcla de progresivo, toques de bules y hard. Las piezas Indian summer, rock song,mental block y Dirty face muy buenas!!!
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