STEVE JOLLIFFE - Zanzi (1996/ Horizon)

Ya hemos traído por aquí alguna vez a Steve Jolliffe . Siempre entre Inglaterra y Berlín. En los 60 con Rick Davies (luego en Supertramp) con The Joint. Y en los primeros 70 con Edgar Froese. Ahora pone en marcha una gira presentando "Cyclone", el único álbum en el que participó con Tangerine Dream, allá por 1978. Un disco aquel rompedor, que incluía batería, voz y vientos. Esto último a cargo del propio Jolliffe. Algo que no fue perdonado por los fans más conservadores de la banda. Que hay que ser cenutrio, yendo con "purismos" a un combo como ése. Evidenciaba aquello que Tangerine Dream no se iban a estancar en una sola fórmula. Para bien o para mal, así fue. A "Cyclone" el tiempo le ha dado la razón. Aunque Jolliffe lo rescate ahora como mero ejercicio nostálgico. Agridulce estado ése. Por un lado es malo carecer de recuerdos. Pero vivir excesivamente en ellos lo hace enfermizo. En cualquier caso, Steve Jolliffe tiene cosas muy golosas en su discog...
Sperrmüll is a German rock band founded in Aachen in the early 70s. In 1971, Harald Kaiser and Reinhold Breuer decided to form a trio. His name Sperrmüll. Then one day, Helmut Krieg arrives with his guitar and arrangements and the group is started. From that time, the group became a quartet with the involvement of Peter Schneider to play keyboards. The group's name is somewhat obscure because "Sperrmüll" is a German expression that means garbage in bulk. They recorded one album for the label Brain in a very limited edition in 1972, in a manner also quite anonymous Dieter Dierks studio in Stommeln produced by a Chazadu surely a pseudonym. A test similar to the very successful early Deep Purple in Nosferatu and even Rufus Zuphall, This album has long been a precious rarity on vinyl
ResponderEliminarSperrmüll offers a burly album called simply "Sperrmüll" songs are in English and not overloaded instrumentally speaking, but the group actually plenty to offer. Mainly Heavy Rock, but with many additions musiqu progressive, guitar as well as the organ. The original LP consists of 6 songs, then later be digitally added two songs ("You Have To Leave" and "To Be Satisfied").The set is however complex and dynamic improvisations in between some vagueness (many Hammond organs and guitars Heavy catchy) arrangements and folk epic flute.
The opening track is a pop folk entitled "Me And My Girlfriend" controlled first by mandolin and piano, lead, little by little, through the organ and synthesizer to an end much more Heavy Blues. "No Freak Out", Prog majestically, is the song of the group's most famous because it is found on most long compilations of Krautrock for several years. A good choice because it is a good mix of psychedelic ingredients in a style close to Pink Floyd combined with a monotonous rhythm. "Rising Up" is a bit more spacy sometimes reminiscent of Deep Purple, Eloy or even Grobschnitt.
The Hard Rock "Right Now", an epic nine minutes begins some unusual way, because only bursts of guitar and drums hell are dueling for a moment. After several minutes, the song turns into a calmer perfectly structured piece with a jazzy piano and a powerful bass, and finally ending in Hard Rock again. Perhaps the best part, because of these innovations varied. The last two tracks "Land Of The Rocking Sun" and "Pat Casey" are not really important, because they are typically Rock songs, while the second has a more pronounced rhythm style Boogie Woogie.
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