| # | Artist | Song (click to play) | Album | Year | CD label | My Gnosis Rating |
| 1 | Triumvirat | The School of Instant Pain | Spartacus | 1975 | EMI/Electrola | 15 |
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Since the late 70's this album has been my absolute #1 favorite album
of all time. To me, it represents pure musical perfection. Heavenly
keyboard sonorities, the beautiful vocals of Helmut Kollen, sublime concept,
great lyrics, all work together to make an album that I have never tired of.
Something unique in Triumvirat's sound on this album is the work of drummer
Hans Bathelt who has made the drums an integral part of the melodic movement
of the music. The Roman gladiator Spartacus is the concept of the album
with lyrics written by Hans Bathelt. The music is remarkably expressive of
the movement of the lyrics and story of Spartacus. The album is full of
lush keyboard arrangements of Jurgen Fritz, but, actually very understated
to the overall sound of the music. Jurgen never shows flashes of egotistic
keyboard virtuosity, but, always defers to the primacy of the melodies and
arrangements. OK - I've gone on enough about it... :-)
Triumvirat Homepage | ||||||
| 2 | Golowin, Sergius | Die Hoch-Zeit (excerpt) | Lord Krishna von Goloka | 1974 | Spalax | 9 |
| This is considered to be the first of the Cosmic Jokers (Couriers?) supersessions with musicians from Wallenstein, including keyboardist Jurgen Dollase, Witthüser & Westrupp and Klaus Schulze. Sergius is an artist/poet who apparently plays no instruments, just speaks some words (his poetry, I guess) here and there through out the album. The music is a mellow psychedelic/ ethnic/ folky space rock. Many people seem to have regard for this album, but it just does not click for me, yet. I would like it a lot more if Sergius was not on it. | ||||||
| 3 | Tritonus | The Day Works | Between the Universes | 1976 | Second Battle | 10 |
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The 2nd of 2 albums released by Tritonus. Both albums are represented on
a single CD minus 1 song. They are a symphonic keyboard trio led by Peter
Seiler. The music could be compared to Novalis, Triumvirat and the slightly
later Stern-Combo Meissen. Great keyboard saturation.
Music of Peter Seiler | ||||||
| 4 | Langsyne | Mignon | Langsyne | 1976 | Lost Pipe Dreams | 8 |
| An adequately performed folk-rock album, though not particularly interesting IMO. Probably influence by Pentangle and Fairport Convention and other English folk rock bands. I prefer many other folk-rock bands that are more adventurous. But, this album could be much appreciated by big fans of folk-rock. | ||||||
| 5 | Missus Beastly | 20th Century Break | Missus Beastly | 1974 | Germanofon (boot) | 13 |
| A great progressive jazz rock with some similarities to Eiliff and Brainstorm. The band has many ties with Embryo with several musicians playing in both bands. This quintet plays bass, keyboards, drums, sax and flute. There is no guitar on this album, though Roman Bunka of Embryo plays on their next 2 albums. A great album to check for those who want to check out some instrumental melodic jazz rock without any noodling solos. Unfortunately, it has never been released legitimately on CD - only on a Germanofon bootleg CD. | ||||||
| 6 | Novalis | Aufbruck | Sommerabend | 1976 | Metronome/Brain | 13 |
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This album probably represent Novalis at their peak. The band plays a
classically inspired progressive of romantic themes and lush symphonic
music. Comparable perhaps to Eloy's more symphonic albums.
Novalis - Progressive Rock for Summer Evenings | ||||||