| # | Artist | Song (click to play) | Album | Year | CD label | My Gnosis Rating |
| 1 | Electric Sun | Sundown | Earthquake | 1979 | Spalax | 10 |
| Electric Sun is a guitar/bass/drums power trio led by guitarist Uli Roth who was the Scorpions guitarist in the mid-1970's. Having not heard much 1970's Scorpions, I cannot say how similar the music might be, but, I do hear a lot of similarities to Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush. | ||||||
| 2 | Tangerine Dream | Force Majeure (excerpt) | Force Majeure | 1979 | Virgin Records | 12 (Alan's) |
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"Tangerine Dream along with Klaus Schulze and others
founded what has come to be known as the 'Berlin
School' of electronic music. This is one of their
underappreciated later 70's albums, made after the
departure of Peter Baumann, and before the entrance of
Johannes Schmolling. Somewhat unusual for them is
that it features a real drummer. Guests also add
flute and cello, and Froese plays a lot more guitar
than usual. I think that makes this album sound like
their most 'prog-like' work. Here is an excerpt from
from the 'sidelong' title track." - Alan Mallery
Tangerine Dream Home Page | ||||||
| 3 | Flaming Bess | Tanz der Gotter (excerpt) | Tanz der Gotter | 1979 | Moonlight | 11 |
| Flaming Bess released only this one obscure, but very fine, record. The CD is a long OOP limited edition of 1000, as is pretty difficult to find. There is some kind of story being told in spoken word between the songs, but otherwise the music is instrumental. The music bears some resemblence to the first Camel album particularly when the hammond organ and clean electric guitar run through some progressions. Guitar leads the melodic ideas of the band while the keyboards provide more of a supportive role. The instrumentation and sonorities remind me of the first Crucis album, as well. | ||||||
| 4 | Joachim Kuhn Band | Orange Drive | Sunshower | 1978 | WEA | 9 |
| A decent late 1970's fusion album with an all-star cast of Jan Akkerman (Focus) & Ray Gomez (Stanley Clarke) on guitars, Tony Newton (Tony Williams Lifetime) on bass and of course, Joachim Kuhn on keys. Joachim has a very long string of albums dating back to the early 60's, as well as dozens of collaborations and guest spots on mostly jazz/fusion albums. This is a pretty easy going and straight forward fusion with emphasis on Joachim's piano. | ||||||
| 5 | Popol Vuh | Aguirre II | Aguirre | 1976 | Spalax | 11 |
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Recorded between 1972 and 1974, the material on this album was not
released until 1976 as the soundtrack to the movie Aguirre. Spacious
music on mellotron, piano, electric guitar... Yet another great album
by Popol Vuh.
Popol Vuh | ||||||
| 6 | Anyone's Daughter | Adonis- Part 1: Come Away | Adonis | 1979 | WMMS | 11 |
| Anyone's Daughter debuted in 1979 with this very well crafted symphonic album in the mold of Eloy, Novalis & Neuschwanstein. Their 2nd album from 1980 is far less interesting, while their 3rd album _Piktors Verwandlungen_ is perhaps their best. | ||||||