One of the top, obscure hard rock bands from the 1970s. Highly rated on All Music Guide and Rate Your Music and an absolute must for anybody who is into 1970s rock.
And the best thing about the album is that it is, unbelievably, NYP on bandcamp.
@peterfrederics Something about the group name was making my back brain itch. I think I may have come across the group via one of the Brown Acid comps, possibly. Anyway they are on volume one. Having a listen now and looking again at the cover. I had to do a double take before I saw the hand reaching out of the grave and working out that the Marshall stack was a tombstone Doh!
@djh if you enjoyed this album then you must try their live albums "Erupts!" (same album cover and tombstone [!!] but different colouring) and "Topeka Jam".
"Gretchen Goes to Nebraska" a Hard/Progressive Rock album by King's X.
Thanks again to @Germanprof for the introduction to this excellent band.
AMG says "It seemed inconceivable that Houston's King's X would ever top the brilliance and originality of their debut, but 1989's Gretchen Goes to Nebraska did just that, taking their unique sound to unprecedented heights of invention and inspiration."
"Tarot", the 1973 Krautrock/Progressive Rock album by German national Walter Wegmuller who was a mystic, artist, and eccentric as well as a friend of Sergius Golowin, H.R.Giger and Timothy Leary.
AMG says "This massive double album is cosmic Krautrock at its finest hour, as visionary Walter Wegmuller leads a tour through the entire major arcane of the Tarot deck while the Cosmic Couriers -- basically Ash Ra Tempel, Wallenstein, and whoever else producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser could rope in -- create a remarkable soundtrack encompassing space rock, folk music, funk, psychedelia, and electronic music. ...This album provides an incredible pallet of styles that all seem to gel in a cohesive mass of pure mystical wonder."
Quoting from Rate Your Music "Best known as a visual artist, it was WEGMÜLLER’s personal design of 22 tarot cards which caught the attention of Timothy Leary who introduced him to Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser of Ohr Records. The label coaxed WEGMÜLLER into recording an entire album based on the themes of the tarot cards"
@peterfrederics I've owned the Tarot album since the 2000 cd re-issue and I like it... but I've never been able to really enthuse over it, and it is the same with all the Cosmic Couriers albums. There's a certain element of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear when you make a bunch of albums chiefly by getting stoned with the musicians who turn up and then just turning on the tape machine and seeing what happens. I guess I'm just frustrated that I don't like them more than I do. As I've said countless times in other places I love Can, but the magic is mainly in the editing. The same of course is true for 68-75 Miles & Teo.
AMG says "This is exquisitely classy, polished, virtuoso keyboards and sundry rock elements....PLP is 100% pure class, fine art rock, complex, moving, lush, and an all-around grand experience."
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One of the top, obscure hard rock bands from the 1970s. Highly rated on All Music Guide and Rate Your Music and an absolute must for anybody who is into 1970s rock.
And the best thing about the album is that it is, unbelievably, NYP on bandcamp.
https://iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com/album/no-rest-for-the-wicked
https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-rest-for-the-wicked-mw0000301622
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/truth-and-janey
Thanks again to @Germanprof for the introduction to this excellent band.
AMG says "It seemed inconceivable that Houston's King's X would ever top the brilliance and originality of their debut, but 1989's Gretchen Goes to Nebraska did just that, taking their unique sound to unprecedented heights of invention and inspiration."
AMG says "This massive double album is cosmic Krautrock at its finest hour, as visionary Walter Wegmuller leads a tour through the entire major arcane of the Tarot deck while the Cosmic Couriers -- basically Ash Ra Tempel, Wallenstein, and whoever else producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser could rope in -- create a remarkable soundtrack encompassing space rock, folk music, funk, psychedelia, and electronic music. ...This album provides an incredible pallet of styles that all seem to gel in a cohesive mass of pure mystical wonder."
Quoting from Rate Your Music "Best known as a visual artist, it was WEGMÜLLER’s personal design of 22 tarot cards which caught the attention of Timothy Leary who introduced him to Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser of Ohr Records. The label coaxed WEGMÜLLER into recording an entire album based on the themes of the tarot cards"
Elektraum - Inward
A top album of theirs is Pale Communion, released in 2014 by which time they had largely abandoned Death Metal for Prog.
I will be seeing them live in Melbourne towards the end of the year.
AMG says "This is exquisitely classy, polished, virtuoso keyboards and sundry rock elements....PLP is 100% pure class, fine art rock, complex, moving, lush, and an all-around grand experience."
The album is available on Bandcamp https://parlindhproject.bandcamp.com/
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