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Eela Craig — Eela Craig
(Garden of Delights CD 019, 1971/1998, CD)

by Mike McLatchey, Published 1998-07-01

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This is the album that brings up the inevitable statement, "I thought One Niter was their first album." We all did for many years, and in many ways the differences are large enough that the Eela Craig of the latter half of the 70s is a different band musically. This Eela Craig was also Borgenmayr and Zuschrader's, yet the overt symphonic stylings of the more familiar Eela Craig were only to manifest later. This CD gives a small opportunity to see this evolution, from the album of 1971, through bonus tracks from a sampler in 1972, and two others from a single in 1974, gradually moving away from the more typical near-Krautrock style of the first album. The debut was made of five long tracks including "New Born Child" parts 1 and 2. The music is typically rhythmic, creating a nice base for lots of solos: guitar, flute, and sax. Shades of Orange Peel, Eiliff, Tomorrow's Gift, Thirsty Moon, you get the picture, early German rock, yet nowhere near as distinctive as any of these. It's a very good album, yet its reputation may come equally from the band name and their later work.

Filed under: Reissues, Issue 15, 1998 releases, 1971 recordings

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