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Harvey Mandel - Live at Broadway Studios, San Francisco 2001

Rock Beat Records is digging up some great shows to release from the vaults of time, like the Paul Butterfield Live in New York 1970 show that I

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2018-08-10)

Various Artists - Goldfish

Hardly seems possible, but Fruits de Mer Records has reached the ripe old age of 10. And to celebrate this milestone, they released a triple LP in a gatefold sleeve that features selections from...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2018-07-18)

Spirit - It Shall Be - The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972

Subtitled The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972, this five disc set in a clamshell box pretty much covers the formative years of one of the finest and most eclectic bands of the late 60s...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2018-07-02)

Tetragon - Agape

Keyboradist Hendrik Schaper and bassist Rolf Rettberg had been playing together since 1967 in a trio called Trikolon from Osnabrück in lower Saxony. Early in the spring of 1971, the third...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2018-05-25)

Third Ear Band - Exorcisms & Spirits

Third Ear Band from the beginning was one of the strangest sounding bands, and remains so to this day. I remember bringing home the LP of the band’s first album Alchemy (bought...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2018-04-30)

Dr. Aftershave - In the Diving Bell

After Mussus Beastly split up (for the nth time) in the fall of 1979, bassist Norbert Dömling, keyboard player Burkhard Scmidl, and drummer Marlon Klein, who had just joined Missus Beastly...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2018-04-20)

Embryo - Umsonst und Draußen – Vlotho 1977

Following the Embryo Live album, recorded in February 1976, but not released until 1977, a lot of changes were in store for the band. Both woodwind player Charlie Mariano and...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2018-03-23)

A.R. & Machines - The Art of German Psychedelic 1970-1974

This ten disc box set and companion 96 page LP-size hardbound book is the story of an Akai X-330D open reel tape machine and the man who became its captive, one Achim Reichel, ex-member of German...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2018-03-16)

The Monochrome Set - 1979-1985 - Complete Recordings

The Monochrome Set is a band that I had heard the name of but never encountered their music. I believe that I first read about them through Archie Patterson’s early efforts with Paradox Music...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2018-03-07)