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Analogy - Analogy

Analogy was a band made up of both Italian and German members, yet remained far closer stylistically to the latter. Analogy's main influence was certainly Ummagumma era Pink Floyd...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1995-03-01)

Zabu - My Coffin's Ready

This is a highly unusual Musea release. The bulk of the music on My Coffin’s Ready is blues rock! Even though Zabu’s band consisted of his Magma cohorts, most of the music on...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 1994-12-31)

Wapassou - Messe en Ré Mineur, Salammbô & Ludwig

Wapassou was a unique classically influenced French band that existed from around 1971 through the mid-80s (their last release was in 1986). These three — their second, third and fourth...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1994-10-01)

Von Zamla is another incarnation of the zany Samla Mammas Manna, who recorded two albums under the name for Urspar (this one being the first) before breaking up in the early 80s. Von Zamla's four... » Read more
(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1994-10-01)

Van Otterdyke - The Syrens

Ed Van Otterdijk (spelled Otterdyke here) is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who released this one self-produced album on WEA in 1984 as part of a three album deal. The music straddled the line between... » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1994-10-01)

Urban Sax - Urban Sax, Fraction sur le Temps & Spiral

Legend has it that the idea for Urban Sax came into being around 1973, when the town of Menton in the south of France commissioned Gilbert Artman to reverberate the town with four amplified fixed...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1994-10-01)

The Cosmic Jokers - The Cosmic Jokers & Galactic Supermarket

Give LSD to the Haight Ashbury scene in the bay area in the late 60s and you have the flower power generation; give it to a bunch of young radical German musicians and you have the Ohr, Pilz, and... » Read more
(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1994-10-01)

Silver Apples - Silver Apples / Contact

Frankly, this is one of those reissues I thought I would never see. The (now long defunct) Kapp label issued these two albums in the late 60s, after which they quickly faded into obscurity. At a time... » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1994-10-01)

Renaissance & Illusion - Scheherezade, Turn of the Cards & Madonna Blue

[Note: This review from 1994 refers to reissues on the TRC label. The albums involved have since been legitimately issued, and those releases are listed at the end of this...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1994-10-01)

Pulsar - Görlitz

Pulsar was perhaps the best French band in the mid-70s. In fact they were the first French band to be distributed by an English label. From 1975 to 1977 they released three albums culminating with...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 1994-10-01)

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