Oldish Psych and Prog

style: Prog
country: uk
audio: lossless (ape)
size: 215mb

Tapestry of Delights:
A pretty clumsy progressive boogie rock outfit judging by their album. The playing is competent enough but the compositions are well below par with Beauty Queen, Road To Glory and the Free-like Down And Out the best of a poor pack. Only of interest to hard rock completists. Their best song was a 1972 single, I Really Want It.
The See For Miles reissue includes both sides of the 1972 Dawn 45. I Really Want It featured former Cochise member John Gilbert on vocals and some liken his voice to David Coverdale's.

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style: jazz
country: germany
audio: lossless (flac, cue, log, covers)
size: 86mb

Cosmic Dreams:
One of the German jazz musicians best known internationally is Klaus Doldinger (saxes, flute, keyboards). He was born in Berlin on 12 May 1936. He played in diverse amateur jazz bands from 1952 onwards. In l962 he formed his first Klaus Doldinger Quartet with Ingfried Hoffmalln (piano), Helmut Kalldberger (bass) and Klaus Weiss (drums). Doldinger also made pop, jazz and blues in the sixties under the pseudonym Paul Nero, resulting in several albums: Paul Nero's Blue Sounds had the line-up of Klaus Doldinger (winds), Steffan von Dobrcinsky (winds). Sahib Shilab (bass), Atilla Zoller (guitar), Ingfried Hoilmann (organ), Peter Trunk (bass), Klaus Voorman (bass) and Gibson Kemp (drums). They recorded The Big Beat in 1965. The name was aventually shortened down to Paul Nero Sounds for the subsequent releases Nero's Soul Party (1968) and Nero In South-America (1970). Among the participating musicians were: Siegfried Schwab (pre-Embryo, guitar on both), Lothar Meid (pre-Amon Duul II, bass on both), Olaf Kubler (renowned Amon Duul II producer, sax on both) and Florian Schneider-Esleben (pre-Kraftwerk, flute on the 1970 album). For the first Passport album, Doldinger assembled line-up in the studio to record seven of his compositions. This and the subsequent albums established Klaus Doldinger as one of the leading German performers of conventional jazz rock fusion. On Second Passport (1972) Doldinger had acquired an entirely new line-up. The third Passport formation was ready for concerts and a new album Hand Made in 1973. When Roberts was replaced with Kristian Schultze in 1974, Passport were at last a stable unit for a couple of years. Doldinger's Jubilee Concert (1974) was performed with famous guests like Brian Auger, Pete York and Alexis Korner.
 

style: Garage
country: us
Audio: mp3 (256k)
size: 114mb