Thursday 30 September 2010

Manuel Gottsching - E2 - E4



 Very interesting and pioneering work by Manuel Gottsching which is very minimalistic in structure with repetetive guitar melodies and electronics weaving a tapestry of slowly ever evolving hypnotic sounds. This is just one very long suite over an hour long.

Excellent !

Line-up / Musicians
- Manuel Göttsching / guitar, electronics

 Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Ruhige Nervosität (13:00)
2. Gemäßigter Aufbruch (10:00)
3. ... und Mittelspiel (7:00)
4. Ansatz (6:00)
5. Damen-Eleganza (5:00)
6. Ehrenvoller Kampf (3:00)
7. Hoheit weicht (nicht ohne Schwung...) (9:00)
8. ... und Souveränität (3:00)
9. Remis (3:00)

Total Time: 59:34






Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 Part 1 of 6


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Tuesday 14 September 2010

Focus - Focus 9 / New Skin (2010)









This album plus the previous Focus 8 are definitely a return to form of the classic earlier period Focus, albeit without guitarist Jan Akkerman in the ranks. The guitarist on this album though certainly comes close to his sound and technical skills.

 With lots of instrumentals that certainly sound familiar and one track with real vocals this is on the whole a progressive rock fans delight with lots of flute and guitar with excellent bass and drums. This is also the first time original drummer P van Der Linden and Thijs van Leer have played together on record for over thirty years. One can only look forward to more releases like this.

Songs / Tracks List
1. Black Beauty (4:13)
2. Focus 7 (5:22)
3. Hurkey Turky 2 (4:03)
4. Sylvia's Stepson - Ubutuba (4:48)
5. Niels' Skin (6:03)
6. Just Like Eddy (5:08)
7. Aya-Yuppie-Hippie-Yee (5:20)
8. Focus 9 (7:57)
9. Curtain Call (4:32)
10. Ode To Venus (4:26)
11. European Rap [sody] (10:22)
12. Pim (3:00)
13. It Takes 2 2 Tango (8:01)

Total Time: 68:16

Line-up / Musicians
- Thijs van Leer / Hammond, keyboards, flute, vocals
- Pierre van Der Linden / drums
- Bobby Jacobs / bass
- Niels van der Steenhoven / guitars



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