Wednesday 21 December 2016

The 3 Libraries of Volker Kriegel and The Groove-Combination: Untitled, with Leaf, and With Rainer Bruninghaus on side 2





All the albums of the great German guitarist Kriegel are worth seeking out (plus the ones he made with the Mild Maniac Orchestra), even the ones dipping into the 80s.  He never gave up the original, relaxed, and warm & tender songwriting style he developed quite early on in such homages to females as Marie - Thérèse, though the wild fusion definitely petered out.

These three library records are still quite unknown despite their high quality-- not subpar in any way compared to the official releases.  The last one with the presence of ECM keyboardist and Eiliff player the great Rainer (everyone know his work, I hope?) really excited my curiosity despite the bland titles being all I had to go with and so I jumped in and grabbed it.

The first two are so similar to his other work I wondered if maybe they are hand-selected excerpts from the discography but I didn't recognize any tracks I had heard before, except maybe the Palm Dreams composition.  As an example from the second one-- you can't really expect much from a track called The Stripper but surprisingly it's tender and well-shaped unlike most strippers I've had the lack of pleasure to have ever seen in my Univ. days:





The final album (and the rarest!) is the big treat here, side one being Volker's and the second side Rainer's.  The titles are quite generic but the music is not so.  The Butterfly Landing is quite remarkable:





Enjoy...

7 comments:



  1. Untitled 1974

    http://www37.zippyshare.com/v/Y7vd9MfW/file.html

    Leaf 197?

    http://www87.zippyshare.com/v/xjnR7U58/file.html

    With Rainer and Friends 1986

    http://www81.zippyshare.com/v/4GD6PBpX/file.html

    reups by request from Jan 2014:

    Changes some more

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/z7c67z

    Changes home again

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/1fqgr1

    Anything you guys need reupped, I have no problem with, except certain lossless files due to size issues (I pay for storage space)

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  2. Wow Julian, this is the best Christmas present ever. The one you weren't expecting that blows your mind.
    Merry Christmas and thank you for all your hard work all year long.

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  3. Many thanks for these little treasures. I've heard a few of Kriegel's records and enjoyed all of them, very relaxed and accessible, yet not simple. Many thanks for this fabulous year (musically speaking...), for all your contributions and have a nice and enjoyable festive season/end of the year.

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    1. thanks, and I ask you to look forward to another year full of gems, surprising and not!
      Merry Xmas!

      PS more to come soon

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  4. Hello, and lots of thanks Julian for running this tremendous blog full of clever reviews and interesting stories (imho).
    That being said, I can ask for re-ups without shame I think.
    Seems that the first of these three Biton is also featured on my blog (BIT2002 from 1976 in fact, as confirmed on discogs in chat section), so here's a fresh link available 30 days after each dwnld:
    h***s://www33.zippyshare.com/v/wkV1mUBt/file.html
    Also, I'd be glad to find a rip from the previous Biton LP (ref. BIT2001).
    Merry Xmas too,
    Chris/NewBell

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  5. this is a package with all three of the above albums (bitons 2002, 2006, 2008)

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/dlyyz6

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