Ralf Nowy 3 70s albums

It's annoying that he loved the Magritte-inspired naked chest so much he felt the need to repeat it in consecutive album covers.

Here's an artist probably everyone knows from his Escalation, which came out in 1974 and featured the side-long title track.  Actually I thought it was disappointing, and both the previous Lucifer's Dream album and the one called 2 were, despite being much less known, better in many ways, the first being more progressive fusion and the last one being more approachable with great songwriting and the contribution of Edo Zanki (remember him?) aka Don Anderson.  His lovely baritone voice comes out beautifully in the song called Wishing Well from the Ralf Nowy 2 album:





My usual comments, why was this song not a number one hit on radio back in the day?  Surely the composition is indelibly memorable and the hook just fantastic, not to mention the mellifluous singing.  Quite a bit of interesting fusion rounds out that one.   In fact, consider the very first track of Lucifer's Dream with the odd title of Breadhead, with its masterful fusion:




Note from the database that he also appeared in the ancient krautrock band Drosselbart, which if I recall was terrible, and on the wonderful and unknown Don Anderson Eagle Flies album that I raved about so long long ago.  Today, that eagle of course-- is a little slower than it used to be, and might even be hooked up to multiple tubes on a stretcher...

I included all three of the 70s albums.  Note that the other records are not worth purchasing (e.g., Dilly Dally Dancing.)  As well, the library stuff he made with the name Colours in the 80s is also terrible and generic.