After the first ST album named of course after Return to Forever's opus, and posted
here, they seem to have lost their way in my opinion with digital keys and drums, electronic, ethnic and new age importations in the second and third albums. Others will surely disagree though. I guess it's important for everyone to feel they've completed the discography, which can be found
here.
An example of the older guitar-based style (as on the ST) is Savannah Talk:
While the electronic digitalese is featured on tracks like this one, Reflexion au jour (note the digital harp):
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Searching for the waveforms of summer
ReplyDeleteas early June sun beams through the leaves
shifting light patterns dance on the trails
A warm change in the air. Finally.
The Unexpected brings good presents to the open ear -
A blast of bright neon energy!
Did Minox recruit Snakefinger fused with Eric Wollo?
Aurally pleasing stimulating creative potentials and new directions
The evening rolls out long in early June
Feels like getting up early on Saturday to watch the favorite Jonny Quest cartoon
or that rare record arriving in the mail
Everything about this gem reminds me of good times,
happy young years with arcades, when the first video game systems appeared with actually good games as the computer-synthesizer Revenge Of The Nerds vibe was fully embraced...
By track 7 - Planet - we are in full electro-prog stride and
the next few like Footprints, Liquid Sky, Modern Talking (It's Just A Telephone Call) and Cosmo Jazz shimmer like heat-mirages with the pleasure of strolling in the garden at twilight with a full pipe.....I see smoke-rings floating ;)
There are wide currents full of meaning flowing fast around us
A universe full of intentions
Everything happens for a purpose.
Thank You so much Julian, I needed this right now,
a perfect surfboard to catch a wave ~
A good record creates new ideas ready to explore,
A new reality next door - Let's go!!!
ps. Here's a couple requests my friend :)
-Hiroki Tamaki & S.M.T. - Time Paradox (1975)
-The Helpful Soul - First Album & 1001 Nights OST (both 1969)
Thanks again bro
The main dude here is Peter Kuhlmann who in later years and quite successfully in an indie sort of way as Pete Namlook started the FAX Germany label which was you guessed it NOT jazz but 100% electronica/ambient/techno. The cult following after his untimely demise is strong. Pete was an avid jazz aficionado(he even went as far as sample Lyle Mays in one of his Air discs) having a penchant for the guitar which was featured later on many of his alias names and solo projects. He was rather diverse in his personal influences. Nice to see this up on the site for people to hear but he had quite an extensive back catalog in the 90s until his death.
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