Showing posts with label Bertha & Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bertha & Friends. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 January 2015

Bertha and Friends 2, the Child of the Town (1980)



Back with the second installment of this funky German group.

The track "Further On" is particularly gorgeous, I could listen to it all day, with its kind of indolent and sunny peaceful feeling:


Friday, 23 January 2015

Bertha and Friends' first Work of Art (and indeed it is) from 1978 Germany






Gotta love the over the top funk content on this one, the warm sound of the rock-pop with a huge surplus of energy and creativity that drives it right out of the seventies ballpark or rather amusement park midway.  It's the dial turned up to 11 on happy-go-funky stuff, ready to spinal tap you with all the self-created ecstasy bodily fluids you will need to pay your way across the river Styx forever.  Here's their Balade:





Most assuredly, the kind of work of art I really love.