Florian Poser's Lifeline (1980) Complete, and Lifeline's Linie (1981)

A defective first album for this band was posted here.  It was missing the last track, for some odd reason, I'm not even sure how this might have come about, perhaps when I copied to backup I missed copying one track from the original folder.  Luckily I had the original backup DVD to rescue me, and it was complete.  So please discard the old Lifeline 1980 album you got here, and upgrade to this complete, and lossless, copy.
As a bonus I have thrown in the second album from them called Linie, in lossless form.  They did a third album called Fahrt ins Blau, which is even smoother and mellower.

Please look forward to the continuation of the show-- coming soon are part two of the Northern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble, more entries in the ReR Records Quarterly material -- ouch you will say, but not so fast -- there are still some beautiful gems in this material that are worth hearing, provided you are open-minded to the progressive sphere of music, as well as a masterpiece of American funky hard progressive that just made me fall out of my chair when I heard it this year, I was shocked that something so ingeniously and deliriously wonderful was so little known, although it was released to CD in a bootleg edition in the Far East, it seems to be still little-chronicled among those who have extensively covered the alpha to omega of our favourite genre...
and of course, as usual, there will be -- promised --  some bombshells I will drop on you to keep you awake and to blow your minds, to make you realize there are still tons and tons of undiscovered beautiful music out there from this period, as Tom has said so often before...

Florian Poser's Lifeline is charting very positively on his first album from 1980 [by private request]

I felt bad about the unexpectedly untimely and precipitate removal of the first Florian Poser post so I'll give you this one instead, the first of three albums with the Lifeline moniker.  I think I mentioned  previously that "Winds" was in my opinion his best album, but you can judge for yourselves.  Or maybe you can't judge since you never got the latter. 
You can always email me.

The style is German fusion, smooth as a hot pumpkin latte.

The band is the following:       

• Bass – Ede Brumund
• Drums, Percussion – Clemens Wernsperger
• Guitar – Manfred Jestel
• Producer – Ulrich Maske
• Saxophone – Manfred Seegers
• Vibraphone, Instruments [Marimbaphone] – Florian Poser

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Here is a track from Jestel, Mouthpiece:



And here are some more precipitational feelings from Florian to aptly complement the Rain from Winds and the current mini-monsoonal season in (some parts of) the Northern Hemisphere:

A new blog... with Florian Poser's Winds

It may seem futile in such a crowded field to start a new blog... but I would like to share some material from my record collection that so far has been hard to hear online.

I will not always post downloadable links although a digital copy will always be available for those who are eager enough to hear the material and willing to email.  This is because often some amount of money was invested in the vinyl and making it easily available would be counterproductive for the purpose of selling.  On a positive note, once a record is sold, there is less reason to hold it back.  More importantly I will not post anything released either to CD or for digital download e.g. iTunes but only out of print records, usually from at least 30 years in the past.

On this wonderful and relaxing outing from 1986 Germany, Florian Poser, the celebrated jazz vibraphonist (who earlier produced three albums with the fusion band name Lifeline), plays all the instruments, and composed and arranged all the pieces.  A list of instruments:
Vibraphone, Marimba [Marimbaphone], Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Grand Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Yamaha Px7], Electric Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Cymbal, Percussion, Computer [Digital Rhythm Computer].
In comparison to the Lifeline albums I think these songs are more accessible and well-written with a minimum of unnecessary improvisations.  Despite the bleak and frigid cover, there is an entertaining warmth to the compositions that I find quite appealing.

Here is my favourite track, Rainy Day, which is perfect where I'm sitting at here this chilly fall day: