More Eef Albers, unbeknownst to me: Birds of the Night (Limited time only)

As you all know I hate to post CDs, just oop records on these pages, but this one really shocked me when it was added to the pile of earlier Eef Albers albums I uploaded.  The quality of the musicianship is as high as anything we've heard from the likes of say German Karl Ratzer or American James Vincent,  Consider the opener which was unpromisingly called Bulgaria, but turned out to be lacking fortunately in ethnic folk styles:





Note from the credits that he composed all these tracks...

Urszula Sipinska Again in a 1980 LP: Są Takie Dni W Tygodniu - Kolorowy Film

A later release from this Polish singer-songwriter who I featured a bit earlier, unfortunately not quite as good as the Figiel collaboration from 1974, this is typical late 70s pop along the lines of Olivia Newton-John.  Note that she composed some tracks while others were written by husband Jerzy Konrad.  Track a5:





Side a focuses on ballads and b on uptempo pieces.  I won't call it disco since that would be occasion for argument.

Apologies for the condition of the vinyl-- as usual from Eastern Europe we have a record advertised as NM turning out to be scratchy, apparently good quality media is as rare over there as democratic reforms and/or honest gypsies.

Sounds ov [sic] Earth - Solstice (USA, 1986)

Explanation for the odd misspelling of the artist?

A typical late US fusionary album with some very pleasant moments indeed, scant information here.  We've heard so so many records like this one, on this blog and before it....  Seems I never get tired of the sound (ov this earth) though.
Track A6:

Canadian Canterburied band Moonstruck from 1976

A stunningly avantgarde progressive rock opus with canterbury elements from 1976, the kind of one-off that makes me weep to think the creativity that went into this was so ignored and maligned.

Consider the track Oceans Notions:






Like, wow??

But bear in mind the album is all over the place, as you'd expect from something relatively experi-mental (with emphasis on the mental there!).

Eef Albers in Pyramids, 1987

I wasn't hoping for all that much after Skyrider but surprisingly Albers' best fusionary work turned out to be this album from 1987, a very inauspicious year.  As we all know, crossing the 1980 border usually results in a serious musical decline, getting all the good creative music confiscated away from us by those nasty customs officers-- they're the same in every country, aren't they...  but this case is the exception for it seems Albers saved some of his best ideas for much later.

The track called Marathon I shows a finesse to its progressive keyboard chords that seems so out of place for the late year, recalling the best of the Manfred Schoof oeuvre I've posted here and there before:





And surprisingly the whole album continues in the same vein, with no compromising positions or fuzak throwaways to feed to those commercial wolves, or perhaps rather-- headless chickens...

Like, what happened, Eef?  You forgot what year it was?