Wednesday, 22 August 2018

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?



8 comments:

  1. https://www114.zippyshare.com/v/AZ1AaHrf/file.html

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    1. hi, just wanted to inform you that I can offer (flac) the great cd Eef Albers/John Lee/Gerry Brown - Brothers

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  2. John Lee - Gerry Brown 1979 My Fathers Place Roslyn NY, with Eef Albers, Bob Malach, Daryl Thompson and Rodney Franklin (256)
    https://www57.zippyshare.com/v/BfcJc8KN/file.html

    Jasper van't Hof, Jiří Stivín & Zbigniew Seifert - 1978 Koeln, Germany @~306
    https://www27.zippyshare.com/v/uk59VzMX/file.html

    Thanks to the original uploaders.
    Enjoy!

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  3. hi from Canada,
    is it possible to reload these 2 shows ?

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  4. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/hzfjyx
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/8vhhfy

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  5. I can offer the great cd Albers/Gerry Brown/John Lee - Brothers

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