Frederic Rabold and his crew and Inspiration Orchestra, plus a new rip of his 1985 Relaxing Walk

When I mentioned Li Garattoni's album earlier (cf. VA Stuttgart) I decided to see if there was more music by keyboardist Uli Buhl to be found, recall he was in the one-off band A Matter of Taste in 1979 and the Frederic Rabold Crew throughout the seventies and eighties, to whom he contributed quite a bit. As bandleader, Fred Rabold had a tendency to mix free jazz and other such nonsense with his straight up jazz and fusion, even moving closer to the end of the seventies he never relented by compromising the experimental.  That could be good or bad news to you.  Anyways you can decide for yourself, since I assembled together all his work from 1972's Flair, as you can see from the cover images, to 1980's Berlin album, which remains to me unlistenable for the most part, plus today's new rip. 

Actually, quite a few of those old albums are my rips from years ago as I can tell from the scans with the characteristic glare from my samsung phone, before I bought that large flatbed scanner which I used here for 2 years, until it of course broke, quite on time I'd say after the obligatory period of 24 months.  Let's take the time to thank our Silicon Valley Overlords, our new masters and kings for the coming 21st century, who so cleverly cause our purchases to break down after 1 to 2 years thereby forcing us to buy new products over and over again while at the same time never paying any corporate taxes, unlike the rest of us earthlings.  Big shout out to them.  Have mercy on our souls, oh godlike ones.  Special thanks to you, oh great god-man Steve for inventing the ipod classic, and then ceasing to make it after 4 years forcing me to go to ebay to purchase new ones.  So also thanks to great god ebay creator whoever he was for making ipod classic available to me again.  Great god paypal creator man, thanks be to you too, for allowing me to pay for ipod classic with 8 percent extra to yourself's billion dollar riches, oh god-man.  Great times we live in.  As October Country said, with 5G upon us soon, we will also have innumerable Chinese great gods watching everything we do and say, too.   So thanks be to the 5G creators too, all hail.

From the earlier albums the Uli Buhl composition called Berlin, which also appeared in a gorgeous interpretation on Matter of Taste, is exemplary:





Today's album came out in the mid-80s and it does recycle the track Relaxing Walk from earlier, in fact it elevates it to a title, much as Berlin later became the title of a whole LP.  Definitely a pattern here, or a lack of imagination perhaps.  On the whole, it panders just a bit more than the others to commercial appeal, with nothing overall new for the FRC fan, assuming there is such a thing.  The best track is Buhl's From Beginning to End with its Mahavishnuesque arpeggios: