By Request, To Be (2 albums, 1977 and 1982) [limited time only]

The first album is of course a well-known masterpiece of German fusion, the follow up from 5 years later much less known.  If for some shocking reason you haven't heard this yet, it's most similar to the (now so inappropriately named) CCC I posted not so long ago.

From discogs:

Profile:  German supergroup of top pop and rock musicians from Hamburg (many of whom had played with the Achim Reichel band), To Be were surprisingly an instrumental jazz-rock outfit.

Members:  Christian Lembrecht, Claus-Robert Kruse, Lonzo Westphal, Manfred Thiers, Peter Franken, Peter Weihe, Rolf Köhler

Consider the stunning riffery of the track called Tell the Truth:






Very reiminiscent of Scope, who we covered here before.

Most of the music was written by one Claus-Robert Kruse.  The remarkable angular and inventive creative energy went missing for the most part by the time of the follow-up, a predictable occurrence.  On that one, the best track is B2 called Gentleness:





More recently the regrouped band went on to make two more albums, digital only, in 2006 and 2019, available online.  These are from Kruse's Oh Yes! Records.