When it comes to classic prog rock, it doesn't get any better than this one-- at least in certain compositions. This is the real deal, so magnificent to hear with these tired ears. You have here the odd arrangements, including chamber instruments like strings and flutes, varied chord changes, deep emotional breadth, thoughtful ideas and highly original and creative melodies that go into the best of progressive music, a little like my old favourite Iviron which I hope everyone knows as a point of reference.
Really you never know with these studio sessions recovered from the deep past because so often they are totally ordinary krautrock or simplistic 'jazz rock' by which they mean normal chorded conventional songs with a few trumpet passages thrown in or sax solos, and that doesn't make it fusion, not by a long shot. As a matter of fact you'll notice that on this CD there are some tracks that definitely appear to be like the aforementioned. But the band progressed enormously into the Genesisian style and territory by the later more mature works as sampled below.
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On the track called The Great Ant with its amazing introduction in chamber style, the melody is about as odd as anything I've ever heard, never mind the wild fantastical entomological lyrics and, as you might expect in these uncommon situations, the song completely changes halfway through:
The Boat has a little bit of that lovely acoustic and thoughtful, meditative Radio Noisz Ensemble sound to it so typical of German progressive but without the ethnic droning:
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Just to add my 2 cents: It was an Austrian formation, and we do not Krautrock and never did :-)
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