Description from the CD:
Recorded live at Haus Der Jugend (House Of Youth), Minden, Germany, January 23, 1976.
After their psychedelic and bluesy beginnings, Missus Beastly had been playing instrumental jazz-rock since 1974. This was also the case here at their performance at the Haus der Jugend in Minden on Friday, January 23rd, 1976. In the same month, just a few days before, they had also recorded their then third LP "Dr. Aftershave and the mixed-pickles", then still with Jürgen Benz. So the pieces on the Minden CD contain some elements of the LP tracks, but nothing more. It wasn't that the pieces were played live - they were free variations. Hence the neutral titles "Minden Mind - Part 01" to "Minden Mind - Part 07". The professional recording is flawless in sound.
Indeed just as they report, there is nothing here reminiscent of the previous record, or even the last 3 records. To me it seems just like a bit of riffing with improvisations all around. It's too bad, their compositional fusion tracks were just so so stunning. So time and again it seems an intro riff leads into meandering soloing on a one chord basis with little to no development of the idea, nor tension or dramatic buildup.
As example, the first part:
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ReplyDeleteHi Julian,
ReplyDeletethanks for this. I see the link is gone now, but anyway, I started listening to this rip today - starting with last track, and noticed a lot of glitching, eg track 7 10 seconds in, some big clicks later on. Does anyone have a non-defective copy?