Originating from Fürth (Fuerth, Germany), and the beat band Soulflower, changing name to Cry Freedom in the early-1970's. By the time of their debut they had changed into an inventive fusion band.
These guys were really typical of the customary German late fusion style of the seventies with the synth plus sax plus elec. guitar pounding out melodies and quite a bit of commercial songwriting thrown in. Despite the overall sound which is like famed Eiliff for ex. the progginess is quite lacking, no comparison actually, the best I could come up with from the first 1976 album Volcano is a track called Mambo Auf Burg Eckbertstein:
Then predictably, it gets worse, with the 1979 Sunny Day which deteriorates into commercialese jingle style music, we can't blame them, can we? There are even reggaeish tracks as was usual in this period, a trend that became almost mandatory with its stupid simplicity but then petered out, quickly replaced by the stupid mandatory simplicity of new wave synths and digital drums.
What about their third from 1981, Nobody's Fool? Well, there's some country, reggae, rockabilly (weirdly), yodeling (!), commercialese stuff, etc., so take it or leave it.
All 3 albums in one package, apologies in advance for the low bitrate of the third album Nobody's Fool
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