Urban75 Album of the Year 1974
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Conrad Schnitzler had three tape albums out 1974, my favourite is The Black Cassette, has a few cracking proto-ambient techno tracks on it. The album got a vinyl re-release in 1981 as Gelb.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
I can't say he's ever been a great fave of mine, but like me he hails from Derby, and even now he's the only musician of any distinction I can think of that's ever come from there. Which maybe explains why they put up this plaque at the college he studied at, I noticed a few years ago when I was up there. Btw his 1973 single Marlene is notable for being the first ever released by Virgin.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Its a phenomenal album and I could write an essay on how Starless develops from a mellotron and violin backed ballad to a tense edgy instrumental with almost sound effect like percussion and as the pressure builds up teasing you it leaves you wondering exactly where it will end until it explodes into this sax led jazz finale with waves after wave of Fripps guitar. It's beautiful.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
I used to know someone who worked in drug rehabilitation with Kevin Coyne; he had some interesting stories.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Robert Palmer-Sneaking Sally Through the Alley.
Forget all that bloated MTV type stuff with Power Station, this is what a young Robert Palmer was all about. Fresh out of Vinegar Joe he manages to enlist members of the Meteors, Lowell George and some other excellent American musicians to record this album Sneaking Sally Through the Alley. It's a funk, RandB, and soul and everyone excels themselves, Palmer's vocals and delivery are great.
Forget all that bloated MTV type stuff with Power Station, this is what a young Robert Palmer was all about. Fresh out of Vinegar Joe he manages to enlist members of the Meteors, Lowell George and some other excellent American musicians to record this album Sneaking Sally Through the Alley. It's a funk, RandB, and soul and everyone excels themselves, Palmer's vocals and delivery are great.
Though it's maybe not as "good" as Red. I really like Starless and Bible Black and I've listened to it more times over the years than Red. It's mostly live and most of the live material is improvised (there's also an extended live improvisation on Red). I find this material to be really engrossing. Not perfect or polished or well put together but not trying to be either. More coherent than the various avant garde noise improvisation groups, more rock, but still open.
Just been down a Harmonia rabbit hole after Spotify suggested the Harmonia and Eno album to be. Will be checking out other stuff by them; two albums plus other recordings that came to light.
ska invita
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ska invita
back on the other side
70s man....such an embarrassing time for album covers.... Id love to know who was responsible for this
Really interesting wiki page on this album
Perfect Angel - Wikipedia
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
This is going to be far too "basic bitch" for all you cool kids out there, but 1974 is when Gordon Lightfoot issued Sundown, which is the album where he took the whole country-pop and folk-pop things as far as it could go.
en.wikipedia.org
And it's going to be in my top ten for the year, cool kids be damned.
Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot album) - Wikipedia
And it's going to be in my top ten for the year, cool kids be damned.
maomao
普費斯
Young people beep beep tish tish music. Whatever.
ska invita
back on the other side
thats amazing
There's also Robert Calvert's first album. Just listening to it now, it's like Hawkwind meets Floh de Cologne style political satire.
Getting spacier. Much, much spacier. 1974 was the year all those Cosmic Joker albums were released. The Cosmic Jokers never existed, this was Ash Ra Tempel and Wallenstein jamming and experimenting recorded and released by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser without their consent or even knowledge. The self-titled album and Galactic Supermarket are the ones with the side-long spacey jams and are really what you're likely to be here for. The others have shorter odd bits of electronic/rock experiments, Sci-fi Party is probably the best of these three.
Sticking with the kosmische... we have Yatha Sidhra's only album, A Meditation Mass. It's like a polished Paradieswärts Düül (if you know, you know). Hippyish rock with mournful but insistent grooves building ever so slowly. Lots of flute.
There's another spacey krautrock one off from Code III with Planet of Man. Sci-fi themed post Tangerine Dream/Ash Ra Tempel dreaminess. But sparse and quite odd. Klaus Schulze on drums and promoted by him.
And then there's Klaus Schulze's third solo album Blackdance. A bit more tame than the first two, but still very lush.
Tangerine Dream also losing their edge a little bit. Still a good album in Phaedra.
Then there's also this American trumpeter who in 1974 realised the Germans were way ahead of the game and bought an electric organ. The result isn't bad. Included for the sake of completionism.
Yatha Sidhra is the best of the above IMO.
There's another spacey krautrock one off from Code III with Planet of Man. Sci-fi themed post Tangerine Dream/Ash Ra Tempel dreaminess. But sparse and quite odd. Klaus Schulze on drums and promoted by him.
And then there's Klaus Schulze's third solo album Blackdance. A bit more tame than the first two, but still very lush.
Tangerine Dream also losing their edge a little bit. Still a good album in Phaedra.
Then there's also this American trumpeter who in 1974 realised the Germans were way ahead of the game and bought an electric organ. The result isn't bad. Included for the sake of completionism.
Yatha Sidhra is the best of the above IMO.
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
Stop it, laughing boy, you're killing us.
Yes, you guessed it, it's Leonard Cohen time. His 1974 album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony:
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Yes, you guessed it, it's Leonard Cohen time. His 1974 album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony:
