Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 724382266921
EAN: 0724382266921
ASIN: B00004VX7B
Release Date: 2001-09-06
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Artist: Kraan
Label: EMI Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 724382266921 EAN: 0724382266921 ASIN: B00004VX7B Release Date: 2001-09-06 |
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German reissue of the prog-rock act's 1973 album. Includes the bonus track 'Fat Mr. Rich'(Demo 1971, previous title Jack Steam).Customer Reviews:
A real favorite of mine, yet not their very best.......2001-10-30
NOTE: By far and away the best album by them is Kraan Live (the 1973 album, not Kraan Live '88 or Kraan Live 2001). It's the only one I can give 5 stars to, and the first one you should buy to experience this band.
Having said that, Wintrup has a special place in my heart. It's generally slower, a bit more psychedelic, more personal, less polished, and of course shorter (being originally one LP, whereas Live was a double). The material mostly never turns up on their live albums, sigh. I guess it was the first I heard of them, and I liked it immediately. It harkens back to their days of living together in some kind of music commune for which this album is named, and the playing reflects that of people who are constantly jamming and know each other musically very well indeed.
The review back in 1973 referred to them as "Frank Zappa's German cousins". I would say that applies musically -- they are easily as tight as Zappa's better moments. Musically maybe not quite as weird as Zappa's weirdest, but then what is? The bass player (Helmut Hattler) in particular is amazing, one of the world's finest and most creative, and all the others are fine musicians. The guitar player is very good, but Zappa was a guitar player and creative genius in league of his own, so I can't really compare the two. Lyrics are in English (with a German accent).
They screw around with rhythms a lot. Maybe not like Mahavishnu's Inner Mounting Flame, but eclectic just the same.
It's easy to give this album 4 stars, it's an all-time favorite of mine. I could almost give it 5.
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