Greasy Truckers - Live At Dingwall's Dance Hall (1974)

 Greasy Truckers - Live At Dingwall's Dance Hall

The cover and gatefolds are enclosed.

The info below is from the usual suspect- Wiki.

Side one: Camel (16:42)

    "God of Light Revisited (parts one, two & three)"

    Peter Bardens – organ, vocals
    Doug Ferguson – bass guitar
    Andrew Latimer – guitar, vocals
    Andy Ward – drums


Side two: Henry Cow (21:50)

    "Off the Map"
        "Solo Piano" (Hodgkinson)
        "Trio" (Hodgkinson, Cutler, Frith)
    "Cafe Royal" (solo guitar) (Frith)
    "Keeping Warm in Winter" (Frith, Greaves)
    "Sweet Heart of Mine" (Henry Cow)

    Chris Cutler – drums, vocals
    Fred Frith – guitar, violin, vocals
    John Greaves – bass guitar, piano, vocals
    Tim Hodgkinson – piano, organ, clarinet, alto saxophone, vocals
    Geoff Leigh – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet, recorder

                                                                           
                      
                            

 Side three: Global Village Trucking Company (23:05)

    "Look Into Me"
    "Earl Stonham (The Gunslinger)"
    "You're a Floozy Madame Karma (But I Love Your Lowdown Ways)"
    "Everybody Needs a Good Friend"

    Jon Owen – vocals, 12 string guitar
    John Mckenzie – bass guitar
    Mike Medora – guitar
    Jimmy Lascelles – organ, piano
    Simon Stewart-Richardson – drums


Side four: Gong (20:15)

    "General Flash of the United Hallucinations"
    "Part 32 Floating Anarchy

    Didier Malherbe ("Bloomdido Bad De Grass") – saxophone, gnomophone
    Steve Hillage ("Stevie Hillside-Village") – kundali guitar, submarine spiral
    Pierre Moerlen ("Pierre De Strasbourg") – drums, overdrive
    Mike Howlett ("Mr T Being") – fingerbass
    Tim Blake ("Hi T Moonweed") – Cynthia size A, crystal machine
    Daevid Allen ("Dingo Virgin") – local vocals, glissando guitar


        

  This record has no timings listed for the tracks, and it's somewhat difficult to determine where to split them, so I didn't.
Also- I zipped side b with side d for the sake of those of you who might want to have Henry Cow and Gong sets but not Camel and/or Global Village Trucking Company sets, which are (in my not-so-humble opinion) of lesser value. You decide.
 
a,c 1 or a,c 2
b,d 1 or b,d 2                                 

Edgar Froese - Aqua (1974)

  



Edgar Froese - Aqua (1974)

There are no liner notes to speak of on this album cover.

This is Edgar Froese's first solo album.
If you like Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra" (released within
the year preceding this release) you will enjoy this.

It was apparently released in two versions with different edits and track order.
I have no idea what the differences are but might hazard a guess that "NGC 891" could have the different edits, as there are a few ungainly edits between sections in this release.(The sequencer stutters between repeats of a long passage once or twice and one interpolation in particular is somewhat jarring.) However-
The "flaws" in this early sequencer/synthesized music (Phaedra may be the first album to use sequencers) are, to my ears, what makes this music so interesting and idiosyncratic, and when Tangerine Dream "perfected" the use of such technology is about when I stopped listening.

With this type of live electronic music (one gets the sense of a sort of "live in the studio" sensibility in a lot of this music) The sense that the music being built up and manipulated, layer by layer, could break down at any moment, and lose coherency (which it often did seem to do) is what made a lot of the music interesting, and probably had a lot to do with some of the less predictable musical choices made in the early years of Tangerine Dream's music.
The use of improvisation (when it doesn't descend into noodling) gives their music a dynamism which calculation probably couldn't, these musicians almost certainly being less thoughtful than, say, Stockhausen or Ilhan Mimaroglu.
I've  always liked the Virgin albums by Tangerine Dream and I think this solo album by their founder (and only current member) is a fine example of what is good in this genre: Moody, pulsating, atmospheric,  vaguely menacing soundscapes par excellence. 


 
 
Edgar Froese- Aqua 

Side One:

a1-Aqua

a2-Panorphelia

Side Two:

b1-NGC 891

b2-Upland

 

Edgar Froese on loan from Tangerine Dream.
Thanks to Chris Franke for Moog sounds on NGC 891.
Recorded in Berlin, November 1973 - March 1974

To appreciate fully the revolutionary Artificial Head System developed by Gunther Brunschen listen to side two on stereo headphones.
(1) or (1)