Out of Focus is a progressive rock band from Germany. They are also mentioned as a Krautrock band as all others from the era, but I do not like the term. This selftitled album is actually their second, unfortunately this is the only one that I have in the archive. Prog lovers, gather around!
Album information:
01 - What Can A Poor Boy Do (But To Be A Streetfighting Man)
02 - It's Your Life
03 - Whispering
04 - Blue Sunday Morning
05 - Fly Bird Fly
06 - Television Programm
Band information:
Out Of Focus was a German "Krautrock" rock fusion band, formed in late-1968 in Munich, existing 5 years or so. They took their name from a Blue Cheer track, but had also been listening to Soft Machine and Xhol Caravan, and rapidly established a distinctive style blending rock and jazz, psychedelic overtones. A unique facet was the profound socio-political awareness of Moran Neumüller's songs. Although typically Munich styled (with Embryo and Sahara connections) they are often compared to Canterbury fusion and Scandinavian jazz-rock acts.
Heavy psychedelia? Proto-prog? Plain hard rock? I can not decide. Keyboards and the guitar blend in well together in this album. Sadly there is no information about this band online. Overall, good album for those who like heavy stuff.
Here comes the British Nirvana. This is an album that has both prog and psychedelic sound. "Miami Masquerade" is my favorite, a beautiful song. Love the vocals on all songs. The complete album name is "The Existence of Chance Is Everything and Nothing While the Greatest Achievement Is the Living of Life, and so Say ALL OF US". Yes.
Album information:
01-Rainbow Chaser
02-Tiny Goddess
03-The Touchables (All Of Us)
04-Melanie Blue
05-Trapeze
06-The Show Must Go On
07-Girl In The Park
08-Miami Masquerade
09-Frankie The Great
10-You Can Try It
11-Everybody Loves The Clown
12-St.John's Wood Affair
13-Flashbulb (b-side single)
14-Oh! What A Performance (a-side single)
15-Darling Darlene (b-side single)
16-C Side Of Ocho Rios (b-side single)
Band information:
Nirvana was created as the performing arm of the London-based songwriting partnership of Irish musician Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Greek composer Alex Spyropoulos. On their recordings Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos supplied all the vocals. The instrumental work was primarily undertaken by top session musicians and orchestral musicians - with Campbell-Lyons providing a little guitar and Spyropoulos contributing some keyboards.
Musically, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos blended myriad musical styles including rock, pop, folk, jazz, Latin rhythms and classical music, primarily augmented by baroque chamber-style arrangements to create a unique entity.
In October 1967, they released their first album: a concept album produced by Blackwell titled The Story of Simon Simopath. The album was arguably the first narrative concept album ever released, predating story-driven concept albums such as The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow (December 1968), The Who's Tommy (April 1969) and The Kinks' Arthur (September 1969).
Unable to perform their songs live as a duo and with the impending release of their first album, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos decided to create a live performing ensemble and they recruited four musicians to enable them to undertake concerts and TV appearances. Though hired to be part of the live performance group rather than as band members, these four musicians were also included in the photograph alongside the core duo on the album cover of their first album to assist in projecting an image of a group rather than a duo. However they were not core founding members of the group and within a few months Nirvana had reverted to its original two-person lineup. The four musicians who augmented Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos on their live appearances and television shows for those few months were Ray Singer (guitar), Brian Henderson (bass), Sylvia A. Schuster (cello) and Michael Cole (French horn, viola).
In 1968, the duo recorded their second album, All Of Us, which featured a similar broad range of musical styles as their first album.
This album is a great mix of blues, psychedelic and progressive rock. One of the bands that I wish had more albums. The band name may be originated from Cream's "N.S.U.". Good vocals, good guitar work. From "bright" songs to "blues", it's all there. Songs "His Town" and "Love Talk" are my favorites. Below you'll listen to the song that gave the album it's name.
Mystic Tide, a band way ahead of their time. A psychedelic garage rock band, one of the best I dare say. This album was recorded between 1965 and 1969, it includes 18 tracks, most of them are favorites. You will find mellow tracks such as "I Wouldn't Care", and "Why". Then, you will find the hard stuff, "Frustration", "Mystic Ship" and "Psychedelic Journey". I love this band.
Album information:
1. I Wouldn't Care
2. Why
3. Stay Away
4. Search for New Love
5. Mystic Eyes
6. Frustration
7. Running Through the Night
8. Psychedelic Journey, Pt. 1
9. Psychedelic Journey, Pt. 2
10. Mystery Ship
11. You Won't Look Back
12. You Know It's True
13. It's Simple Sister
14. Mystery Ship (ver2)
15. Frustration (ver2)
16. Silver Rails - Going Home
17. See the Light
18. Solid Ground
Band information:
The Mystic Tide were an American rock band who have been credited for creating some of the first psychedelicanthems. They have also been called one of the best garage bands of the mid 1960s.
The group formed on Long Island and released a total of four singles between 1965 and 1967, all of which were written by the band's guitar player, Joe Docko. The band broke up in 1967 after little commercial success. Many years later in 1994 Docko recorded some new material and that along with three demos, the band's four original singles, and their B-sides would be put out as a CD by Distortions records. Released more than 25 years after the group had disbanded,Solid Sound/Solid Ground, was the first and only album the band ever made.
After all the prog albums, we're back to psychedelia. Mystic Siva is heavy on keyboards, more so than the guitar. I like the songs "Magic Luv" and "Supernatural Mind".
