Bang "Mother" & "Bow The King" (US Hard Rock 1971)

Bang was a rock trio from Florida led by singer Frank Ferrara that charted with its self-titled debut album and the single "Questions" in 1972.

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Jump "Jump" (US Heavy Psych 1971)

Jump:
Dennis Tracy - Guitar, Lead vocals
Scott Thurston - Organ, Lead Vocals
Mark Spiwak - Bass, Vocals
Don Gorman - Drums, Vocals

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Triana "Hijos Del Agobio" (Spanish Flamenco Prog Rock 1977)

El segundo disco de TRIANA sigue por la senda musical que fue gloriosamente iniciada en su disco debut, pero esta vez, los motivos musicales no tienden a extenderse tanto, y se nota que los arreglos resultan "Hijos del Agobio" más claramente articulados y medidos, además de contar con una producción de sonido más pulida. El resultado final se traduce en una refinamiento de la onda progresiva flamenca de la banda. Es unánime que lo mejor de la producción de TRIANA se concentra en sus primeros discos, y creo notar además que es "El Patio" quien recibe los mayores elogios (no sin buenos motivos, por cierto); mas en este sentido, yo opto por dar mi preferencia personal a "Hijos del Agobio", en virtud de las cualidades musicales y de producción que mencioné más arriba. La labor de los invitados también se hace eco de la actitud más pulcra que se destila en este disco: los fraseos y punteos de la guitarra solista son cálidos y magistrales, mientras que el bajo se porta fenomenal a la hora de complementar las labores percusivas de "Tele" PALACIOS. Como siempre, los teclados de Jesús DE LA ROSA crean hermosas amalgamas de sintetizador y mellotron, mientras que Eduardo RODRÍGUEZ maneja las bases armónicas de los temas con su soberbio toque de guitarra flamenca.
En un tiempo en que España estaba instaurando la vida democrática bajo la forma de una Monarquía Constitucional tras una muy larga fase de franquismo, no es de extrañar que las ideas y emociones que brotan en situaciones socio-políticas tan cruciales como ésta encuentren en este disco un campo de expresión. Ya en el tema homónimo que lo abre se establece una conmovedor mensaje de expectativa que surge de las mismas entrañas de un alma que puede otra vez atreverse a soñar con la libertad con buenas razones. Esta tendencia lírica prosigue con un tono de franca esperanza en 'Rumor', un tema emblemático de una era; y de urgente impaciencia en '¡Ya está bien!', en el cual Jesús DE LA ROSA demanda que el sueño no se quede en eso, sino que se concrete en una realidad tangible sin mayor demora.
La temática introspectiva se hace presente, en primer lugar, en la balada 'Sentimiento de amor', y posteriormente con un tono existencialista, en 'Necesito' y 'Del crepúsculo lento nacerá el rocío', espectacular tema de cierre de autoría de Eduardo RODRÍGUEZ: este tema concluye con un mágico entretejimiento de alucinadas texturas de sintetizador que simulan una tormenta eléctrica - ¡un clímax bárbaro! Los temas restantes también merecen especial mención: 'Recuerdos de Triana' es un solo de batería y percusiones diversas (sazonadas al final con sonidos sintetizados) en el cual PALACIOS arma su propio homenaje a la psicodelia de PINK FLOYD en clave aflamencada; y 'Sr. Troncoso' es una pieza costumbrista, bucólica, cuya secuencia final, marcada por el palmeo y un tarareo espartano, aparece realzada por un magnífico solo de guitarra a través del cual se desborda la pasión hasta entonces sobriamente contenida.
En suma, éste es un disco sumamente exquisito: "Hijos del Agobio" es una joya de la escena rockera del sur de España.

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Speed, Glue & Shinki "Eve" (Japanese Heavy Drugged Psych 1971)

Here is your chance to own one hard rockin' cd. If you like that heavy drugged psych sound from the early 70's then Speed, Glue & Shinki is a must! This is a excellent sounding group from the Japan and featured the great Shinki Chen on guitar. If you like Blues Creation, Juan De La Cruz, Flower Travellin' Band and Too Much then you are going to love this rare release! The debut album from 1971 by '70s Japanese acid rock band Speed Glue and Shinki. Psychedelic weirdness predominates on this release which rips along like a sludge heavy Led Zep meets Sabbath - with plenty of guitar mayhem on cuts like "Stoned Out Of My Mind" and "Mr. Walking Drugstore Man......" - and then trips out in an acoustic fashion. Great! Here's what Chris McLean had to say about Speed, Glue & Shinki:
Speed, Glue & Shinki - guitarist Shinki Chen had previously been in Foodbrain and recorded a solo album, bassist M. Glue [Masayoshi Kabe] had previously been in Foodbrain; drummer and vocalist Joey 'Pepe' Smith was a Filipino Vietnam veteran with a large speed habit! They recorded two great albums, 'Eve' [Atlantic, 1971] and the 2-LP 'Speed, Glue & Shinki' [Atlantic, 1972]. The main musical style on both albums is a mix of bluesy, rough & ready heavy rock and psych/acid rock, ballads, and occasional experimental blasts. Some people think these guys were pretty unique and amazing; in my opinion they're pretty good overall but there's a lot of stuff like this from the same period the world over. I suspect some people get a bit 'wowed' by the open drug references and kind of punky attitude, and let their judgement become clouded when rating this band so highly over others. What sets the second album apart from the first is that much of the last quarter of it consisted of fairly minimal and rudimentary synthesizer explorations from Smith, who had apparently just bought a synth and wanted to try it out on record. They were also joined on this album by Philippine guitarist Mike Hanopol, from Juan De La Cruz Band and later a solo artist. Not sure what happened to Chen and Glue afterwards, though Joey Smith recorded with DK Mushroom & Son and went on to the second line-up of Juan De La Cruz in the Philippines. Hanopol went with Smith to Juan de la Cruz at the same time, and with them they carried some of the flavour of Speed Glue & Shinki to that revamped group. Hanopol also released some solo albums later on.

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Orange Peel "Orange Peel" (German Kraut Heavy Psych 1972)

This is a excellent sounding group from Germany. If you like Silberbart, Frumpy, Thors Hammer or Message then your going to love this great release. Digi gatefold CD version of this mind blowing Kraut-Rock album from 1972 originally issued on Bacillus and produced by the legendary Dieter Dierks. Filled with atmospheric keyboard & searing guitar work it's a real monster of an album and a heavy psychedelic recording that was one of the best of it's kind on the German scene in the early 70's. Four lengthy jammin' tracks

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After Shave "Skin Deep" (Swiss Heavy Rock Blues 1971)

After Shave were a heavy trio formed in the late 60s and influenced by Cream, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and the usual suspects.
It is heavy blues rock done just right. For fans of Leaf Hound, Yardbirds, and Led Zeppelin. A couple of melodic acoustic tinged excursions that fit right in to make the CD more dynamic. Wailing guitar leads and hard psych rhythms and melodic catchy vocals sometimes with 'Beatle-esque' harmonies. The production is the best it could be given the limitations of recording back then. Great guitar tone.

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Ache "De Homine Urbano" & "Green Man" (Danish Heavy Prog 1970/71)

DE HOMINE URBANOGREEN MANSHADOW OF A GIPSY 45If you wanna hear some truly weird dwellers on the threshold of the psychedelic/ progressive scene, then Ache is gonna be another band right up your strasse. Swimming in the oily wake left by 1967’s heavy organ bands such as Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, John Hiseman’s Colosseum, and Keith Emerson’s The Nice, Ache was led by the similarly classically-trained organist Peter Mellin, who had just graduated from the Danish Academy of Music. Getting it together in the countryside Traffic-stylee, in January 1968, with the teenage Olafson brothers – Finn and Torsten on lead and bass guitars – and their barechested drummer Glenn Fisher, early photos of Ache standing atop a Bronze Age hoj, or barrow, were employed to push the band’s supposedly uniquely Danish attitude. Furthering this Danish cause, Ache hooked up with ballet dancer Peter Schaufuss, from The Royal Danish Ballet Company in order to produce the first ‘Rock Ballet’. Opening performances of their two twenty-minute-long LP-side-long pieces were received with rapturous applause, both at Copenhagen’s Royal Theatre and at the Bolshoi Ballet, in Moscow. Indeed, the introduction of the so-called ‘Rock Ballet’ is still seen by many Danish heads as evidence of Ache’s uniqueness. The reality, however, was somewhat different and Ache’s massive debut LP DE HOMINE URBANO (‘About Urban Man’) almost fitted right alongside such bombastic second generation overwrought Spanish galleons as early Yes and Van Der Graaf Generator. Indeed, their opening side-long epic title track was surely inspired by Yes’ frenetic and strung-out take on The Beatles’ ‘Every Little Thing’ and was all the better for it. Strangely, the other side of the first LP was itself called ‘Little Things’ and unashamedly nicked even more rock moments from all over (including Led Zeppelin’s ‘How Many More Times?’). However, it is unfair to stop there with the descriptions, for much of the music is truly evocative and entirely Norse in its emotional drive and doomy atmosphere, coming on like a much better version of Van Der Graaf’s THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS WAVE TO EACH OTHER, with added psychedelic guitar somewhere between Davy O’List and Peter Banks’ wired post-Swinging London speedfreak sound. Moreover, there is a psychedelic violence and power to Ache that is far more reminiscent of such pre-prog songs as the Shy Limbs’ incredibly phased ‘Shattered’ and The Syn’s pre-Yes 45 ‘14-Hour Technicolour Dream’. Clearly, the members of Ache had much bigger plans in mind than merely ripping the heart out of late 1960s heavy rock.I much prefer the more song heavy second LP GREEN MAN for its strangely elegant take on PAWN HEARTS’ ‘Man-Erg’-period Peter Hammill, which much better sums up the loss of 1960s idealism and the subsequent ghetto-ising of the underground rock scene. ‘Shadow of a Gypsy’, which opens side two, best illustrates this ‘Man-Erg’ obsession and was a massive hit in France. Unfortunately, the GREEN MAN LP closes with yet another disappointing heavy version, this time of the Beatles’ ‘We Can Work It Out’. Strangest of all, though, is that the Hammillesque lead vocal throughout this record sounds not Danish but like a typically well-spoken English Northerner! Sometimes when travelling in that geographically obscure area of south Jutland, Schleswig-Holstein and the most northerly parts of the Netherlands, I have felt like I’m tripping on acid when - on overhearing local conversations that sound exactly like people from the English north Midlands – I’ve still been unable to understand a single word spoken! Ache occasionally gives me this same psychedelic and appealingly disorientating feeling of alienation in familiar sounds. The biggest problem here is picking a piece of music that best sums up the Ache sound, as you really need a full LP side to get where they’ze coming from. After much humming-and-hah’ing, I settled on ‘The Invasion’ because its mood best captures the fury and the Scandinavian doom as well as copping the superb vocal melody from The Zombies’ ‘Beechwood Park’, on their lost Mellotron 400-classic ODESSEY & ORACLE.

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