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📌14 January 1977
David Bowie
📀 Low
45 years ago David Bowie released his 11th studio album Low. It's a complete change of sound in his music, reflecting a complete change in personal life! After years of drug abuse in the US #DavidBowie and his friend #IggyPop had just relocated first in France and at the end of 1976 in Berlin.
Low, recorded in France and completed in #Germany, is the first album of the so called Berlin Trilogy, where Bowie and Iggy collaborated and appeared in the respective albums and tours. In Low Bowie flirts with #ExperimentalRock and #Ambient, thanks to the work of his longtime producer #TonyVisconti and his longtime friend #BrianEno, the genius who was actually inventing ambient music at the time! 🤟
The sound is also deeply influenced by German acts such as #Neu! and #Kraftwerk.
The album contains the single "Sound And Vision", one of the biggest Bowie successes (not intended by him who did nothing to promote it) thanks to BBC usage of the song in commercials.
#ArtRock #14January
David Bowie
📀 Low
45 years ago David Bowie released his 11th studio album Low. It's a complete change of sound in his music, reflecting a complete change in personal life! After years of drug abuse in the US #DavidBowie and his friend #IggyPop had just relocated first in France and at the end of 1976 in Berlin.
Low, recorded in France and completed in #Germany, is the first album of the so called Berlin Trilogy, where Bowie and Iggy collaborated and appeared in the respective albums and tours. In Low Bowie flirts with #ExperimentalRock and #Ambient, thanks to the work of his longtime producer #TonyVisconti and his longtime friend #BrianEno, the genius who was actually inventing ambient music at the time! 🤟
The sound is also deeply influenced by German acts such as #Neu! and #Kraftwerk.
The album contains the single "Sound And Vision", one of the biggest Bowie successes (not intended by him who did nothing to promote it) thanks to BBC usage of the song in commercials.
#ArtRock #14January
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📌1972 (precise date uncertain)
Popol Vuh
📀 Hosianna Mantra
50 years ago Popol Vuh a musical collective from Munich, #Germany released their 3rd studio album, Hosianna Mantra.
According to critics and passionate of the so called German #KrautRock (the genre that developed in late 1960s / early 1970s), this album is #PopolVuh masterpiece and an absolute gem in the Progressive Rock golden age, mainly thanks to the work on piano 🎹 of band leader and producer Florian Fricke, the work on guitars 🎸of Conny Veit, the celestial vocals 🎼 of Korean soprano Djong Yun.
#HosiannaMantra is an experiment of music genres that were in their embryonic stage at the time, like #NewAge, #Ambient, #ChamberPop, probably one of the closest to perfection!
Popol Vuh
📀 Hosianna Mantra
50 years ago Popol Vuh a musical collective from Munich, #Germany released their 3rd studio album, Hosianna Mantra.
According to critics and passionate of the so called German #KrautRock (the genre that developed in late 1960s / early 1970s), this album is #PopolVuh masterpiece and an absolute gem in the Progressive Rock golden age, mainly thanks to the work on piano 🎹 of band leader and producer Florian Fricke, the work on guitars 🎸of Conny Veit, the celestial vocals 🎼 of Korean soprano Djong Yun.
#HosiannaMantra is an experiment of music genres that were in their embryonic stage at the time, like #NewAge, #Ambient, #ChamberPop, probably one of the closest to perfection!
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📌 January 1972
Kraftwerk
📀 Kraftwerk 2
#AvantGarde #Ambient #MusiqueConcrete #KrautRock
50 years ago Kraftwerk from #Germany released their second studio album.
Kraftwerk 2 was entirely written and performed by founding members Ralf Hütter (organ, electric piano, guitar, bass, rhythm machine, xylophone, harmonica) and Florian Schneider (flutes, violin, guitar, effects, xylophone) in late 1971, production by Conny Plank.
There are no words to describe this album... just think it was 50 years ago!
"Nobody wanted to play with us because we did all kinds of strange things..."
Ralf Hütter
Kraftwerk
📀 Kraftwerk 2
#AvantGarde #Ambient #MusiqueConcrete #KrautRock
50 years ago Kraftwerk from #Germany released their second studio album.
Kraftwerk 2 was entirely written and performed by founding members Ralf Hütter (organ, electric piano, guitar, bass, rhythm machine, xylophone, harmonica) and Florian Schneider (flutes, violin, guitar, effects, xylophone) in late 1971, production by Conny Plank.
There are no words to describe this album... just think it was 50 years ago!
"Nobody wanted to play with us because we did all kinds of strange things..."
Ralf Hütter
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📀 Album of the Week
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📌February 1975
NEU!
📀 NEU! 75
#ExperimentalRock #Ambient #SpaceRock #Kosmische #PsychedelicRock #ProtoPunk #PostRock
50 years ago NEU! from Düsseldorf, #Germany released their 3rd studio album.
NEU! 75 is #NEU final album in the 70s, they disbanded after the release and shortly came back only in middle 1990s.
I have no words to describe the beauty of this album, I use those of a reviewer who wrote: "The sounds you have in your mind and didn't know already existed"... actual and timeless masterpiece ❤️🔥
In this album:
#MichaelRother – guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
#KlausDinger – guitar, drums, percussion, vocals, electronics
"Conny" #KonradPlank – producer, engineer
#ThomasDinger, #HansLumpe – drums
🎧Listen to NEU! 75 👉 here
@Venice_Rocks
📌February 1975
NEU!
📀 NEU! 75
#ExperimentalRock #Ambient #SpaceRock #Kosmische #PsychedelicRock #ProtoPunk #PostRock
50 years ago NEU! from Düsseldorf, #Germany released their 3rd studio album.
NEU! 75 is #NEU final album in the 70s, they disbanded after the release and shortly came back only in middle 1990s.
I have no words to describe the beauty of this album, I use those of a reviewer who wrote: "The sounds you have in your mind and didn't know already existed"... actual and timeless masterpiece ❤️🔥
In this album:
#MichaelRother – guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
#KlausDinger – guitar, drums, percussion, vocals, electronics
"Conny" #KonradPlank – producer, engineer
#ThomasDinger, #HansLumpe – drums
🎧Listen to NEU! 75 👉 here
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📀 Album of the Week
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📌1986
Gigi Masin
📀 Wind
#Ambient #AmbientPop #NewAge #ECMJazzStyle #PostMinimalism
40 years ago Gigi Masin from #Venice, #Italy composed his debut studio album.
Masin was a self-taught musician and composer, far from music business rules.
Wind was in fact not released and distributed, Masin printed few hundred copies for himself, some of which got destroyed after a flood. Those who wanted to buy Wind had to write him and possibly go to his house in Venice.
It became soon a cult album among musicians, artists like Björk and Nujabes often used samplings from it.
After many years Masin found out on the internet that the price for a copy of Wind had raised to 1000€, he then decided to reprint and distribute the album for everyone to enjoy and afford.
In this album:
#GigiMasin – composer, producer, synthesizer, guitar, tapes, piano, vocals, bass, violin
#AlessandroMonti – bass, backing vocals, piano
#MarcoBarel – saxophone
#MassimoDonà– trumpet
🎧Listen to Wind 👉 here
@Venice_Rocks
📌1986
Gigi Masin
📀 Wind
#Ambient #AmbientPop #NewAge #ECMJazzStyle #PostMinimalism
40 years ago Gigi Masin from #Venice, #Italy composed his debut studio album.
Masin was a self-taught musician and composer, far from music business rules.
Wind was in fact not released and distributed, Masin printed few hundred copies for himself, some of which got destroyed after a flood. Those who wanted to buy Wind had to write him and possibly go to his house in Venice.
It became soon a cult album among musicians, artists like Björk and Nujabes often used samplings from it.
After many years Masin found out on the internet that the price for a copy of Wind had raised to 1000€, he then decided to reprint and distribute the album for everyone to enjoy and afford.
In this album:
#GigiMasin – composer, producer, synthesizer, guitar, tapes, piano, vocals, bass, violin
#AlessandroMonti – bass, backing vocals, piano
#MarcoBarel – saxophone
#MassimoDonà– trumpet
🎧Listen to Wind 👉 here
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📀 Album of the Week
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📌30 September 1996
Porcupine Tree
📀 Signify
#ProgressiveRock #PsychedelicRock #PostRock #Ambient
30 years ago Porcupine Tree from England, #UK, released their 4th studio album, their 2nd as a proper band.
Signify is often addressed as the #PorcupineTree #Krautrock album for the wider use of electronics as compared to their 👉 previous album and the presence of Ambient tracks.
Whatever... another amazing work from this fantastic band ❤️🔥
In this album:
#StevenWilson – guitars, piano, organ, mellotron, samples, tapes, banshee guitar, drum programming, chimes, musical boxes, vocals
#RichardBarbieri – synthesisers, Hammond organ, electronics, piano, tapes, texture, sequencers
#ColinEdwin – bass, double bass
#ChrisMaitland – drums, cymbals, percussion, vocal harmonies, drum loops, keyboards, voices on "Light Mass Prayers"
Additional
#Terumi – voices (track 1)
#30September
🎧Listen to Signify 👉 here
@Venice_Rocks
📌30 September 1996
Porcupine Tree
📀 Signify
#ProgressiveRock #PsychedelicRock #PostRock #Ambient
30 years ago Porcupine Tree from England, #UK, released their 4th studio album, their 2nd as a proper band.
Signify is often addressed as the #PorcupineTree #Krautrock album for the wider use of electronics as compared to their 👉 previous album and the presence of Ambient tracks.
Whatever... another amazing work from this fantastic band ❤️🔥
In this album:
#StevenWilson – guitars, piano, organ, mellotron, samples, tapes, banshee guitar, drum programming, chimes, musical boxes, vocals
#RichardBarbieri – synthesisers, Hammond organ, electronics, piano, tapes, texture, sequencers
#ColinEdwin – bass, double bass
#ChrisMaitland – drums, cymbals, percussion, vocal harmonies, drum loops, keyboards, voices on "Light Mass Prayers"
Additional
#Terumi – voices (track 1)
#30September
🎧Listen to Signify 👉 here
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