This is the latest festival compilation put out by Herzberg
Verlag and it features tracks from a variety of years but mostly from 2011.
Some of these tracks have appeared on the bands own live releases from the
festival, such as Hidria Spacefolk (who will pay in 2012) and Vibravoid. The CD
starts off with ELOY, who were playing on the last day in 2011, with the track
Mysterious Monolith from Planets! A cool long track showing you Eloy can still
really play spacey prog rock. Hidria Spacefolk raise the energy level with
Radien. De Tiefe Raum, is a group I do not know at all and they sing in German,
so I don’t understand it either! This is a melodic piano lead mid paced track.
The new young German band, Weltaum play the track Jimsonweed in a long spacey
10 min journey of world psychedelica. The sound mix is not that good compared
to the rest of the CD though, a too heavy bottom end that muddles up the rest
(it was not recorded at the festival). Cool stuff. Freak City Band play the
classic Who do you love. A pretty standard version if you compare to
Quicksilver or Frank Marino. The Hamburg Blues band with Chris Farlowe (Colosseum)
play Shaky Ground a bluesy, funky track with some great guitar work. Tito and
Tarantula do a pretty cool version of After Dark. Vibravoid do a very
straightforward version of Playing with Beuys. The last two tracks are by
Strassenjungs. Spiesser is a funny short uptempo rock track. Immer weiter Gehn
closes the CD and is a bit like the Ramones. A good overview of bands from the
festival.
This is a site where I post reviews of CDs, DVDs, LPs, and concerts. I have been writing music reviews on and off since 1984. I ran a heavy metal fanzine from 1984-1988 called Metal Madness and have been a staff writer for Aural Innovations for many years. I have also contributed to Chrohinga Well (RIP), Bad Acid (RIP), Lowcut (RIP), Roadburn and a number of other zines as well. I recently moved to Portugal so please request the new address and do not send any music to Denmark anymore. Tak..
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