Out of Focus (豆瓣)

表演者: Out of Focus
流派: 流行
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1971
出版者: Kuckuck
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0013711101027

豆瓣评分

9.0

110人评价

5星

58.9%
4星

34.2%
3星

6.8%
2星

0.0%
1星

0.0%

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简介 · · · · · ·

　　Line-up/Musicians
　　- Remingius Drechsler / guitars, stylophone, tenor saxophone, flutes, voice
　　- Hennes Hering / organ, piano
　　- Moran Neumüller / soprano saxophone, vocals
　　- Klaus Spöri / drums
　　- Stephen Wishen / bass
　　This awesome band came from Munich and made three extraordinary albums on the super-collectable Kuckuk label plus another tha... (展开全部) 　　Line-up/Musicians
　　- Remingius Drechsler / guitars, stylophone, tenor saxophone, flutes, voice
　　- Hennes Hering / organ, piano
　　- Moran Neumüller / soprano saxophone, vocals
　　- Klaus Spöri / drums
　　- Stephen Wishen / bass
　　This awesome band came from Munich and made three extraordinary albums on the super-collectable Kuckuk label plus another that never got released until recently. Hennes Herring on KB (mainly Hammond organ), Remi Dreschler on guitars, Moran Neumuller on vocals and winds, Klaus Spöri and Stefan Wisheu on drums and bass respectively made an incredibly tight unit although they were prone to a lot of improvisation moments also.
　　Their music is somewhat similar to early British prog but will gradually evolve to a certain jazz-rock while staying very politically and socially conscious (in the typical German style of those years) although the singing does not hold a big place in their music, their third release (a double) being mostly instrumental. Then Herring will leave the band to form SUBJECT ESQ., that will soon evolve into the excellent SAHARA. The rest of the band will hire a second guitarist and record another excellent album that for some reason never got released but the group will stay active until 78.
　　With an unchanged line-up, OOF focus progressed immensely from their psyched-out prog rock by adding a jazz dimension that will make itself present through Moran’s newly developed sax playing. This added dimension will give OOF such a wider spectrum that their excellent debut album will be dwarfed by this monster follow-up. Strangely enough their jazzy impulses show in the Tull (This Was) or TYA (Ten Years After) mode, rather than a complete jazz-rock ala Mahavishnu or brassy rock ala Colosseum or Warm Dust. Charged with an awesome abstract artwork, this baby is again released with the now-legendary Kuckuck label.
　　The album starts energetically enough with the hard driving What Can a Poor Boy do, but where you expect a flute, Moran pulls out his new sax and blows one mean solo, having us wonder how he mastered it so easily so quickly. Indeed, even in the short stop and go section, he follows no problems and has enough guts to follow it with a last bravado before Wisheu’s bass intervention change into a call and response between Drechsler’s guitar first, than alternatively organ, sax and guitar before resuming the 100 mph rock driving rhythm. What a minor tour de force!! The absolutely delightful folk-laden (induced by a spellbinding guitar but also an enchanting flute) It’s Your Life is an incredible joy to your eardrums, somehow reminding of Traffic’s John Barleycorn. The 13-min+ slow-developing Whispering is a combination of explosion of sounds, from a propelling organ and discreet piano, a soaring & searing guitar, an very explorative bass, wild drumming and Moran’s new saxophone madness. Again the jazz tonalities are really more in the TYA mode than the pure jazz-rock deal, but the whole thing is damn progressive and once again the band show their impressive talent at light improvisation and the tail end fade out is a pure bit of heaven.
　　Then flipside starts on the folky Blue Sunday Morning, starting on a mad drum march with a flute-and-organ unison and Moran’s sinister voice being the master of ceremony. Behind all this, Drechsler’s near satanic guitar arpeggios are what makes the track so spellbinding. The bass picks up late in the track and by that time the song has veered completely psychedelic and the tension is really palpable in the building crescendo leading to the surprisingly absent climax. Nevertheless, another minor tour de force. The next track is a linked up duo starting with Fly Bird Fly and a very Traffic-like flute leading to some superb Greenslade-like organ parts and sweet guitar lines slowly leading into the second part of track Television Program, which is plenty excellent as well and comes the album’s apex with the depicting the boredom of the truckload of images breaking the floodgates from the cathode tube into your brains and wondering on the consequences. This last part can be reminiscent of their debut Wake Up album.
　　This band is a mystery on how they never made it big and they would have, had they been British or American. An absolute find, a must -hear, your musical education cannot be complete without having heard this group (I am slightly exaggerating on the last point but it is for the CAUSE), your life will definitely become more complete and fulfilled if you know of them, your sexual impulses will be multiplied by a thousand if you have at least heard of them, you will live to 200 years of age if you are even aware of their existence - I've never been so serious in my life. Check this out!

曲目 · · · · · ·

What Can a Poor Boy Do (But to Be a Streetfighting Man)
It?s Your Life
Whispering
Blue Sunday Morning
Fly Bird Fly
Television Program

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