Buckingham Nicks (Vinyl) 1973

01. Crying in the Night (Nicks) – 2:48
02. Stephanie (Buckingham) – 2:12
03. Without a Leg to Stand On (Buckingham) – 2:09
04. Crystal (Nicks) – 3:41
05. Long Distance Winner (Nicks) – 4:50
06. Don't Let Me Down Again (Buckingham) – 3:52
07. Django (John Lewis) – 1:02
08. Races Are Run (Nicks) – 4:14
09. Lola (My Love) (Buckingham) – 3:44
10. Frozen Love (Nicks, Buckingham) – 7:16


Buckingham Nicks is the debut and sole studio album by the American rock duo Buckingham Nicks. Produced by Keith Olsen, the album was released in September 1973 by Polydor Records. Buckingham Nicks is notable as an early commercial collaboration between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who later joined Fleetwood Mac. The album was a commercial failure on its original release, and despite the duo's subsequent success, it has yet to be commercially remastered or re-released on any format since 1973.

Main performers:

Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, percussion, vocals
Stevie Nicks – vocals

Additional personnel:

Ronnie Tutt – drums
Jim Keltner – drums
Jerry Scheff – bass guitar
Gary Hodges – drums, percussion overdubs
Monty Stark – synthesizer
Peggy Sandvig – keyboards
Jorge Calderón – percussion
Waddy Wachtel – additional guitar on "Lola (My Love)"
Richard Hallagan – string arrangement

Production:

Producer: Keith Olsen
Executive producer: Lee Lasseff
Engineer: Keith Olsen
Assistant engineer: Richard Dashut
Photography: Jimmy Wachtel
Album design: Jimmy Wachtel

Find out more about Buckingham Nicks on Wikipedia

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Robin Lane & the Chartbusters (1980)

Side A:
1. When Things Go Wrong
2. It'll Only Hurt a Little While
3. Don't Cry
4. Without You
5. Why Do You Tell Lies
6. I Don't Want to Know
Side B:
1. Many Years Ago
2. Waitin' in Line
3. Be Mine Tonite
4. Kathy Lee
5. Don't Wait Till Tomorrow


Review by Richie Unterberger (All Music):
Even if Robin Lane & the Chartbusters' self-titled 1980 debut album didn't quite meet the expectations of the band and their rabid Boston following, it did capture their blend of new wave pop with dynamic folk-rockish guitar lines for the first time on a widely distributed national release. At the fore were singer-songwriter Lane's own husky vocals, delivering songs that for all their melodic hooks were tinged with far greater darkness and ambivalence than most pop-rock of the time, new wave or otherwise.

Although Robin Lane & the Chartbusters was Lane's first album, she had actually been active as a singer-songwriter for about a decade. Back in 1969 she had sung backup vocals on "Round and Round" on Neil Young's classic Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. In the 1970s she left California to move East, and only a little prior to hooking up with the Chartbusters, she'd been playing far mellower, folk-rock-aligned singer-songwriter material. Those were the kinds of songs she was doing when she got a deal with Private Stock, Blondie's first label.

Soon afterward, a newfound love for acts like Patti Smith, Television, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, and Dwight Twilley sent her own music into a much different path. Hanging out with Boston bands like the Real Kids and at the legendary local venue the Rat got her in touch with most of the musicians who would become the Chartbusters: guitarist-vocalists (and ex-Modern Lovers) Asa Brebner and Leroy Radcliffe, bassist-vocalist Scott Baerenwald, and drummer Tim Jackson. "I put this other band together and actually enticed them to be my bandmates, because I had this deal with Private Stock," remembers Lane. "And then about a month or two later, Private Stock folded. So I had my new band and new direction."

The new direction would come as a shock to many of her old fans. "Our first gig, we were opening for another of our manager's bands, NRBQ. I pretty much just didn't sing, I screamed!" she laughs. "NRBQ just hated us. A lot of people who had liked me before went, 'What have you done?' It really wasn't an about-face, because I always felt social issues and identified with the underdog. I just thought that this music was a better way to say it [and] put it in. The people that came to listen to me, [when I was] the mellow Robin, would just kind of sit there, and it would be all nice and peachy-keen. But it wasn't affecting them in the gut. It wasn't passionate. I suddenly realized, 'Here's some fertile soil I can plant some seeds in, and it'll be more meaningful to me.'"

She dropped her old repertoire and penned a new one virtually from scratch, though one of her old numbers would be reworked into her most famous song, "When Things Go Wrong" (the song from which it evolved, "Never Enough," was covered on the 1979 album of the same name by the Pousette-Dart Band). Although several record labels expressed interest, the band signed with Warner Brothers after Jerry Wexler saw a show and offered them a deal. A three-song EP (with an early version of "When Things Go Wrong") had already come out on the Deli Platters label and gotten some airplay in Boston before the Chartbusters went to Los Angeles to record their Warners debut.

In hindsight, Lane feels that the album didn't capture the band as well it could have: "Though some people really liked that album, it lost the guitar sound that we had. They had a really wonderful kind of mesh that was lost. I think I wasn't singing as well as I could have; I was trying to retain the force of the songs that we had live, and pushing too hard. After we came back to Boston, people couldn't believe it when they heard the album; they said, 'This is not you.'"

But the songs were definitely Lane's, though "Don't Wait Till Tomorrow" was written with Jackson and Radcliffe, and "Kathy Lee" and "When Things Go Wrong" had assistance from Joanne Cipolla (from the band Planet Street), who at one time lived upstairs from Robin. "When Things Go Wrong" was the single that made the charts, though just as impressive were cuts like the sullen and jaggedly rhythmic "It'll Only Hurt a Little While," and the Sid Vicious-inspired "I Don't Want to Know." Lane also likes "Many Years Ago" and "Don't Cry" ("a kind of staple for us: a cute little ditty, and it's pop").

"I gravitate towards minor keys," reflects Lane when asked what set her most apart from other acts bridging the new wave-pop gap at the time. "Actually with the Chartbusters I started writing in major keys more. But still, that minor key always calls me. And that, right away, kind of sets up the more brooding kind of feel." Some of her lyrics were not out of the radio airplay textbook either: "I remember I was playing 'you digest me with facts like a piece of cheese' [from 'Waitin' in Line']. My publisher goes, 'You can't say that!'"

"I think her history gave her a distinct advantage over a lot of what were considered 'new wave' acts of the time," adds Asa Brebner. "The whole 'new wave' thing was kind of stuck on us because of Leroy Radcliffe['s] and my background with Jonathan Richman and so forth, and that colored how they proceeded to produce and market us. I think we were naive and happy to be signed to a major label, and although we liked [producer] Joe Wissert very much, we just went along with whatever they had planned for us. I think now we could have done a much better job producing ourselves. I still cringe at that album cover, which I think largely sunk us as a candy-ass major label contrivance to those uninitiated to our music. The music itself was watered down enough so it could not overcome that basically cosmetic impression that the casual record store [browser] would garner on seeing it in the bins. It didn't represent us, and I felt cheated."

The album did not widely break the Chartbusters beyond their regional base, and after another live EP and a second album (1981's Imitation Life), they were dropped from Warner Brothers. Although Lane's only sporadically released music since then (most recently on 1995's Catbird Seat), she and the Chartbusters have recently reunited, with all of the original members save Radcliffe. A new album is in the works that will mix newly written songs with others that the group performed live in their original incarnation, but never recorded. Lane is also working on a book about her "kooky crazy peripatetic life in the music world and other planets" that, given a career that has spanned many styles and intersected with many musicians of both star and cult renown, should prove to be quite a ride.

Special thanks to my friend "walknthabass" for this needle drop!

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The Bliss Band - Dinner with Raoul (1978)

1. Rio
2. Over The Hill
3. Slipaway
4. Don't Do Me Any Favours
5. On The Highway
6. Right Place, Right Time
7. Stay A Little Longer
8. Here Goes
9. Whatever Happened
10. Take It If You Need It



Produces by Jeff Baxter (of Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers fame)

Featuring: MICHAEL McDONALD, JEFF BAXTER, KEITH KNUDSEN, VICTOR FELDMAN, STEPHEN KUPKA, EMILIO CASTILLO, GREG ADAMS, MIC GILLETTE, etc...

The vocalist & keyboard player, Paul Bliss led this west coast music group that in late 70's released two albums. Their debut album "Dinner With Raoul" was released in 1978 and was quickly followed up by the album "Neon Smiles" in 1979. The band did only release two album. In 1997 Paul Bliss released his solo album "Edge Of Coincidence".

Paul Bliss, contrary to previous information, both recorded and toured with David Essex. He made stage appearances with him from 1977 to 1983 and he appears on the Stagestruck album.

Paul was born in Birmingham, 2 years before 'little brother' Martin, and went into the music industry in the early Seventies, fronting a band called The Bliss Band. The band released 2 albums on CBS America, Dinner with Raoul in 1978 and Neon Smiles in 1979. Lead guitar with the band was none other than Phil Palmer another ex-member of The David Essex Band.

As well as playing and recording Paul is also a songwriter and he has had songs recorded by Olivia Newton John, The Hollies, Sheena Easton, Justin Hayward and Celine Dion to name but a few. In 1997 Paul released an album of his own material called The Edge of Coincidence. For the past few years Paul has been touring with The Moody Blues as their keyboard player and he is well known by their fans.

Encoded at 320K from vinyl album. Includes album cover art, track listing, and insert.

Special thanks to "walknthabass" for the original needle drop of this great album.

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Funky Kings (1976)

01. Singing The Streets
02. My Old Pals
03. So Long
04. Highway Song
05. Nothing Was Exchanged
06. Slow Dancing
07. Let Me Go
08. So Easy To Begin
09. Help To Guide Me
10. Mattres On The Roof
11. Anywhere But Jimmie`s


Funky Kings was a band from Los Angeles, California, that released one self-titled album: Funky Kings, released on Arista Records in 1976.

The band’s sound has been described as ‘early Eagles’.

Personnel: Jules Shear, Jack Tempchin, Richard Stekol, Greg Leisz (all vocals/guitar), Bill Bodine (bass/vocals) and Frank Cotinola (drums).

As their eponymous debut album failed to yield any commercial success, Funky Kings split up. Jules Shear moved on to form Jules And The Polar Bears.

Note: I've recently updated the zip with a newly ripped vinyl LP at 24bit/48KHz

Encoded at 320K. Zip format.

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Jules and the Polar Bears - EP (1980)

1. Sometimes Real Life
2. Born out of Heat
3. Alive Alonge
4. This Fabrication





Jules and the Polar Bears formed in 1978. Lead by singer/songwriter Jules Shear. They released 2 albums, Got No Breeding (1978) and Fənĕtĭks (1979).

These four songs are previously unreleased tracks.

This EP was ripped at 24bit / 48KHz to 320 bit mp3 (Zip format)

This is a new upload of a vinyl needle drop. All songs are good now. 

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Jules Shear - Demo-itis (1986)

1. Deliver Love
2. Chain Within a Chain
3. If She Knew What She Wants
4. Trained For Glory
5. Different Sands
6. Eligible For Parole
7. She's In Love Again
8. I Didn't Know Your Smile
9. You Are My Heartache
10. He Tore My World Apart
11. Take The Risk
12. All Through The Night
13. I know You're Not Alive


Songs 1-6 (side one on the album) are 24-track demos recorded with a revolving cast of musicians, many of whom Jules didn't know before the sessions. He used the recordings to not only get his fresh songs on tape quickly, (usually six tracks a night), but to find new players he could use for his solo albums. Songs 7-14 (side two on the album) are more like home demos recorded on eight-track.

From djangos:
Though he's never been able to record a hit of his own, singer/songwriter Jules Shear has recorded several albums of highly accessible, hit-worthy material, and as a testament to his abilities, he's penned hits for others, including "All Through the Night" for Cyndi Lauper and "If She Knew What She Wants" for the Bangles.

Born in Pittsburgh, Shear began writing songs as a teenager. He relocated to Los Angeles in the mid-'70s, joining his first band, a typically laid-back combo called the Funky Kings. The band released one album for Arista in 1976. While "Slow Dancing" from the album (written by Jack Tempchin) would later be hit for Johnny Rivers, the three Shear songs were clearly the highlights of the album. Shear left the following year to form his own group, Jules & the Polar Bears, who released two critically acclaimed, though commercially overlooked, albums for Columbia. When a third album was rejected by the label, Shear forged on as a solo artist.

Signing on to EMI-America, he released two solo albums, 1983's Watch Dog and 1985's Eternal Return; both received critical praise but few sales. Once again, he was dropped by his label and unable to secure another deal. Shear then formed the Reckless Sleepers with the Cars' Elliot Easton. In 1988, without Easton, the Reckless Sleepers released their sole album for IRS, Big Boss Sounds; it failed to make much impact, though "If We Never Meet Again" from the album was later covered by Roger McGuinn. In contrast to the Reckless Sleepers' hard rock tendencies, Shear teamed up with the Church's Marty Willson-Piper for an all-acoustic, Dylanesque album, The Third Party, in 1989. The album ultimately led to a spot on MTV, where he hosted the first 13 episodes of Unplugged -- he left when the show switched to the single-artist format. Shear followed with two critically acclaimed, more or less pop-oriented albums -- 1992's The Great Puzzle and 1994's Healing Bones -- two of his finest albums to date. In 1998, he released Between Us, an album of duets for Highstreet Records. Shear moved to Rounder Records subsidiary Zoe Records for his April 2000 release, Allow Me, and to Valley in 2004 for Sayin' Hello to the Folks. 2006 saw the release of Dreams Don't Count on the Mad Dragon label. ~ Chris Woodstra, All Music Guide

Demo-itis was released after The Eternal Return, and never been released on CD

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Jules Shear - The Eternal Return (1985)

1. If She Knew What She Wants
2. Stand Tall
3. Steady
4. Change (Change)
5. The Fever's On
6. Her S/he Comes (with Pal Shazar)
7. Memories Burn Hard
8. You're Not Around
9. Empty Out the House (Throw it all Away)
10. Every Time I Get The Feeling




Musicians:
Jules Shear, Anton Fig, Tony Levin, Jeff Silverman, Rob Fisher, Richard Stekol, Pal Shazar, Moris Pert, Richard Bredice, & Bill Drescher.

From Wikipedia:
Jules Shear is an American singer and songwriter born in Pittsburgh in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer ("Steady", which reached number 56 on the US charts in 1985), he has recorded almost twenty albums to date. He made his first appearance on vinyl with The Funky Kings; he also led the critically-acclaimed but commercially-unsuccessful pop group, Jules and the Polar Bears, along with later groups The Reckless Sleepers and Raisins in the Sun. He also conceived (and hosted the first 13 episodes of) the MTV series Unplugged.

His songs have been more commercially successful in the hands of other artists, notably Cyndi Lauper, whose recording of "All Through the Night" reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984, and The Bangles, whose recording of "If She Knew What She Wants" reached number 29 in 1986. Singer/songwriter Iain Matthews (still using the spelling "Ian" for his first name at the time) recorded an album of Shear's material, Walking A Changing Line: The Songs of Jules Shear, with synthesizer-dominated arrangements (and containing some previously-unreleased songs by Shear), in 1988; Matthews had previously recorded songs by Shear on other albums.

Shear was the subject of a song by 'Til Tuesday, "J For Jules", after the end of his relationship with that band's singer, Aimee Mann. He also co-wrote the title track of that album, Everything's Different Now, with Matthew Sweet. Shear is married to singer/songwriter Pal Shazar.

The Eternal Return is Jules Shear's 2nd album. It has never been released on CD, which is hard to believe.

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The Mundanes - 45 (1980)

Side 1:
1. Make It the Same

Side 2:
1. Funnier Than Love
2. Empty Boulevards




The Mundanes were a Rhode Island-based New Wave band who released one single in 1980. They are best known for having John Linnell as a band member, shortly before forming They Might Be Giants with John Flansburgh.

You can find more information on The Mundanes at: They Might Be Giants' wiki.
There is also a Mundanes Wikipedia page.


Band:
John Andrews - Guitar
Marsha Armitage - Vocals
Jonathan Gregg - Guitar
John Linnell - Keyboards and Sax
Dean Lozow
Kevin Tooley - Drums


View The Mundanes live on YouTube:



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Forever More - Yours (1970)

Side 1
01 - Back in the States Again
02 - We Sing
03 - It's Home
04 - Home Country Blues
05 - Good to Me

Side 2
01 - Yours
02 - Beautiful Afternoon
03 - 8 O'Clock & All's Well
04 - Mean Pappie Blues
05 - You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
06 - Sylvester's Last Voyage

This album was originally posted on the "Gooder'n Bad Vinyl" blog by my good friend "walknthabass". I am reposting because his blog will be going away in March 2014. Since I also have the other Forever More album posted here, I thought this would be a good spot for this one as well. The following is a cut/paste of what he has on his blog:

OK - Back in the late 80's I use to go to my local Radio Shack for connectors, cables, etc. They always had a very small cut-out bin with a few records in it. I always flipped through them but never saw anything that I really wanted. As time went on the number of LP's slowly got fewer and fewer until this was the only one left. When they finally marked it down to 25¢ I decided "what the heck" and took a chance. I'm glad I did! It's really a great album!!

Favorite songs? "We Sing", "Good to Me" and the title song.

Personnel:
Alan Gorrie - Piano, Bass Guitar, Teapot (He went on to the Average White Band!)
Mick Travis - Guitar (his name sounds familiar)
Onnie Mair - Guitar, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Stuart Francis - Drums, Backing Vocals


Produced by Ray Singer and Simon Napier-Bell.

And now you know all that I know!

This album runs the gamut. I hear Prog-Rock, Rock, Jazz, Country-Rock, Country. A little bit of everything.

I hear influences by Traffic, Youngbloods, Caravan, etc.

Anybody have any additional info out there it would be great.

Enjoy!

Download: Forever More - Yours

Beatnik Beatch - Beatnik Beatch (1988)

 01. Beatnik Beatch (3:00)
 02. Lonesome Town (3:32)
 03. Maria (4:20)
 04. Love On Your Side (3:09)
 05. Harlem (3:39)
 06. Welcome (2:34)
 07. Sargeant Lasard (3:36)
 08. How Much Does Love Cost (4:03)
 09. Worthless Heart (2:50)
 10. Watching The Rain (4:36)



George Cole - Guitars
Chris Witt Ketner - Bass, Vocals and Viola
Roger Manning - Keyboards
Andy Sturmer - Drums, Vocals and Percussion

All songs written by Ketner/Sturmer

Beatnik Beatch was a four-member pop/rock band from San Francisco. They made one album, which was released in 1987 by the independent label Industrial under the title At the Zulu Beach. In 1988, a revised version of the album, deleting five tracks and adding four others, was released by Atlantic Records under the name Beatnik Beatch. The group broke up, and Andy Sturmer (drums, vocals) and Roger Manning (keyboards) formed the more successful Jellyfish. (by William Ruhlmann)

This is a very rare and hard to find album. Digitized at 24bit / 96KHz.

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The Bliss Band - Neon Smiles (1979)

01. Stagefright
02. How Do I Survive?
03. Hollywood
04. Someone Else's Eyes
05. Doctor
06. Chicago
07. We Never Had It So Good
08. If It Takes Until Forever
09. Something About You
10. That's The Way It Is



The band:
Paul Bliss: Vocals and Keyboards
Andy Brown: Bass and Vocals
Phil Palmer: Guitar and Vocals
Alan Park: Keyboards
Niegel Elliott: Drums and Percussion


The vocalist & keyboard player Paul Bliss leaded this west coast music group that in late 70´s released two albums. Their debut album "Dinner With Raoul" was released in 1978 and was quickly followed up by the album "Neon Smiles" in 1979. The band did only release two albums. In 1997 Paul Bliss released his solo album "Edge Of Coincidence". This album is out of print.

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The Cretones - Thin Red Line (1980)

01. Real love
02. Everybody's Mad at Katherine
03. I can't wait
04. Justine
05. Mad Love
06. Cost of Love
07. Thin Red Line
08. Ways of the Heart
09. Mrs Peel
10. Here Comes That Wave



Mark Goldenberg - Guitar, Vocals
Peter Bernstein - Bass, Vocals
Steve Leonard - Keyboards, Vocals
Steve Beers - Drums

Mark Goldenberg and Steve Leonard met in junior high school in Lincolnwood, Illinois. The two stuck together and went to Chicago Music College. As a freshman, Leonard was teaching a course on electronic music composition to graduate students. Goldenberg was playing the Chicago folk scene for a while. After forming the Eddie Boy Band, and moving to the West Coast, the band broke up. Stranded in Los Angeles, Goldenberg started making demo tapes of his material. He landed a job as guitarist for Al Stewart's touring band. Stewart's opening act was Wendy Waldman, whose sidemen included Steve Beers and Peter Bernstein. They hit it off together and the three later backed Waldman on tour. They decided they wanted their own band, and so the Cretones were born. Read the included newspaper article for more details...

From Wikipedia: The Cretones were a Los Angeles based new wave and power pop group in the early 1980s. Led by singer/guitarist & former Eddie Boy Band member Mark Goldenberg, who also wrote the bulk of The Cretones' material, the group had a strong sense of melody and a lyrical wit that placed them a cut above most of their new wave peers.

They had one single which charted on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100: "Real Love" in the spring of 1980, which was from their first album "Thin Red Line". The song "Empty Heart" from their second album Snap Snap was their only other song to receive significant airplay on album rock stations, but it did not chart as a single.

They are perhaps best known as the group which provided four of the songs on Linda Ronstadt's platinum selling 1980's new wave album, Mad Love. Ronstadt's effort served to highlight and introduce Mark Goldenberg's tuneful melodies.

After the band broke up, Mark Goldenberg went on to write the song "Automatic" for the Pointer Sisters which was a hit in 1984. He later toured with artists such as Peter Frampton and Chris Isaak, and had moderate success as a new-age instrumental artist in Japan. Since 1994 he has been lead guitarist for Jackson Browne and continues to write play and produce. Cretones members Steve Beers and Peter Bernstein helped produce and compose the score to the TV show 21 Jump Street. Steve Beers has been producing television ever since while Peter Bernstein has gone on write numerous film and tv scores.

This is a very rare and hard to find album never released on CD. Digitized at 24bit / 96KHz. ZIP format.

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Russ Otis - Cool Air 45 (1976)

Side A:

Cool Air (3:38)

Side B:

The Rearrangement (3:28)





This was Russ Otis' first 45 record. It was made in 1976 on the now defunct Cool Duck Records. Both songs are written and produced by Russ. His sound always reminded me of Emitt Rhodes. Sadly, my friend Russ passed away on July 5, 2007.

Russ Otis

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The Cretones - Snap! Snap! (1981) [Vinyl]

01 Empty Heart
02 Hanging on to No One
03 Swinging Divorcee
04 Lonely Street
05 I Can't Get Over You
06 One Kiss
07 Love is Turning
08 Girls! Girls! Girls!
09 Snap! Snap!
10 Mood Vertigo



This is the 2nd album by the power pop LA band, The Cretones. The Cretones were Mark Goldenberg guitars, vocals, Peter Bernstein - bass, vocals; Steve Beers - drums and Steve Leonard - keyboards, vocals. According to Mark the Cretones never officially broke up.

Read more here

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Vytas Brenner - Hermanos (1974)

01 - Agua Clara
02 - Madrugada
03 - Amanecer
04 - Danza Con Pajaros
05 - Gavilan
06 - Pastos
07 - Ganado
08 - Estampida
09 - Ana Karina Rote
10 - Sentado En Una Piedra



This 10 track album is the sophomore release by Vytas Brenner (a.k.a. Vitas Brenner), the German born musician who grew up in Venezuela. Although I own several copies of this vinyl LP, I recently acquired this pristine recording on compact disc. Both the vinyl and CD are long out of print, so if you are a fan of Mr. Brenner, as I am, I hope you appreciate this archive I've made available (see link below). When my brother and I were kids, we would visit our Dad who lived in Venezuela at the time. Vitas was popular at that time. This man was way ahead of his time. I hope you enjoy listening!

Quote from Prognofrog
Vytas Brenner, was a Venezuelan in his heart although he was born in Tubingen, Germany in 1946. His parents emigrated to South America in 1948 and he studied in the famous Emil Friedman School, an institution dedicated to form composers and performers since an early age. In 1958 he travelled to Italy and Spain and there he formed several juvenile bands like Vytas Brenner Quartet, Brenner’s Folk or The Pic Nics. In 1967 he went to USA to study electronic music in Tenesee Conservatory and later in Nashville College where he graduated with honors in 1972. That year he went back to Venezuela and started a long relation with Venezuelan folkloric music, an influence that permeates all his posterior works. At that time he was also obviously influenced by the electronic kraut scene (specially Cluster and Tangerine Dream) and devoted himself to the possibilities of synthtizers and the potential of the fusion of modern electronic sounds, progressive rock and acoustic aboriginal and folk elements.

Musicians:
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Pablo Manavello
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Piano, Timpani, Vocals, Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar, Written-By, Arranged By, Producer – Vytas Brenner
Artwork By – Ramon Rojas
Bass – Carlos Acosta, Pupi
Drums – Eleasar, Frank Rojas, Iván Velásquez
Electric Guitar – Jairo
Engineer – Michel Chazet
Percussion – Oscar Rojas
Producer – Haakon Brenner
Saxophone – Rolando Briceño


Links:
Wikipedia
Nice article about this album on Prognofrog

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