18 Karat Gold - All-Bumm (1974)

Only album from this band led by Lothar Meid , ex-Amon Düül II. All the members would at one time or other be in Amon Düül II, also other German bands like Embryo, and Klaus Doldinger's Passport and Doldinger's Motherhood. Sounds very much like late 70's AD II, with some poppy material rubbing shoulders with some great spacey rock.

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Kyrie Eleison - The Fountain Beyond The Sunrise (1976)

Real nice symphonic prog from this Austrian band, which manages to sound a lot like early 70's Genesis, without being overly derivative. Lots of keyboard leads and a wide range of moods. Long songs and high-quality musicianship. Includes bonus track which is a demo from 1978. Band later turned into Indigo.

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Mott The Hoople - Mad Shadows (1970)

This is probably my favorite Mott The Hoople album. Well, maybe "Brain Capers"! Whichever one I listened to last is my favorite I guess. Never cared too much for the David Bowie/glam era Mott.
Great piano-based electric rock ballads. The last track, "When My Mind's Gone" was improvised in the studio and might be the most angst-ridden thing I've heard. Brilliant.

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Edgar Froese - Aqua (1974)

First solo release from Tangerine Dream founding member Froese. A classic of free-form, pastoral, ambient electronic rock.

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Sugar Cube Blues Band - Sugar Cube Blues Band (1967)

Forget the 'Blues Band' part of the band's name - they weren't a blues band and the songs aren't remotely bluesy! The 'Sugar Cube' part makes more sense, because this is some great mid-60's garagey psychedelia. There are some real good tunes here and this is well worth checking out if you are into the "Sixties Sound"

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John Entwistle - Smash Your Head Against The Wall (1971)

Digitally remastered edition of the late Who bassist's debut solo album gave him an outlet for his musical muse since his compositions had increasingly taken a backseat to the blaze of Pete Townshend's creativity in The Who. This is some very downbeat stuff. Players here included Who brother Keith Moon & Humble Pie's Jerry Shirley on drums, Neil Innes and Viv Stanshall from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, and Cyrano and Dave Layston on guitars. The whole affair was engineered by Roy Thomas Baker. Enough bonus material to double the length of the album!

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Pyramid - Pyramid (1976)

From the same label as that Nazgûl album I posted a few months ago. Same deal - very little information, virtually no liner notes, about all the back cover says is "personnel unknown". This consists of only one track, basically a long jam, coming in at 33 minutes. Two guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards. This is very trippy, stoned-sounding stuff, recommended for anyone that loves 1970's German space music.

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