Amiga, GDR, 1976
Tracklist :
A1 – Borodin suite (Alexander Borodin) – 13:20
A2 – Bach ‘75 (Johann Sebastian Bach) – 6:25 (snippet)
B1 – Säbeltanz (Sabledance, Aram Chatschaturjan) – 6.05
B2 – Prelude cis-moll op3. Nr.2 (Sergej Rachmaninov) – 4:40 (snippet)
B3 – In der Halle des Bergkönigs (In the Hall of the Mountain King, Edvard Grieg) – 3:05
B4 – [...]
Panton, Czecheslovakia, 1980
Another “a la carte” record, this time it’s jazz (and its in stereo too, but has nothing to do with the “Stereo a la carte” record).
This is a compilation giving an overview about parts of the czecheslovakian jazz-scene at that time. This is really a great record, filled with very energetic and [...]
Amiga, GDR, 1975
Karel Gott was the Megastar of the eastern countries, there is no doubt about that. He started in czecheslovakia but his music was not even stopped by the iron curtain and he is still recording songs and does shows all over the world, including the US and Japan. One example of his work [...]
Amiga, GDR, 1972
This is one of those “technical demonstration” records about the effects possible with stereo recording, however it’s a little bit different from other records I heard where it’s basically one instrument being panned from left to right and back. Each song tells a story, and its quite a crazy record with lots of [...]
Amiga, GDR, 1979
Soundtrack for some Spy/SecretService TV-Series from the DEFA (East Germany’s movie production company.) The series was done 1973, this record is from 1979 however (wonder what took them so long). Pretty cool record overall, the song I chose is A1 – “Tentakel”, the opener, but the whole record has alot of groove, laidback [...]
Polskie Nagrania – Poland – 1977
Tracklist :
A1 – Strona (snippet)
A2 – Jestes spoznionym deszczem
A3 – Wzejde polnym makiem
A4 – Otwieram list – brazowy wrzesien
A5 – W powszednie dni
B1 – Snij tylko szczescie (snippet)
B2 – Piesn geiry
B3 – Chce byc dla ciebie
B4 – Brzegi lagodne
(play all tracks)
music by SBB (Halina Frackowiak was background singer for [...]
