June 1975


EUROCK

Solo LP by ex-Guru Guru guitarist, Ax Genrich, is called "HIGHDELBERG" and includes Mani Neumeier on drums, Jan, Helmut and Peter from KRAAN, Achim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius from HARMONIA/CLUSTER...a new group from Switzerland dedicated to good R&B undertakings is called STIFF...another group from Switzerland called TEA is soon to have a U.S. release... Jon Hiseman ex of COLLOSEUM and TEMPEST, has put together a new group called COLLOSEUM 2...the new KRAAN album is called "Let it Out" and was produced by Conny Plank. U.S. release is scheduled for next month...KRAFTWERK spent last month on tour in England. Their new album is called RADIOACTIVITY and will be released by Capitol this month. Meanwhile their AUTOBAHN is rising on the charts in Australia and New Zeland and another American tour is planned soon...titles in the latest BRAIN Êrelease include JUMBO by GROBSCHNITT, DELUXE by HARMONIA, YPSILON IN MALAYSIAN PALE by EDGAR FROESE, and an electronic music sampler called ELECTRICAL DREAMS...the new album by the BAKER- GURVITZ ARMY is called ELYSIAN ENCOUNTER...a new LP by the lead singer of NAZARETH Dan McCafferty, includes Roger Glover onÊbass and Hugh McKenna on keyboards...PINK FLOYD composed part of the soundtrack of a movie called CRYSTAL VOYAGER...a new group from Italy called LIBRA have their first U.S. relase out on Motown...Oasis is a new label distributed here by Casablanca. The initial release includes three German music productions. EINZELGANGER is an all-electronic album in the styles of Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, Can, Pink Floyd, etc..SCHLOSS is basic American influenced rock and roll by a three man group. The third album in the release is a very sensual, soulful R&B album by a singer from Boston, now living in Austria, named DONNA SUMMER; it's called LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY and the side-long title track isÊsurely to become the "Autobahn" of the Disco set...