The import bins are overflowing this month with some choice recordings
from all over the Continent and England. Germany's rock experimentalists
CAN have added a new member to the band. He's ROSCO GEE once with
TRAFFIC and he can be heard on Can's new LP "Saw Delight." Rumour has it
that Virgin may release the album over here in the near future...PETER
BAUMANN of TANGERINE DREAM has released his first solo album entitled
"Romance 76." The Dreams have just finished a highly successful U.S. tour
that met with favorable reactions everywhere they went...speaking of
synthesizers, French composer JEAN MICHEL JARRE manned a battery of
synthesizers to create his debut disc "Oxygene." If you enjoy Tangerine
Dream Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk and the like, you'll love this LP. Incidently,
Jean is the son of French film-score composer Maurice Jarre, who's noted
for his soundtrack to Dr. Zhivago...Holland's GOLDEN EARRING, who had a hit
with "Radar Love" a couple of years ago, are going to try it again with a new
LP entitled "Mad Love" released here on MCA...Hot in Holland at the moment is
a group called the WATER PISTOLS and their hit single is called "Give Me
That Punk Junk."...over in Denmark, GASOLIN' have an album called "Efter
Endnu en Dag." This follows closely the release of their live double album
"Sadan."...for progressive jazz fans Denmark offers SECRET OYSTER's
"Straight to the Krankenhaus." It's straight ahead jazz-rock fusion that
you're sure to like...A very unusual album that seekers of strange and
esoteric sounds will enjoy is called "Assalam Alekoum Afrika." It's a good
survey of current progressive and popular music in West Africa...A couple of
ex-INCREDIBLE STRING BAND people have come out of hibernation and
released new LP's. ROBIN WILLIAMSON has one out on the Chicago based
Flying Fish label. It's a little reminiscent of early music by ISB. However,
MIKE HERON's new one "Diamond of Dreams" is a whole new ballgame...The
seventh album release by KLAUS SCHULZE is a soundtrackj from a German
soft-pron flick called "Body Love"...English madman NEIL INNES who's well
known for his work with Bonzo Dog Band and Monty Python has released a
superb album of laugable and listenable material called "Taking Off." Watch
for Neil to appear on Saturday Night Live in the near future...A good bet if you
enjoy traditional English and Irish music ala the Chieftains is FIVE HAND
REEL. Their LP was voted Folk Album of the Year in last year's Melody Maker
Poll...HORSLIPS does an admirable job of mixing traditional folk themes with
rock on their new album "A Celtic Symphony."...VANESSA is a progressive
jazz group from Norway with an album called "Black and White" from a new
Norse label called Compendium. They promise more interesting progressive
sounds from Norway in the future...POPOL VUH have long been one of the more
successful groups to mix Western and Indian sounds. However, on their new
LP "Yoga" the Indian sounds predominate as they play skillfully on sitar,
tabla and tambura...At last there's a new SUZI QUATRO album called
"Aggrophobia" featuring good and raunchy renditions of "Wake Up Little
Susie," "Heartbreak Hotel," and some Suzi Q originals. Meanwhile back in the
States, Suzi's little sister Patti is on tour with her new group THE NYLONS.
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