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The Story behind … Fraction – Moon Blood

There are very few records from the fields of psychedelic, hard rock, garage that have such a legendary reputation as the only release of the US band Fraction. A Christian (!) Band from Los Angeles, about which almost nothing is known. Singer Jim Beach teamed up with guitarist  Don Swanson  and his brother Curt Swanson…

Flashback 50 – Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy – March 1973

After the success of the absolute overwork and bestselling album Untitled / IV from 1971, which was littered with hits, it was now time for the London giants to build on this success. Although the album was not released until 1973, Led Zeppelin started the recording process in  1971 directly after  the IV and were…

The Story behind … Sperrmüll – Same

At the beginning of the seventies, the Krautrock boom in Germany was at its peak. In almost every city, bands sprang up from the ground, many of which made the then typically German heavy progressive sound. This is also the case in the city of Aachen in the west of the republic. At the beginning…

The Story behind … Sam Gopal – Escalator

Samuel Gopal was born  in December 1944 in Malaysia. Already at the tender age of seven he learned to play tabla, the Indian/Asian drum. In 1962 he moved to London, England, as a music student. London was a (also) musical melting pot of cultures in the sixties. In 1966, he formed  Sam Gopal Dream with…

The Story behind … Technical Space Composers Crew – Canaxis 5

The story of one of the most legendary albums in German music history begins in March 1938 in the city of Danzig, when the boy Holger Schüring  was born in the middle of the pre-war turmoil. During the Second World War, Schüring lived   in the city, which became a Russian occupation zone after the end…

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