(KrautRock) NOSFERATU - Nosferatu (1970) Germany - 1970, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Nosferatu' is an early Krautrock album containing a heavy and raw progressive sound tainted with psychedelic elements engineered by the legendary Konrad Plank. Dominated by guitar, organ and sax, this album also contains excellent flute work and percussion. As a whole, the album has its ups and downs. A few tracks offer up some trippy grooves, but the group tends to lean towards an Anglo-American approach and the lyrics in English would have been better has they been in German. The best tracks in my opinion are the three which have the least amount of Anglo-American rock influence (Tracks 2,4,5). It is these tracks too which seem to utilize Conny's sound engineering expertise. In spite of the obvious Anglo influence, the group does manage to create a unique sound. This can be attributed to some unusual riffs and rhythms as well as the amount of sax and flute versus organ.

Contrary to other bands produced by the famous Conny Plank (KRAFTWERK, GURU GURU and many others), NOSFERATU’s musical career was very short and suffered of a lack of recognition by a larger public. Almost nothing is said about their history and the only thing we have from them is a fresh, enthousiastic, atypical jazzy rock album dominated by raw, aggressive guitars and progressive "folk" arrangements. NOSFERATU belongs to this kind of German bands who success to create a deep and trippy atmosphere thanks to fine moments of long instrumental solos, crossing with an original touch guitars to sax, flute and electric organs. The lyrics are sung in English and stay very strong. An enjoyable effort which can be compared with others "cult" German fusion items.

EAC extraction logfile from 19. August 2006, 17:40 for CD
Nosferatu / Nosferatu

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