Ralf Nowy (Germany) - Lucifer's Dream, 1973 [2008, Long Hair]

Artist: Ralf Nowy
Album: Lucifer's Dream
Year: 1973
Label: Long Hair, 2008
Style: Progressive Rock
Genre: Krautrock
Format: Flac (separate) + Cue + Log + Scans
Size: 254 Mb + 70 Mb (Scans)
Source: My CD collection

The Crack in the Cosmi Egg

Ralf Nowy (born 12/4/1940, in Berlin) first started in music in a school rock 'n' roll band in 1958. Since graduating from the Konservatorium in the early-1960's, he went on to play flute in free-jazz bands, became musical director at a Saarland radio station, and went on to organise ambitious music and dance spectaculars. In parallel with this, he was also a successful arranger for many top German pop singers. He debuted with what is a party album of medleys, called DILLY DALLY DANCING which is obviously going to totally naff Paul Nero type party stuff!

However, inspired by the burgeoning Krautrock scene he established his own supergroup The Ralf Nowy Group, with top musicians: Paul Vincent and Keith Forsey (ex-Hallelujah), and others from the Munich scene. LUCIFER'S DREAM was therefore a big melting pot of almost everything from psychedelic pop onto big band jazz, with experimental and ethnic diversions, a complex musical suite with a great deal of invention.

After a lengthy gap, during which Ralf Nowy had been working with the Berlin Philharmonic, he reformed the band under the guise of "Nowy" making ESCALATION which further developed his wide ranging fusion on a slightly jazzier and accessible level. Its follow-up NOWY 2 (seemingly Atlantic ignored the fact that this was his third) happened to be an almost entirely different band, and saw a lot pop elements creeping in.

The more recent EARLY ENCOUNTERS amounts to a collection of light easy listening moods, lazy jazz fusions and synth music. The CD has no documented instrumentation, and seems to imply that it's all Ralf Nowy in multi-instrumental mode.

Подробно о релизе / In detail about a release


Line-up / Musicians:

Gary Unwin - bass
Lothar Meid - bass (4)
Sylvester Levay - piano
Don Anderson - piano (4), background vocals (4)
Paul Vincent Gunia - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Andy Marx - electric guitar, acoustic guitar (4)
Keith Forsey - drums
Bernie Prock - percussion
Ralf Nowy - flutes, alto saxophone, oboe
Al Gromer - sitar
Liz van Neyenhoff - sitar
Sankar Chatterjel - tablas
Joy Fleming - background vocals (4)
Rainer Pietsch - background vocals (4)
Vilko Zanki - background vocals (4)

Songs / Tracks Listing:

1. Breadhead (4:58)
2. Lucifer's Dream (5:03)
3. Something's Happened On The Chicken Farm (2:59)
4. Hear Me Calling (4:59)
5. Soul Tango (3:52)
6. Ashes To Ashes (3:37)
7. Shiwa's Dance (8:48)
8. Tschad (3:55)

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