Dillinger - Dillinger (1974 canada progressive, jazz, blues rock - 320K and WAV)

Dillinger (not to be confused with the reggae band of the same name) was a Canadian progressive band from Toronto, Ontario.

The band's debut self-titled album was originally released on the Daffodil Records label in 1974.

The album contains three original songs composed by the band and a superb cover of the song "Nature's Way," originally done by Spirit on The 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus album.

Dillinger's music is a complex, guitar-and-organ fronted progressive sound which moves from jazz to blues and features a variety of instruments including piano, synthesizers, flute, sax, acoustic and electric guitars bass, and percussion.

In places the band sounds like Santana, while in other places like Iron Butterfly or Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Dillinger has a unique sound for a Canadian band that attracted more attention in Europe than it did in North America.

With long songs and drawn-out solos, Dillinger is more or less one of your typical early-'70s progressive bands, nothing special, but nonetheless interesting and typical of the genre.

This release by Unidisc is a straight reissue of the original album at a budget price and contains no bonus tracks.



People:


Track List:
01. People
02. City Main
03. Nature's Way
04. Live and Return

Personnel:
*Jacques Harrison - Keyboards, Vocals , Sax, Flute, Accordion
*Robert Harrison - Drums, Percussions
*Paul Cockburn - Guitars
*Terry Bramhall – Bass

[ Rip and Scans by LARRY ]
click here(password is phrockblog)

Secret Oyster - Secret Oyster (1973 denmark great instrumental mix of jazz, rock and fusion - 1st album - FLAC)

This has to be the greatest band ever to come out of Denmark. A supergroup of sorts with the drummer, sax, and bass player from BURNIN' RED IVANHOE joined by the avant-garde keyboard player from CORONARIAS DANS, and the amazing guitar player from HURDY GURDY.

By the way Donovan's song "Hurdy Gurdy Man" is about this guitar player Claus Bohling.

This album is one of those great discoveries i come across once and a while that makes the search so worth while.

The album cover is from a post card of the mainstreet of the little town where they recorded this their debut record.

This really is a blend of jazz/rock/fusion with Claus just ripping it up throughout on his guitar.

"Dampexpression" opens with piano that builds as sax and a full sound arrives quickly.

The sax and drumming stand out along with the keys. The guitar before 2 minutes lights it up as the bass throbs,more great guitar again after 3 minutes.

"Fire & Water" has a nice beat as organ and fat bass lead the way.

Guitar comes in very psychedelic-like as the tempo picks up.Amazing sound 3 minutes in.The guitar rips it up before 5 minutes.

"Vive La Quelle?" has a memorable,uptempo melody until a calm a minute in where guitar and drums start to make some noise without a real melody.

Just raw guitar sounds and random drum patterns.We start to get a melody after 4 minutes.

Keys come in and they become dissonant at times.Some good guitar 7 minutes in. The song ends as it began.

"Blazing Lace" has a haunting intro before the guitar comes in and takes over.

Sax,drums and bass are all here.Love the guitar after 3 minutes. "Public Oyster" is the longest track at almost 11 minutes.

This is actually very krautrock-like early,the way the keys and guitar lead the way.

The sound starts to build 3 1/2 minutes in. Guitar comes in at 5 minutes and plays over top.Nice.Sax comes in sounding really good as does the relentless drumming. The guitar starts to shine after 9 minutes.

"Mis(s) Fortune" is lighter,almost canterbury-like with lots of keys and bass.

"Ova-X" opens with sax with not much of a melody as sounds come and go.It's kind of experimental and i like it.

This all-instrumental debut from SECRET OYSTER is so impressive. Just a pleasure to listen to (by Mellotron Storm).

Fire & Water:


Tracks List:
1. Dampexpressen (4:24)
2. Fire & water (5:34)
3. Vive la quelle? (8:50)
4. Blazing lace (4:45)
5. Public oyster (10:46)
6. Mis(s) fortune (1:28)
7. Ova-x (4:56)


Secret Oyster:
*Bo Thrige Andersen / drums
*Claus Bøhling / electric guitar
*Kenneth Knudsen / electric piano
*Mats Vinding / bass
*Karsten Vogel / alto & soprano saxes, organ


[ Thank you SILVERADO for sending this post ]
CODE: 59794 or click here (password is code_number+phrockblog)