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La Fachada de Piedra 1971

La Fachada de Piedra se forma en 1968 por Miguel Ochoa en la guitarra, Tony Baker en la guitarra y voz, Mark Havey en el bajo y guitarra. Tomás Yoakum en la batería y Tomás Parra en el bajo (que fue sustituido por Adrián Cuevas).
Por cierto que Mark Harvey fue fundador en Ajijic, Jalisco, del Hangar Ambulante, el cual en una gira por la Ciudad de México tuvo cambios. Harvey se regresó y los integrantes del grupo siguieron con el nombre, el cual hicieron legendario, a pesar de no grabar un disco.

Posteriormente se les unió Carmen Ochoa en la voz, sin embargo las oportunidades de tocar eran pocas a finales de los 70 y emigraron a los Estados Unidos desapareciendo la banda... por un momento.
 "En 1979 nos fuimos a los Estados Unidos porque aquí en Guadalajara traían la onda de la música disco, de la onda grabada, y escaseaba el trabajo en vivo", comenta Carmen.
Y allá se quedaron 12 años, trabajando en una tienda de discos y tocando en las noches con una banda denominada Núcleo del Blues.
Fue hasta 1992 cuando decidieron regresar y retomar el antiguo proyecto de La Fachada de Piedra, y seguir haciendo rock y blues como si nunca se hubieran ido, desde entonces han tocado todos los fines de semana desde hace 10 años en diferentes lugares.

Tracklist

01.Roaming
02.Everyday Face
03.En El Estudio - It´s Too Bad
04.Better Watch You Do
05.Walking The Dog
06.Sad Shoes
07.Moving Too Fast
08.Same Old Story

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Tinta Blanca - Salmo VII / VIII

La banda de Tinta Blanca del Distrito Federal, inicialmente llamada White Ink and the Mother Earth Co., (ganadora de un concurso realizado en el bosque de Chapultepec, llamado la "Naranjiza", donde la desaprobación del público se expresaba tirándole naranjas a los músicos), también fue uno de los grupos que tenían su sección de metales, caso frecuente en México y que no se dió con la misma intensidad en grupos de habla hispana.

Probablemente se debió la influencia de las bandas norteamericanas (Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, Electric Flag y Buddy Miles), aunado a la tradición de la música tropical tocada en México, donde las grandes orquestas y los grupos de mambo, con Pérez Prado a la cabeza han usado siempre las secciones de metal. También es de mencionar la participación de excelentes músicos de jazz como Cecilio Chilo Morán.


Tinta Blanca grabó la pieza músical más larga de esos tiempos, Avándaro Salmo VII y Salmo VIII con 23:45 minutos.

Está canción se volvió emblemática del Festival de Avándaro, donde Tinta Blanca fue uno de los participantes destacados, ya que todas sus canciones tenían letra en español.

 

Tinta Blanca

Philips (1971) EP

Músicos:
Sergio Keko Figueroa (voz y percusiones), Tomás Pacheco (bajo y coros), Fernando Miramón (órgano), Miguel Morales (guitarra), Gonzalo Alejandro Pato Curiel (batería), Cliserio Villagomez (sax tenor), Franciso Acosta (Trompeta), Jesús Segovia (Trompeta).

1. Salmo VII (Tinta Blanca), 
2. Everything's gonna change (Tinta Blanca)

tomado de http://www.maph49.galeon.com/avandaro/tintablanca.html 

Salem Mass - Witch Burning 1971

Tracklist

1 Witch Burning - 10:26
2 My Sweet Jane - 4:35
3 Why - 2:44
4 You Can't Run My Life - 3:50
5 You're Just a Dream - 3:42
6 Bare Tree - 6:53
7 The Drifter - 3:14

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Out of focus - Wake Up!

Out Of Focus biography:
This awesome band came from Munich and made three extraordinary albums on the super-collectable Kuckuk label plus another that never got released until recently. Hennes Herring on KB (mainly Hammond organ), Remi Dreschler on guitars, Moran Neumuller on vocals and winds, Klaus Spöri and Stefan Wisheu on drums and bass respectively made an incredibly tight unit although they were prone to a lot of improvisation moments also. Their music is somewhat similar to early British prog but will gradually evolve to a certain jazz-rock while staying very politically and socially conscious (in the typical German style of those years) although the singing does not hold a big place in their music, their third release (a double) being mostly instrumental. They released three albums on the legendary Kuckuk label, the same one that also reissued them in Cd format.

After their third album, OOF suffered their first major line-up change with keyboardist Hennes Herring leaving the band to join SAHARA (another excellent group that will release two very solid albums), and he was replaced by yet another guitarist Wolfgang Gohringer (that made double guitar and double horn attack), but if it affected the group's sound a bit, it was nothing drastic either. A fourth (excellent) album was recorded in the spring of 74, but for some reasons it was never released - until Ultima Thule/Cosmic Egg would in 99. Sadly these events lead towards a slow decline of the group who would gradually slow down activities, recording just one more single and playing their last concerts in 78.

The musicians went their way, but in the mid-80's, three of them met and participated to Kontrast and recorded one of the best Krautrock album of that decade, according to the experts. This album and its intended suite just got a second life by getting a reissue, again on the Cosmic Egg label. Among the other posthumous releases is the left-overs from FLMA albums (Rat Roads) and a Live in Palerme 72, both excellent records appearing on the great Garden Of Delight Label.

Let me quote D-E Asbjornssen in Cosmic Dreams At Play and use his final comment about OOF: "what an awesome band they were" and I fully adhere to that opinion.
(Hugues Chantraine, BELGIUM).

Out Of Focus "Rat roads" (Auszug aus Garden Of Delights 2002)
Muss Out Of Focus aus München näher vorgestellt werden? Es dürfte eine der bekanntesten Bands im deutschen Progressive Rock sein. Im Booklet wird die Geschichte der Band ausführlich wiedergegeben. Nach ihrem 1970er Debüt "Wake up!" folgte 1971 "Out Of Focus" und ein Jahr später das jazzorientierte "Four letter Monday afternoon"..

Tracklist

1. See how a white Negro flies - 5:48
2. God saved the Queen, cried Jesus - 7:29
3. Hey John - 9:37
4. No Name - 3:06
5. World's End - 9:55
6. Dark, Darker - 11:39


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Far East Family Band - 1976 - Parallel World

Far East Family Band was one of the absolute best psychedelic/prog bands from Japan, while producer Klaus Schultze was (and is) at the top of the electronic krautrock pile. Even with such strong credentials from the outset, this album is more than the sum of its parts. The two musical forces meld perfectly, with the best parts of their musical identities at the forefront without obscuring the other. Parallel World is how every collaboration would go down in a perfect world (a perfect world that is parallel to ours I would suppose).

"Metempsychosis" is sort of a prelude track, working a tribal groove not too far removed from Schultze's "Moondawn." Schultze's presence is felt even more with his cascading Moogs on "Entering," which eventually crashes head on with the full blast of the Far East Family Band on "Times." Yeah, they're probably echoing Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun" a bit too much, but I'll forgive them as I think "Times" is ultimately a superior track. We then get an extended 'sad Japanese man' psychedelic ballad with "Kokoro." It's my least favorite track here, but the quality of this album is so high that it would be a highlight on a lot of other albums. Side two consists of the "Parallel World" song suite, and of course is not to be missed. "Amanezcan" provides some modular Moog haze, while the band cranks up the voltage into some fine psychedelic funk beats on "Origin" and "Zen." The rest of the album lets the sonic DMT kick in as we're treated to some cosmic sounds that rival those on Tangerine Dream's Alpha Centauri.

Parallel World is one of the best psychedelic/prog albums of the 70's. It's definitely the best the Far East Family Band ever sounded, and it's a high point for Klaus Schultze as well. This reaches farther out into the space rock aether than most of the space rock luminaries ever managed, and deserves the ear of all the heads out there.


Tracklist

1. Metempsychosis (4:45)
2. Entering (16:00)
3. Kokoro (9:06)
4. Parallel world (30:12)

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Writing on the wall - Power of the picts

The band that became WRITING ON THE WALL began as Scottish soul band the JURY in the mid-sixties, but transforming themselves like so many of their contemporaries into a psychedelic-tinged group along with their renaming in 1968. The band issued but one official studio album, the 1969 release 'The Power of the Picts'. Like many evolving groups caught in the midst of rapid musical evolution in the late sixties, WRITING ON THE WALL retained much of the blues influence of the music they came of age with by mixing heavy and sometimes uneven blend of psych, blues with idealistic and often abstract lyrics to form a distinctly late sixties sound...........[ProgArchives]


Tracklist

1 Bogeyman 3:45
2 Shadow of Man 5:57
3 Taskers Successor 3:42
4 Hill of Dreams 3:08
5 Virginia Water 5:56
6 It Came on a Sunday 4:18
7 Mrs Coopers Pie 3:21
8 Ladybird 3:46
9 Aries 8:06
Bonus Tracks
10 Child on a Crossing (Single A-Side) 3:30
11 Lucifer Corpus (Single B-Side) 5:43

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Chico Magnetic Band 1971

Tracklist

1. Explosion
2. Pop Pull Hair
3. Lot of Things
4. We All Come and Go
5. To Where I Belong
6. My Sorrow
7. Cross Town Traffic
8. Pop Orbite
9. Girl of Ocean*
10. Phantasm*
11. Pop Or Not*
12. Inverse*


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Apryl Fool - Same 1969

Tracklist:

Tomorrow's Child 4:24
Another Time 7:25
April Blues 4:19
The Lost Mother Land (Part 1) 7:23
Tanger 4:37
Pledging My Time 3:47
Sunday 6:09
Honky Tonk Jam 2:05
The Lost Mother Land (Part 2) 2:09


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