Thirsty Moon - "Thirsty Moon" (1972)
Formed October 1971 in Germany
Genre: Krautrock, Jazz-Rock
For sale is my second copy of this album on Germanofon c# 941049. CD is in good condition and so is the booklet. My price is $old plus shipping.
The recording on this CD was apparently taken from the mater tapes unmolested. This is the only un-remastered edition that I know about. Sound is a bit dirty but overall good. New Long Hair edition is a bit better but cleaned up too much for my liking.
This is what Steven Freeman & Alan Freeman, krautrock historians, have to say about the album and the band.
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| Always essentially the project of the Drogies brothers, Thirsty Moon came into being in September 1971 as the amalgamation of D.R.P. (Drogies Rock Project) and Shakespears (apparently a jazz-soul band), resulting in a very big group (seven to eight members) performing complex rock that used unusual jazz structures as its base. Obviously influenced by the likes of Colosseum, the Chicago brass-rock scene and earlier German bands like Xhol and Organisation, Thirsty Moon created a music with great dynamics, use of heavy and spacious structures, unconventional songs and arrangements, and above all amazing musicianship. Both their debut and, the curiously titled, YOU'LL NEVER COME BACK offer some of the finest Krautrock. Both tripping out with percussively intensive Krautrock tripping, bizarre songs, and ventures into the cosmos, beyond jazz-fusion, beyond everything. Notably, on the second side of YOU'LL NEVER COME BACK, the feel is very close to Kollektiv. Hereafter the Thirsty Moon story becomes a mite sketchy. |
