FÜR EIN ¾ STÜNDCHEN

Though Tortilla Flat hailed from Germany, you'd be well-advised to put all thoughts of Can-esque krautrock or Tangerine Dream-esque cosmiche music out of your head before listening to their sole studio album. What you get here instead is an incredibly tight fusion band playing in a style highly reminiscent of that pioneered by the more serious end of the Canterbury scene - post-Third Soft Machine, for instance, or the more intense moments of Hatfield and the North or Gilgamesh. Hermann Josef Basten on flute may well be the star player here, rocking out on that instrument like there's no tomorrow, but the whole band are highly proficient and deliver lively performances.