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BLACKBIRDS

Krautrock • Germany

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Blackbirds biography
THE BLACKBIRDS were originally formed in south-west Germany and they released their first album "No Destination" on UK-Label Saga in 1968.
THE BLACKBIRDS consists of psychedelic beat/pop music with a touch of the Mothers of Invention type satire (Something Different) and some progressive touches. Strong vocals by singer and guitar player Werner Breinig and some interesting Hammond organ work by Hubert Koop are characteristic of the group's music which proves a great talent of specific song writing. The German label OPP released 5 tracks of this first album on the "Snake in the Grass" album later on.
2nd album "A Touch Of Music", originally released in 1971 on
German Label OPP with a complete new line-up - with the exception of
singer and guitar player Werner Breinig who now played violin and flute as well- and a complete new style of music. They adopted a nice, poetic and classical (not symphonic) influenced progressive style with long tracks. There was also room for some more powerful passages inbetween, characteristic for the early seventies progressive music we all have learned to love (Dag Erik Asbjornsen, Cosmic Dreams At Play).
Unfortunately, THE BLACKBIRDS were disbanded after these two album.
Both original THE BLACKBIRDS albums are very rare but thanks to German Label Long Hair, both albums are reissued with some bonus tracks.
1st album - Recommended for fans of Psychedelic Rock or Zappa.
2nd album - Highly Recommended for any Kraut Rock fan as an underrated Kraut Rock classic.

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2.50 | 11 ratings

Touch Of Music
1971

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Studio Album, 1971
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Touch Of Music
Blackbirds Krautrock

Review by Rivertree
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On 'Touch Of Music' you can hear a beat/pop band which is going into a progressive direction - stepping on slight symphonic paths exactly I would say. Nothing can prove this better than the opening song Pr�ludium. The BLACKBIRDS started as a beat group in the 1960s and experienced a lot of line-up changes until they produced this album in Cologne at the Rhenus-Studio - with the help of a famous sound engineer called Conny Plank by the way who must have been involved in nearly everything at that time.

The band is still on the run apropos, playing on diverse festivities - however nobody from the 'Touch Of Music' line-up is active anymore today. Okay - back to the album. The Nice respectively ELP reminiscences are coming up when listening to the second song All You Need which belongs to the better tracks. Here we have some sacral moments caused by organ, violin and the vocals. And then Werner Breinig's guitar is taking action for the first time with the straightforward rocking song Return From The War - Wolfgang Bode with a playful bass work should also be mentioned.

The rest of the songs are not really remarkable - except the closing mini epic Come Back which brings back a progressive orientation based on a more complex structure and exceptional flute contributions. The bonus tracks are from a single production released one year before where, enforced by their label, the band name temporarily had changed to 'Blackbirds 2000'.

If there is something special to emphasize then I would mention the rather winsome keyboard work which is very dominant here. Anyway - there have been a lot of bands which were more experimental and tricky in those times. All in all this sounds way too simple to me as if they try to stay in a safe place in most cases - 2.5 stars.

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