Galaxy-Lin (Netherlands) - prog band

With "G" Galaxy-Lin around Robbie van Leeuwen 1975 their second and last album before. The composition of the group had probably changed compared to the first one. If one can believe the sparse sources in the global network, a certain Hans van Vos is the second Mandolin player. In addition, a keyboarder of the band had joined with Skip van Rooy. However, only six people are shown on the back of the cover. The rest of the CD-Reissues are nowhere to be found. It could be that one of the above mentioned musicians is not to be heard on "G".

In musical terms, "G" offers hardly any other music than the Galaxy-Lin debut. A mixture of prog, jazzrock and folk pop can be found here, which is however somewhat homogeneous and progressive (less pop) than on the debut. Sax or flute and mandolin determine the sound structure, but keyboardist van Rooy provides with various piano and synthesizer inserts for sound expansion and restrained filling sounds. Add to this the jazzy-swinging rhythm section and mostly (the two final longer tracks are instrumental numbers) of the powerful singing bennets.

It is only a little folky in the Pentangle cover "Hunting Song", in which Bennet's multi-voice vocalists create a gentle gentle-Giant atmosphere. In the middle, determined by sax and mandolins, the piece rocks airy and jazzy. This is almost the best number here. But also the rest of the unfortunately quite short album can be heard, especially the long, very colorful mandolin jazz rocker "Bizarre" and the dynamic funky "I know my baby" (Mandolin funk?). From time to time (in the short "Do not" or at the beginning of "Ode to the Highways"), the music is perhaps a bit too uninspired, which sometimes makes the sound of the sound of the loudspeakers too loud could.

All in all, however, "G" is a very audible album with a very original mixture of jazz, prog and some pop, which still has a very special character due to the angular mandolin sounds. The two discs of Galaxy-Lin are currently available (Summer 2014) by Universal Music in a double pack as Twofer. The whole comes in a cardboard box, in which the two albums as single CDs in the Jewelcase stuck (although the material would fit comfortably on a CD). Bonus material, or even an informative booklet, is not available.