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vadthebad
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Topic: Galaxy-Lin (Netherlands) - prog band Posted: September 22 2017 at 06:30 |
I was surprised that I could not find Galaxy-Lin here. https://www.discogs.com/artist/809985-Galaxy-Lin?noanv=1 Can we add this band to the Archives? This is amazing prog, it does certainly deserve to be here, IMHO. Thanks.
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DamoXt7942
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Posted: September 22 2017 at 06:39 |
^ Would you please post some links of this band for evaluation?
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vadthebad
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Posted: September 22 2017 at 06:45 |
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/galaxy-lin
https://www.discogs.com/Galaxy-Lin-Galaxy-Lin/master/527927 https://www.discogs.com/Galaxy-Lin-G/master/636757
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Posted: September 22 2017 at 07:18 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTy-F2Fwdpw
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vadthebad
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Posted: September 22 2017 at 07:28 |
http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/index.php?albumId=14420&content=review
All too much information can not be found on the Dutch network Galaxy-Lin in the worldwide network, in particular none that would explain the somewhat unusual band name. The group was in any case a project of Shocking Blue founder and guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen, who started in 1974. He did not want to play electric guitar there, but he only used a mandolin (which was sometimes also electrically amplified). Apparently, this sound was so much to him that he even hired a second Mandolin player with Hugo van Haastert. To this came the former Ekseption-musician Dick Remelink (Sax, flute), the singer Ruud van de Berg (aka Rudy Bennet) and the rhythm department. On the self-titled debut released in 1974, however, there is no folk rock, despite the mandolin presence. "Galaxy-Lin" offers a mix of prog, jazzrock and pop, which occasionally hits something in the direction of folk. Rather, the permanent mandolin plucked by its resemblance to the sounds of a South American Charango creates a certain airy andean atmosphere. A distinct jazzy-rocking basis can be found in almost every song, especially when it is not singing, and Remelink plays on the sax and the flute, accompanied by the filigree motif of the mandolins. So it is mainly the playful jazz instrumental rocker "Boy for sale", "Utopia" and "Curiosa", which offer progressive material of very own character. When Bennet is singing, the music quickly gets a much more pop-oriented, mainstream rocking note, especially in the bluesy-boogie-like "Mean love". In the other numbers, especially in the introductory "Traveling Song", Mandolin rock, jazz rock and pop are combined in a perfectly successful way. "Galaxy-Lin" is a very nice, not overbearingly complex or world-moving, but quite entertaining album with a melodic-airy mandolin program, which can be attributed to a certain originality. The CD is currently available (Summer 2014) in a double pack with the band's second album in a Twofer box. Can you know!
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vadthebad
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Posted: September 22 2017 at 07:50 |
http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/index.php?albumId=14432&content=review
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.
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Rivertree
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Posted: September 22 2017 at 08:27 |
good find an issue for the crossover team methinks - team notified ...
Edited by Rivertree - September 22 2017 at 08:30
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DamoXt7942
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Posted: September 22 2017 at 17:04 |
Thanks Van and Uwe. Now under evaluation with my thumbs-up.
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vadthebad
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Posted: November 08 2017 at 05:49 |
I hope you won't forget about this one as well, gents?Thanks.
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yam yam
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Posted: November 08 2017 at 08:08 |
Hasn't been forgotten about, but there is still just the one 'thumbs up' in Crossover. Two team members are still to vote, but one of them hasn't been active on the progfreak site that is used by the Crossover team to keep track of their evaluations for about three months now. The Crossover team currently has a total of nineteen ongoing evaluations, so this make take a little while yet.
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DamoXt7942
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Posted: February 09 2018 at 21:33 |
Not forgotten. Added to Crossover.
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