Triumvirat-Spartacus - Progressive Rock Music Forum

moshkito wrote:

presdoug wrote:

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That is interesting that your roomie played Triumvirat; I was kind of late to the party on this band, never having heard them until 1985, and it is fascinating for me to read and hear about what was going on with them in their hey day in the seventies.

I have never actually heard them on the radio in my entire life, which is a shame.

Guy Guden (Space Pirate Radio) played the album the day it arrived at the station, as at the time, we were finding that the label HARVEST had a lot of interesting stuff, and now was spreading to other parts of Europe. I collected almost everything I could find on that label, and Kevin Ayers, Roy Harper, Edgar Broughton Band (for example), STILL are favorites of mine from that label. Their work is outstanding.

The album would have been "Illusions on a Double Dimple" ... and that would be (I think) around Fall or slightly later in 1974.

I wish we could tell folks how much of this music we talk about actually "made it" to radio, and through radio, at the time.Nowadays, radio is obsolete and should die, if they do not free themselves from corporate owners!

At least new, and different music would get heard a bit more ... the internet is sounding like many of these corporate stations more and more each day ... witness most of the progressive stream anythings ... absolutely horrible mixes and terrible selections, not to mention the repetition, and we're not talking NEU or KRAFTWERK in their early days!

Illusions On A Double Dimple, called their "debut album" in North America, was released this side of the Atlantic, I think in the summer of '74. (initial release in Europe was in March/April of that year) It initially sold 180,000 copies in America, fueling the band's fall 74 tour opening for Fleetwood Mac.

I totally understand, and concur, with your feeling about radio, and the corporations that run radio now tend to "go for the jugular" when it comes to profit, that is for sure.

And regarding streaming, I have never heard music in that way, but more recently, record companies have sometimes been remastering old progressive rock recordings in what I dub "the loudness wars", in an attempt to sound modern and marketable, I have noticed that they EQ old recordings to the max, and unnaturally boost the bass, and high end. It happened to Triumvirat's 2002 remasters, and the best source for their music are really the old Electrola lps and early 1990s Electrola CD remasterings from Germany.