Danish masterworks...BLAST FURNACE today!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:09 am
Culpeper's Orchard
... is the debut album by the Danish Hard Rock/Blues Band Culpeper's Orchard.
Ode To Resistance..absolutley AMAZING guitar!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0kLyX8t_sk
The album can be described as a 42 minutes Guitar jam. The Guitar, which draws huge influences from Clapton, keeps soloing like there's no tomorrow. The album didn't get almost any recognition internationally unfortunately. Although the album is Danish the lyrics are all in English and you don't even notice that English is not their language.
"Banjocul" is quite funny. A very short song composed of a Banjo and some vocals. From what i knew about this record, Country Folk was quite different from the sound of the band so I thought the download was wrong. It wasn't wrong, this song was probably made to scare people. "Mountain Music Part 1" is an incredible jam. It starts with a quiet Guitar line, only to develop into an insane Solo. "Hey You People" is quite similar to "Banjocul", but this time with a Simon & Garfunkel sonority. My favourite part of "Teaparty For An Orchard" are the vocals. The lyrics are also awesome, very surreal. 'Marie Antoinette has lost her head' is epic. "Ode To Resistance" has a very good Flute work on it, the music is very calm and groovy until it enters an heavier zone, full of Guitars soloing and screaming Vocals. The Riff sounds like a Southern Rock one, sounding like a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. "Your Song & Mine" apart from the Guitar (obvious) has a fantastic rhythm. Great Guitar Solo. The Vocals in "Gideon's Trap" have a very cool effect, this song is very good. "Mountain Music Part 2" is the last song. The continuation of the second song. This song has a much Bluesier sound than the ones before.
The Cover-Art is very weird. It was the reason for me to download it nonetheless.
Culpeper's Orchard:
- Cy Nicklin - Lead vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Percussion.
- Neils Hendrikson - Lead Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Harpsichord.
- Michael Friss - Bass, Organ, Flute, Two Finger Piano, Percussion.
- Rodger Barker - Drums, Percussion.
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ACHE
Equitorial Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvVRdjLWmlY
The seeds for ACHE were sown in the early 60's via the Danish beat group THE HARLOWS. When HARLOWS Torsten Olafsson (bass), Peter Mellin (organ) and Glenn Fischer (drums) were joined by former MCKENZIE SET guitarist Finn Olafsson in 1968, ACHE was born.
They spent the next two years working on an extended piece called "De Homine Urbano", which was released as programme music to an experimental "rock ballet" in 1970. Released on the Philips label the same year with an accompanying single of non-album tracks, it netted positive reviews in the Danish press. ACHE's "rock theater" created something of a sensation in the rock underground, and "Green Man" followed in 1971. The next major ACHE project, by a revised six-piece version of the band, was a conceptual work called "Pictures From Cyclus 7", written in collaboration with lyricist Bo Lillesöe in 1975 and released one year later.
Ache have remained active on and off, albeit sporadically, ever since. Their only other major work (i.e.: not counting singles and compilations) has been "Blå som altid", a folk-oriented album released in 1978.
Why this artist must be listed in www.progarchives.com :
They're important to the history of Danish progressive music.
This Danish band was founded in '68 and featured Torsten Olafsson (bass and vocals), Finn Olafsson (guitar and vocals), Peter Mellin (organ and keyboards) and Glen Fisher (drums and pecussion). They made two albums: "De hombre urbano ('70) and "Green man" ('71). The music is similar to the Early British Progressive Rock Movement (JULIAN'S TREATMENT, RARE BIRD, BEGGAR'S OPERA, ATOMIC ROOSTER), the German Krautrock (early JANE, ELOY, RAMSES, TRIUMVIRAT) and Dutch masters EARTH & FIRE (their early, con-commercial era). In 2000 both albums were released on 1 CD entitled "Ache: De hombre urbano + Green man". The music is based upon splendid keyboardplay (many floods of Hammond organ) and some fiery electric guitar. The first album contains two 'side-long tracks', the atmosphere is typically end Sixties and early Seventies with lots of solos and long, exciting interplay between guitar and keyoards, like jams. The second album includes shorter songs but the climates are in the vein of the first LP. If you listen to this CD, it's incredible that the magnificent keyboardplay is delivered by an unknown Danish musician!
Why this artist must be listed in www.progarchives.com :
This is very inspired and powerful Hammond organ driven early progrock.
Erik Neuteboom
[8D]
In May 2003, after a break of 20 years, the Danish rock band ACHE re-united, having committed themselves to creating a new song in support of the world-famous, however still politician-threatened alternative city "CHRISTIANIA" - or "Freetown" - in the heart of Copenhagen, the capital in Denmark.
Finally, in mid-April 2004, ACHE's Christiania song "De skæve drømme" was released on CD-single in Denmark (English trsl.: "The Alternative Dreams").
Lyrics by Steen Toft Andersen. Music by Peter Mellin.
Produced by Finn Olafsson at Olafssongs Studios.
... is the debut album by the Danish Hard Rock/Blues Band Culpeper's Orchard.
Ode To Resistance..absolutley AMAZING guitar!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0kLyX8t_sk
The album can be described as a 42 minutes Guitar jam. The Guitar, which draws huge influences from Clapton, keeps soloing like there's no tomorrow. The album didn't get almost any recognition internationally unfortunately. Although the album is Danish the lyrics are all in English and you don't even notice that English is not their language.
"Banjocul" is quite funny. A very short song composed of a Banjo and some vocals. From what i knew about this record, Country Folk was quite different from the sound of the band so I thought the download was wrong. It wasn't wrong, this song was probably made to scare people. "Mountain Music Part 1" is an incredible jam. It starts with a quiet Guitar line, only to develop into an insane Solo. "Hey You People" is quite similar to "Banjocul", but this time with a Simon & Garfunkel sonority. My favourite part of "Teaparty For An Orchard" are the vocals. The lyrics are also awesome, very surreal. 'Marie Antoinette has lost her head' is epic. "Ode To Resistance" has a very good Flute work on it, the music is very calm and groovy until it enters an heavier zone, full of Guitars soloing and screaming Vocals. The Riff sounds like a Southern Rock one, sounding like a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. "Your Song & Mine" apart from the Guitar (obvious) has a fantastic rhythm. Great Guitar Solo. The Vocals in "Gideon's Trap" have a very cool effect, this song is very good. "Mountain Music Part 2" is the last song. The continuation of the second song. This song has a much Bluesier sound than the ones before.
The Cover-Art is very weird. It was the reason for me to download it nonetheless.
Culpeper's Orchard:
- Cy Nicklin - Lead vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Percussion.
- Neils Hendrikson - Lead Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Harpsichord.
- Michael Friss - Bass, Organ, Flute, Two Finger Piano, Percussion.
- Rodger Barker - Drums, Percussion.
____________________________________________________________________
ACHE
Equitorial Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvVRdjLWmlY
The seeds for ACHE were sown in the early 60's via the Danish beat group THE HARLOWS. When HARLOWS Torsten Olafsson (bass), Peter Mellin (organ) and Glenn Fischer (drums) were joined by former MCKENZIE SET guitarist Finn Olafsson in 1968, ACHE was born.
They spent the next two years working on an extended piece called "De Homine Urbano", which was released as programme music to an experimental "rock ballet" in 1970. Released on the Philips label the same year with an accompanying single of non-album tracks, it netted positive reviews in the Danish press. ACHE's "rock theater" created something of a sensation in the rock underground, and "Green Man" followed in 1971. The next major ACHE project, by a revised six-piece version of the band, was a conceptual work called "Pictures From Cyclus 7", written in collaboration with lyricist Bo Lillesöe in 1975 and released one year later.
Ache have remained active on and off, albeit sporadically, ever since. Their only other major work (i.e.: not counting singles and compilations) has been "Blå som altid", a folk-oriented album released in 1978.
Why this artist must be listed in www.progarchives.com :
They're important to the history of Danish progressive music.
This Danish band was founded in '68 and featured Torsten Olafsson (bass and vocals), Finn Olafsson (guitar and vocals), Peter Mellin (organ and keyboards) and Glen Fisher (drums and pecussion). They made two albums: "De hombre urbano ('70) and "Green man" ('71). The music is similar to the Early British Progressive Rock Movement (JULIAN'S TREATMENT, RARE BIRD, BEGGAR'S OPERA, ATOMIC ROOSTER), the German Krautrock (early JANE, ELOY, RAMSES, TRIUMVIRAT) and Dutch masters EARTH & FIRE (their early, con-commercial era). In 2000 both albums were released on 1 CD entitled "Ache: De hombre urbano + Green man". The music is based upon splendid keyboardplay (many floods of Hammond organ) and some fiery electric guitar. The first album contains two 'side-long tracks', the atmosphere is typically end Sixties and early Seventies with lots of solos and long, exciting interplay between guitar and keyoards, like jams. The second album includes shorter songs but the climates are in the vein of the first LP. If you listen to this CD, it's incredible that the magnificent keyboardplay is delivered by an unknown Danish musician!
Why this artist must be listed in www.progarchives.com :
This is very inspired and powerful Hammond organ driven early progrock.
Erik Neuteboom
[8D]
In May 2003, after a break of 20 years, the Danish rock band ACHE re-united, having committed themselves to creating a new song in support of the world-famous, however still politician-threatened alternative city "CHRISTIANIA" - or "Freetown" - in the heart of Copenhagen, the capital in Denmark.
Finally, in mid-April 2004, ACHE's Christiania song "De skæve drømme" was released on CD-single in Denmark (English trsl.: "The Alternative Dreams").
Lyrics by Steen Toft Andersen. Music by Peter Mellin.
Produced by Finn Olafsson at Olafssongs Studios.
