18 ago 2008

Kin Ping Meh




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Kin Ping Meh
álbum debut
Polydor 1971






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Listado de temas:

01. Fairy Tales
02. Sometime
03. Don't You Know
04. Too Many People (Live)
05. Drugsen's Trip
06. My Dove
07. Everything
08. My Future
Bonus Track:
09. Everything's My Way
10. Woman
11. Every Day
12. Alexandra



Werner Stephan - Lead Vocals, Accustic Guitar, Percussion
Willie Wagner - Guitars, Mouth Organ, Vocals
Frieder Schmitt - Organ, Piano, Electric Piano, Mellotron 400, Vocals
Torsten Herzog - Bass, Vocals
Kalle Weber - Drums, Percussion


Nota:
Kin Ping Meh pertenecieron a la setentera generación de bandas krautrockeras alemanas que más contribuyeron a la extensión del sonido mellotron por todo el viejo continente.
Su primera gira data del 71 acompañando a The Hollies.
Estas son algunas influencias facilmente atribuibles :
*Eloy (Detlev Schmidtchen y Manfred Wieczorke): Power & The Passion (1975), Dawn (1976), Ocean (1977)
* Novalis (Lutz Rahn): Banished Bridge (1973)
* Spektakel (Detlef Wiedecke): Same (grabado en 1974, pero no editado hasta 1996 por The Laser's Edge con una espectacular portada).
* Emtidi: Saat (1972)
* Frame: Frame of Mind
* Faithful Breath: Fading Beauty (1973)
* Hilderlin's Traum: Same
* Shicke Führs Fröhling, con dos mellotrones, en sus discos para Brain destacando el primero, Symphonic Pictures (1976), con una introducción melotrónica a "Pictures" de dos minutos de duración. Uno de los últimos discos con un uso innovador del Mellotron.
* Emergence: No Compromise (1974)
* Wind: Morning (1972)
* 2066 & Then: Reflections
* Tibet: Same (1979)
* Gift: Blue Apple
* Epidaurus: Earthly Paradise (1977)
* SBB (Jozef Skrzek), 1978 (grabado en Alemania Oriental).
* Amon Duul II: Dance of the Lemmings (1971)
* Passport (Klaus Doldinger): Looking Thru (1973)




















En 1998 se publicó una caja titulada Fairy Tales and Cryptic Chapters,una box recomendable a todos los niveles cósmico-krautnianos y proto-jevis.





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CD 1:
Take Five Dreams Until Kissing Time


Listado de temas:

1. Fantasy I 2:23
2. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know 4:45
3. Something 2:47
4. You've Made Me So Very Happy 3:42
5. Light My Fire 3:17
6. Spinning Wheel 3:17
7. My Future 4:03
8. Too Many People 4:17
9. Haze 4:19
10. In A Better Way 3:39
11. Old Man from Peru 2:49
12. Woman (live version) 4:25
13. Organ Intro 3:09
14. My Dove 4:10
15. Fairy Tales 9:45
16. Fantasy II 2:20


CD 2: Live Lessons at Bier's Dancing School


Listado de temas:

1. I Believe, That I'm A Winner 5:47
2. Help 4:35
3. Forget It, I Got It 5:26
4. Every Day 4:27
5. Don't You Know 6:25
6. I'm A Man 8:25
7. Progressive Blues Jam 10:59
8. Everything's My Way 3:09
9. Child in Time 6:04
10. Alexandra 2:47
11. Salty Dog 4:27
12. Happy Song 5:31
13. Killing Time 6:35


CD 3: Sometime Beside Drugson's Trip


Listado de temas:

1. Good Morning Kin Ping Meh (radio presentation) 2:18
2. Everything's My Way 7:05
3. Everything's My Way (Instrumental) 3:40
4. My Future (Instrumental) 2:56
5. Too Many People (Instrumental) 4:23
6. Theme from Fairy Tales (Instrumental) 1:52
7. Don't You Know (Instrumental) 2:01
8. Final Blues (Instrumental) 1:01
9. The Ballad of Drugson's Trip 7:20
10. Sometime 5:44
11. Don't Get Confused (early Fairy Tales with different lyrics) 8:42
12. Help 4:46
13. Too Many People 3:41
14. Do it Babe (early Dove version with different lyrics) 3:13
15. Drugson's Trip 2:48




CD 4: Final Cuts from "Bier" Conventions

Listado de temas:

1. Stage Announcements 0:57
2. Everything's My Way 4:31
3. Haze 5:14
4. Witch Craft 6:17
5. In A Better Time 4:08
6. Salty Dog 4:37
7. I'm A Man 8:34
8. Child in Time 7:00
9. Stage Announcement by Joachim Schafer 0:52
10. Everything's My Way 4:03
11. Salty Dog 4:28
12. Alexandra 2:08