'79 Lasry Coupe

This time we have the Patchwork release, Modern Way, which some folks consider to be Lasry's most rockin' record. There are some fairly scorching guitar shreds on the B side. In fact this one gets around quite a bit genre-wise. Jazzy, ambient, space rockers, whatever made the grade in 1979. I checked the blogosphere for this before posting and found quite a few copy-cat posts featuring a misnamed Patchwork compilation with a few tracks from Modern Way. Figured it wouldn't hurt to offer up the real deal. Not much in the way of credits on the sleeve but by this time we know Teddy is pretty much a one man band. He will definitely be covering synths, reeds and drums. Not sure about the guitar and bass. Once again this is a slightly modified rip. Stretched a bit.

Drum & Synth II

Hip Address is David Earle Johnson's third album as a leader and the second with Jan Hammer in the keyboards chair. I would rate this one maybe half a notch behind Time is Free, his first. As usual Johnson is playing an amazing array of percussion toys (and sounding like a one man batucada section), Jan Hammer is hammering (literally) out the melodies and Jeremy Steig is guesting on flute on tracks A5, B2, and B3. This record also features several vocal tracks which as usual are a showcase for Johnson's wit and Zappaesque delivery.

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sucht + ordnung

Ulrich P. Lask - Lask 2 Sucht + Ordnung
LP ECM Records [ECM 1268] (1984)

Drums, Percussion [Electronic], Arranger [Percussion], Producer - Meinolf Bauschulte
Narrator - Monika Linges, Sigrid Meyer
Lyrics, Vocals, Other [Donky Kong 2] - Maggie Nicols
Composer, Lyrics, Saxophone [Alto, Tenor], Programmer [Computer], Producer - Ulrich P. Lask
Recorded January 1984 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg.

Buy it. Buy it

Get Connected

Cosmic disco? Cosmic jazz? Sure, and more. Alex covered the bases with this one. I slowed this rip down a bit. Put it on the tune stretcher, made it last longer. If you want the full speed rip I'm sure it's out there. I like 'em slow.

Cosmic Connection

Drum & Synth

Literally drum and synth; David is playing all manner of drums and percussion and Jan Hammer is playing all manner of synthesizers and drums with occasional piano and electric piano. Time is Free was David Earle Johnson's first release as leader and some of us feel, his best. David also provides great vocals and the vocal tracks are my favorites on this lp.

Time is Free

Electro Heavy VS Acoustic Light

Balloons is a well balanced set of duets by two highly skilled keyboardsmen with a cosmic focus. Three of the compositions are full on space jazz synthesizer workouts. All instruments are keyboards; what sounds like guitar shreds on a couple tunes are in fact hard driven synths. In contrast to the electro tracks are a couple more relaxed excursions into concert grand piano space.
Jasper van't Hof is playing: Bösendorfer Imperial Acoustic Concert Grand Piano, PPG Synthesizer, PPG Wave Computer, Prepared Organ, Fender Piano
Joachim Kühn is playing: Roland Jupiter4 Synthesizer, ARP 16 voice Electric Piano, Acoustic Concert Grand Piano

Balloons