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German Jazz-Rock Fusion bands from the 1970s
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Poll Question: Pick your favorites! (or the ones you know)
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
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    Posted: April 14 2025 at 09:40
Great idea for a poll!
      German 70s jazz rock fusion is a passion of mine....
    From the list, I voted for Passport and then Brainstorm. My other favourites are missing; the number one for me being Giger Lenz Marron (yes, Giger is Swiss, but the other members were german and the band was based out of Germany), Contact (who had one brilliant self titled album in 1972) and the band Contact became, Contact Trio, who were different but equally brilliant....
     Ceddo is missing; their self titled debut from 1979 is really something.
       Also missing, and a favourite, is the Guenter Fischer Quintet, whose 1978 album Combination is obscure, but excellent in this area...
        I also wanted to mention that in some ways, I see Dzyan as jazz rock-at least with their album Time Machine, though they are labelled krautrock......Time Machine is my top 10 albums of all time.
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^ Then I'll give two more votes
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This poll has been edited/updated to now allow multiple votes (as it was originally intended to do). Sorry!
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Ginga Rale got my vote although they are actually Austrian (a pedant writes). Their first album is marvellous. Only let down by the dubious title of two songs. No idea what they were playing at as they seemed quite a right on left-wing band…
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Exmagma is an interesting band. The op said vote for the 'ones' you know, so I thought it was a multiple vote poll, so they didn't get my vote, but they are a band worth checking out.
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Overall Kraan is my favourite band here. I also like a lot some stuff by Passport, Embryo, Wolfgang Dauner & Et Cetera (the Knirsch album is very good). I love Association PC big time where Toto Blanke was guitarist, but I only have heard a few tracks of him solo and wasn't quite so keen on them. I also know Volker Kriegel (not a fan) and have heard the odd track of some others. 

Ouch! Ended up voting for Passport only as this hasn't been made a multiple votes poll. (Nice list though.)


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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I thought it was a multiple vote poll. 

Exactly!?, when the poll question is in the plural. Embarrassed

Neverthereless, I certainly agree that some of the '70s Krautrock can be viewed from other genre perspectives, and my votes were supposed to be:

Out of Focus (Wake Up!)
Embryo (We Keep On)
Kraan (the debut album)
                      quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Passport. The rest (the ones I know) are also quite good.
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Kraan.
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I had no idea there was a German band called Aera. My first thought was it's an anagram of a well-known Italian band. Smile
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Zyma has only released two albums, but their music is timeless. I think it's the most sophisticated German jazz-rock stuff because of its beautiful melodies, exceptional female vocals, amazing rhythm section, and intriguing avant-garde undertone.
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I thought it was a multiple vote poll. 
Missus Beastly got the vote. 
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There's nothing I know of here I don't like. But for their extensive, diverse and overall exceptional greatness, I place Embryo in a league of their own.   
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1. Kraan
2. Out of Focus
3. Xhol Caravan 
4. Sunbirds
5. Zyma


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Passport = essential '70s fusion, particularly the albums Cross-Collateral and Infinity Machine, which are the best two to start with.

Kraan are great, with their debut and Let it Out being surefire winners. After taking a break in the '90s, they regrouped and have continued to release new music every few years. The recent Sandglass is excellent.

Nimbus and Mosaik each released one album apiece. Both are worthwhile.
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I gave Missus Beastly a vote, but I could vote for most of these.
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These I know well.

Out of Focus
Passport - Klaus Doldinger
Brainstorm
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Toto Blanke
Kraan
Embryo
Xhol Caravan
Zyma
Wolfgang Dauner / Et Cetera
Tortilla Flat

I've hard some Exmagma too. I'd rather not vote for all of those because that's quite a lot and I've listed them anyway, but I'll vote for Embryo (one in my poll that I adore), and also Zyma as one I neglected to mention but would have had I remembered it. Thoughts is a brilliant album by Zyma that I thoughtlessly forgot to mention.

Oh, multiple votes are not enabled, so just my vote for Embryo, for now at least.

Edited by Logan - October 22 2024 at 18:01
"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).
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Per Greg (Logan)'s suggestion: a poll of more German bands from the 1970s, these ones exploring the Jazz-Rock Fusion idiom. 

Vote for the ones you know; explore the ones that intrigue you. Comment on the ones I left out or specific albums you love.






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Edited by BrufordFreak - April 14 2025 at 07:46
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