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    Posted: July 24 2023 at 09:37

The Danish Jazz-Rock band, Secret Oyster which formed in 1972, has got some international reputation even apparently is only 
little known on PA. In my context, Secret Oyster has not only been the favourite Danish band since mid-1970s but also one of my 
favourite Jazz-Rock artists all-time - which is not so little, as Jazz-Rock is my second most liked Prog sub-genre. In 1976, I had even 
the pleasure of joining a concert by them given in my highschool, and I guess getting not so little of a personal attention, as there 
were only a dozen of other listeners - if that many.
Quite a memory and it did not made me less fond of them, with my favourite album always being Sea Son (1974).

Anyway, I'll hope others will have pleasure of this thread too, with whatever it will show to bring. Smile


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Not that secret, I've heard of them.

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My personal favorite is the debut and Straight To The Krankenhaus is a close second.

Sea Son is excellent too.

Still haven't heard the 2019 archival release Striptease

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Not that secret, I've heard of them.

I've heard of them too, so they must be Denmark's worst-kept secret. Tongue
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Not that secret, I've heard of them.
I've heard of them too, so they must be Denmark's worst-kept secret. Tongue

LOL  Ookay, one of your self-ironical jokes, Paul, but I remember that you've also listened to some of Secret Oyster's albums, and you've even told something very positive about the band. Tongue
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Not that secret, I've heard of them.
I've heard of them too, so they must be Denmark's worst-kept secret. Tongue

LOL  Ookay, one of your self-ironical jokes, Paul, but I remember that you've also listened to some of Secret Oyster's albums, and you've even told something very positive about the band. Tongue

Yes, it's no secret that I'm a fan of Secret Oyster too. Smile
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

My personal favorite is the debut and Straight To The Krankenhaus is a close second.

Sea Son is excellent too.

Still haven't heard the 2019 archival release Striptease



The only one I don't like is Astarte - especially the flipside.

Haven't heard the 2019 album either (didn't even know they released one), but checking it out in our DB, most of the historical members are on it.



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About 10 years ago, I bought Sea son (Cd + 3 more tracks of decent quality)
Nice stuff
I must not deceive myself by saying that their originals LPs have never been distributed here (Belgium).
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Great band. I ran into them at a convenient store and walked up behind them and said something like "ok, what's the secret?" Wink
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Paul has been so kind to provide links to all the Secret Oyster albums except from the new one, but I still think it's a good idea 
with a little sample here, and why not from my favourite album, Sea Son - great!:



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Secret Oyster is very probably one of the three internationally most appreciated 1970s Prog bands from Denmark, and it's not
coincidental it's a Jazz-Rock band, as this genre was quite/very popular amongst Danish progressive musicians, much more 
than Symphonic.






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It can be also told that Secret Oyster only play instrumental music, so surely no problems with Danish vocals are possible here. LOL
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

My personal favorite is the debut and Straight To The Krankenhaus is a close second.

Sea Son is excellent too.

Still haven't heard the 2019 archival release Striptease



The only one I don't like is Astarte - especially the flipside.

Haven't heard the 2019 album either (didn't even know they released one), but checking it out in our DB, most of the historical members are on it.

As a soundtrack Astarte is decent but as an active listening S.O. album it's rather lackluster.



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I've only heard the name, not the music.  Cool stuff, thanks!! 

Isn't YouTube amazing?  We can sample all sorts of obscure music for free!  I don't mind the goofy ads, at least you can skip them!  
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

I've only heard the name, not the music.  Cool stuff, thanks!! 

Isn't YouTube amazing?  We can sample all sorts of obscure music for free!  I don't mind the goofy ads, at least you can skip them!  

Maybe I'm Amazed, but YouTube just got a whole lot more amazing since I started using a free ad-blocker to block out all of YouTube's goofy ads - especially the immensely irritating gambling ads. Smile
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

I've only heard the name, not the music.  Cool stuff, thanks!! 

and my thanks as well Smile
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I do like Secret Oyster, but I'm personally more keen on their precursor, Burnin Red Ivanhoe. It sounds a lot more edgy to me.
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Secret Oyster is also quite interesting in the context of Progressive Rock concept, as I think their music was on borderline of 
Jazz-Rock and regular Progressive Rock.
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