Hoelderlin

Sean Trane wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: I`ve got  old vynil copies of Clowns & Clouds, Traum and Live Tramstadt  I picked up back in the late seventies for five bucks each ( 10 bucks for the Live Tramstadt) sealed! From a guy who was liquidating stock from stores who went out of business. I also picked up some other great German stuff at the same time. Great band which I have always compared to Grobschnitt in a way, perhaps because of the Clowns & Clouds cover and the performance on the live album. More recently  I picked up New Faces at a second hand shop in NYC which is rather disappointing sort of trying to go in a more fusion jazz direction. I haven`t heard or even seen copies of the other albums in the archives but if you don`t check this band out you`re missing a lot especially the live album which is one of the best live prog albums in my book.     I think a parallel can be drawn between Grobschnitt and Hoelderlin if you avoid comparing both debut albums which are both vastly different from the rest of their respective discographies   But I think those two debut albums are the best work both bands have done.     Funny thing is that Hoelderlin took its namle from a poet and another group from the time did the same with another German writer Novalis >> which musically speaking is not far away from the other two bands mentined in this post, but closer to Hoelderlin than Grobschnitt

Great observation there Whenever I throw a Holderlin album on the turntable I shake my head and wonder why I overlook this band so often. Thanks for the thread. I also noticed that when I was writing my prog biography back in 2004 I listed them in my top ten! I`ll write a review on these albums shortly.

Sean Trane wrote: Arsillus wrote: I ordered Holderlin's Traum Monday from Greg Walker- should be here on Wednesday (because of his insanely fast shipping). Very anxious to hear it. Always appreciate your recommendations!     Just in case you get a different version of this album with printed readable lyrics, it would be nice of you to print them out in a post in this thread   Possible? Thanks

I`ve got  old vynil copies of Clowns & Clouds, Traum and Live Tramstadt  I picked up back in the late seventies for five bucks each ( 10 bucks for the Live Tramstadt) sealed! From a guy who was liquidating stock from stores who went out of business. I also picked up some other great German stuff at the same time. Great band which I have always compared to Grobschnitt in a way, perhaps because of the Clowns & Clouds cover and the performance on the live album. More recently  I picked up New Faces at a second hand shop in NYC which is rather disappointing sort of trying to go in a more fusion jazz direction. I haven`t heard or even seen copies of the other albums in the archives but if you don`t check this band out you`re missing a lot especially the live album which is one of the best live prog albums in my book.

I ordered Holderlin's Traum Monday from Greg Walker- should be here on Wednesday (because of his insanely fast shipping). Very anxious to hear it. Always appreciate your recommendations!

I love their first album! Never has a folk song given me as much chills as Peter, and what a beautiful voice that Nanny De Ruig is. It is rather see them depressing to write a song like Nurnberg on a later album. 

I only have their first album Traum which I adore to bits. It was my first progressive folk album and still reminds my favourite from the genre

I will salvage this tonight from the cd boxes in my appartment and listen to it again (I mean Traum and s/t).

I love those two albums, especially Traum which is as Philippie describes it.

Only on the first album are the lyrics in German, the next three albums are sung in English and lyrics are provided in the booklet.

Just finished re-writing my very first reviews for the site