Creative Rock - Gorilla (1972)
Rock - Bluesy krautrock.
Year 1972 Label Brain
Type CD Catalog # 941047
Year 2004 Label Star Musik Studio Hamburg
Creative Rock are a loud, brassy, bluesy rock group found on the early Brain label who are obviously influenced by early Chicago (Transit Authority). In fact, this is the type of music that makes me think of the Blues Brothers, although Creative Rock's vocalist is much more earthy and masculine than either brother. There are eight tracks on Gorilla, the band's debut album from 1972. Throughout, we are given a taste of American-styled brass rock in all its bluesy guises, from full-title boogie to more, tasteful, progressive movements such as on the set's longest track "Blind People" and its follow-up "The Word Between 6 and 8 a.m." Due to the wealth of great music to be found on the original Green Brain series, Creative Rock are often overlooked, after all their music is much less inventive and engaging than at least half the catalog. But it's pretty fun rock in its own right, and there is an occasional twist here and there to keep it interesting.
Formed in late 1969, as The Bourbon Street Paraders, and inspired by the American rock-soul-jazz movement (i.e. Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chicago, et al.) and the likes of Colosseum and Nucleus from Britain, Creative Rock went on to develop a unique repertoire. A couple of years on, and after numerous personnel changes, but still with a nucleus of original members, a demo tape sent to Metronome gained them a contract. Promptly, they changed name to Creative Rock - a misnomer as their music contained much more jazz! Not unlike early Emergency, but with a good deal more invention and a powerful lead singer, their debut GORILLA was barely recognisable as German rock, yet despite this it was still rather good, full of complex brass arrangements and a most energetic rhythm section. LADY PIG followed in a similar, but heavier vein, with a bit more experimentation. The last we know of Creative Rock was that in 1975 they were touring with an adventurous rock ballet production called "Die Creative Rock-Dekadenz-Show".
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Tracks listing :
Gorilla (44:56)
01 Natron (06:17)
02 A Horsemanīs Morningsong (05:02)
03 Tapeworm (05:31)
04 Hear What Iīm Talking (05:16)
05 Blind People (09:09)
06 This World Between 6 And 8 A.m. (04:49)
07 Wunderbar (06:40)
08 Preussens Gorilla (02:12)
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