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If you are into Krautrock or guitar driven space rock, I've got a record for you: Solar Music Live by Grobschnitt. There is fantastic music to be heard here, believe me! The music from this live album is extremely strong and if ever you tend to like crying guitars sustained by an exceptional drumming, a powerful bass playing, and lots of atmospheric keyboards parts, this album is tailor-made to your ears. All the elements that make a successful prog are present: creativity, weirdness, experimentations, space jamming, beauty, ultimate musicianship, melody, long epics, and very important power. This album is sheer power, actually! Solar Music Live has to be heard as one gigantic epic as there is no musical breaks between the tracks. This is one continuous space journey and THE space odyssey of THE prog music realm. Although it shows 7 songs in the track list, it really is one song with no breaks, and it's performed live. Each song blends into the other. They gave song titles only to give some structure and by doing so, radio Dj's would be able to play parts of this album on the radio.
Solar Music Live is the live performance of the Grobschnitt's incredible double album "Ballerman," at least it is the last album of that 1976 album. The band are renowned for their vivacious high theatrics and art rock pyrotechnics with fireworks, sparks, masks and costumes. This stage act fits in perfectly with the astonishing space rock of 'Solar Music.' There's no live album in the universe like this. The band are a zany bunch of geniuses; the sound they generate together is incredible, totally original in feel and ultimately satisfying, with huge time changes, dramatic shifts in mood, and a whimsical sense of humour.