Japan Papersleeve CD
Limited numbered edition
Sealed !
Studio Album, released in 1973
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Banished bridge (17:06)
2. High evolution (4:27)
3. Laughing (9:10)
4. Inside of me (inside of you) (6:40)
Total Time: 37:23
Line-up / Musicians
- Hartwig Biereichel / drums, percussion
- Lutz Rahn / organ, mellotron, piano, synthesizers
- Heino Schünzel / bass
- Jürgen Wenzel / vocals, acoustic guitar
Novalis biography
During
the mid-seventies, the Hamburg-based band NOVALIS established
themselves as leaders in the field of German-language romantic rock. The
quartet called itself NOVALIS after the most important German poet of
early romanticism. They created a rock music of poetic, lyrical with
german lyrics and instrumental beauty. Their music, a heavy organ rock,
was compared to the sounds of bands such KING CRIMSON and PINK FLOYD.
They released a few albums of lush, keyboard-dominant prog rock during
the seventies. The keyboards created majestic layers on which the guitar
builds airy melodies.
Starting with heavily organ-accentued art
rock a-la KING CRIMSON (and on their debut, Banished Bridge, including
English lyrics), NOVALIS later developped their own unique style, a
mixture of progressive, classic, folk and rock. Banished Bridge (1973)
showed their KING CRIMSON influences... in a dreamy, laid back
progressive rock.