Sutja’s Metaphysical Circus #18

Lovely and enigmatic Karin Krog… I discovered this Norwegian singer through her album alongside Steve Kuhn, “We Could Be Flying” which is an absolute masterpiece. She has a very special voice and a wonderful style. Check her videos!

In 1969, Martin Cockerham and Mark Francis joined forces with Bar- bara Gaskin, Julian Cusack and Steve Borrill to expand a project they both created back in 1967 called Spirogyra – which previously was just a duo band. In 1973 they released Bells, Boots And Shambles on Polydor and, as far as I know, it didn’t worked as well as they expected.

A very classy album from the Danish band Pan. Founded by Arne Wu?rgler and Robert Lelie?vre. Robert was escaping from military service in Europe at that time. Sadly, he committed suicide in 1973.

This wild thing was made by the Japanese band Flower Travellin’ Band. It sounds like an early Black Sabbath with a kind of a different touch that I re- ally love. Flower Travellin’ Band started as a side project of Yuya Uchida from FLOWERS – alongside George Wada, Hideki Ishima and Joe Yamanaka.

Fo?kuru! Short lived band also from Japan. They only released two albums (which I wish I had in my hands), Harenchi and ?????. Their song “Kaette Kita Yopparai” sold more than a million of copies and was awarded with a gold disc

Passivity won’t change a damn thing! Holy truth! Lazarus’ Bra was formed by Peter Schmidt, Klaus Assmann, Uwe Scheffler, Hans-Ju?rgen Maik and Bernd Hadeler back in 1970. They only recorded one 7” Single. The B side is also wonderful!

What else can I say! I wrote an article about The White Noise. It’s one of my favourite bands of all time. Check the whole thing, it’s timeless music!

This is one of my favs from the italian soprano singer Mina Mazzini also known as Mina. She’s such a powerful woman. – her voice, style, presence, per-
sonality… She was very well known in the 60’s and 70’s and she’s still active!