Browse by Artist: BRAINSTORM

Artist:	BRAINSTORM
Title:	Journey To The Light/We're On Our Way Home
Label:	COLUMBIA
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	RG 561EP

"Two cuts from Brainstorm's sought-after 1978 album Journey To The Light. A self-contained nine-member band from Detroit, Brainstorm proved equally adept at crafting love ballads and jazz-funk jams. 'Journey To The Light' definitely falls into the latter camp, a mass of hot brass and slapped-bass goodness, with a killer female vocal. 'We're On Our Way Home' is another soul weekender anthem -- a jazz-funk / disco fusion cut with massive end of night chorus."

Artist:	BRAINSTORM
Title:	Second Smile
Label:	GARDEN OF DELIGHTS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	GOD 047CD

"Brainstorm's second work, a definite improvement on their first effort. Masterly played progressive jazz rock with flute, sax... From master tapes." Originally released by Spiegelei in 1973. "The music on both Brainstorm albums was a highly inventive blend of songs and instrumentals, with a touch of Zappa, Canterbury inspired certainly, akin to Caravan, Hatfield & The North, Soft Machine, etc., but also with a style all of their own. Highlighted by quality , notably a dizzying array of winds and keyboards, with complexly arranged instrumentals and like the Dutch band Supersister, a penchant for eccentric tongue-in-cheek humor. Brainstorm lived up to their name, and both albums are classics of the genre." -- Crack In The Cosmic Egg.

Artist:	BRAINSTORM
Title:	Smile A While
Label:	LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	LION 633CD

"With this record from 1972, Brainstorm, led by future Guru Guru stalwart Roland Schaeffer, established themselves as one of Germany's premier bands. Their complex Krautrock, based on strange harmonics (thanks to Schaeffer's enthusiasm for Jimi Hendrix and the free jazz sounds of John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders), and impelled by wild and distorted sax, flute and Vox organ, would later put them smack in the middle of that bible for the intrepid musical adventurer, the revolutionary music reference guide known as the Nurse With Wound list. As NWW themselves said, 'Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden -- step out of the space provided.' What better endorsement of Brainstorm could there be? Brainstorm took only fifteen days including mixing (during the tragic 1972 Munich Olympics, as it happens), to record their favorite numbers, all under the direction of a producer little interested in their music. That's a great shame, for these recordings show Brainstorm to be one of the best of the inventive off-beat bands of the era, along with the likes of Moving Gelatine Plates (France), Pazop (Belgium), and of course, Soft Machine and Caravan. Booklet reproduces all original LP gatefold art; liner-notes tell the band's history up to the completion of this album. Includes all the tracks from Smile A While, plus three heavily grooving bonus tracks originally recorded for SWF radio in 1971 as Fashion Pink."

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