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MIG 3522CD
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"Nine Days' Wonder was founded back in 1966, when singer and frontman Walter Seyffer gave his band The Graves a new name. Like so many 'beat groups' in the mid-1960s, NDW started out as a cover band. The line-up changed constantly until the early 1970s, when the first more stable formation emerged with Walter Seyffer (vocals), Rolf Henning (guitar), Karl Mutschlechner (bass), John Earle (saxophone, flute, guitar) and Martin Roscoe (drums). In 1971, the quintet recorded their self-titled debut album, which was released in Germany on Bellaphon and in England on Harvest in the same year. In the summer of 1972, Nine Days' Wonder broke up at short notice; Walter Seyffer joined the psychedelic rock band Medusa, where he met bassist Michael Bundt. Since the quintet had only released one single on CBS, Nine Days' Wonder was reformed in December 1972. The new line-up consisted of four Medusa members (Seyffer, Bundt, guitarist Hans Frauenschuh and keyboardist/saxophonist Freddie Münster) as well as drummer Karl-Heinz 'Hyanzintus' Weiler. In the summer of 1973, the second Nine Days' Wonder album, We Never Lost Control, was released on Bacillus/Bellaphon. In 1974, Rolf Henning returned. Sid Gautama replaced 'Hyanzintus' Weiler on drums. The third NDW album, Only The Dancers, was recorded at Chipping Norton Studios in the UK by Mike and Richard Vernon, with Dave Jackson from Van der Graaf Generator, among others. A year later, the personnel carousel spun again. With a new line-up, the last album Sonnet To Billy Frost was released in 1976, after which the band finally split up. Now, all four albums are being re-released under the title The Bacillus Years, remastered and including bonus tracks (the Maternal Joy aka NDW single 'Ticket to the North Pole / Fat,' 1971)."
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BACIL 9861916LP
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180gram, green color vinyl. Limited to 500 copies. Originally released in 1971 the first and self-titled album by Nine Days Wonder was one of the very first recordings for the newly found label Bacillus of producer Peter Hauke. Nine Days Wonder, with their international line-up consisting of founder and singer Walter Seyffer, Rolf Henning (guitar, piano), Karl Mutschlechner (bass) from Austria, John Earle (vocals saxophone, flute, guitar) from Ireland, and drummer Martin Roscoe from England, taking inspiration from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, King Crimson, and Soft Machine. The album's four titles were recorded by top recording engineer Dieter Dirks in his studio in Cologne. It turned out exceptional, both with regard to music and to artistic form: the music highly complex, with surprising arrangements, ranging from rough guitar riffs to the feel-good sound of acoustic guitar, unisonal baubles of guitar and saxophone, weird and harmonic songs, sudden changes of tempo -- the album features such a multitude of facets that multiple hearings are required to appreciate them all, and they certainly make for entertaining listening. A musical fireworks display bubbling over with ideas that need not shun international comparison. From the artistic point of view the band had also come up with quite something.
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BACIL 9860919LP
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180gram, red color vinyl. Limited to 500. Originally released in 1974, Nine Days Wonder with their third album took the opportunity to do a recording session at London's Chipping Norton Studios in September 1974. With guest musicians Dave Jackson on flute and saxes (of Van der Graaf Generator-fame) and keyboarder Steve Robinson (2066 and then-and-early-AERA) the album shows the band on its musical peak. The album is richly texted and features a mellow progressive rock with slightly glam-rock touches and reminds to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. Without the jazz elements of the first album, Only The Dancers is another step forward into the upcoming glam-rock sound but with that special German Krautrock feel.
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