KRAUTROCK SWIRL VERTIGO ATLANTIS FRUMPY Hard PROG

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             MINT PROMO ~ 1973 SWIRL VERTIGO

                HARD KRAUTROCK PROGRESSIVE

                         ATLANTIS               

                   USA - VERTIGO SWIRL VEL 1016 (Promo)

TOP COPY!                   

MINTY CLEAN Original 1972 advance release PROMOTIONAL first pressing on the famed VERTIGO SWIRL label...

Includes the scarce printed Vertigo/Mercury Records inner sleeve

The heavy KRAUTROCK band ATLANTIS formed from the ashes of Frumpy...Atlantis is therefore led by the dynamic female belter Inga Rumph...a legend in Europe...one of the great blues shouters of the era... Inga Rumpf started performing as a teenager with different blues bands in the Hamburg entertainment district of St. Pauli. In 1965, she founded the folk/beat band City Preachers and recorded three albums with them. After a creative crisis in 1969, the band changed styles from folk to a mix of beat and soul. A new line-up reflected this: Jean-Jacques Kravetz (keyb), Karl-Heinz Schott (b) and Udo Lindenberg (dr) formed the core of the new band which one year later was to become Frumpy when Udo Lindenberg left to start a solo career and was replaced by Carsten Bohn. Frumpy recorded three important albums, "Frumpy", "Frumpy 2" and  "All Will Be Changed" and -- these three LPs rewrote German rock history. The band was praised as the best German rock act, and Inga Rumpf was declared to be the greatest individual vocal talent of the German rock scene so far.

After Frumpy was disbanded, Inga Rumpf founded Atlantis with organist Kravetz and bassist Schott as well as the new additions, legendary Krautrockers Frank Diez on guitar and drummer Curt Cress in 1972. The same year, the German music magazine Musik--Express selected Inga Rumpf as best German vocalist and her band Atlantis was declared "best live and studio band".

Atlantis' debut album follows firmly in the footsteps of the earlier Frumpy, with one major difference: shorter songs. Just three of the seven tracks break the five-minute barrier, only one -- the defiantly Deep Purple jazz-rocky "Living at the End of Time" -- approaches ten. But Atlantis rises regardless. The closing ballad, "Words of Love," essentially predicts Heart's entire career, while the funky overtures of "Get Up," colliding with some of Inga Rumpf's finest, gutsiest vocals, would have made a sensational FM radio favorite. The latter portion of "Living at the End of Time," once the band drops the jazz-rock elitism, is spellbindingly fairyland folky, and both "Rock 'n' Roll Preacher" and "Maybe It's Useless" show a Free influence that is quite spectacular. And that, if there is a downside, is where the disappointments lie. At their best, Frumpy's forte lay in their ability to fly off at monstrous tangents without ever losing sight of such notions as melody, cohesion, and discipline. The tangents are less pronounced here, the exploration is less bold and forthright. But the performances are as strong as ever, the songwriting is even stronger, and Inga Rumpf draws out some of her strongest vocals yet to power the band to some brilliant highs.

GET UP (5:20)

BIG BROTHER (5:03)

ROCK & ROLL PREACHER (3:39)

MAYBE IT's USELESS (3:39)

SIDE II

LET'S GET ON THE ROAD AGAIN (3:33)

LIVING AT THE END OF TIME (9:05)

WORDS OF LOVE (4:52)

CONDITION: The COVER: Stiff and solid all over TOP rated M- with small promo sticker ast top right ...vibrant bright colors, no bends, no split seams, no writing, really nice...

VINYL: all clear over both sides, M- and plays really CLEAN ...both VERTIFO SWIRL labels are CLEAN... 

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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