LP NIAGARA 50th. Anniversary Edition (3LP) SEALED (Udo Lindenberg, Amon Düül II)

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3LP NIAGARA

Niagara /S.U.B. / Afire

50th Anniversary Edition of 500 Copies In Colored Vinyl In A Wooden Box

Country of release: Austria, 2022

Original released: 1970-1973

Label: Everland Psych

Catalogue number: Psych 011 / 012 / 013

Barcode: 0710473185424

 Condition Records: MINT

Condition Covers: MINT

  LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!

(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)

 LP 1: NIAGARA

Tracks Side 1:

1. Sangandongo (19:10)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Malanga (20:43)

Listen At YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRxhS1IQx0

The first NIAGARA album – simply called “NIAGARA” – was released in 1971 and was noticed even by those unfamiliar with Niagrara’s music due to the controversial “sweaty  breasts” album cover. The album was unusual not only because of its cover.  It was a purely percussive album on which numerous high-profile drummers from around the world came together; Americans Cotch Blackmon and George Green, Englishman Keith Forsey, Juan Romero from Venezuela and the German musicians Udo Lindenberg and Daniel Fichelscher (who also played in Gila, Amon Düül II and Popol Vuh). (blurtonline.com)

This was more a project than an actual band formed by German jazz drum legend Klaus Weiss. He formerly worked with another jazz legend from his mother country, Klaus Doldinger and gained fame in the German jazz circuit of the 60s and 70s. His 1971 works with NIAGARA was the offspring of the vision to create an orchestra made entirely of drummers and percussionists. Despite the fact that there is definitely no regular melody instrument to be heard on this album, the two lengthy compositions are arranged in such an enthralling way, that they have a rather catchy and memorable feel. Among the cult drummers featured on this album are Udo Lindenberg (yes, this icon of German rock and pop started as a drummer!) and session hero Keith Forsey. So what both compositions offer is an ever pulsating rhythm inferno, a maelstrom of different grooves and sounds. If you go for this album to find some pop tunes, you better change your mind. If you wish to be enchanted and hypnotized by a massive wall of percussion sounds and be dragged deeper and deeper into a state of trance, which is utterly addictive, you are welcome. This album goes deeper as most psychedelic rock with dreamy melodies and heavy organ work. You cannot compare it to anything else, so open your mind for the ultimate rhythm experience and join in if you dare. Only if you dare. (preschmedia)


Klaus Weiss - Drums, Timpani
Cotch Blackmon - Congas, Percussion
Keith Forsey - Drums, Cymbal, Percussion
Juan Romero - Cowbell, Maracas
Udo Lindenberg - Drums, Percussion, Timbales
Danny Fichelscher - Congas, Percussion
George Green - Drums
Joe Harris - Timbales, Congas, Percussion

LP 2: S.U.B.

Tracks Side 1:

1. S.U.B. (11:56)

2. Bones (3:12)

3. Niagara (4:30)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Kattarh (5:53)

2. Kikiriti (4:53)

3. Gibli (5:27)

4. Terra Incognita (4:05)

Listen At YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z79JTeQekM

Rhythm master Klaus Weiss knew he had a good thing going with NIAGARA. The first album was a gathering of every outstanding drummer and percussionist he could get hold of and despite the fact that there were only rhythm instruments featured , it became quite a memorable and unique record. Now for the second album "S.U.B." he felt he had to go other ways, and recorded with a complete rock outfit plus the one or another brass instrument. „S.U.B.“ is definitely worth being traded for 180,00 Euros and more among collectors for a clean original and when the needle hits the groove you will realize why. There is a tightly woven web of rhythms from drums and percussions, as the solid and ever pulsating base with a laid back but really present bass guitar adding more depth and power to the beats and clean rhythm guitars with a nifty wah wah effect for the extra kick. From time to time the guitars fire off a memorable steaming riff on top of the rhythm pulse and the horns answer the call for arms. You really have to look at the backcover to find out that this is a German outfit instead of one of these utterly hot and hip US funk rock cult bands of the time. NIAGARA aka Klaus Weiss waive the vocals so it is an instrumental record you face with „S.U.B“, but then this band goes so wild in some of the compositions, that you will be left breathless on your knees by all these simmering performances. Each musician participating in this project is a professional, but they all let the music erupt into a climax of sound you can only achieve, when you put your whole heart and soul into it. A masterpiece of funky and utterly unleashed rock music from the early 70s. (preschmedia.bandcamp.com)

Klaus Weiss - Drums, Percussion
Joe Harris - Timbales, Congas, Percussion
Udo Lindenberg - Drums, Percussion
Danny Fichelscher - Congas, Percussion
Gary Unwin - Fender  Bass
Paul Vincent - Guitar
Christian Schulze - Electric Piano
Ack Van Rooyen - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
Ferdinand Povel - Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Alto Flute
Milan Pilar - Bass (Track 4)

LP 3: Afire

Tracks Side 1: 

1. What For (2:28)

2. City Walk (4:34)

3. Terpsichore (6:14)

4. Rhythm Go (2:45)

5. Carnival (2:33)

6. Malanga Two (2:41)

Tracks Side 2: 

1. Rolling (2:18)

2. Dance In Seven (3:44)

3. Bangu (1:41)

4. The Third One (3:22)

5. Afire (5:20)

Listen At YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-gCZ5jPH4Y

Klaus Weiss is the man behind the group, a drummer who was widely admired by many an American musician and who actually appeared onstage with the lies of Cecil Bridgewater, Johnny Griffin ad Herbie Mann. Unlike many other jazz drummers, and the reason he is of such interest to krautrock fans, is that Weiss was anything but a conserveative in his musical pathways and his creative explorations. World music was an attraction to him as was rock, although the latter was a genre that grew more important because it was sign posted by his hero, Miles Davis.

Niagara was a percussion project delving into rock, jazz and world rhythms that was also known to have a revolving door policy in terms of the band line-up. Every album seemed to feature an almost new band set up.

This release was the band’s third and final album. Released in 1973, it featured George Brown, Sabu Rex and Norman Tolbert – all percussionists – plus Dave King (he of Embryo and Toto Blanke). King adds flavour but the core of the album, composed and arranged by Weiss, is the percussion which projects a complex interplay between pure beats and content. At times, sounding like it has been sliced from a Santana arrangement, the band can sit deep into a funky groove and work the rhythms from there, on longer pieces. Moving a little to the left, a little to the right the group can introduce an almost hypnotic thread into their work which plugs right into the krautrock aspect of their approach.

A track like Terpsichore has a layered conglomeration of beats and rhythms that almost seems to move ahead of its own accord after a while as the group introduces elements of variation that doesn’t build into any false crescendo. It just…is. And becomes more wonderful because of that.

An energetic and, at times, mesmeric album. (theaudiophileman.com/niagara)



Klaus Weiss - Drums, Percussion, Timpani
George Brown - Drums, Percussion
Sabu Rex - Bongos
Norman Tolbert - Congas
Charlie Campbell - Congas, Timbales
Dave King - Electric Bass

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