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OUT OF FOCUS (see also: Sahara) - OUT OF FOCUS - Wake Up +3 - EU Prog Gems Limited Edition - LISTEN - VERY RAREprice: 55,00 PLN / 13,75 EUR
Out Of Focus are without doubt one of the 10 best progressive bands of the 70s from outside Britain! Released at the beginning of 1971 by the Kuckuck label (known among other things also for records by Murphy Blend and Armaggedon), a splendid album by a forgotten German band - in my humble opinion it is probably the best title from Germany in the circle of heavy, progressive rock! A brilliant combination of the atmospheres of early Jethro Tull with Pink Floyd and with a pinch of Colosseum - backed by very solid rhythm section playing and an excellent, pleasantly mannered vocal. Full of imagination and unrestrained power, a 78-minute CD without weak points! Additionally 3 linked-together live tracks (from Palermo 1972) lasting 30 minutes together are included! Excellent sound - slightly clearer than on the Ohrwashl edition, and a much nicer booklet containing several rare photos of this splendid band! NOTE! The short sound of a cuckoo clock placed at the end of the record always appeared at the end of each vinyl side of albums on the Kuckuck label and until now had not been included! AN ABSOLUTE MUST! Condition: New, sealed. (JL) -
OUT OF FOCUS (see also: Sahara) - OUT OF FOCUS - Out Of Focus (2nd Album) +3 - EU Prog Gems Limited Edition - LISTEN - VERY RAREprice: 55,00 PLN / 13,75 EUR
Released in September 1971, the splendid second album by the progressive Germans strongly resembled the strongly Jethro Tull-like (with an admixture of Pink Floyd and Colosseum) debut (again 6 tracks lasting nearly 50 minutes), but was a somewhat more jazzy work, even more inspired by the work of the beloved and very influential in Germany group Colosseum. This is another CD without any filler! As on the brilliant debut, 3 live tracks (from Palermo, Italy, from May 1972) lasting 30 minutes together are included! Excellent sound - slightly clearer than on the old Ohrwashl 1991 edition, and the disc contains a nicer booklet again collecting several rare photos of this splendid band! NOTE! The short sound of a cuckoo clock placed at the end of the record always appeared at the end of each vinyl side of albums on the Kuckuck label and until now had not been included! AN ABSOLUTE MUST! Condition: New, sealed. (JL) -
OUT OF FOCUS (see also: Sahara) - OUT OF FOCUS - Four Letter Monday Afternoon +10 (2CD) - EU Prog Gems Limited Edition - LISTEN - VERY RAREprice: 80,00 PLN / 20,00 EUR
Released in autumn 1972, the third album, a double on vinyl, by this wonderful German band was the quintessence of the best in jazzy progressive rock! I used to think that 'the third one' was weaker than its somewhat more accessible (concise) predecessors, but I was wrong! True, on 'Four Letter' there is more trumpeting, more improvisation (especially in the 50-minute suite filling two sides of the vinyl...) and a little less guitar, but there is no lack of gradually building emotions and the music often genuinely took your breath away! It was still the same band, but playing more difficult material with somewhat greater ease. Compared with Out Of Focus, the better-known bands active at the time and obsessed with the 'fusion' style, such as Soft Machine, Nucleus or most of the Canterbury groups, simply didn't stand a chance! Unfortunately, this was the band's last catalogue album. Almost the whole second disc is filled with unreleased material from the same recording session, released in 2002 on the CD 'Rat Roads', and the last, 10-minute live track from Palermo from 1972 is also included. Excellent sound - slightly clearer than on the old CD editions, and the disc contains a nicer booklet again collecting several rare photos of this splendid band! This double CD lasts as much as 156 minutes! AN ABSOLUTE MUST! Condition: New, sealed. (JL) -
OUT OF FOCUS (see also: Sahara) - OUT OF FOCUS - Four Letter Monday Afternoon (2LP) - GRE Missing Vinyl Remastered Press - LISTENprice: 200,00 PLN / 50,00 EUR
The third, double album by a wonderful German band, the quintessence of the best in progressive rock! All three albums by the Germans were at such a high level that it takes your breath away! The first two titles are more rock-oriented, while the third contains more elements of jazz (that is, it is more jazz-rock...) - yet it is in no way inferior to its predecessors. A MUST! -
OUT OF FOCUS (see also: Sahara) - OUT OF FOCUS - Out Of Focus - GRE Missing Vinyl Remastered Press - LISTENprice: 150,00 PLN / 37,50 EUR
Official, Greek edition from Missing Vinyl of the brilliant second album by one of literally a handful of the best, progressive formations from continental Europe! A brilliant combination of the moods of early Jethro Tull with Pink Floyd and a pinch of Colosseum, backed by very solid playing by the rhythm section and an excellent, pleasantly mannered vocal. A record without weak points! It is a record minimally more jazzy than the LP "Wake Up", but even more varied and, like the band's third, "Four Letter Monday Afternoon", at the same high level as the debut! Both of OOF's earliest albums are the absolute peak of thoroughbred, progressive playing! A MUST! -
OUT OF FOCUS (see also: Sahara) - OUT OF FOCUS - Wake Up - GRE Missing Vinyl Remastered Press - LISTENprice: 150,00 PLN / 37,50 EUR
Official Greek reissue (from Missing Vinyl) of the debut album by one of literally a handful of the best progressive bands from continental Europe! A brilliant combination of the moods of early Jethro Tull with Pink Floyd and a pinch of Colosseum - backed by very solid playing by the rhythm section and an excellent, pleasantly mannered vocal. This is an LP without weak points! The band's second album in the discography, titled simply "Out Of Focus", was on an equally high level and was also reissued in the same edition. A MUST! (JL)
