Gash - A Young Man's Gash (Ger 1972 Krautrock, Prog Rock)<br /><br /><br />This album is an unexpected surprise! I can think of few albums that start so horribly and end <br />so incredibly! “Angel and Mother” is SO appalling on every level (soppy music, terrible lyrics, <br />cheese-grater-to-the-eardrum vocals) it nearly made me want to throw the disc out of the window <br />when I first heard it! But I stuck with it through the balance of the A-side (“Twentyone Days” <br />is nearly as bad, but “In The Sea” is slightly better, sounding like one of Jane’s cast-offs) to <br />make it to the “A Young Man’s Gash” suite.<br />People, let me tell you this is one of the most amazing, fascinating and one-of-a-kind half-<br />albums I have ever heard! It almost sounds like a completely different band! A blend of haunting <br />rock & roll, orchestration and dark textures (the crazed screaming in Part 2 makes this a must <br />to play around Halloween time!) that sound like nothing else I’ve heard before or since. Wow!<br />Worth hearing for the mind-blowing title suite, but you might want to give the first three <br />tracks a pass. <br /> ~ By Progbear (RYM).<br /><br />The only album from German band Gash, this starts out with three standard rockers, sounding a <br />little like Nektar maybe, but the highlight is the title track, a 20 minute long suite of great <br />space rock - the addition of some guest musicians and some help from a symphony orchestra really <br />help this along. Definitely worth a listen.<br /> ~ internet source.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />Tracks:<br /><br /><br />01. Angel and Mother 0:00 <br /><br />02. Twenty One Days 6:22 <br /><br />03. In the Sea 13:14 (Congas - Dicky Tarrach) <br /><br /><br />04. A Young Man’s Gash <br /> a. Part 1 20:38 <br /><br /> b. Part 2 28:17 (Voice - Bernd E. Schulz) <br /><br /> c. Part 3 33:02 (Congas - Dicky Tarrach) <br /><br /><br />Members: <br /><br />* Jochen "Lu Lafayette" Peters (organ, piano, harpsichord, keyboards, Lead Vocals), <br />* Frank Feldhusen (guitar, vocals), <br />* Manfred Thiers (bass, vocals), <br />* Reinhard Schiemann (drums, percussion, vocals), <br />* Atze Barth (guitar, vocals).
