Summer evening

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Summer evening
Novalis studio album

Publication
(s)

1976

admission

February 1976

Label (s) Brain

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

3

running time

38:31

occupation
  • Heino Schünzel: bass , vocals
  • Hartwig Biereichel: drums

production

Achim Reichel

Studio (s)

Hamburg music studio

chronology
Novalis
(1975) 		Summer evening Concerts
(1977)

Summer evening is the third studio album by the German rock band Novalis . It was published by Brain in 1976 .

Creation and publication

After the second, self-titled album, Carlo Karges left the band, which went on tour as a quartet without him. In early 1976, Novalis recorded their third album in this formation with Achim Reichel as producer. Reichel was also partly involved in the compositions, Rale Oberpichler helped out as a choir singer. Shortly after the publication of Summer Evening , Novalis found an additional singer in Fred Mühlböck via newspaper advertisement. Brain first released a CD version of the album in 1992, which was followed by Repertoire Records in 1998.

Track list

page 1

  1. Departure - 9:37
  2. Wonderful treasures - 10:37

Page 2

  2. Summer evening - 18:17
    1. Weather lights - 3:50
    2. On the beach - 4:20
    3. The dream - 3:50
    4. Another day - 4:25
    5. Into the light - 1:52

style

Summer evening is a dreamy, fairytale progressive rock album with dominant keyboard surfaces. After the release and the arrival of Mühlböck, however, the band decided to say goodbye to "complicated rock". The poem of the same name was adapted by Novalis for the lyrics of the piece Wunderschätze .

reception

The album marked the band's breakthrough, received favorable reviews and sold well. Over 20,000 copies were sold within a year. Today summer evening is considered a classic of German progressive rock; the eclipsed magazine took it in its list of the 150 most important prog albums. Jochen Rindfrey from Babyblauen Seiten describes the album as "one of the most interesting releases of German Prog", Christian Rode as "a really pleasant album that knows how to create a dreamy, thoughtful atmosphere". However, the title track summer evening is also criticized on the baby blue pages . Jochen Lohr finds it "artificially stretched out", Holger Grützner even judges: "This is not prog. This is botch!" In the Musik Joker of 1976 the singing was described as "very amateurish".

Web links

Wiktionary: Summer evening  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Novalis: Summer evening . Baby Blue Pages , Baby Blue Prog Reviews; accessed on August 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b eclipsed No. 144, p. 29.
  3. ^ A b Winfried Trenkler: Novalis. 18th century rock . In: Musik Joker . Newspaper for music and leisure. No. 9/77 , April 18, 1977, tours, p. 14 .
  4. ↑ Novalis. Biography . germanrock.de; accessed on August 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ Novalis. From: Rock in Germany on CD-ROM . taurus-press.de, accessed on August 6, 2015.
  6. ^ Oli [ver Spieker]: Novalis. The knot has burst . In: Musik Joker . Newspaper for music and leisure. No. 25/76 , November 29, 1976, tours, p. 10 .