Symphonic Pictures
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| Studio album by Schicke Führs Fröhling | ||||
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1976 |
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| Label (s) | Brain | |||
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5 |
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35:55 |
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Symphonic Pictures is the debut album by the German progressive rock band Schicke Führs Fröhling . It was published by Brain in 1976 .
Creation and publication
In 1975, when the trio was founded, an appearance at Circus Krone earned them a record deal. Frank Zappa was originally supposed to be the producer for a first album, but he has yet to cancel due to the recording of his own album. Dieter Dierks stepped in for him , in whose studio Symphonic Pictures was finally recorded. In 2010 a remastered new edition of the album was released with a bonus CD containing live recordings from the fall of 1975.
Track list
page 1
- Tao - 8:37
- Solution - 2:54
- Dialogue - 5:31
- Sundrops - 2:27
Page 2
- Pictures - 16:26
Bonus CD
- Tao - 9:25
- Dialogue - 7:20
- Mind game - 8:52
- Pictures - 27:44
- Prickel Pit - 6:02
- Ammernoon - 5:41
- Dadadam - 4:51
style
Schicke Führs Fröhling play independent progressive rock with fusion influences on Symphonic Pictures . The album is purely instrumental. With many changes in tempo and rhythm as well as strong contrasts “between atmospheric keyboard surfaces and aggressive guitars”, the compositions are complex and varied.
reception
The album sold 12,000 times and was the immediate breakthrough for Schicke Führs Fröhling in the German prog scene. Today it is considered to be one of the most important German albums from the heyday of progressive rock. Jochen Rindfrey from Babyblauen Seiten praises Symphonic Pictures as "truly progressive music that even today [...] doesn't sound a bit out of date". Horst Straske finds “symphonic sound images of truly sublime beauty” on the album, Jörg Schumann describes it as “a masterpiece [...] that one should know”. The eclipsed magazine took Symphonic Pictures on its list of the 150 most important prog albums.
Web links
- Symphonic Pictures at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Symphonic Pictures on the Babyblauen Seiten
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Schicke Führs Fröhling (SFF) Homepage ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 26, 2012.
- ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Schicke Führs Fröhling. Symphonic Pictures , Baby Blue Pages , accessed November 26, 2012.
- ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 30.
