El Shalom - Frost (1976)(2001)

Artist: El Shalom
Title Of Album: Frost
Year Of Release: 1971/2001
Label (Catalog#) : Garden Of Delights[CD 055]
Country:: Germany
Genre: Krautrock, Prog Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 59:24
Full Size: 415Mb(+3%)(covers,book/32page)
Info:progarchives

El Shalom's Frost is of interest mainly because of the well played instrumentation, where guitars and keyboards are the dominant instruments and many of the tracks feature some very nice guitar leads. This album draws heavily from a variety of influences including Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and, to a much lesser degree, King Crimson. Released in 1976, many of those band's seminal works had already been released and so it is not surprising to think that they may have had some influence on this German band. The band combine both the dark elements – guitars, bass, and some of the drums – and lighter elements – flute, guitar leads, percussion and some of the keyboard washes (moog, organ and mellotron) of each of these sources. There is a level of complexity to the arrangements that is often mired in muddy production – not on the part of GoD for this reissue, but in the original recording.
The CD contains four bonus tracks, the 7" re-recorded version of "Birthday Song" (which doesn’t benefit anything from the clearer production) and its flip, "Geld." The latter two are live recordings from, which shows an El Shalom with an angrier, harsher sound.

Tracks:
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1. Der Werbegnom (3:37)
2. Princess June (5:29)
3. Krieslaufkollaps (5:56)
4. Alvin Zweistein (7:31)
5. Frost (8:04)
6. H., A. Und Zwirn (6:43)
7. Birthday Song (2:58)
8. Leipzig (4:43)
Bonus tracks on CD
9. Birthday Song (3:13)
10. Geld (3:19)
11. In The House Of The Blue Light (5:33)
12. Second One (2:46)

Personnel:
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Joachim Brands – keyboards, vocals
Hemlut Meier - bass, flute, vocals
Gunter Christ – guitars, vocals
Wolfgang Merkins – drums, vocals
Karlheinz Schmitz - guitar, flute, saxophone, vocals

All thanks to original releaser