Midnight Circus - Midnight Circus (1972) [2003]

MIDNIGHT CIRCUS was a very obscure German duo from the early 1970s that released but a single album of largely acoustic progressive folk, with a few wind instruments and mellotron flourishes. Christian Bollmann and Torsten Schmidt were joined by guest musicians. They came across as an English language answer to WITTHUSER and WESTRUPP but could also draw comparisons to the likes of EMMA MYLDENBERGER and FIT and LIMO, as well as to early KING CRIMSON and MOODY BLUES. Their album is highly collectible, and information about them from any era is hard to find, although it appears that Bollman became a well known ethno musicologist who is half of another duo Christian Bollmann & Michael Reimann, while Schmidt became involved with the group Virus D who specialized in soundtracks.