While most innovation and success in Western music has been from the UK and the US, other countries are either generally wholly derivative or wholly original. There has been a strong Prog scene in German for many, many years, as these songs from the early 70s prove.
Playlist
- YATHA SIDHRA A Meditation Mass Part 3 (12:03)
from A Meditation Mass (1974) - ELOY Castle In The Air (7:17)
from Floating (1974) - FAUST So Far (6:20)
from So Far (1972) - GOMORRHA Dance On A Volcano (9:58)
from I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was (1972) - SPERRMUELL No Freak Out (6:45)
from Me And My Girlfriend (1973) - EPITAPH Fly (8:53)
from Stop, Look and Listen (1972) - GURU GURU Der Elektrolurch (9:45)
from Der Elektrolurch (1973) - FRUMPY How The Gypsy Was Born (8:50)
from Frumpy 2 (1971) - GROBSCHNITT Jupp Vater Schmidt’s Wandertag (9:53)
from Jumbo (1975) - KING PEH MEH Fairy Tales (9:50)
from Fairy Tales (1972) - EROC Norderland (6:34)
from Norderland (1972) - KLAUS SCHULTZE Mental Door (22:58)
from Picture Music (1974)
first broadcast 31 May 2015
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