Over one year in the making this stunning and well documented 8CD box covering the glorious years of the famous BRAIN Records label will allow an unique insight into the progressive and stunning releases that occurred during that era. Germany – the cradle of KRAUT ROCK – was a pulsating center for new sounds and risk taking compositions. This is a marvelous tribute to that golden era with acts such as Guru Guru, Grobschnitt, Klaus Schulze and many more.
For more info on the BRAIN label please see here. Pre-orders are now available here.
This boxset ist limited to 3300 units worldwide and will contain 8 CDs (83 tracks!), a 74-pages hardcover book and a green tote bag (that can fit vinyl!) with a Brain logo imprint, all housed in a lift off lid box with green linen wrap (size 25cm x 25cm).
All tracks have been newly remastered by Eroc (former drummer of “Grobschnitt” and mastering guru).
All new liner notes / Brain history written by Mark Powell (English / German).
CD 1-6: Various Brain artists, like Scorpions, Guru Guru, Grobschnitt, Cluster, Embryo, Novalis, Wolfgang Dauner, Jane, SpyroGyra, Alexis Korner, Jane.
CD 7-8: Brain Festival Essen, Part I (1977) and II (1978), only released on Vinyl before!
CD1:
1. SCORPIONS – “Leave Me” (5:04)
2. GOMORRHA – “I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was” (7:46)
3. JANE – “Daytime” (8:05)
4. WOLFGANG DAUNER GROUP – “Kamasutram” (3:50)
5. CLUSTER – “Plas” (6:00)
6. GURU GURU – “Oxymoron” (10:33)
7. GROBSCHNITT – “Wonderful Music” (3:39)
8. OS MUNDI – “A Question Of Decision” (7:26)
9. CREATIVE ROCK – “Natron” (6:17)
10. GASH – “A Young Man’s Gash, Part Two” (4:46)
11. SAMETI – “Get Up Don’t Sleep So Long” (3:30)
12. CORNUCOPIA – “Morning Sun (Version 127)” (3:07)
13. EMERGENCY – “I Know What’s Wrong” (5:40)
14. GURU GURU – “Samantha’s Rabbit” (2:55)
CD2:
1. ELECTRIC SANDWICH – “China” (8:03)
2. EMBRYO FEAT. JIMMY JACKSON – “Radio Marrakesch / Orient Express” (9:53)
3. LAVA – “Tears Are Goin’ Home” (4:23) 108301
4. TANGERINE DREAM – “Circulation Of Events” (5:53)
5. THIRSTY MOON – “Big City” (8:31)
6. GURU GURU – “The Story Of Life” (12:06)
7. SPERRMÜLL – “No Freak Out” (6:38)
8. NOVALIS – “Laughing” (9:10)
9. CURLY CURVE – “Shitkicker” (4:16)
10. HARMONIA – “Watussi” (5:55)
11. EMBRYO – “A Place To Go” (4:25)
CD3:
1. KOLLEKTIV – “Rambo Zambo” (11:49)
2. THIRSTY MOON – “You’ll Never Come Back” (12:34)
3. YATHA SIDHRA – “A Meditation Mass, Part Three” (12:00)
4. SATIN WHALE – “Desert Places” (7:28)
5. KLAUS SCHULZE – “Ways Of Changes” (17:14)
6. EMERGENCY – “No Compromise” (8:40)
7. JANE – “Waiting For The Sunshine” (3:22)
8. NOVALIS – “Dronsz” (4:53)
CD4:
1. GROBSCHNITT – “Solar-Music, Part One” (17:40)
2. CLUSTER – “Caramba” (3:55)
3. KLAUS SCHULZE – “Mindphaser” (25:33)
4. EROC – “Des Zauberers Traum” (5:22)
5. RELEASE MUSIC ORCHESTRA – “Slapstick” (10:18)
6. HARMONIA – “Walky Talky” (10:35)
7. SCHICKE, FÜHRS & FRÖHLING – “Explorer” (4:55)
8. EMERGENCY – “No Compromise” (08:46)
CD5:
1. JANE – “Windows” (Live) (19:19)
2. LILIENTAL – “Vielharmonie” (7:42)
3. GATE – “Frankfurt” (7:27)
4. POPOL VUH – “Engel der Gegenwart” (8:18)
5. FÜHRS & FRÖHLING – “Ammerland” (3:05)
6. BIRTH CONTROL – “Titanic” (Live) (7:57)
7. ANYONE’S DAUGHTER – Adonis, Part I: Come Away (7:49)
8. ANYONE’S DAUGHTER – Adonis, Part II: The Disguise (3:29)
9. ANYONE’S DAUGHTER – Adonis, Part III: Adonis (7:51)
10. ANYONE’S DAUGHTER – Adonis, Part IV: Epitaph (5:07)
CD6:
1. STEAMHAMMER – “For Against” (10:56)
2. TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI – Lounge” (8:25)
3. LIGHT – “The Water” (4:27)
4. ALEXIS KORNER – “You Got The Power (To Turn Me On)” (7:16)
5. ATOMIC ROOSTER – “Time Take My Life” (5:59)
6. SPIROGYRA – “Island” (3:39)
7. GRYPHON – “Second Spasm” (8:15)
8. JUKKA TOLONEN – “Wanderland” (5:06)
9. TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI – “Milky Way Moses” (8:19)
10. LOCOMOTIV GT – “Intuition” (3:51)
CD 7:
Various – Brain-Festival Essen, 1977
1. GATE – “Friedrichstr. 18” (7:05)
2. NOVALIS – “Wer Schmetterlinge lachen hört” (9:14)
3. RELEASE MUSIC ORCHESTRA – “Rico” (6:50)
4. JANE – “Expectations” (5:40)
5. JANE – “Out In The Rain” (6:06)
6. MESSAGE – “River Field” (5:46)
7. GURU GURU – “I’m Really Into Rock’n’Roll, Man” (5:58)
8. GURU GURU – “All We Need” (4:50)
9. RUPHUS – “Second Corner” (6:34)
10. RUPHUS – “No Deal” (7:45)
Various – Brain-Festival Essen II, Pt I, 1978
11. GATE – “Heart” (4:29)
12. GATE – “Herrenwies” (4:50)
13. FÜHRS & FRÖHLING – “Every Land Tells A Story (Excerpt)” (4:00)
CD 8:
Various – Brain-Festival Essen II, Part II, 1978
1. MESSAGE – “World Keeps On Turning” (6:56)
2. RELEASE MUSIC ORCHESTRA – “New Day / Meadow” (9:44)
3. NOVALIS – “Astralis” (9:25)
4. TO BE – “Drei in drei” (3:12)
5. TO BE – “Samba für Heino Reher” (9:21)
6. SCHICKE, FÜHRS & FRÖHLING – “Explorer / Wizzard” (10:22)
7. BLONKER – “Mädchen” (4:38)
8. BLONKER – “Irgendwie” (5:08)
9. RUPHUS – “Joy” (4:34)
10. RUPHUS – “Inner Voice” (4:06)