My Seventies Music

Tag: Deep Purple

  • Klaus Doldinger And Passport – “Uranus”, “Schirokko”, “Mandragora”, “Ataraxia” And The Theme From The Movie “Das Boot”

    And now for something completely different – Klaus Doldinger and Passport, a German jazz formation that has been compared with the US band Weather Report.

    I won’t claim to know the individual tracks, I only heard Doldinger’s music for the first time in 1983, and liked it.

    Here are some tracks I have found from the Seventies (the band was formed in 1971) and the very early Eighties.

    “Uranus” (1971):

    “Schirokko” (1973):

    “Mandragora” (1973):

    “Ataraxia”, at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1980:

    For some reason that one reminds me a little of Deep Purple (as does the name of Montreux…. “We all came down to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline…).

    Klaus Doldinger produced the theme music of the 1981 movie “Das Boot”:

    More of “Das Boot” with pictures from the film:

    Hope you liked todays “change of tune”.

    Paul

  • Puhdys -“Ikarus”, “Ikarus II” and “Mephisto”

    I first came across the East German band Puhdys back in either 1978 or 1979 on a trip to Germany (before I lived there) and bought their album “Pudhys 5”, with tracks like “Ikarus II”, “Mephisto” and “Wilde Jahre” (Wild Years).

    Pudhys, who were heavily influenced by artists like Deep Purple and Uriah Heep, were the first “Ostrock” or East German rock band allowed to visit West Germany.

    As you can imagine, there is not a lot of video footage from back then, so I have mainly only been able to find film of them playing in more recent times – it appears they are still going strong.

    This is “Ikarus”, live in 2006, I’m not sure if it’s the same song as “Ikarus II” on the album I have, it’s a bit hard to tell (this is just music without lyrics):

    Here is a live version of “Ikarus II” from 1993 (takes a while to get going and the video quality is not that great):

    This version of “Mephisto”, also on “Puhdys 5”, is the studio version:

    Actually I did turn up a couple of videos from the Seventies after all, but I found them a bit boring so I’ll leave it at that and play the record again some time to find the ones I do like.

    Paul

    P.S. On coming back to this page some time later and playing the first Ikarus video, I have now actually found a live version of “Ikarus” from 1979 (audio only sorry) that brings across the feeling of hard rock behind the Iron Curtain when this music first came out:

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