Embryo
Bad Heads And Bad Cats (LP)
LabelAprilGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX
Embryo were the great moving target of the German scene, a Munich collective built around the drummer and vibraphonist Christian Burchard, through which several hundred musicians eventually passed. Bad Heads And Bad Cats (1976, taped the previous autumn) was their first release on the musician-run cooperative April, soon renamed Schneeball, and it leans hard into jazz: the American saxophonist Charlie Mariano out front, Roman Bunka's guitar and Burchard's marimba circling beneath.
Fusion with a restless, worldly edge, a step on the road that would carry the band, a few years later, all the way to India and back. The original April pressing.
Release notes
Recorded at Studio Dierks autumn 1975, mastered at Tonstudio Pfanz, Germany. On rear cover: "Printed in Germany / Im Vertrieb von APRIL RECORDS, [...] Made in Germany". "Klondyke-Netti" spelled "Klondyke Netti" on label. Important note: this issue is easily distinguishable from the first pressing by the Label Code LC 4553 (label codes were introduced in Germany in 1976). The quality of card stock used was slightly better than that of the first pressing.
| A1 | Layed Back | 5:32 | |
| A2 | Nina Kupenda | 12:06 | |
| A3 | Bad Heads | 4:02 | |
| B1 | Road Song | 6:10 | |
| B2 | After The Rain | 6:14 | |
| B3 | Klondyke-Netti | 6:25 | |
| B4 | Tag X | 1:36 |
- Charlie Mariano
- Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute
- Uve Müllrich
- Bass, Composed By, Arranged By
- Burchard
- Composed By, Arranged By, Drums, Vibraphone [Vibes], Marimba, Vocals
- Miekautsch
- Composed By, Arranged By, Keyboards
- Bunka
- Composed By, Arranged By, Vocals, Guitar
- G. F. Pfanz
- Mastered By
- Othmar Schreckeneder
- Producer
- Embryo
- Producer, Cover, Composed By
- Edgar Hofmann
- Soprano Saxophone, Flute
- Maria Archer
- Vocals, Percussion
