Joy Unlimited
Schmetterlinge (LP)
FormatLPLabelPilzGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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condition (record/cover): VG (mark producing clicks for 1' on side 2) / NM
Gatefold sleeve.
Joy Unlimited grew out of a Mannheim beat group and, for a few years, became one of the more ambitious outfits of the German scene, fronted by the formidable Joy Fleming, a voice that could carry blues, soul, and prog in a single breath. Schmetterlinge (1971) was commissioned as ballet music by the Bonn city theatre, a three-part suite tracing the caterpillar's change into a butterfly as a figure for human becoming; the music fuses jazz flute, Hammond, vibraphone, and hard rock into something genuinely strange.
It appeared on Pilz, the cosmic imprint Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser ran under the wing of BASF. Fleming left soon after for a solo career that led, improbably, to the Eurovision stage. One of the label's hidden corners.
Release notes
Released in a gatefold cover entirely laminated. Released with a inner transparent plastic bag. The durations given for tracks A2c and B3e are total durations for the whole of tracks A2 and B3 respectively. "Eine progressive Ballettmusik von "Joy Unlimited" nach einer Idee von Lothar Höfgen, der auch die Choreographie für die Uraufführung im Theater der Stadt Bonn gestaltete." [A progressive ballet music from "Joy Unlimited" from an idea by [a1475599], who also designed the choreography for…
| I. Contacts | |||
| A1 | Rudiment | 4:27 | |
| A2a | Connection | ||
| A2b | That's The Key | ||
| A2c | For You And Me | 5:42 | |
| II. Manifestations | |||
| A3 | Suppression | 2:55 | |
| A4 | Rankness | 2:37 | |
| A5 | Face Of War | 3:28 | |
| A6 | Free | 2:08 | |
| B1 | Sensual Impressions | 7:14 | |
| B2 | Quintessence | 2:35 | |
| III. Emotions | |||
| B3a | Eden-Park | ||
| B3b | Metamorphosis | ||
| B3c | In Search For The Last Word | ||
| B3d | Rising Mind | ||
| B3e | Eden-Park Again | 12:35 | |
- Lothar Höfgen
- Concept By, Liner Notes
- Willi Hölzel
- Cover, Design, Photography By [Photos]
- Hans
- Drums, Percussion
- Dieter
- Electric Bass [E-Bass], Electric Guitar [E-Guitar], Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
- Klaus
- Electric Guitar [E-Guitar], Woodwind, Timpani [Tympany], Percussion, Flute
- Kurt Rapp
- Engineer
- Martin Wieland
- Engineer
- Roland
- Organ, Piano, Electric Piano [E-Piano], Vibraphone [Vipes], Marimba, Percussion, Vocals [Vocal]
- Joy Unlimited
- Producer [Produced By], Arranged By [Arrangements]
- Gerd
- Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Flute
- Albin
- Trumpet, Electric Bass [E-Bass]
- Joy
- Vocals [Vocal]
