Peter Michael Hamel, Roberto Detree and Christian Burchard are now so far apart that hardly anyone remembers: they started off together in 1967 at the “Song Parnass” in Munich -each moving in his own direction. Christian built up Embryo, Roberto from Brasil created his own idea of latin-american music and Peter wrote “Kassandra” and “Organum” and made compositions which are still disconcerting for the established avantgarde of Donaueschingen and Darmstadt (avantgardistic and establishment are no contradiction in those places). It is both revealing and quite moving to hear how much the three had to communicate when they got together for Embryo’s Twentieth. Back in 1967/68 Christian Burchard was the vibraphonist of Mal Waldron, the pianist who played with Billie Holliday and John Coltrane and who at least the Japanese recognize for the great musician he is. Just how good the Mal-Chnstian alliance still works can be heard on this record. It is a pity that the other great American musician who was involved in the Embryo evolution – Charlie Mariano – is not to be heard on the record. But in a way he is: when Roland Schaeffer plays the nagasuram, an oboe-like instrument that Mariano studied for years in South India (and so often played with Embryo), you think on hearing Mariano himself, until you realize that it is Roland playing in his own special way – more independent and technically superior. Of course Embryo’s important countries are represented on this record. Marocco by El Houssaine Kill, Nigeria by the Yoruba Dun Dun Ensemble of Lamidi Ayankunie and his friends and India by T.A.S. Mani with his College of Percussion.
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Embryo - Turn Peace (1989)
Peter Michael Hamel, Roberto Detree and Christian Burchard are now so far apart that hardly anyone remembers: they started off together in 1967 at the “Song Parnass” in Munich -each moving in his own direction. Christian built up Embryo, Roberto from Brasil created his own idea of latin-american music and Peter wrote “Kassandra” and “Organum” and made compositions which are still disconcerting for the established avantgarde of Donaueschingen and Darmstadt (avantgardistic and establishment are no contradiction in those places). It is both revealing and quite moving to hear how much the three had to communicate when they got together for Embryo’s Twentieth. Back in 1967/68 Christian Burchard was the vibraphonist of Mal Waldron, the pianist who played with Billie Holliday and John Coltrane and who at least the Japanese recognize for the great musician he is. Just how good the Mal-Chnstian alliance still works can be heard on this record. It is a pity that the other great American musician who was involved in the Embryo evolution – Charlie Mariano – is not to be heard on the record. But in a way he is: when Roland Schaeffer plays the nagasuram, an oboe-like instrument that Mariano studied for years in South India (and so often played with Embryo), you think on hearing Mariano himself, until you realize that it is Roland playing in his own special way – more independent and technically superior. Of course Embryo’s important countries are represented on this record. Marocco by El Houssaine Kill, Nigeria by the Yoruba Dun Dun Ensemble of Lamidi Ayankunie and his friends and India by T.A.S. Mani with his College of Percussion.
Chris Karrer - Sufisticated 1996 (Amon Duul,Embryo related)
Chris Karrer was one of the most important members of Amon Düül 2.
While his first self-titled solo album he published in 1980,
was more or less prog pop (though somehow enjoyable to listen to),
the following albums in the 90s were quite different and strongly influenced by Karrer's conversion to Sufism.
They sound a lot like Embryo, and indeed Karrer was a member of Embryo for some time in the 90s.
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