Style: Kraut Fusion

Format: LP

Label: Maikäfer Musik

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

And yet another german (pretty funky) private Fusion album.

BUT this one is an exceptional beauty and of a remarkable consistency.

In other words - almost all killer and definitely NO filler.

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Style: Krautfunk / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+

Progressive Krautfunk and Fusion wizardry on this private gem from Fürth. Expect long tracks and tricky moves. And some bavarian folk in a funky fugue style. Rudi Madsius on guitar.

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Style:  Modal Jazz

Format: LP
Label: BN Records / Private

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+ signed on the back

This is a private pressing and accordingly not that easy to find. It holds actually great versions of standards like All Blues, Take Five, St. Thomas or Coming Home Baby. And then are Still Alive track and Rolands Tune. WTF!!  I simply cannot believe how these guys have managed to stay unknown... signed by the piano player!

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Style: Fusion Not Fusion / Experimental

Format: LP
Label: SBF (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Stop for a minute - Mind your heart frequency and dive deep with this private experimental Fusion gem from Austria. Dynamic and diverse.

And extremely unique. My favourite is the sun dried and super chilled Mumbasa - enjoy it horizontal!

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Style: Private Pleasures

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG- repaired rip at the upper seam (zoom in)

Hobbyists again! Gifted girls and guys from Bückeburg (the middle of nowhere) playing tunes by Horace Silver, Alphonze Mouzon, Joe Sample, Ian Carr and Kenny Dorham. Plus these two self penned jams. Disco Swing is the notable among these two. Song For My Father and Come Into My Life are sthe strongest tracks in the batch of covers with an incredibly soulful sound for whiteys from the middle of Germany's nowhere. The sound is a bith thin since is was recorded in a school, but this is actually a lot more charming than disturbing ;)

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Style: Private Pleasures

Format: 3LP
Label: IG Jazz

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

A 3-Record set recorded live in Stuttgart, Germany 1978. The first side is straight Dixie shizzle and I can't listen to that longer than 5 minutes unless it's sunday morning and I'm already drunk and in company of 75 year old dancers. From side B on it's getting more and more interesting. My personal highlight is the last record. Opened by Peter Garratoni & Friend's amazing jam Rock For Li - followed by Syncrisis and Frederic Rabold jamming with percussionist Manfred Kniel. On Side F we find the complete unknown group Baobab with the incredible spiritual jazz funk tune Keine Nummer - rocking it over 6 minutes. The next group Muja is just as famous and they kick ass as well. Jan Jankeje and his Mlada Muzika crew are closing the set with two short but wicked drum and bass psalms. Also in the VERY LONG clip: Blowin Five by Styx, So What by Flute Jazz and A Night In Stuttgart by the Stuttgarter Jazz Workshop with Ala Heiler (À la Ala) on sax & microphone.

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Style: Latin Fusion / Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

Top copy of this Latin Krautrock gem.

Funky conga meets Disco Folk!!

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Aircastle (Private)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Laid back Jazz Funk from the golden days of private pressings. "And Friends" is Jürgen Waidele's first and most impressive album to my ears. Funky guitar riffs, warm bass slaps and synth stacks over fat pounding drums. It has that CTI sound in some tunes. Now please check it out and ...

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Style: Fusion Jazz / New Age of Fusion 

Format: LP
Label: Dorato

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Merge's sought after and hard to find first album. Don't pass on this one if you dig esoteric grooves with that special 80s sound. Jo Lienen, the mastermind of Merge doesn't like it that much if you compare his sound to Pat Metheny's but hey -  they both use guitar synthesizers and know how to handle a guitar so I dare to compare. 

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Style: Free Jazz Funk Rock

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

Bi-Collection play a mix of experimentally influenced Krautrock and organic Free Jazz. It's quite trippy and the guitar work by Philipp Caillat is excellent!

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Style: Vocal Gems

Format: LP
Label: Bhakti Records

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Here's the only record by the group around Ala Heiler on band member Götz Tangerding's Bhakti label. Ala is healing with some spiritual scatting and mind clearing notes.

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Style: Latin Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Tadek Art Büro

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM

Tight Jazz Funk and Latin Fusion from Nürnberg by the group around Achim Göttert-Zadek who also recorded the Freddie Freeloader Group album a couple of years earlier.

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Style: Fusion / Spiritual / Modal

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+ plays NM

Invisble private jazz from the late 80s. The recording date doesn't say anything about the music though. It sounds quite "out of time". Friends of these odd european modal gems and fusion heads will lick their lips. There's a lot to go for here. Maybe mentioning these guys covered Gary Bartz's Rise will make you curious enough to listen to the long soundclip?

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Style: Jazz Funk / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label / Private

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  SIGNED! (WOC)

Impossible to find private Jazz Funk LP from Germany / 1984.

Simple instrumentation: Keys, Guitar, Bass and Drums - 

6 tracks, mostly around 6 minutes.... mostly with a Boogie influence!

Signed copy!

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Style: Spiritual Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG+

Brigeen Doran, her brother Dave and more gifted musicians from Switzeland crossed the border to record this fine fusion album in the Zuckerfabrik in Stuttgart with legendary Johannes Wohlleben. Forming the trippy Weather Report vibe to a more spiritual body, still playful and incredibly percussive. Sister and brother understand each other very well!!

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Style:  Fusion / Contemporary Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Phenomenös (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's an unknown but excellent Fusion Quartet. They replaced the "usual" guitar by electric & acoustic violin. I've learned that a lot of people start to panic when they hear violin. Give it a try, it won't hurt :)

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Style: Free Privacy

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Most excellent and pretty soulful free jazz with the exception of  the hard bopping Straight No Chaser. The remaining tunes are self penned compositions / improvisations.

Catalpa were 5 hobby musicians from Munich who recorded their only album in Hamburg. In over 20 years of digging for german jazz this is the second copy I came across ...

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Style: Eastern Spirits

Format: EP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM including insert

Percussive and spiritual indian influenced Fusion made in Germany. The short lived group only released this one EP and it's getting very hard to find. An album was announced but never came. Too bad!! (also too bad that the guys never replioed to any of the emails) That album might have a been a huge GEM. This EP already is - all three tracks are great. Kaharwa and Der Ring Des Berbers are over eight minutes for extended listening pleasures. Power recommended!!

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Style: Psychedelic Jazz Funk

Format: 7"
Label: AOK

Year: 

Condition: VG+/VG+  

A 70s health insurance giveaway... with silly but very entertaining anti drug kraut on side A plus an amazing piece of DIY psychedelic Jazz-Funk on side B. This totally ruins the Anti Drug vibe...

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Style: Percussion, Mallets and Synths

Format: LP
Label: Not On label

Year: 1985

Condition: M/M

Friends of organic percussion, Producers and DJs dancing hand in hand when Moisy and Burzlaff are On Tour. Wether it's mellow fusion, hypnotic Techno Jazz or tribal rhthms. These guys know their stuff!!

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Style: Guitar Vibes

Format: LP
Label: Schnoog

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Guitars by the pool And the AOR campfire too.

Plus that badass jam about Pam, ahem Pat!!

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Style: Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG

Proper private Fusion from Bremen, Germany.

Progressive Setup: Drums, Bass, Guitar, Synth and Violin.

Rather difficult to find these days ...

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Style: Cocktail Fusion / Haake-Beck Burners

Format: EP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Bremen's unbeatable answer to DreiEier!

Critical cocktail jazz for the next private garden party.

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Style: DIY Boogie / Kraut Funk

Format: LP
Label: Schweine Sound

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG woc

Superfunky german hobbyists at play!

I count four hits on this lovely oddity

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Style: Vocal Jazz / Balearic Bossa

Format: LP
Label: Looky

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

This german bossa beauty is completely below the radar. It seems to be a real rare one. I've dug out 2 copies in 15 years. Fans of Kitty, Silvia and Monika will have a party!

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Style: Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Abaco (Private)

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Chris "The Fusionist" did it again. Here's his completely unknown 2nd album from 1989. Stylistically quite similar to his first album, but more mature and mellower.

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Style: Fusion / Afro Not Afro Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Village Music

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Unexpected but excellent Spiritual Jazz - "Awakening" style from Württemberg, Germany. Their only LP recorded in 1984 and released on the small Viallge Music label that also brought us the amazing Olivier Peters Quartet album.

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Style:  Contemporary Jazz / Jazz Funk / 80s Jazz

Format: LP
Label: YVP (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Teutonic cocktail Jazz at it's BEST!!!! 

Perfect for some margaritas by the pool.....

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Style: Swing / Modern Jazz / Spiritual Jazz

Format: 2LP
Label: Jazz Club Podium

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

A private compilation released by a Frankfurt Jazzclub. Sides 1, 2 & 3 are filled with Swing and I must admit that it's not my cup of tea at all. Side 4 is what I bought this for. The Sextet "Sounds" plays three compositions by Nat Adderley, Cannonball Adderley and Benny Golson. My highlight is the self penned Sound Spirit - a ten minute long and very intense session!

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Style: Modal Jazz / Oldtime

Format: 7" EP
Label: Private

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Nicest copy of this uncommon jazz gem. All players are coming from a dixie or ragtime background. Nevertheless they have been playing with great names such as Mal Waldron or the local hero Joe Haider. When i discovered this i didn't expect much since the tunes are adaptions of german folk songs, but right the first track showed me that i was misdirected. Two of the four songs are fantastic modern jazz compositions. This is the original first issue with the foldout cover

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Style: Pensive Liberty / Solo Piano

Format: LP
Label: Océan

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

I save you from all this mad rare, never seen before bs and go straight to the vibe of this beauty. 5 out 7 tunes are unparalleled laid back and contemplative pieces. Beiers language is straight and honest, sometimes playful. They make it easy to fall in everlasting love...  I've also added one of the two hotter jams for you consideration.

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Style: Modern / Modal / Latin Jazz

Format: 7" EP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

The Jazzwheel album on the small View label isn't really easy to find. Now this little gem released 2 years before the LP is almost invisible. Especially under their first name MACHWERK 3 tracks - one modern, one modal and one latin jaz tune. ALL AMAZING. For Peter was featured on the album in a different version. For My Love and Brasil Express are exclusives. Speaking of exlusive ...

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Style: Nighttime Music

Format: LP
Label: Nightwork (Private)

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Nightime Jazz recorded for an art film. Contemporary Jazz with that Modal approach and excellent scatting. Private and pretty much unfindable. A personal holy grail.

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Style: Fusion / Contemporary

Format: EP
Label: Private

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

First sidde runs on 33 the second on 45. That should explain the title of this tight Fusion EP from Switzerland! This was released one year before their album (more boogie-ish) and itstill sounds like proper Fusion Jazz. My fave is the epic (10 minutes plus) Easy Street - playful and deep!

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Style:  Experimental Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Avantgarage / Private

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

Like new copy! This album is setting free a lot of energy and it's less experimental than you might guess from a look at the cover (and label).  The quartet plays a variety of styles on this LP not without showing skills in the fast tracks ;) My fave are the slow etc. the modern Jazz-Funk groover Midnight Mover and the interstellar overdrive rocket Space Invaders

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