Tamam Shud-Goolutionites and the Real People (1970)

Beneath a beautifully crafted cover lies a simple yet highly effective concept album titled "Goolutionites and the Real People". Inside, its creators, the Australian band Tamam Shud, showcase an artistic delight encompassing everything from progressive experimentation to instrumental improvisation, touching on jazz, psychedelia, and hard rock. Formed in Sydney in 1967, its core lineup consisted of Dannie Davidson (drums), Zac Zytnic (guitar), Lindsay Bjerre (vocals and guitars), and Peter Barron (bass). Amidst the whirlwind of the emerging psychedelic style of the time, they released "Evolution", their debut album in 1969. This record of raw, basic sounds and instrumentation gained some notoriety when several of its tracks were featured in a well-known Australian surf film. The addition of a new guitarist, Tim Gaze, revitalized the band, leading to the recording of their second full-length album, "Goolutionites and the Real People", the following year. Considered by critics in Australia as one of the best conceptual and progressive albums, this release showcases a more cohesive style and, at the same time, an impetuous dynamism, with captivating tracks like "I Love You All" and "They'll Take Down on the Lot", two superb interludes before the more substantial compositions "Heaven Is Closed" and "A Plague", followed by the mini-epic title track. Subsequently, various setbacks led to the definitive dissolution of this ephemeral and interesting band in 1972, until years later when some of its members revived Tamam Shud, recording the commendable albums "Permanent Culture" (1994), "Eight Years of Moonlight" (2016), and "Resonate" (2018).

Jan Garbarek with Stenson, Rypdal, Andersen, Christensen-Sart (1971)

"Sart" was the third album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and his second under the ECM label. Recorded with the same musicians as his previous works (Terje Rypdal, Arild Anderson, John Christensen, and Bobo Stenson), it showcases a combination of electric jazz fusion and avant-garde acoustic jazz, with Garbarek increasingly influenced by Miles Davis's jazz-rock and inspired by the spirit of John Coltrane, and Rypdal reinforcing that sentiment. This was Jan Garbarek's most avant-garde and progressive period, featuring a series of albums that moved between free jazz, jazz-rock, and progressive jazz. Albums like "Afric Pepperbird" (1970), "Esoteric Circle" (1971), and "Sart" (1971) consisted of extended avant-garde tracks such as "Beast of Kommodo", "Blow Away Zone", "Rabalder", "Karin's Mode" and "Song of". "Space" or "Irr." From this point on, Garbarek's musical direction changed radically, incorporating elements of world music, chamber music, and ambient music, while still maintaining a focus on experimentation. Considered an institution, Jan Garbarek is a brilliant musician who, since joining the jazz elite, largely thanks to his collaborations with Keith Jarrett in the 1960s, has consistently released essential jazz albums, always a step ahead of his contemporaries. Some of these recordings are considered absolute masterpieces of avant-garde jazz.

Cream-Fresh Cream (1966)

"Fresh Cream" was Cream's debut album, a historic recording that contains innovation and at the same time is an overwhelming album of pure rock.
The first album of the first super band in history, is one of the best debuts ever recorded. Although the best of the band was yet to come, we must not fail to recognize that for this reason it does not lose any of the attributes as a masterpiece, despite having only half of the songs as own compositions and the rest by versions, in the you can already see the powerful conjunction between blues and rock, with psychedelic influences as in "I Fell Free" or "N.S.U".

Dschinn-Dschinn (1972)

Within the vast and diverse German Krautrock scene emerged Dschinn, an ephemeral hard rock and blues band preceded by another group called The Hurricanes, whose style was based on 1960s British beat music. Thanks to their widespread popularity throughout Germany, they caught the attention of a talent scout who offered to finance the recording of several singles, on the sole condition that they change their name. One of these singles even made it onto the charts; however, the era of British pop sounds was drawing to a close, and the band reconsidered their musical strategy, replacing their mod and pop style with the heavy, avant-garde rock that better suited the tastes of the time. It was in this context that their only album was released, featuring the band's unique lineup of two drummers; Uli Mund and Athamasios Paltoglou, plus guitarists and singers Bern Capito and Peter Lorenzo and bassist Silvio Verfürth, crafted a hard rock work with blues and progressive influences, where galloping psychedelic pieces such as "Freedom", "Fortune", "Train", "Let's Go Together", "I Wanna Know" and "For You Love", are the highlights of an excellent album with great instrumental intensity and enormous vocal personality.