Lucifer’s dream (CD)

For the first time on CD this album of German flute and sax player Ralf Nowy, originally released in 1973 on Global (26.015-8U), is a quiet tip for all lovers of the genre. Inspired by the burgeoning Krautrock scene Nowy found his own supergroup with top musicians Paul Vincent and Keith Forsey (Hallelujah LHC 25) and others from the Munich scene.

Lothar Meid, bass (Amon Duul II) contributes as a guest on one title as well as Al Gromer, sitar (Amon Duul II) Lucifers Dream was therefore a melting pot of almost everything from psychedelic pop onto slightly jazz influences, with experimental and ethnic diversions, a complex musical suite with a great deal of invention (so the Freeman Brothers in A Crack In The Cosmic Egg Indeed Paul Vincent and Keith Forsey are responsible for a great psychedelic rock feeling. Nowy himself and Al Gromer give the album an ethnic message.