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El Shalom
12+ albums
Progressive rockkrautrockPsychedelic Rockart rockgermany
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El Shalom were a German group from the mid 70s whose only album, Frost, has been recently reissued. The band's style sits nicely along some other later 70s underground German bands; Wind, Sahara, Subject Esq. and Novalis among them. Still, El Shalom does sound a little rougher and unpolished than many of the above, but in the same time quiet mellow and warm, maybe the closest to Out of Focus, but without the jazzy splendor of these latter. That said, for the most part El Shalom cultivates their own feel, mixing in a rough hard rock aesthetic in with moments of more traditional symphonic vein. Particularly engaging is the keyboard work of Joachim Brands, with ready deployment of generous doses of Moog, organ and mellotron. The guitars of Gunter Christ take center stage on other cuts, like the raucous, catchy opener "Der Werbegnom". Representative are the flute-led melodic flights on the morose title track, or the moog backed guitar dirges of "Alvin Zweistein". The German vocals which dominate the affair (there are also some passages sung in English) are on the whole quite appealing, often reminding of the aforementioned Novalis as well as Stern Combo Meissen with their almost anthemic, sing along feel, particularly in the well developed, addictive structure of "Krieslaufkollaps". Greg Northrup, edited User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
