Thursday, March 30, 2006

Troya - Point Of Eruption (1976)

Troya play competent symphonic prog, a bit like Camel or Eloy. Great symphonic rock featuring mellotron and flute, excellent keyboard playing and a fine guitar, no weak passages. Three of the six tracks are instrumentals. In his book "Cosmic dreams at play" (Glasgow 1996), the Norwegian Dag Erik Asbjørnsen lists "Point of eruption" among the ten best Krautrock LPs of all time, and quite rightly so. The only drawback is its short playing time. Thanks to the smallness of the edition (only 200 copies), the record is now worth between 1000 DM and 2000 DM (US$500-1000) among collectors. It’s a pity that this is the only work the band from Werne an der Lippe, at the north-eastern edge of the Ruhr Area, has ever released.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Lisa !

You are fantastic ! Thanks a lot for this one and for the many others !! I am having a great time at your blog and found a few gems ...

Keep on posting...

Unknown said...

For many collectors of obscure germaan symphonic yet Krautrock this must be the holy grail. The lyrics are a bad joke. The music is a cheap copy of Wallenstein, Eloy and maybe Novalis. I wouldn`t waste my money for this 6 track symphony of horror.