Tag Archives: Saul Bass

1974 COUNTDOWN | AT THE MOVIES

There are four movie soundtrack LPs from 1974 in the Vinyl Connection collection. None are essential but each is interesting in its own way. * HARRY NILSSON — SON OF DRACULA The movie poster’s slug line was “The First Rock-and-Roll Dracula movie” and it teamed Harry Nilsson with mate Ringo Starr as a totally believable […]

MAN FROM THE EAST

Classically trained percussionist Stomu Yamashta recorded for Island Records between 1972 and 1976, releasing seven albums of extraordinarily creative and enjoyable progressive music. With elements of formal composition, jazz-rock, electronica and progressive rock, Yamashta’s ability to fuse East and West into an intriguing and entertaining whole was remarkable. Although I have most of the Island […]

KLAUS ENCOUNTERS | THE FINAL FRONTIER

Continuing (and completing) Vinyl Connection’s homage to German synthesiser great Klaus Schulze.  The Cosmic Couriers — Sci-Fi Party  [1974] In the first half of 1973, producer Rolf Ulrich Kaiser organised a series of jams with a number of the major musicians in the emerging psychedelic/electronic space rock scene. There were recorded (without the musicians’ explicit […]