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Cross-Collateral
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by Passport
Sales Rank: 506206
Price:$36.99
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Album Details
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1. Homunculus
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2. Cross-Collateral
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3. Jadoo
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4. Will-O'-The-Wisp - Klaus Doldinger,
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5. Albatross Song
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6. Damals
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Exclusive Japanese Limited Edition reissue of this 1998 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 2006.
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Listener Reviews & Comments
This is another great album to come out of the incredibly diverse 1970s German music scene. Interestingly enough, although this 1975 album is a jazz-rock album, it is loosely tied to the German experimental rock scene (in my mind at any rate) in that Passport shared a producer with bands such as the Cosmic Jokers - namely, Deiter Dierks. The production quality by the way, is stellar. The musicians on this album include bandleader Klaus Doldinger (tenor and soprano saxes, mini-moog synthesizer, electric piano, and mellotron); incredible drummer Curt Cress; Wolfgang Schmid (Rickenbacker bass and acoustic guitar on Damals); and Kristian Schulze (Fender electric piano and Hammond organ). There are six pieces on the album and range in length from 4'38" to 13'38". Stylistically, the album is mostly jazz rock, but there are elements of progressive rock scattered here and there. That is to say that the rhythms and chord structures are not always jazzy, and that melodies are used more often than is characteristic of most jazz rock. There is also the choice of instrumentation, which includes the mini-moog and most notably the mellotron, which is used on Albatross Song. Although synthesizers were being used by other jazz rock groups around this time including Return to Forever, their use on Cross-Collateral seems somewhat more...British. Furthermore, the bassist's decision to use a trebly, punchy Rickenbacker bass rather than, say a fretless Fender jazz bass, was unusual. In a nutshell, the performances by all of the musicians are superb, especially those by Billy Cobham influenced drummer Curt Cress. In fact, many of the pieces seem to revolve around the drummer! The pieces are all well put together, develop nicely, and are diverse with respect to dynamics and overall timbre. This album is highly recommended along with the 1974 release "Looking Thru". In fact, I would urge prog heads who don't mind jazz rock to check this album out - the folks on the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of prog rock page had some very nice things to say about it.
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Cross-Collateral
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