Artist: ELOY
Album: ELOY RE-RELEASED (DIGI)

Year: 1971/ 2008
Media type: CD

Frank Bornemann about “Eloy”:

Towards the end of the swinging sixties when I founded Eloy, German bands mainly played all the anglo american hits and performed in clubs, youth-centers and in the ballrooms of village pubs. Tired of the constant repetition as well as the pressure incurred in emulating the high creative level of our peers, we started to compose our own songs, mix- ing them in with the many cover-songs we played during hour-long performances. Spurred on by the increasing positive response our audiences had to our own creations, we applied for a record contract and finally, in the spring of 1971 we actually signed up with a major-label to record our first LP.

It was an era of great creative revolution, a time of excitement and experimentation, everything was tried out in order to discover, set and maintain new accents in rock music. Regulations as to how this or that had to be done in order to fit a commercial market did not even exist, nor were any regulations propagated by record companies or from the media. Everything was allowed. There were no barriers strong enough to withstand the new impulses emerging from the music business and the creative freedom generated by all the new bands that were popping up everywhere like mushrooms.

The musicians at that time could, unfiltered, realize their visions and with their work wrote music history! Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Yes and Deep Purple, just to name a few, started their carriers and have to date set the pace for conceptual content as well as a new sound. In England almost every new band with an interesting profile landed themselves with a record contract and instantly presented themselves with an album, which in turn sparked off younger bands waiting on the start- ing line, to make a name for themselves and fight for their righteous place in the pantheon of rock- music history.This trend flourished also in Germany in the early 70’s and so, we, along with many other young bands, got our first major break and recor ded our first album. Each member of the band was naturally inspired, each to varying degrees, by the new sensational musical creations which not only came over to us like an invasion from England, but also dominated the international music business. In the light of this fullness and wealth of different influences we found it difficult to clearly define our musical direction as well as form an independent identity. In spite of many polarizing positions taken in relation to our artistic direction, we did manage to put an album together which accurately illustrated and reflected the spirit of this epoch. An epoche in which everyone was involved in the search for something »special«. With the birth of »Krautrock« Eloy was created, but not fully born and so I view this debut album as the bandґs embryonic stage, the spirit and profile of which I was later to develop and which would effect and influence my life for decades to come.


TRACKLIST:

1. Today 06:07
2. Something Yellow 08:14
3. Eloy 06:17
4. Song Of A Paranoid Soldier 04:54
5. Voice Of Revolution 03:09
6. Isle Of Sun 06:07
7. Dillus Roady 06:34
8. Walk Alone (Bonustrack) 02:43
9. Daybreak (Bonustrack) 02:41
10. Vibrations Of My Mind (Bonustrack) 03:36