Artist: Aqua
Title Of Album: Aqua
Year Of Release: 1972 / 2008
Label: Garden Of Delights
Country: Germany
Genre: Organ drivin' prog krautrock,
Audio codec: FLAC | lossless

From Kassel, so far rather unknown. Four good progressive demo tunes from 1972, the single from 1978 and two pieces from their 1981 LP, which is more mainstream.
From Kassel, so far less known. Four good progressive demo tracks from 1972, their 7“single from 1978 and two tracks from their 1981 LP which is a sort of mainstream..
Something quite unusual, which hardly anyone knows: Aqua were founded in early 1972 in Kassel and played progressive rock in the manner of the time, pretty organically. In the same year, they recorded four self-written long pieces, in order to show promoters and record companies something. It did not work out with a contract, but at least they got enough performances. In 1978, they released their own self-published single, which sounded a bit smoother, and in 1981 an LP that, according to the zeitgeist, was largely mainstream; Each edition of 1000 pieces. The CD now contains the four previously unpublished demos of 1972,

Here something quite special, not known by everyone: Aqua were founded in Kassel in 1972. They played progressive rock like it was at fashion at those times, thus with a lot of organ. In 1972, too, they recorded four self-written songs as a demo for promoters and record companies. Though they couldn’t make a record company to become interested they got a lot of gigs. Thus, they themselves released a 7" single “Going my way”/“Teenage feelings” in 1978, already more smoothed out. In 1981, they did an LP which already was mainstream, like it was up to date, then. The number of copies made was 1000 for each record. The here available CD contains the until now unreleased four songs of 1972, both tracks of their single, and according to the demand of the artists two songs from the LP which still show some progressive influences…


Tracklist:
1. Bolero (Martin Ulrich, Martin Großkurth) - 5:24
2. Soul Of My Soul (Martin Ulrich, Martin Großkurth) - 7:09
3. Tempest (Martin Ulrich, Martin Großkurth) - 5:53
4. There Is A Place (Martin Ulrich, Martin Großkurth) - 9:37
5. Going My Way (Martin Ulrich, Klaus Borucki, Jörg Wiesner) - 3:20
6. Teenage Feelings (Martin Ulrich, Mandy Turner, Jörg Wiesner) - 3:35
7. No Use To Live On (Martin Ulrich, Jörg Wiesner, Mike Fajgel) - 6:05
8. No More Love  (Martin Ulrich, Jörg Wiesner, Mike Fajgel)- 5:58

Tracks 1-4 from 1972
Tracks 5,6 from 1978
Tracks 7,8 from 1981

Personnel:
Martin Ulrich - Guitar
Martin Großkurth - Organ (Tracks 1-4)
Klaus Borucki - Vocals (Tracks 2-6)
Georg Röber - Bass (Tracks 1-4)
Bernd Billhardt - Drums (Tracks 1-4)
Jörg Wiesner - Keyboards, Vocals (Tracks 5-8)
Wolfgang Eckhardt - Bass, Vocals (Tracks 5-8)
Roy Kaleve - Drums, Vocals (Tracks 7-8)
Mike Fajgel - Lead Vocals (Tracks 7-8)
Jürgen Steinbrecher - Bass, Vocals (Tracks 7-8)