Embryo – Jazzbuhne Berlin (Live 1989) (@256)

    Another Embryo live album, this time featuring recordings from 2000.      Line-up: – Christian Burchard / vibes, percussion, santour, bayka, vocals – Marty Cook / trombone – Michi Wehmeyer / keyboards, piano – Dieter Serfas / percussion – Lothar Stahl / marimba, percissopm – Jens Pollheide / flute, bass – Karsten Hochapfel

(Review from gnosis2000.net) On Ibn Battuta, Embryo’s focus has shifted towards music from the Middle East. Quite an excellent album mixing jazz, fusion and above all various styles of Arabic music. On the title track Edgar Hoffman plays some lovely Turkish clarinet. “Simai Ka” features a Coltrane like soprano sax solo by Chuck Henderson, and

(Review from amazon) This recording is like a carnaval…many exotic sounds and unusual instrumentation even by Embryos’ standards. There are a lot of musicians in different studios in dates ranging from 1979 to 1982… a number of composers and several live recordings. Disc 1 is more cohesive, Roman Bunka writes and sings the 1st song

(Review from amazon) With “Life” Embryo takes their adventurous nature with world music to the extreme. Much of this album sounds like it was recorded by Indian musicians, rather than jazz-fusion Germans. Although the famous jazz sax player Charlie Mariano is sitting in on this set, you also have the “Karnataka College of Percussion” providing

(Review from gnosis2000.net) Apo-Calypso continues in the same vein as Embryo’s previous albums, the first half of the album features refined fusion with funk influences, although “Endless Feeling” ends rather surprisingly with electronic impressionistic soundscapes. The second half of the album consists of two long tracks: “Amnesty Total” is a beautiful nine-minute jazz rock track