Author: John

If you are interested in finding some of the most well-produced fusion music, Brian Bennett might be a great artist for you to dig into. Throughout the 1970s, he created some of the best library music of KPM and Bruton, and he released multiple solo projects that have a legendary status among record collectors. His…

Goblin emerged from the Italian progressive rock scene in the early 1970s. In Goblins releases you can find particularly good synth-heavy, atmospheric, and dark music, often focused around the keyboard. Many of Goblin’s projects were soundtracks for horror movies, and with them you will certainly get a unique type of dark sound.

Michal Urbaniak’s album Atma (1974) is an incredibly great choice if you like jazz fusion, particularly the Eastern European influenced style of it. Urbaniak is one of the best violin and saxophone players of the last century and on this record he created a unique sound by combining traditional Polish music with jazz-rock. If you…

La Planète Sauvage is different. This album is the soundtrack to the same titled animated science fiction film from 1973, which is an excellent creative and philosophical piece. Both the soundtrack and the movie are a strong recommendation for their strangeness, creativity and artisty. If you like experimental and atmospheric music with a minimalistic psychedelic…

A capella can be a difficult genre for cratediggers, because only few artists are able to create musical arrangements that are rich, deep and provide a great sound aesthetic. A Capella II by The Singers Unlimited, however, definitely achieved that. This album is one of the best examples of amazing a capella performance, with its…

Ethio-Jazz is a combination of traditional Ethiopian and more typical Western instruments. Mulatu Astatke, a legendary Ethiopian musician, was the leading pioneer of that. Ethio-Jazz is particularly interesting because it has a very raw and unique sound, especially if you compare it to well-known Jazz from the West. If you like a more rhythmic and…

Sagan Om Ringen has some of the best otherworldly musical soundscapes that you can find. Bo Hansson created this album inspired by the novel Lord of The Rings – in 1970 this was way before the commercial movies were released. And the album shows that, with its particularly deep and different type of atmosphere.

Yuri Morozov is one of the most interesting artists from the Soviet Union. Since the 1970s he created more than 40 albums, many of which included forbidden esoteric and spiritual themes which led to his music being banned at the time. But the amazing depth and avantgarde approach of his music make it too valuable…

Kraan is a great example of the many incredible bands that bubbled in the German underground scene of the 1970s. As a jazz fusion band, they had a special German sound that combines jazz, funk and rock elements. Wiederhören is the album that might showcase this the most, with just very good musical arrangements and…

Plays Super Fly is a widely unknown, but highly sophisticated record on which you can find great jazz-funk interpretations of Soul classics. This album was inspired by the iconic Super Fly soundtrack of Curtis Mayfield, but offers a completely new and fresh perspective on it. This might be one of the greatest records from the…