Issued in the wake of sensational “Rockpommel’s Land” album, 1978’s “Solar Music Live” was GROBSCHNITT‘s first concert offering, a spellbinding document of the German ensemble’s fantastic stage show that may have stood the test of time, yet left the musicians somewhat dissatisfied with what started to feel sonically outdated as the years went by. The feeling remained even after thirteen minutes of the original recording which didn’t make the cut back in the day got restored for CD editions in the last decades – and this is why a remixed version of the classic emerged about a couple of weeks ago.
Solar Music Live
(Remix 2024)
Perhaps, the freshly fashioned cover artwork of “Solar Music Live (Remix 2024)” isn’t quite impressive – but its sound is, especially on Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround mixes, although this disc seems to come only as part of a limited edition box set, alongside CD and LP variants that are available separately, the former packaged as mediabook and the latter comprising two differently colored platters. An important chapter of prog and Krautrock history has just became contemporary again.
1. Solar Music pt. 1
2. Food Sicore
3. Solar Music pt. 2
4. Mülheim Special
5. Otto Pankrock
6. Golden Mist
7. Solar Music pt. 3
8. Tschüss Mülheim
