Human

Second album from the German rock outfit and it's an impressive step forward. Their music is probably best tagged as melodic hard rock, with elements of heavy rock, tempered with rousing vocal harmonies…

The Human Zoo's great claim to fame among garage / psychedelic fans is that they were managed by Jim Foster, guitarist with the Human Expression, the West Coast psych act that scored a modest hit with the song 'Optical Sound.' That's not a lot to base a reputation on, but the lone album the Human Zoo left behind is pretty good stuff, and suggests with better promotion they could have risen to much more impressive heights. Boasting two lead singers (Roy Young and Jim Cunningham), the Human Zoo worked up a full and dynamic sound with impressive harmonies on these sessions, and the rest of the band shows off some solid chops - John Luzadder and Larry Hanson are a capable guitar combo, with Hanson also doubling on keyboards, while bassist Bob Dalrymple and drummer Kim Vydaremy hold down the rhythm with strength and confidence…

This short-lived psychedelic pop outfit was formed in the UK at the end of the 60s. Featuring Gillies Buchan (guitar/vocals), Edward Jones (bass/vocals), David McNiven (clarinet) and John Romsey (drums), the group was originally known as Skin but did not record as such. Human Beast signed to Decca Records in 1970 and made their debut with Volume One (Instinct). Though it sold poorly at the time, it has subsequently become the subject of collector’s interest. Typical of its contents were songs with expansive titles such as ‘Brush With The Midnight Butterfly’, ‘Reality Presented As An Alternative’ and ‘Appearance Is Everything Style Is A Way Of Living’. Fittingly, each featured similarly ponderous lyrics.

1998, Swedish band and have been compared to Talisman, Rainbow and Lillian Axe! Debut album produced by Par Edwardson [MILLION]. The outstanding Guitar work of Robert [Gene] Hansson will set many an air guitar a twanging, and with the outrageous lead vocals of Stefano Marchesini [Dio/Soto on a good day] will help make this debut offering one of the most successful.

With RIVER, the band The Human Element, founded in 2016 and existing in this form as a working trio since 2020, releases a profound musical statement that authentically and passionately summarises the intensive joint work of recent years. The three virtuoso improvisers Gero Schipmann (baritone guitar), Johannes Ludwig (saxophone, FX) and Alex Parzhuber (drums) embark on an exciting search for the essence of their songs with blind understanding. An improvising post-rock band that is more oriented towards songwriters than the jazz idiom, they play their songs and pieces with the raw energy of a teenage garage rock band and the unconditional honesty of an aged country singer.

To discover an island space is always to discover Oneself. The journey is equally sensory, a slow perception of the deep nature of the Elements, as a journey into one's own interiority, our buried self. And this is all the more true when chance put you there, at the mercy of the Winds, or when it's this particular opportunity, like Robinson, of finding one's own means of sustenance, the necessary rebound to any attempt at survival.
First of all, it's the moment to summon the Spirit of Solidarity, the very one that will fertilize the relationship between Human and Earth, that will encourage the discoverers in their respectful appropriation of the Ecosystems, that will allow Cyrus, Spilett, Nab, Pencroff and Harbert, the shipwrecked from the Sky, to remain "upright", to enjoy a land that becomes their nourishing island, to finally discover the identity of a host as Mysterious as it's protective…