Orange Peel - Orange Peel (Vinyl)

Description

Orange Peel started in 1968 in Hanau (Germany), and the original line-up was: Peter Bishof (vocals, percussion), Leslie Link (guitar), Heinrich “Heini” Mohn (bass), Ralph Wilheiss (organ), Curt Cress (drums). C.Cress was the youngest among them, he was only 17. On their first single (“I Got No Time” track) also appears Michael Winzkowski on bass and guitar, who dropped Orange Peel (or was dropped from it) to join Epsilon later.The album has only 4 tracks, sometime unstable and lengthy (“You Can’t Change Them All” is 18:16, while “We Still Try To Change” is 10:05), but nevertheless mesmerizing and powerful. The music might sound far from perfection, but it is full of dark mood and inspiration. The influence is the British peers is well too obvious (early “Deep Purple” feeling psychedelic depression blended with … you name it; by the way, “I Got No Time” which didn’t find its way to the LP reminds pretty close “Strange Kind Of Woman”), but it is not a copycat, because they were not trying to cash in on a new trend, but to express themselves. As the average life span of a rock band in the 70s was from few weeks to few months, Orange Peel made to exception and split after the first album. Curt Cress was then drumming with Triumvirat and Atlantis, Heini Mohn joined Epsilon, and Peter Bishof was recruited by another legendary act, Emergency.