Eiliff - Byrd-Night of the Seventh Day, 1971

Formed in the late 60's by Rainer Brüninghaus, Houschäng Nejadepour, Detlev Landmann, Herbert J. Kalveram and Bill Brown, EILIFF were a German instrumental band who turned fusion on its head with a pair of studio albums featuring classy Canterbury-style jamming with bass, guitar and keyboards plus some ethnic instruments thrown in (mostly the sitar). Two live albums were also released, one of which only came out 30 years later. Being somewhat out of step with the then dominant Kosmiche tradition, the band never really made a name for themselves despite displaying some phenomenal musicianship. References include SOFT MACHINE, early KING CRIMSON, COLOSSEUM, NUCLEUS, VDGG as well as Miles Davis and Frank Zappa.

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Music

Tags:

• Progressive rock
• Fusion
• Psych
• 1971

[progmansam]

I love this song.One of Germany's greatest prog.Simular to Brainstorm

[hackalacka]

@progmansam Yes. Very similar indeed :)

[elektronenklange]

Eiliff actually a colder and more distant sound than Brainstorm, but their music was really nice and very well worked too.