Spin – s/t (1976) (16/44 Vinyl Rip)

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Spin – s/t (1976) (16/44 Vinyl Rip)

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Review from RateYourMusic:
This dutch band featuring members of Ekseption stood exactly at the fragile and blurred frontier between mid 70's ugly, commercial, US-market oriented sounding jazz rock, and the kind of cool european jazz fusion that was pouring from Scandinavia back then (think Secret Oyster for instance).
As it is, there are enough flashes of inspiration and slightly rough edges to keep me interested. To this listener's ears, Spin are at their best when they stray from the generic "fat funky bass and punchy attitude" formula, though – ie : the bitter, angry sounding Little Bitch, or the more atmospheric Sea and Seasons and Sunday Afternoon's Dream.
Nothing life-changing here, but if you're into 70's european jazz rock and find a copy for a cool price, it's worth a few spins.

From Ekseption's biography on Allmusic:
… In 1973, saxman Dick Remelink and drummer de Leeuwe quit, to be replaced by Jan Vennik and Pieter Voogt, respectively. The group seemed to lose momentum, however, and their subsequent releases didn't sell nearly as well as their previous records. Van der Linden, who was very much a star in Holland, quit in 1974 to pursue a solo career, and Ekseption carried on with new keyboard player Hans Jansen, whose arrival heralded a much more jazz-oriented sound for the group. This change seemed to lose the group whatever audience it had, and following the release of Mindmirror (1976), they broke up. Van der Broek, Vennik, and Jansen co-founded Spin, a jazz-rock fusion band that recorded two LPs during the mid-1970's. By the end of the decade, Ekseption had reformed for an album, Ekseption '78, and in 1980 Rein van der Broek and Rick van der Linden – who had formed a group called Trace with Focus drummer Pierre van der Linden (who was no relation), and also cut a pair of albums, the second with Catalin Tircolea – became a duo called Cum Laude and cut an LP together, which embraced a classical-rock sound akin to their old band. …