Martin Kolbe & Ralf Illenberger - Waves / Colouring the Leaves [2008]

With stunning acoustic guitar duels, two young men from the south of Germany gathered a loyal following with their brilliant dialogues. Ralf Illenberger from Stuttgart and his partner Martin Kolbe from Herrenberg, were drawn in by the folk and guitar boom that was everywhere in the seventies. In 1977 they got together and developed their style with the first albums “Waves” and “Colouring The Leaves”: they conjured up huge, orchestral sounds, using dynamism and melodies rather than technical blending.

The Music:
01 - Opening 01:22
02 - G'schteinigt 06:28
03 - Music 03:56
04 - Namenlos 01:43
05 - Waves 06:50
06 - Break 05:37
07 - In der Halle des Bergkönigs [Edvard Grieg] 03:31
08 - Sommerabend 03:18
09 - Free Man in T'Harde 03:35
10 - Walzer 02:44
11 - Groove 03:40
12 - Genéve 02:27
13 - Veits Tanz 07:28
14 - Emotions 05:46
15 - Ball in Play 03:25
16 - Es Wetterleuchtet 05:10
17 - Colouring the Leaves 04:34
18 - (Bonus Track:) What About The Nose? 08:43

All compositions by Martin Kolbe and Ralf Illenberger except track 7 by Edvard Grieg, arranged by Kolbe and Illenberger.

The Players:
* Martin Kolbe - guitars, gong, vocals
* Ralf Illenberger - guitars, vocals
* Wolfgang Dauner - piano, synthesizer, clavinet
* Eberhard Weber - bass

The re-issue that I'm posting combined two original LPs onto one CD. Because of space limitations the track "What About The Nose?" was omitted from this version. Apparently there exists another re-issue where the two LPs were copied completely onto two CDs, avoiding the space problem. In any case, I have included the missing track as a "Bonus," so you get the two complete LPs.

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