Johnny Warman - From the Jungle to the New Horizons

©1982 Rocket Record Company 6302 214

Vinyl edition 320 kbps

After the huge succes of  Walking Into Mirrors Johnny was asked by the Rocket Record Company to do another record. Warman started recording with Andy Clark, Jerry Marrota and Tony Levin. The album would be a more musically complicated production than the previous Walking Into Mirrors album but extending the drumheavy sound. A single 'Dream, dream, dream' was released to promote the project. 

The songs they recorded were quite good and Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit in the Sky' hasn't been done better, ever. Dispite that, neither the single nor the album managed to make any impact in the charts.

Tracklist: From the Jungles to the New Horizons 7.49 / Spirit in the Sky 3.36 / Looking Back (to See If Someone's Looking Back at Me) 3.58 / China's Moving (West) 6.04 / I Love My Planet 4.30 / (United) The State of America 5.22 / Flying out of Windows 4.17 / Dream, Dream, Dream 3.53 / Y.C. 1.21

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Johnny Warman

Walking Into Mirrors

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320 kbbs / Album released in 1981.

Original lp was released by The Rocket Record Company

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This relatively unknown artist at that time teamed up with Peter Gabriel, Jerry Marotta, Tony Levin, Larry Fast and others to produce a very interesting album. For all of us who enjoyed the experiments and sounds of Peter Gabriel in his third album, this was a "must-have" as it had several Gabriel's musicians playing in the album (and Gabriel himself appears in "Screaming Jets", one of the best tracks of this record).

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If you are a Genesis / Gabriel / Collins fan, you must already be aware of this unique recording. In case you weren't aware that this existed then this is your chance

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Tracklisting:

Walking into Mirrors 3.39 / Radio Active 3.41 / Searchlight 2.58 / Martian Summer 4.45 / Screaming Jets 5.25 / Three Minutes 4.04 / Dance with Me 3.18 / (S.O.S.) Sending out Signals 3.21 / Dancing Dolls 3.49 / Fantastic Light 6.18

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Max Werner

Seasons

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CNR 655.118

Released in 1981.

Second solo album by the former singer/drummer of Kayak. Max Werner scored a huge solo hit with the openingstrack "Rain In May". Max made a complete album around this drum-heavy sound. Being a good drummer and with his voice, often compared to Phil Collins, it was not a big surpise many critics wrote that Max had copied Phil. Obviously the critics hadn't listen to Max's 1st soloalbum "Rainbows End"...

 tracks: 01 Rain In May 03:37 / 02 Under The Spell Of Spring 03:31 / 03 Thunderstorm 03:37 / 04 Summer In The City 03:31 / 05 Raincloud 02:55 / 06 Like An Autumnleaf 04:03 / 07 Indian Summer 03:35 / 08 In The Winter 04:57 / 09 Crystals (So Cold) 05:56 / 10 Cosmic Winter (We'll Make It To Mars) 04:27 / 11 Seasons 05:07