Blast Furnace - Blast Furnace. CD. (Long Hair Music - LHC 10) Re-issue of this 1971 Danish pop rock album from Blast Furnace (who later mutated into Culpeper's Orchard). Like a hybrid of The Pretty Things, Beatles & Jethro Tull, this album rocks with great guitar lines over hammond organ and flute. A must for fans of any of the above-mentioned groups. CD comes with a bonus track.

Blast Furnace - Blast Furnace. LP. (Long Hair Music - LHC 042) Great eponymous album ( originally released 1971) from this obscure band based in Denmark. This is one of the best Danish albums, now for the first time released on LP from the original master tape, remastered in super-bit-mapping sound quality. Brilliant song writing in the tradition of The Beatles, Jethro Tull and Pretty Things (during their fertile period from 1968-1970), which sadly never achieved much commercial success- like many of the best records! Blast Furnace never specialised in excessive, long instrumental widdling like some of their contemporaries: rather, they played superb hard-progressive rock with real strong guitar flashes, wild vocals and razor-sharp instrumental breaks balanced between electric guitar, Hammond organ and flute. The lineup was: Arne Würgler (pre PAN) on bass and cello , Niels Vangkilde (guitar), Thor Backhausen (organ/ flute) and Tom Mc Evan (lead vocals/drums)- if you find these names familiar, that's because they all later joined Culpepper's Orchard. Same tracklisting and bonus as the CD version.

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