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Drum Circus - Magic Theatre
Drum Circus - All Things Pass [Magic Theatre] 1971
To travel from Canterbury to Krautrock, you must go through Switzerland (and, if you like, also Belgium. If Belgium existed!).
For the journey, it's good to pack some exotic trinkets in your backpack (especially the usual "Tibetan Book of the Dead" and at least one sitar, plus a quintal of good "stuff"...).
Peter Giger, an excellent Swiss drummer ("a giant of the drums," someone wrote somewhere), takes two of his drummer friends (yes, there are 3 drums! And you can hear it!) and a few members of Brainticket (a psych pre-prog group, multinational based in Belgium, which - if you don’t know - I recommend you listen to) and locks himself in the studios of Horst Jankowski.
It's a great journey, but the tapes were left there for almost thirty years (forgotten? Was it the effect of all the stuff used as a propellant to get from Canterbury to Krautrock?).
Anyway, the album emerges from the mists of the past in 2003 and, despite some jazz-rock lengthiness, it's really a nice trip!
And, then, if someone titles a track "Papera," they will always be my friend!