Gift Blue Apple (1974) Full Album Hard, Progressive Rock

German act GIFT started out as a school band back in 1969, initially under the moniker Phallus Dei, with an initial lineup consisting of Rainer Baur (guitar), Hermann Lange (drums), Uwe Patzke (bass), Helmut Treichel (vocal) and Nick Woodland (guitar). By 1972 Woodland had left to join Subject Esq. , while the rest of the band hit the studio to record their first album, and in 1973 their selftitled debut Gift was issued. On this production the band was pretty much cemented in a heavy rock sound typical of this day and age; with plain, hard guitar riffs served aplenty. One year later their sophomore effort Blue Apple surfaced. By now Treichel had also said his goodbyes to the band, while Dieter Frei (keyboards, moog, mellotron, vocals) and Dieter Atterer (guitars, vocals) had joined the outfit. For this second creation the band s musical explorations took on freakier and more elaborate movements, to the extent that this venture is regarded as belonging to the rooster of albums deemed i