Rise And Fall: The Anthology 3CD

First-ever complete anthology of melodic UK progressive rock band Bachdenkel who issued two superb albums in the 70s.

Includes numerous previously-unreleased studio out-takes and live cuts plus late 60s psych-pop demos under previous name U-No-Who.

Dubbed “Britain’s greatest unknown group” in late 1970 by the former editor of the International Times’ music section, Bachdenkel would remain a cult act, their brace of albums belatedly attracting the attention of collectors and the admiration of fellow musicians like the band Mercury Rev.

Having come together in Birmingham in 1968, Bachdenkel were initially part of the burgeoning local underground scene, but would spend most of their career in France.

In June 1970 they booked time at a studio in Paris to record debut album ‘Lemmings’. Sessions took on prodigious proportions, but with an acceptable UK/US major label deal failing to materialise, the record was only issued in France some three years later.

The late 1975 recording of second album ‘Stalingrad’ was a less complicated experience, but it again proved difficult to place. Eventually the set was self-issued in 1977, when its appearance unfortunately coincided with the punk explosion.

A three-CD set, ‘Rise And Fall’ is the first complete anthology of this ill-fated but hugely talented band.

It features both of their albums and adds contemporaneous out-takes, alternative versions, demos and live cuts as well as some 1967-68 demo recordings by pre-Bachdenkel outfit U- No-Who, who briefly attracted the interest of the newly-formed Apple organisation.

Track Listing:

DISC ONE
1 Translation
2 Equals
3 An Appointment With The Master
4 The Settlement Song
5 Long Time Living
6 Strangerstill (You Leave Me)
7 Come All Ye Faceless
8 The Slightest Distance (Is A Long Time)
9 Donna
10 A Thousand Pages Before
11 Equals (live)
12 Long Time Living (live)
13 Happiness Is A Warm Jam

DISC TWO
1 The Whole World (Looking Over My Shoulder)
2 After The Fall
3 Seven Times Tomorrow
4 For You To Live With Me
5 The Tournament
6 (It’s Always) Easy To Be Hard
7 Xenophon
8 ??????????
9 Stalingrad
10 7 x 2morrow (live)
11 Easy To Be Partial
12 Bo Bo’s Party
13 Donna Jam
14 Happiness Is A Warm Gun/ Come Together
15 Bye Bye Johnny

DISC THREE

1 The Pain Of Love
2 An Apple A Day
3 Now And Again Rebecca
4 Strange People
5 Through The Eyes Of A Child
6 An(other) Appointment With The Master
7 You Lied About Your Age
8 Ring Of Truth
9 Miracle
10 Sirocco (In Like Flynn)
11 Ballerine
12 The 1st Person
13 4 U 2 Live With Me
14 7 x 2morrow
15 It’s Over
16 The Miraculous Escape
17 Sitting Pretty
18 Fast Food
19 Has To Be
20 Day By Day
21 Twilight Zone
22 Emergency Exit