Ougenweide - Liederbuch (FLAC+MP3) - 1988
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 393 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 187 MB | Covers includes
Genre: Progressive Folk Rock/Krautrock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polydor (837 162 2)

“ This compilation of material from 1973-1979 comes from a group that, for anglophiles, can best be described as the German Steeleye Span, with added flutes. This is more folk than prog, but it hardly matters when listening to textured haunting works like "Tobacco-Lob", "Der Blinde und der Lahme", and the brilliant "Bald Anders". The tracks are often based on very old melodies and at their best Ougenweide does them proud.
The arbitrary "best-of" does not fully intersect with the tastes of this folk-prog and German prog fan, and songs like "Im Badehaus" come across as too smarmy in style, although one might wonder if the lyrics bear that out. Other tracks are pleasant enough slightly psychedelic amalgams of male and female vox but nothing more, although the classic "Totus Floreo" is clearly much more, almost Ougenweide's Gaudete if you will, even if its only a capella for the first half minute or so.
Unique among German bands for their merging of traditional northern European folk with prog elements, Ougenweide is well served by this compilation, which probably contains all you will need as a fan or completist.

Tracklist:
01. Im Badehaus
02. Pferdesegen (Contra Uermes)
03. Tobacco-Lob
04. Ouwe wie jaemerliche ...
05. Der Blinde und der Lahme
06. Merseburger: a) Zauberspruche b) Tanz
07. Es stuont ein Frouwe alleine
08. Nieman kan mit Gerten
09. Kommt ihr Jungfern helft mir klagen
10. Enzio
11. Totus floreo
12. Gerhart Atze
13. Ronde
14. Wol mich der Stunde
15. Fur Irene
16. Hinweg, die besten Streiter matt
17. Bald anders
18. Zu Frankfurt, an dem Main
19. Denunziantenlied

Total time: 01:13:04

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