MADE IN GERMANY released their eponymous album in 1971. Excellent album !!
Everything started at the Beethoven School in West Berlin, as a school band, called \"Cosmics\" made music as a hobby, just fun. Stimulated by the success of local school bands and highly infected by general hysteria they started playing at festivals and one of them met the band Atlantis, became friends with the band members, when the Atlantis broke up they recorded an album with Stan Regal guitarist who remained in Berlin, he got married and started doing studio recording jobs.
In 1972 the group's lead singer was honored alongside Inga Rumpf, Chris Braun and Joy Fleming.
Made in Germany are yet another example of the many great female vocal lead proto progressive albums coming from Europe during the 1971 era. Sometimes panned as a \"pop\" album that hasn't \"aged well\", there are truly only scant examples of that to be found here (opening tracks on each side are pure plays for pop stardom). Anyone familiar with the continental European scene of this time, will instantly recognize the Berlin based Made in Germany as a prototypical adventurous band for their time. Listen for organ, flute, acid guitar and the husky female vocals that are all associated with the genre. Joy Unlimited would have to be considered Made in Germany's closest comparison.
