Today we learned that Pancake's "No Illusions" has been released on CD by the great Garden of Delights label. They had announced long ago their intention to reissue this album. In typical Garden of Delights fashion, first they removed it from consideration, and as we reported earlier this year, put it back on the docket. And now it has been released - ahead of other anticipated reissues like Sunbird's "Zagara" and Missus Beastly's "Space Guerillas". A quirky label for sure, but despite these eccentricities, there still is no better reissue concern today.
We featured "No Illusions" about 3 years ago. This link includes that review plus the re-listing news earlier this year. For my money, this is the best of their 3 albums, and is a most welcome reissue.
Official blurb says this: "The group from Winnenden near Stuttgart started as Nyrvana Pancake and
released a very good psychedelic 7" single in 1973. In 1974, they
shortened their band name into Pancake, and instead of psychedelia they
now played symphonic rock. The first Pancake LP, "Roxy elephant", was
released in 1975, and the second one, "Out of the ashes", appeared in
1977. The band later veered away from their symphonic style as the
people lost interest in this kind of music at the time. Their third and
last LP, "No illusions" from the end of 1979, is thus somewhat coarser
and tougher than its two predecessors. There was now a female singer for
the first time in Pancake's history, in addition to some other changes
in line-up. The CD edition on Garden of Delights includes six bonus
tracks and has a booklet of 32 pages."
For LP fans, Garden of Delights continues to plunder their own back catalog, with announcements that Siddharta and Missus Beastly's debut will be coming out on vinyl shortly.
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