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Message  - From Books And Dreams flac album
  • Performer Message
  • Title From Books And Dreams
  • Date of release 1973
  • Country Europe
  • Style Krautrock, Prog Rock
  • Other formats AUD DTS XM MOD AA VOX AU
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1638 mb
  • Size FLAC 1294 mb
  • Rating: 4.5
  • Votes: 935

Only for completionists (0%). Second album by the Scottish and German band (Allan Murdoch and Tam McGuigan were Scottish), From Books and Dreams sports an extremely creepy cover depicting a skull with a snake going through its eye sockets. Here the band takes on a heavier approach than on From Books and Dreams. Tam McGuigan, therefore takes on a heavier vocal approach, something like Don Brewer's vocal approach on Grand Funk's "We're an American Band" (not that Message sounded like Grand Funk, more like a heavier version of Nektar)

Matrix, Runout (Side A): BLPS 19159-Q-A. Matrix, Runout (Side B): BLPS 19159-Q-B.

Message-From Books and Dreams German prog psych reissue lp sealed. Sliding into deeper unconsciousness, "Dreams And Nightmares (Dreams)" culminates with the bass and the psychically induced guitar sequence from Allan Murdoch and expands and finally explodes into a ravishingly riff. One of the better openings I have heard from a heavy prog song in the first half of the '70's.

From Books and Dreams was the second album from Message, a British and German group, originally released in 1973 on Bacillus/Bellaphon on SQ Quadrophonic (you needed SQ equipment to be able to play it in quad). The group at this time consisted of vocalist/saxist Tom McGuigan (who also played a little Mellotron), future Birth Control bassist Horst Stachelhaus, guitarist Allan Murdoch, and drummer Günther Klingel. The music is not unlike a harder rocking Nektar without organ (Allan "Taff" Freeman had appeared on some of their albums, not this one though).

A1 Sleep! 2:51 A2 Dreams And Nightmares (Dreams) 12:45 A3 Turn Over! 4:02 B1 Sigh 8:07 B2 Dreams And Nightmares (Nightmares). A half-British, half-German affair (the same line-up that would record the eponymous masterpiece Message), From Books and Dreams is a dark, hard-rocking psychedelic album. 2 - Dreams and Nightmares (Dreams) - One of the two very high points (personally I can't find any weak points) of this album. Starts where Sleep left off, with an hypnotic guitar theme, repeated for a while (the German influence, I guess) and built up until a riff change and vocals kick in. Now, some may not like Tom McGuigan's voice, I know I really love it. Not always on tone, he more than makes up for it with intensity and theatricality.

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Tracklist

A1 Sleep! 2:51
A2 Dreams And Nightmares (Dreams) 12:45
A3 Turn Over! 4:02
B1 Sigh 8:07
B2 Dreams And Nightmares (Nightmares) 13:30

Credits

  • Bass – Horst Stachelhaus
  • Drums – Günther Klingel
  • Engineer – Dieter Dierks
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Hainer*
  • Guitar – Allan Murdoch
  • Producer – Peter Hauke
  • Vocals, Saxophone, Mellotron, Lyrics By – Tommy McGuigan
  • Written-By – Message

Notes

Recorded March 1973.

First pressing with unboxed Bellaphon on labels.
Gatefold sleeve.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A): BLPS 19159-Q-A
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B): BLPS 19159-Q-B

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
BLPS 19159 Message From Books And Dreams ‎(LP, Unofficial) Bacillus Records BLPS 19159 Europe Unknown
SB LP 074 Message From Books And Dreams ‎(LP, Album) Second Battle SB LP 074 Germany 2010
BLPS 19159, BLPS 19159 Q Message From Books And Dreams ‎(LP) Bacillus Records, Bacillus Records BLPS 19159, BLPS 19159 Q Germany 1973
BLPS 19159 Message From Books And Dreams ‎(LP, Album, Gat) Bacillus Records, Bellaphon, Sabado Som BLPS 19159 Brazil 1974
DRS1017 Message From Books And Dreams ‎(LP, Album) Direction Records DRS1017 New Zealand 1975


Talk about Message - From Books And Dreams


Majin
I found this record on You Tube. very catchy, listenable sections, especially on Dreams and nightmares. this isn't the case with alot of prog., good song structures that I get into . good stuff! some of it reminds me of the band Nektar in ways .