Heaven – s/t (1969 USA). Underground horn rock / psych album with delicious fuzz leads and cool roller rink organ sounds. Nice trumpet and trombone horn charts. Also some standard blues psych tunes as well. Interesting cacophonous freak out ending. This Nebraska band is not to be confused with the brass rock group from England. No CD exists.

Round House – ‘Scuse Me (1972 Germany).
Round House – Down to Earth (1973 Germany). German group who spent a lot of time with their Chicago Transit Authority album collection obviously. And they do a pretty convincing job of their variation of the horn rock sound. Some good grooves and they veer towards the jazzy side, always a plus in this genre. Much better than the more known Brain label horn groups like Emergency and Creative Rock. I wrote those words having heard only the debut “‘Scuse Me”. Followup album “Down to Earth” is more adventurous and includes a near side long suite similar to Chicago’s ‘A Girl from Buchanon’, but less pop oriented. Both albums lack consistency, but plenty of great stuff here, especially the Terry Kath inspired wah wah guitar. The Freeman’s say the album is ‘lightweight’ and of ‘marginal interest’, but I disagree with them here (for the record, I normally agree with them). No CD for either.

First Born – s/t (1973 Italy). I can find nothing about this band. Definitely one of the many instrumental Italian film library albums out there, and some of them contain different pseudonyms, as this might. Cool 60′s jet-set jazz funk tracks for the martini drinking James Bond crowd. Presuming this is rare as hens teeth, or it may just exist as another, more common, title. I only have a CD-R, so we’ll go with what I know. No surprise here, but no CD that I know of.