Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz  | 900mb |
Label: Brain/Brain 1066| Release: 1975 | Genre: Progressive-Rock


 A1 Waiting For The Sunshine 
 A2 Scratches On Your Back
 A3 Music Machine
 A4 Make Me Feel Better 
 A5 (Wishdream) Lady

 B1 Lord Love 
 B2 Midnight Mover 
 B3 Silver Knickers (But You Are All Right)
 B4 So, So Long

Bass [Fender] – Martin Hesse
 Drums – Peter Panka
 Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Klaus Hess
 Engineer – Conny Plank
 Engineer [2nd] – Petrus Wippel
 Organ, Synthesizer, Electric Piano, Vocals – Gottfried Janko
 Producer – Günter Körber
 Notes
 Recorded and mixed at conny's tonstudio gmbh., 5206 neuenkirchen. (nov.'74, jan.'75) 
 Track A3 is named "Music-Machine" on the label.

 black center labels with : 0001 066
 Barcode and Other Identifiers
 Rights Society: GEMA
 Matrix / Runout (Side A): ST 1066 A 0664707 S.1 SST 13 G
 Matrix / Runout (Side B): ST 1066 B 0664707 S 2 13 F

 Jane's well composed heavy-prog was never accompanied by great vocalists, as this album, 'Lady', can attest to. The music here is very, very good indeed, but lead vocalist Gottfried Janko sounds kind of like a gruff blues singer who's hit 'rock bottom' - but man, he surely makes up for it with his driving keyboard work, particularly on the Hammond Organ. He also uses a synthesizer to good effect. This time around all tracks were composed by lead guitarist Klaus Hess (who also sings lead on 'Music Machine'), and this actually shows - the songs sound more focused and tight, and quite 'complete'. The tracks are enthusiastically performed, many tempo changes, interesting arrangements and addictive melodies. The only thing they've done wrong here was give Gottfried a microphone, but the more you listen to the album, the less 'offensive' his voice is - it almosts sounds like he sports some sort of profound innocence - he can be really passionate.
 Top marks go to : 'Music Machine', 'Lord Love' (Gott's vocals actually work perfectly in this tune) and 'Midnight Mover' - the latter being a classic space-rock ramble, with swooping synths and hard-core jammin'. Once the taste has been acquired for the vox, the entire affair is an excellent listen. After this album, Jane released a fine slew of excellent albums, reminiscent of Floyd and Eloy (comparisons are inevitable - apologies to those who disagree). I rate 'Lady' as a 4, just.


Review by Tom Ozric, progarchives.com