Recommended records on Mood Label

[Rabshakeh]

There have been a few recent references to Wolfgang Dauner's label Mood (and according to Discogs co owned by Volker Kriegel, Albert Mangelsdorff and Ack Van Rooyen). 

I don't really know the label other than the UJ+RE. Are there any records on it that others recommend?

[Niko]

Pretty sure it's the only label where I've sold off everything I ever bought (Homeward by Ack van R and that Eef Albers / Darryl Thompson Album come to mind, but there may have been more), and I did love Zweitausendeins (which was the only distributor?) as much as the next person .... or more

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, Niko said:

Pretty sure it's the only label where I've sold off everything I ever bought

High praise.

[T.D.]

I know the label mainly through youtube.

I like the UJ+RE material and would purchase some at reasonable prices. There's quite a bit of jazz-rock with other headliners, e.g. Nucleus, that I haven't heard.

The only physical material I own is a CD of Meditation on a Landscape - Tagore by Dauner and Charlie Mariano. I like it a lot, but it's arguably meditation or "mood" music. I expect there are a lot of similar things on the label, probably quite a bit of dreck mixed in, but I haven't spent that much time looking on youtube. Plum Island by Charlie Mariano is quite good, but does venture into mood/smooth territory at times and I wouldn't purchase it.

I suspect that aside from the jazz-rock stuff it's a mixed bag. I've been meaning to explore the Dauner solo albums, but haven't started yet because I expect some duds are mixed in (I'm not so fond of his electronics).

I think the label was a cool project and am surprised it went on for so long. But the paucity of available reissues and downloads probably says something.

[mikeweil]

10 hours ago, T.D. said:

I suspect that aside from the jazz-rock stuff it's a mixed bag. I've been meaning to explore the Dauner solo albums, but haven't started yet because I expect some duds are mixed in (I'm not so fond of his electronics).

I think the label was a cool project and am surprised it went on for so long. But the paucity of available reissues and downloads probably says something.

I never liked the German jazz rock bands due to their total lack of "black" feeling. Where American bands had r & b as reference ther German bands had a rock feel, which is too hard and stiff in comparison. Just my opinion, of course. 

I still have the LP by Head, Heart and Handy who were a magnificent live band, but the album is rather bombastic sounding with too many overdubs. Then I have the album by Frankfurt's band Voices, another great band live, but the studio recording is a far cry from that. Dauner's solo albums are great.

Now that Dauner, Mangelsdorff, Kriegel and whoever was involved are all gone, who owns the rights? I have no idea.

[sidewinder]

'Homeward' by Ack van Rooyen is actually one of my favourites.

I have most of their LP releases by the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and also at least one by Kolbe/Illenberger. Also a CD of one of the Mangelsdorff/Dauner duet albums- also enjoyable.

There was a welcome CD reissue programme by Inakustik about a decade ago for which I picked up a number of them - Dauner/Marian, Volker Kriegel, Mangelsdorff/Dauner, UJRE. That was a good set of reissues.

[mikeweil]

This is another one I can recommend, as anything by Pirchner:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1959942-Pirchner-Pepl-Jazzzwio-Gegenwind

[GA Russell]

I think this was on Mood, but maybe not.  It's somewhere in one of my LP boxes.