Vita Nova. 1971 Germany

Vita Nova were an international trio based in Munich, who’s sole album was released in Austria. Featuring Eddy Marron (Dzyan) on guitar, who frequently plays with a psych edge. Also plenty of great fuzzed out Clavinet, Hammond, and pipe organ provided by Sylvester Lavay. Truly inventive rock with no real obvious comparisons. Vita Nova could be seen as the followup to Os Mundi’s psych influenced Latin Mass album.

The liner notes reveal perhaps the biggest surprise: That Lavay was behind the mid 70s disco group Silver Convention, best known for their hit 'Fly, Robin, Fly' among many others (and a group, by pure happenstance, that we just featured recently here on UMR).

CD: 1995 Penner

The above features 2 bonus tracks that were to be released as a single but never materialized, and are of the same high quality as the album proper.