Triumvirat – Illusions On A Double Dimple

German Pressing has richer sound, more bass. Ignore all negativity on Triumvirat, these guys are balls to the wall fantastic. Outrageous and fun. Illusions on a Double Dimple is a great starting place.

This album is a prog powerhouse! This German band sounds like a cross between ELP and the Who…and it’s delightful!

If you love ELP and want a band that sounds like them, look no further. This is one of the very best Triumvirat albums, you can't go wrong here. Very FUN never boring, filled with Moog, piano and Hammond, and the drumming, bass and vocals are all excellent. Sure, they're an ELP clone, but what a clone! This is no Starcastle. A Moog fans delight.

An absolutely stunning record. Its surprised me in many ways, recording and engeneering are excellent, musicwise it's like between ELP, in parts it sounds like them, and Krautrock where some parts might as well be Amon Düül II.
I can highly recommend it.

I assume all copies are like mine and are transparent brownish when held up to the light??? I'm surprised it looks black at all, how transparent it looks held up to a light source.

I have a Winchester and Los Angeles USA pressing and they're both massively off-center. Extremely visible but sadly also audible, particularly in piano segments and near the center of the record. Maybe find a different version if bothered by this.

The 22:59 of music on side one of this album is the most intense sound I have ever experienced!

As stated elsewhere by others, this is a really good album by the band, bettered only by their next release ("Spartacus"). Nifty keys and Squire-esque bass lines make comparisons with elements of Yes and most definitely ELP so easy. I'd say that the band was more like a pop ELP; Keith Emerson could quite easily have played the keyboards on this album.
And yes, the lyrics/vocals are a tad cheesy...
If you're a fan of 70s keyboard-based prog then you could do a lot worse than check out this album; you certainly won't regret it!

Second set by this German progressive-rock trio, focusing on the keyboards--synthesizers, organ and piano--likely multi-tracking to include many of keyboardist Frtiz's contributions all at once, mostly his show, lacking in the rhythm section (this is no Yes), bassist/guitarist Köllen offering vocals in English, the band sounding a lot like ELP, but not so over the top, maybe somewhere between ELP and Gentle Giant...not my bag but maybe worth a listen for fans of this brand of music.

Pretty much a blend of early Yes and Emerson Lake and Palmer, some parts are really cool but it doesn't make up for the cheesy parts which are quite bad. The vocals are unappealing.