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Illusions on a Double Dimple

Two suites, one per side, and the first Triumvirat album to chart in the US.
Triumvirat, 1974

Side one is the 23-minute suite "Illusions on a Double Dimple" and side two the 21-minute "Mister Ten Percent". Fritz played Hammond organ, piano, Moog and Mellotron and arranged and produced; Bathelt played drums and wrote lyrics. Wikipedia says Pape played bass on the title suite and Kollen bass, guitars and vocals on "Mister Ten Percent", though Kollen's own page says he did not play on it, so that credit is contested. The Cologne Opera House Orchestra and the Kurt Edelhagen brass section guest. Recording took about six months, with horns, a string quartet and a choir added. The white rat mascot first appears on this cover. "Dimplicity" was a 1974 single with "Million Dollars". G-Unit's 2003 "G-Unit" samples "Million Dollars" and Kemelions' "Liquid Dots of Kaos" (1992) samples "Illusions", per Wikipedia. AllMusic gave it 4.5 stars, and Music Street Journal called it one of their finest.

Track listing

  1. Flashback0:54
  2. Schooldays3:20
  3. Triangle6:55
  4. Illusions1:40
  5. Dimplicity5:28
  6. Last Dance4:42
  7. Maze3:01
  8. Dawning1:01
  9. Bad Deal1:36
  10. Roundabout5:43
  11. Lucky Girl5:16
  12. Million Dollars5:23

More from Triumvirat

Mediterranean Tales (Across The Waters) (1972), Spartacus (1975), Old Loves Die Hard (1976), À La Carte (1978), Russian Roulette (1980)

Sources

  1. Illusions on a Double Dimple, Wikipedia
  2. Triumvirat (Band), German Wikipedia
  3. 50 greatest prog rock albums of all time, Rolling Stone Australia (2015)