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O Improved Sound Limited é uma banda alemã que faz um rock psicodélico de estrada com pitadas de blues e country music, com melodias bem agradáveis. Eu conheci a banda pela trilha sonora do filme Im Lauf der Zeit, do genio Wim Wenders, filme no qual eles cederam 4 músicas.
Aqui uma história resumida da banda, detalhe para o ano de início, 1966!




1966:
1st Place in the competition*"Best Beat Band in Bavaria" at Bavarian Radio (BR)
Participation in the BR "Schmusical" called "How Beatles turn into citizens"

1967:
Single "It Is You"/ "We Are Alone" (Polydor, producer: Gerhard Mendelson)
Appearance at the 17th Berlin Film Festival
Appearance in Erlangen at the event "Prose-Pop-Poetry" with Peter Handke, Fitzgerald Kusz and others

1968:
Music for Megan Terry's play "Vietrock" with Inge Brandenburg, directed by: Stavros Doufexis, choreographed by José Luis Gómez
Music for the solo pantomime "Idylls of Herr Meck" by José Luis Gómez

1969:
Film*music and LP "Engelchen macht weiter – hoppe, hoppe Reiter", directed by Michael Verhoeven
Film mushc for "Der Bettenstudent", directed by Michael Verhoeven
Single "Sing Your Song" / "Marvin Is Dead" (Polydor)
Music for the TV documantary "Ezra Pound", for the 13 part series "The 6th Day" and for the first five episodes of "The Play School"


1970:
Film music "o.k.", directed by Michael Verhoeven
Single "Oedipus" / "Where Will The Salmon Spawn" (United Artists)
More music for the series "The Play School"
Music for thd series "The Kommissar", episode "Dr. Meinhardt's Tragic End"

1971:
Double album "Improved Sound Limited" (Liberty)
Film music "Lass knabken, Ive" whth the song "The Policeman"
BR Open Air Concert in Bergdorf (with Tangerine Dream, Birth Control, Ihre Kinder and Klaus Kreuzeder)
German Pop Festival in Koblenz and Burg Herzberg Festival $28with Frumpy+ Can,Achim Reichel, Xhole, Embryo+ Guru Guru etc.$29

1972:
Rock musical "The Gentlemen from Verona", book by H.C. Artmann, directed by Nicolas Brieger

1973:
LP "Catch A Singing Bird On The Road" (CBS)
Music for the 10 part TV series "Krempoli", directed by Michael Verhoeven

1974:
Music for Fernando Arrabal's revue "The Thousand Year War" (Bella Ciao), directed by Jorge Lavelli
Spheric music for the open air event "The Robbers from Spessart", directed by Klaus Schlette

1975:
Demo recordings for "Rathbone Hotel"
Film music for "Kings Of The Road", directed by Wim Wenders

1976:
LP "Rathbone Hotel" (CBS)
Film music for "The Baker's Bread", directed by Erwin Keusch
Music for the series "Beer and Games", directed by Michael Verhoeven

1977:
Live performances in Nuremberg (Casablanba), Neuendettelsau and Berlin (Kant Kino)

1979:
Film music for $22As Far As The*Eye Can See", directed by Erwin Keusch

2001:
Re-release of the double album "Improved Sound Limited" and the album "Catch A Singing Bird On The Road" on CD, the latter with a bonus track featuring H.C.
Artmann as narrator of the song "The Dark Lord"

2002:
Re-release of the album „Rathbone Hotel“ and first release of the film music compilation „Road Trax“
A final new song "The Very Last Waltz" is recorded by the band

2003:
Re-release of the singles, film music for "Engelchen" and "Bettenstudent" plus first release of music for the shows "Kommissar" and "Krempoli", all on the CD "The Final Foreword" together with "The Very Last Waltz"
Remix plus additional rdcording for "Bell Cantos – Ezra Pound Revisited$22

2004:
Release of the compilation "The Ultimate Collection", the complete works of Improved Sound Limited on 6 CDs




Improved Sound Limited - Improved Sound Limited (1971)
http://rapidshare.com/files/250106701/IMPROVED_SOUND_LIMITED_-_Improved_Sound_Limited__1971__www.lajso,lajsosoundltd.blogspot.com.rar

Improved Sound Limited - Catch A Singing Bird On The Ro`d (1973) $0Ahttp://rapidshare.com/files/250319831/IMPROVED_SOUND_LIMITED_-_Catch_A_Singing_Bird_On_The_Road__1973__www.lajso-lajsosoundltd.blogspot.co

Improved Sound Limited - Rathbone Hotel (1976)
http://rapidshare.com/files/148614644/Improved_sound_limited_-_rathbone_hotel_1976.rar

Improved Sound Limited - Road Trax (2002)
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Aqui estão duas cenas do filme dirigido por Wim Wenders.
Na primeira, os dois atores principais do filme estão num teatro/cinema tentando consertar um projetor(se não me falha a memória), com um monte de crianças de uma escola que estavam la para assistir um filme, ja estavam na platéia. Muito legal!
Na segunda um trecho do começo do filme onde toca uma das músicas da trilha sonora.