Don Anderson And Friends — The Eagle Flies 1973 (Germany, Folk,Psychedelic,Funk Rock)
The second album by Croatian musician Edo Zanki under the pseudonym Don Anderson.Zanki was born in Yugoslavia. His family moved with five-year-old Eduard to West Germany, first to a twelve-square-meter room in one of the barracks of the Zierdorf refugee camp and later to Karlsdorf near Bruchsal, where his father found work. He and his two older brothers made "wild house music with whatever was around." His brother Wilko became a professional musician and brought the 14-year-old into his bands, "Edo and the Markees" and "Edo and Friends," as a keyboardist. A few years later, Edo Zanki and Wilko wrote their first songs for Joy Fleming and Peter Horton.
Under the stage name Don Anderson, he experimented with a new sound from 1972 onwards. He titled his first solo LP "Feelin' Alright", a song by Dave Mason, and featured several members of Ralf Nowy's later band (including Keith Forsey and Paul Vincent), in addition to Joy Fleming. A year later, the LP "The Eagle Flies" was released.
Edo Zanki became known to a wider audience as the composer of the song "Fruits of the Night", performed by Tina Turner on her first solo album, *Rough*, from 1978. In 1983, he had another hit with the song "Die Tänzerin" (The Dancer), performed by Ulla Meinecke. During the recording, he played the characteristic electric piano on a Yamaha GS1 and is also heard as a vocalist in the interlude of the song. This marked Zanki's debut as a singer.
Tracks:
01. Understanding — 0:00
02. Life’s A Fight — 6:20
03. The Eagle Flies — 11:59
04. Shape Up — 20:46
05. Meet Me — 26:12
06. Take It All Or Leave It — 29:50
07. I Can See Out Spirits Rising — 36:59
Personnel:
Don Anderson — vocals, piano
Ernst Väster — guitar
Vilko Zanki — guitar
Ralf Nowy — alto saxophone
Gerhard Spirka — bass
Thor Baldursson — organ
Fréderic Rabold — trumpet, flügelhorn
Rolf Baum — drums
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