SEMAJA-HEAR MY CRY-1980(DEMO)

THIS FIRTH DEMO CONTAIN(7-TRACKS)
1-SOMETIMES
2-HEAR MY CRY
3-JEDEN TAG(JESAJA 55)
4-THIS LIFE
5-JESAJA 53
6-THE WIND
7-BIG NOISE
SEMAJA-LIVE-1981(DEMO)















THEIR SECOND DEMO CONTAIN(7-TRACKS)
1-DAWNING
2-PILO
3-WILDERNESS
4-BABY HUEY
5-JESAJA 53
6-COME TO JESUS
7-BIG NOISE
SEMAJA-NO BURNING OUT-1984















1-HEY FRIEND
2-GREENDLAND
3-HE'S REAL
4-NOT TOO LATE
5-FLIP-FLOP
6-NO BURNING OUT
7-NO,NO
8-KAREN
9-BEHIND THE CURTAIN
If you followed Christian rock in the mid-‘80s you might have noticed an album by the German group Semaja called No Burning Out, released to the American market by the Refuge label. That was a great little record, but this earlier
Germany-only release is even better. Hear My Cry features seven lengthy cuts (five in English, two in German) in a sharply produced ‘70s progressive classic rock setting. They’ve earned a few comparisons to Santana for their Latin percussion coupled with long stretches of organ and electric guitar, faithfully expressed here on cuts like the high-energy ‘Big Noise’. Side two has a couple songs clocking in at seven-and-a-half minutes: ‘The Wind’ and the slow-churning Pink Floyd-ish ‘Jesaja 53’ (i.e., ‘Isaiah 53’). Other titles: ‘Sometimes’ (with funky bass and synthesizer), ‘Hear My Cry’, ‘Jeden Tag (Jesaja 55)’, and ‘This Life’. Unusual cover art shows a figure in a loincloth looking at a setting of bread, wine and fruit in a jungle. Back side shows a junked car and a broken doll in a burned-out apocalyptic landscape. Lead singer Markus Egger was also a member of the group Eden and has an earlier solo lp..