Carol Of Harvest is one of the many German bands that released just a single album before fading into obscurity. Guitarist Axel Schmierer and his school friends, bassist Heinz Reinschlüssel and drummer Robert Högn, founded their studio project in 1976 in Fürth (Middle Franconia, Bavaria). The line-up was completed by keyboardist Jürgen Kolb and the then 16-year-old singer Beate Krause, who lent the masterful psych-folk album, with its progressive undertones, the perfect feminine vocal touch, full of melancholy and sensitivity. The unusual band name was taken from a poem by Walt Whitman.

The recordings for their self-titled debut album took place at the Tonstudio Brutkasten in Nuremberg in April and May 1978, produced by the band themselves. Their only LP was then released in the summer of the same year in a very limited edition of just 200 copies on the highly sought-after Brutkasten label. Its owner, Peter Klimek, regarded it as the best record on his label. This original LP (matrix ST 850004-A/B) is now one of the most sought-after collector’s items worldwide in the realm of German folk-prog.