Virgin’s Dream

Virgin’s Dream were a German jazz-rock band from Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, that released the album Sophisty on ELM records in 1980. The band was concurrently involved in the larger jazz ensemble Noctett. Nine years earlier, three of the members cut a space-psych session that was later released on CD as The X-Tapes.

Members: Charly Weißschädel (bass), Winfried Rüger [Jazzy] (guitar), Rolf Trenkler [Trep-X] (piano, guitar, vocals), Theo Marpe (drums, ?-1972), Frank Pieper (drums, 1972-?), Thomas Hufschmidt (keyboards, 1977-?), Martin Engelien (bass, 1977-?), Axel Berendonk (drums, 1977), Peter Walter (drums, 1977-?), Ulrich Blomann (tenor saxophone), Bernd Krämer (guitar, 1980)

Discography:

• Sophisty (1980)
• The X-Tapes (1971) (released 2000)