MORPHEUS was a band from Warburg area in the German region of Westfalia playing progressive jazz rock, without vocals. Gerold Adler on guitar , Peter "Rabe" (raven) on bass, Heinrich Holtgreve on saxophone and Alfred Franke on drums had formerly been members of Opossum, a band founded in 1971. There was a quarrel about witch direction to take musically, for two of the members wanted to play free jazz while the four above-mentioned wished to add more rock elements . These four left the band.

For some time, Peter Blömeke was a drummer in the well-known German band Mythos. But in early 1975, they formed their own band, MORPHEUS. This also meant the end of Opossum. while Opossum had mainly been playing improvised tracks which were very long and went on and on, MORPHEUS was now setting out to work on the tracks in detail. It was highly important to them to try syncopated rhythms , sound shapes made up by means of echo and to fit them into there tracks.Soon they decided to record an LP, and so in spring 1976 "Rabenteuer" , all tracks on which they had written themselves , was publilshed independently in an edition of 500 copies . There was a mishape , however, for the record is a bit too slow and thus a semitone too low. Another mishape was that the painter drawing the coner artwork made the bird have an eagle`s , not a raben`s beak. The record`s title is pun made up of "Rabe" (raven) and Abenteuer (adventure) forming "Rabenteuer" (i.e. raventure) . In their book "The crack in the cosmic egg" , Steven and Alan Freeman write "Morpheus`self -produced LP is an unknown gem. It has a very live sound to it, and the music is full of warmth , strong melodies and some great riffing ..." Particulary outstanding is the first quarter of the track "Abflug" with its overwhelming spacy sounds. collectors habe meanwhile come to pax ober US$100 for the LP. In 1998 MORPHEUS released a CD of "Rabenteuer" The CD has taken from the master tape.The mishaps has been put right on this CD.
At the beginning of 1977 , Morpheus split up because Heinrich Holtgeve had moved to the city of Bochum

In 2001 Gerold Adler (Gitarre) , Peter Blömeke (Bass), Alvaro "Chevere" Tarquino (Drums-Percussión) decided together with Heinrich Holtgreve (Altsaxophon) - to rebirth
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They harmonized well and had soon composed several new tracks. In March 2002 made their way to Studio to record these new tracks for a CD release. The result is the CD „For a Second“ this CD is again released on Garden of Delights. For the CD presentation Morpheus performing in the legendary Burg Herzberg Festival with Mountain, Amon Düül II, Birth Control and Jeronimo.Very soon is a new CD release.