COTTONWOODHILL

A krautrock band from Switzerland headed by the Belgian Joel Vandroogenbroeck. Sounds interesting and makes curious. 'Cottonwoodhill' is the first album of this band from 1971 and psychedelic acid krautrocked more than anything. Just have a look at the cover art for some time. A unique remarkable element is the appearance of distorted male and female vocals during the complete album.

Compared to the title song the album starts relatively innocent but still excellent with Black Sand. Against a simple bass and drum background we have some deformed male vocals. Especially the guitar and organ contributions are the finest expressing a heavy rocking touch a little bit. The following impressive Places of Light is nearly in the same vein - mellow, with flute and some weird female recitatives. This was BRAINTICKET playing on the safe side.

The title song - divided in three parts - now appears as the ultimate acid trip - rough, unpolished. Repetitive guitar and organ chords for 26 minutes combined with sound experiments. The band must have produced lots of broken porcelain and glass for the recordings by the way. Enraptured female vocals by Dawn Muir - sometimes shrill sometimes whispering. Produced with the help of some pills I'm quite sure - and really enjoyable for the complete length only with the help of some pills too.

A cult album for sure and good enough to be recommended - but not a masterpiece. On this occasion the complete Brainticket trip is turned out too long, too exaggerative and less expressive according to my taste - 3 stars for a debut are nothing to get disappointed about and some more albums are following.

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