The Krautrock Space

Guldbamsen wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: presdoug wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: sagichim wrote: I always loved Thirsty Moon's first couple of albums especially their second. But honestly i wouldn't categorize them as krautrock. Well they are listed under Jazz/Fusion here as are EX-MAGMA that David just mentioned. On this thread we don't have a black and white attitude towards what's Krautrock and what's not, it's just us talking about anything that's even close, like Psychedelic/Space Rock and trippy Jazz/Fusion, especially if it's from Germany but not necessarily. Point taken though. Some excellent bands straddle more than one sub genre, like Dzyan, who are just as jazz-rock, really, as krautrock. Could call them either, i guess.Great and under-rated band. Have talked by phone to their guitar/sitar player Eddy Marron-nice chap.(and a brilliant musician) Have you guys heard the band  that Dzyan became called Giger, Lenz and Marron? They are totally awesome, and put out two records, Beyond and Where The Hammer Hangs Very good point about bands crossing the genre lines. On this site it's set up so a band can only be in one genre, but on for example the RYM site they are tagged often with multiple genre titles.   Also i have my music sorted by genre and because of that i might have some albums from a band in one section and others of their's in another because they've changed their style. Actually i have early Kraan in Krautrock and their later stuff in Jazz/Fusion. I'm very familiar with Eddy Moran from Vita Nova and Dzyan but i've not heard of that later project so i'll check them out. Thanks ! The man can play guitar. Great to have you back up in this place John And just like you said, we, at least some of us, work with a somewhat loose definition of Krautrock that opens up to a lot of different genres such as fusion, electronic and psych. I too have my early Kraan and Exmagma in the Krautlands of my collection Regarding RYM and the whole tagging thing, I think it could be interesting to have multi-tagging as well. We'd be facing a lot of Swedish acts in Kraut as well - such as Älgarnas Trädgard, Kebnekaise, Arbete och Fritid, International Harvester and Fläsket Brinner.

Thanks David !  It's good to be back after spending a month trying to make my reviews more readable. 

Mellotron Storm wrote: presdoug wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: sagichim wrote: I always loved Thirsty Moon's first couple of albums especially their second. But honestly i wouldn't categorize them as krautrock. Well they are listed under Jazz/Fusion here as are EX-MAGMA that David just mentioned. On this thread we don't have a black and white attitude towards what's Krautrock and what's not, it's just us talking about anything that's even close, like Psychedelic/Space Rock and trippy Jazz/Fusion, especially if it's from Germany but not necessarily. Point taken though. Some excellent bands straddle more than one sub genre, like Dzyan, who are just as jazz-rock, really, as krautrock. Could call them either, i guess.Great and under-rated band. Have talked by phone to their guitar/sitar player Eddy Marron-nice chap.(and a brilliant musician) Have you guys heard the band  that Dzyan became called Giger, Lenz and Marron? They are totally awesome, and put out two records, Beyond and Where The Hammer Hangs Very good point about bands crossing the genre lines. On this site it's set up so a band can only be in one genre, but on for example the RYM site they are tagged often with multiple genre titles.   Also i have my music sorted by genre and because of that i might have some albums from a band in one section and others of their's in another because they've changed their style. Actually i have early Kraan in Krautrock and their later stuff in Jazz/Fusion. I'm very familiar with Eddy Moran from Vita Nova and Dzyan but i've not heard of that later project so i'll check them out. Thanks ! The man can play guitar.

By the way i also have this Missus Beastly live album from 1974 from a Radio Bremen broadcast that has Eddy Moran playing guitar on throughout. Very cool !  They're another band listed here under Jazz/Fusion that i keep in my Krautrock section along with Ex-Magma, Thirsty Moon, Dzyan, Out Of Focus and i'm sure there's more. I should mention that i listened to Guru Guru's posthumous release called Live In Germany 1971 tonight. Recorded by Radio Bremen after the release of UFO and Hinten, this one kicks some serious ass !  The three songs are extended from their original studio lenghts as we get over an hour of Krautrock from the boys.

Mellotron Storm wrote: sagichim wrote: I always loved Thirsty Moon's first couple of albums especially their second. But honestly i wouldn't categorize them as krautrock. Well they are listed under Jazz/Fusion here as are EX-MAGMA that David just mentioned. On this thread we don't have a black and white attitude towards what's Krautrock and what's not, it's just us talking about anything that's even close, like Psychedelic/Space Rock and trippy Jazz/Fusion, especially if it's from Germany but not necessarily. Point taken though.

Some excellent bands straddle more than one sub genre, like Dzyan, who are just as jazz-rock, really, as krautrock. Could call them either, i guess.Great and under-rated band. Have talked by phone to their guitar/sitar player Eddy Marron-nice chap.(and a brilliant musician) Have you guys heard the band  that Dzyan became called Giger, Lenz and Marron? They are totally awesome, and put out two records, Beyond and Where The Hammer Hangs


Edited by presdoug - April 14 2012 at 21:05

I always loved Thirsty Moon's first couple of albums especially their second. But honestly i wouldn't categorize them as krautrock.

Cornucopia again.... wowee zowee this opening track kicks butt..

I really like Thirsty Moon and like Cornucopia that was just mentioned there's a Jazz flavour at times to go along with the trippy mood. Cool stuff !

I'm checking out Cornucopia now.  I'm feeling the tang as we speak.

Klaus Dinger is so cool.

Yeah I am loving the Moolah as well