Krautrock

Aha: someone mentioned the name of Gunter Schickert...is his solo album Uberrfallig (on the SKY label, circa 1976 at a guess: my vinyl is stored under the stairs at the moment) rare enough to plug?

Can't say anything about him since all the text on the cover is scrawled in illegible German, but Klaus Schulze gets a namecheck. The music is in a Schulze/ Tangerine Dream format, but with guitars and drums (and lots of echo effects) instead of sequencers. Very cool stuff.

Once downloaded a song with a very Krautrocky / early Hawkwind sound by a more current band German band calling itself Bluesausageinfant (must have been an umlaut in there somewhere). Wouldln't mind hearing more of them...

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The name GAM is an acronym of the three musicians' first names: Günter Schickert, Axel Struck and Michael Leske, a trio of musicians who had worked together under various guises since the early-70's. Günter Schickert is well-known as a pioneer of the echo-guitar, and his influence is strong in their acid freaky guitar rock. In the spirit of early Ash Ra Tempel or Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive", the jam sessions on GAM 1976 are full of invention, with walls of guitars and deranged vocals. As yet, their official studio album EISZEIT (recorded 1978) remains unreleased.

Günter Schickert (guitar, vocals, trumpet), Axel Struck (guitars, vocals), Michael Leske (drums, percussion)

GAM 1976 (1976)
MC Auricle AMC 017 (UK, 1986)

Dom

One of the legendary classics of the German underground. Little or nothing is known of their history, and as to how two Hungarian brothers, a Pole and a German got together. Yet the resultant music this international combo created resulted in some of the most inventive Krautrock. A strange spacious and innovative album fusing rock, folk, ethnic and the avant-garde musics most uniquely, EDGE OF TIME is one of those albums that is extremely difficult to describe. Just consider, it ranges from atmospheric Yatha Sidhra realms via electroacoustic collage, and free-form jazz, onto the chaotic psychedelic underground of Amon Düül. All this is the framework for a dreamy poetic semi-spoken song recanting the lyrics on the cover. Enigmatic through and through. And, if that weren't enough, it all flows as if a grandiose conceptual opus, one which combines so many disparate elements that it becomes uncategorisable! Amazing, for such a strange album, EDGE OF TIME has become a much sought after collectable rarity, and deservedly so!

László v. Baksay (bass, vocals), Gábor v. Baksay (percussion, vocals, flute), Reiner Puzalowski (guitar, vocals, flute), Hans Georg Stopka (organ, guitar, vocals)

EDGE OF TIME (1983)
LP Melocord ST-LP-D 001 (1971)
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