The Krautrock Space

For once I´m taking the day completely off - with just my coffee, Tangerine Dream and my old mate Buddha - it´s been a while.

I really hear the Grateful Dead, when I listen to the pink one. And this is in no way a bad thing by any means - in fact I happen to love TGD. I also think the psychedelia and experimentation happening in both the UK and the States during the second half of the 60s had a lot of similarities with that of the Kosmische Musik happening in Germany shortly afterwards.  

I listened to Jefferson Airplane´s live album Bless it´s pointy little head, and was taken back by just how much I thought about ADll - regarding how the music feels..

BTW - You know, about that Docteur Faust record John.  Has the notion occurred to you - that maybe it´s something inside your head that´s defective

I recently talked to Logan about that Docteur Faust album, that you don´t particularly like (), but were we both had found some sort of way into this album by listening to it at the seashore. 

I love that Malesch album, but more than often I tend to grab for the pink one

Thank you John - I´m going tomorrow and it seems weird not to be able to read what you want to, but rather having to read what you´re told

Good thing about summer is that it keeps coming back in your face - just like a weather revolution you can count on

I´ll bet you have some wonderful scenery up there in Canada! I often use nature and my surroundings as a backdrop to Krautrock. Seems very natural to me - the music very often corresponds beautifully to streams, woods, beaches, desolate fields, flocks of birds or just your hair being blown in front of your eyes. I get this mostly with Kraut, Psych and the Electronic genre though...

BTW I just got back into Älgarnas Trädgaard. Their debut seems very much like a Krautrock masterpiece to me - with some weird folk, psychedelics, RIO and electronics. I love that album. I remember getting it back when I was 15, and didn´t know anything about prog or genres for that matter - this album took me completely off guard, and the first time I listened to it - I absolutely hated it I listened to it again one of the first times I ever tried some of that buddha stuff, if you know what I mean - and suddenly I found myself questioning, if it indeed was the same record I had been listening to 3 years beforehand.... Haven´t looked back since, and no need for buddha these days to get into the groove of the music - it´s just there.

Hope you taste some of that Indian summer - but if you don´t just pop on the equivalent Doors track. 

 

My Brother-in law lives just out of town in an old farm house so noise isn't a concern. Like the guys from KRAAN way back when,only those guys practised continually.Good luck at university Guld,it is that time of year sadly.I hate when summer ends.

I live on the 12th floor in some apartment, that doesn´t inspire loud music after 10-11 at night - and that´s pretty much about the time, when I start to get my freak on 

Been out of electricity for nearly a month now - and I´ve been living with my folks. Got it back here the other day, and let me just tell you how much I´ve missed visual confirmation, when I go out to have a pee in the mornings...

One good thing about the absence of power, has been the focus on jamming. My roommate plays the guitar and 

I´m gonna listen to it on YouTube instead... See what´s what!