Krautrock

     If you give us the bands you know it'll be easier for us!. Anyway I recommend you Brainstorm, Embryo, Xhol Caravan, Amon Düll (I & II), Popol Vuh, Agitation Free....

     If you want more contact me ;-)
   

    I do not know if these are as obscure as you want (maybe Xhol Caravan is the obscurest, their first album is in 1967), but if you want more i can tell you, 'cause I have and example cd from "garden of the lights" (a company record that has been releasing odd material from germany for 4 years more or less) that may have some groups that interests you.

Do you know "The other sides of Agitation free" ('75).

I know it's not real Ag free anymore and i'm interested to know more about.

I know that it's in a more jazzrock vein with saxo and vocals. I think that must be cheesy.

Besides that, Ag free is a major band.

Oliver. Agitation Free died in France with 'Last' as you know. Don't touch it !


        By the way is 'Barclay' still around ? Got a few classic France Gall 7 inches (45 tours) on that sonofabitch ! Oh an' Francoise Hardy and a host of French beauties..! Label boss must be Mr. Stud

i feel like some of the very obscure has become quite available as of late

Thanks Dick !



        Love Steve an' Alan in Leicester (who whudda thunk it) ?



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Well i have heard of krautrock rarity albums that i cant find anywhere, internet or shop store :)

Example:

GAM

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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)

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You mlaybe have this one :

DOM -Edge Of time (Awesome psychedelic acoustic rock very great)
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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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I Took these articles from the crack at the cosmic egg, you can view it here:
http://samhob.com/sam/cracklight.mht

Not very obscure, nor very german, but absolutely worth checking if one's into krautrockery: Motorpsycho. A wonderfully wierd Norwegian band whose live album "Roadworks Vol. 2: The MtorSource Massacre" is especially remarkable. Also interesting are "Timothy's Monster" and "Trust Us".

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...