ALL Deutschland Prog Appreciation Thread...

Eloy got me into prog in 1979 and been a big fan ever since..but I got to know and love many other German prog bands, namely

Other German bands that are worthy of being explored:

Aera
Tiere der Nacht (a side project of Guru Guru drummer Mani Neumeier; the band name means "Animals of the Night. They are not in the archives yet).
Space Explosion (a short-lived German supergroup which also featured Neuimeier, but also Amon Düül 2 multi-instrumentalist and singer Chris Karrer). Their only self-titled album was re-released under the band  name "Amon Guru", including some bonus tracks; it was retitled "Die Krautrock Explosion" in the re-release. It is very much in the vein of early Kraufrock. You can hear the whole Amon Guru album online here:
http://tinyurl.com/87dr6j
The line-up (besides Karrer and Neumeier) is Jürgen Engler of German band Die Krupps (guitar), Dieter Moebius of Harmonia (keyboards), Werner "Zappi" Diermaier of Faust (percussion) and Jean-Hervé Peron (also of Faust) guitarand trumpet. An all-star line-up indeed!
And yet another side project of Mani Neumeier (that man is full of energy, and he is going on 70!):
Psychedelic Monsterjam, featuring Ax Genrich from early Guru Guru days on guitar and Dave Schmidt aka Sulana Bassana on bass. They released two live albums so far, a self-titled one and "Intergalactic Travel Agency". Krautrock of the finest!




Edited by BaldFriede - January 07 2009 at 15:37

BaldFriede wrote: Other German bands that are worthy of being explored: Tiere der Nacht (a side project of Guru Guru drummer Mani Neumeier; the band name means "Animals of the Night. They are not in the archives yet).

Yeti. That was Amon Duul II. Check out the little highlight baldfriede provided four posts ago and I think that you`ll find that Krautrock Explosion is a bit more mind blowing than Yeti. Not that Yeti isn`t mind blowing it`s just that Krautrock explosion is a bit more mind blowing.

Vibrationbaby wrote: Anybody out there ever heard of a rather obscure German folk/rock band called Broeselmachine? They put out two albums in the seventies. The  the first one from `71 which has a freaky cover and can be described as hippie/ prog / folk. Sort of like Hoelderlin`s first album only with English vocals. The second one released in `76 had Mani Nuemeier on percussion as well as Roland Schaffer from Guru Guru on bass which I have never been able to locate. I was suprised to find them here in the archives with a track available for streaming. Check it out. Apparently this first album is available on CD as well. I added a video of a reunion in `06 but it seem s to have different players.

Vibrationbaby wrote: Anybody out there ever heard of a rather obscure German folk/rock band called Broeselmachine? They put out two albums in the seventies. The  the first one from `71 which has a freaky cover and can be described as hippie/ prog / folk. Sort of like Hoelderlin`s first album only with English vocals. The second one released in `76 had Mani Nuemeier on percussion as well as Roland Schaffer from Guru Guru on bass which I have never been able to locate. I was suprised to find them here in the archives with a track available for streaming. Check it out. Apparently this first album is available on CD as well. I added a video of a reunion in `06 but it seem s to have different players.

"Bröselmaschine", by the way, means "hashish machine"; "Brösel" is a German slang word for hashish, because the hashish has to crumbled before using it, and "to crumble" means "bröseln" in German; a "crumb" is a "Brösel". The word was originally used for breadcrumbs only (you can still see the root of "Brot", the German word for "bread", in "Brösel").

Probably my favourite band from Germany is Eloy but they have been mentioned previously, another ones that come to my mind now that i like a lot are Wallenstein, Out of Focus, Emma Myldenberger and Tortilla Flat among others, there arre great music here besides what we know as Kraut, with symphonic bands like SFF or Epidaurus

and what about this:

Actually, many European bands got away with using sax without the music slipping into fusion.  Hawkwind is a perfect example.  Amon Duul also used sax nicely.