The Krautrock Space

About PAPIR - I´ll call Christian who takes care of the bass work and keys and hear how far they are in the process concerning an actual tangible release.

Do you have the new Vespero John? I swear - that thing is some of the best psych music I have heard in a very long time. I´ve subsequently listened to their first two albums on Youtube, and personally I think the new one is more focused and ethereal - sort of sounds like a chilled out Ozric Tentacles with a madman behind the drums. He does wondrous things behind that kit and truly breaks up the music in a very original way, and what kind of sounds like those wailing notes Gilmour does when he plays with the volume button on his guitar is an aspect that sort of seeps into the guitars and synths. Sometimes it gets very rumbling and jazzy thanks to the drums, but that dreamy ethereal soundscape is still there in full force. The last 3 tracks sends me off somewhere - i don´t know where, but it sure feels great!

Yesterday I had a great and pretty absurd experience. I was in the voting booth with LA Düsseldorf banging away in my ears... I put down my mark, but right there and then, it was a the very end of the track where everything really sets off - I got hooked - and apparently I must have been standing there for a while - intoxicated by the beat, before a nice elderly lady suddenly peaked through the curtains and very kindly asked me if I had decided yet

I guess Düsseldorf  has some of that Neu! motorik feel to it, but there´s a slightly more rocking and pre-punk vibe to it as well. Great album, and Wrinkler if you read this at some point - yes it is just as good as you think it is and basically the continuation of Neu!.

I'm glad someone else feels that way Bamsen,i really dig that album a whole lot.It's like POPOL VUH and GILA had a kid and  named it...nevermind the subject matter is too seroius on that album to joke about.Great record though. Listening to AKASHA right now,an obscure band from Norway with lots of mellotron and psychedelics.Sounds like it's from the late sixties really even though it's much later.Not Krautrock but the spirit of it is in this.

 

Something Dirty is in my top 5 albums of the year atm, and should barring a massive surge of fantastic albums in the latter half of the year should at least make my 10 at years end.

 

While I don't think CC...C...C is as good as the others around it (I still like it a fair deal), I agree that later day Faust in general is quite excellent and just as good as the early albums. Faust Is Last is particular awesome for me. One of the most consistant bands I know this Faust.

 

If you ever decide to run for President you've my vote,in fact i'll run your campaign. "I love the sounds of the ocean in Krautrock". I mean who says stuff like that. Your like a Danish Syd Barrett.And i love that PROSPER album too.

This track is like no other:

Seeing as most of their albums practically were done live at the time - this should be very interesting, especially when you count in the recording was done professionally