KRAUTROCK Listening Klub! - New Albums Every Wednesday

hah, I remember you ysi-ing that once.

Gotta support yr local artists!

other famous sons of Paisley: Andrew Neil, Paulo Nutini, my dad.

I had no idea paulo nutini was from Paisley.

Sadly true. Also Tom Conti. But, in our defence, there's Fulton Mackay. And David Tennant.

Gerard Butler too, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley#Notable_people

Oh yes, I think his maw lives in near my maw

Still, Krautrock, eh? Ye cannae whack it!

isnt steven moffat from paisley too?

hey tom was Krautrock popular in paisley when you were a lad?

In my household, for sure. My sister had "Neu 2", and Faust "So Far" (think she borrowed that one).

When did you leave Paisley?

Not soon enough... also remember a guy at school bringing in one of his big brother's Amon Duul II albums to play

See, yer wrong, it was a veritable hotbed of Krautrock!

I started primary school in East Kilbride in 77 then moved to Blackwood march 78, and I dont recall any krautrock at all funnily enough :). Most of us boys were into Madness in about 1980-ish. Dont recall anything before that musically tbh.

EK has had a few famous folk too.

I bet the Reid brothers had Krautrock lps.

I bet they didn't. Older brothers and sisters required - the older the better.

Tago Mago, certainly.

Was there record shops in Paisley that sold krautrock? or was that glasgow only?

More than one. Stereo One, for instance, that's where I bought "Bruder des Schattens, Sohne des Lichts".

I remember the Kraftwerk double album being in our local Newsagent's Lp racks. This'd be just after Autobahn was a hit.

Plus that second hand shop where I got "Live at the Crypt" by AMM (not Krautrock, but you get the idea) and countless others (xp)

Got this in Paisley:

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Lots of stuff

TBH, there was as prolly much K/rock available in Paisley as Glasgow, later on Stereo One opened up an upper floor that was absolutely crammed with new + 2nd hand 70s albums - over-priced because people had started collecting stuff by then

was paisley as good in the 80s for buying music as the 70s?

Dunno, there was a branch of Listen in Paisley in the 70s. Not my era though. Record collecting, as a LOL-U-Nerd hobby, didn't really take off to the mid-to-late 80s, I think?

Oh I thought you had bought all this Krautrock in the mid-late 70s , lol.

Cheers for that

I thought you were of marcello's age and was buying stuff as a young teen, before you think I thought you were ancient!

xp

too late!

its your own fault, you kept talking about 70s stuff, i assumed that was when you were buying it all.

Marcello was buying Stockhausen when he was 9 and shit tho! In his local Woolies.

its your own fault, you kept talking about 70s stuff, i assumed that was when you were buying it all.

Yes, in the 80s and 90s!

Funnily enough, that woolies was where I was buying my Madness singles!

never heard this popol vuh before. took like a second and i knew i loved it.

Big in Paisley in the late 80s and 90s apparently!

Well, no, I'd never heard that one then. This stuff was still next-to-impossible to find, you might occasionally luck out tho.

Sort of surprised you don't hear more about this particular Vuh record, actually.
It sounds of a piece with their epics "Letzte Tage, Letzte Nacht" and "Einsjager und Siebenjager."
That is Renate I hear, right?

Djong Yun

Ah.

^ Opening track on "Hosianna Mantra"!

I also bought all of this stuff (IE krautrock, also lesser-known UK progressive rock and folk rock) in the '80's. I remember getting into Klaus Schulze, not knowing shit about him, and winding up with three copies of "Irrlicht" all with different covers becuase I kept forgetting I had that one/went on the record cover rather than the title.

"Timewind" is I guess kind of typical of KS albums from the time and probably interchangeable in places with "Moondawn" and maybe bits of "X" which I was listening to the other day. I like all this stuff loads but I must admit I rarely sit through a whole piece, he did tend to go on a bit. I like the musical primitivism of his approach at this time, all cool-sounding synthi noises and pounding sequencers (the latter moreso on "X" than "Timewind") but sometimes the uh tunelessness of it all gets to me.

"Yeti" is I think not just a fantastic album, but a fantastic whole package, the cover is great in its own right and matches with the music perfectly. The music is great, totally driving feel and sonically intense. this is one of those albums where no matter how loud you turn it up, you still want to turn it up one louder. I went through a phase of digging heavy rock w/electric violin and bits of this are second only to High Tide for "that" sound. I dig some other ad2, but I don't think anything else they did even came close to this.

Popol Vuh link to KS and AD2 because KS bought Florian Fricke's big Moog off of him and also Danny Fischelsher used to drum for AD I think. My favourite kind of Popol Vuh music is this period - layered electric guitars, splashy, cymbal-heavy drums, other-worldly female vox, and I think this is the best one. I try to think of why I like this so much, but it's really hard to explain. The music just sounds magical and "other" to me in some way, I can't really put it any other way than that.

I need to play this one now. not heard it (popol vuh)

Really enjoying the Popol Vuh! Great pick Norm!

16/06- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ
23/06 - Von Kelson
30/06 - emil.y
7/07 - Matt #2
14/07 - Alan N
21/07 - pfunkboy

HEY krautduders

I will have my picks ready in a few hours, sorry. I don't actually have my record collection with me atm so I'll have to find DL links or Spotify or something.

DOM - Edge of Time (1971)

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"You will meet me there at the edge of time
the fire-sea licking my feet
gas and damp,
wind and rain,
snow, heat, waters, ice and pain
damned souls cry "forgiveness!"
the past will be future and future will be past
not one thing in our world that will ever last
only you and me
until eternity shall that spirit
one containing two
wander through space and peace we knew"

One of those albums you can really get lost into. A concept album about an acid trip, and it does sound like it. A very creative interpretation, expressing and evoking a host of different states of consciousness and deep internal emotion. The album is a trip to listen to, especially if you're already under a psychedelic influence, as this is psychedelic, tangential, breathing, pulsing, exploratory music. It took me a while to really appreciate, so i suggest at least a few spins (preferably in different mind states, and when you can really be present with the music).

The music is mostly a mixture of krautrock flavors, psychedelic folk, electronic textures/effects, and ambient atmospheres, with the latter being the most pervasive. The music is very dreamy and psychedelic, and is imbued with a melancholic atmosphere not unlike many other more reflective kraut bands of the era. There is no electric guitar here, mostly just acoustic guitar, organ, percussion, flute, some harp-like instrument, bells, probably a few other instruments. The music is mostly instrumental, though there is a bit of soft spoken word type talking.

Not A Spotify Link (and they're not from Denmark despite the filename, and ignore the bonus tracks!)

Silberbart - 4 Times Sound Razing
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Really, really, really heavy freakout rock stuff. Really. Kind of reminds me of Guru Guru's Hinten but with ridiculous vocals and more straight-up rocking out, almost metallic, especially on "Chub Chub Cherry." But then there's "Brain Brain," which goes all kraut-y and subtle until the guitars tear reality like a paper curtain.

Not A Spotify Link

A.R. & Machines (Achim Reichel) - Die grüne Reise

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Originally issued by Polydor in Germany in 1971, Reichel played all the instruments here, and produced the entire thing himself in partnership with Frank Dostal, who also penned the English lyrics and had previously done time with Reichel in the popular West German beatgruppe, The Rattles. The Green Journey is a masterpiece of doubly/triply-tracked, tape-machined, echo-plexed and looped space-guitar-madness, with a host of skronk, thunderous percussion, tribal whoops, and head-busting, three-dimensional, lysergic lyrics. As the artist himself proclaimed, "I was just trying something out with my guitar, when out of the blue, the Akai X-3300 began to repeat endless cascades of guitar echoes. My guitar suddenly sounded like ten." Initially, The Green Voyage was intended as "a soundtrack for an imaginary movie," and this has now been achieved by some 60 students of the Lippe and H�xter's University of Applied Sciences, who, over the course of two terms produced a 42-minute video for the ten album tracks.

This record isn't as "krauty" as his later releases, especially Echo.

Not A Spotify link

God I hope all of these links work. Apologies for the lateness of the post, but all of my records are on the east coast, this computer sucks, and I had to jack the links from blogs.

Blimey. I actually haven't heard any of these.

i've been meaning to check out Achim Reichel for a long time. nice picks.

I know the Dom and A.R. & Machines very well but don't know Silberbart at all.