1
/
of
1
Encore Records Ltd
CD - Ash Ra Tempel – Schwingungen
CD - Ash Ra Tempel – Schwingungen
Regular price
$24.99 CAD
Regular price
Sale price
$24.99 CAD
Unit price
/
per
Couldn't load pickup availability
1CD - Import
Originally released in 1972, Ash Ra Tempel's "Schwingungen" is condidered one of the most important German Krautrock albums.
As Julian Cope states in his book "Krautrocksampler", "Beware of "Schwingungen"! That should be the large sticker on the front of all copies of this record. For it is dangerous to be casually introduced to something that is life-changing, as I found out to my cost when first listening to this record.
It all starts fairly simply and without any cause for alarm - "Look At Your Sun" begins with a Doorsy lone groover guitar begins a pedestrian blues, beautiful. Then the most crushed voice, a cross between Johnny Rotten and Tiny Tim, preaches its way into the proceeds. And then the most far out track of all begins. This is called "Flower Must Die" and it is a free-rock giant that transcends everything else in its field. Over on Side 2, the title-track begins poetically enough with Wolfgang Muller's epic and hugely reverbed vibraphone.
Organ fades in and FX guitars, and time passes by. Finally, tom-toms roll and the developing pace is built upon until that great eternal chord sequence finally materialises - this is the one that Göttsching and Enke believed was the sound of heaven. They may have been right". Remastered by Manuel Göttsching.
Originally released in 1972, Ash Ra Tempel's "Schwingungen" is condidered one of the most important German Krautrock albums.
As Julian Cope states in his book "Krautrocksampler", "Beware of "Schwingungen"! That should be the large sticker on the front of all copies of this record. For it is dangerous to be casually introduced to something that is life-changing, as I found out to my cost when first listening to this record.
It all starts fairly simply and without any cause for alarm - "Look At Your Sun" begins with a Doorsy lone groover guitar begins a pedestrian blues, beautiful. Then the most crushed voice, a cross between Johnny Rotten and Tiny Tim, preaches its way into the proceeds. And then the most far out track of all begins. This is called "Flower Must Die" and it is a free-rock giant that transcends everything else in its field. Over on Side 2, the title-track begins poetically enough with Wolfgang Muller's epic and hugely reverbed vibraphone.
Organ fades in and FX guitars, and time passes by. Finally, tom-toms roll and the developing pace is built upon until that great eternal chord sequence finally materialises - this is the one that Göttsching and Enke believed was the sound of heaven. They may have been right". Remastered by Manuel Göttsching.
Share
