Kraan & Guru Guru united (1975 Baden Baden)
Kraan & Guru Guru united (1975 Baden Baden)
Finkenbach festival 2018, lots of Kraut there:
http://www.finki-festival.de/finki_programm.html
Yeah, they weren't great musicians like we now see in the Rap and Hip Hop realm....!Originally Posted by Guitarplyrjvb
I've heard some Eloy and kind of thought them to be copying Pink Floyd. I've also tried Can's Ege Bamyasi and Tangerine Dream's Rubycon, Phaedra, and Tangram. None of it floats my boat. Maybe I'll try later when I get some black turtlenecks!
I just talked with Hellmut Hattler and, yes Peter Wolbrandt changed his mind again, Kraan will play at the Finkenbach festival.
On sunday we are hungry
'Cause no one bought some food
We forgot to do it on saturday
When we were fat and felt so good
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
The farm house is for sale
https://www.immobilienscout24.de/expose/50861256#/
"Seit den 1950er Jahren wird das Haus durchgängig zu Wohnzwecken genutzt.
In den siebziger Jahren lebten hier, unterstützt vom Eigentümer und Kunstförderer
Graf Metternich, die Mitglieder der weg weisenden deutschen Rockband „Kraan“
mit ihren Familien.
Danach folgte bis 2011 die Nutzung als großzügiges Jagdhaus. "
Read more: http://www.danbbs.dk/~m-bohn/kraan/a....pdf?956337341
Nostalgia:
This is the barn where KRAAN’s album „Let it out“ was recorded (in Wintrup 1975).
It was destroyed by a storm in 2008.
This is what it looks like today:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater
Excellent Danish Kraut 1970 - (if you didn't know)
Got a ticket today. Cheap flight as well. Finki bound
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
I hope the weather will be with you !
Nice - cheers!
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
Don't jinx it
I hope the weather will be with you !
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Their 2 first albums are really good (this and the previous selftitled), after that american westcoast made its impact.
The first two are like Syd-era Floyd teaming up with Vanilla Fudge and early VdGG, but yes - there's a definite hazy aura of Kraut permeating.
Spredt for Vinden from '73 isn't bad at all, but there's a different sound altogether. And their take on US West Coast influences was far from the radical variety of early Culpeper's Orchard or Day of Phoenix.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Was just reading about Zappa and the Mother's "Billy the Mountain" in the Dweezil Zappa tour thread. Do you think some of the more dialogue-heavy Krautrock albums like Floh De Cologne's "Geyer-Symphony" were inspired by this, despite their possibly being more political in nature?
Now listening to Billy the Mountain. Not sure I like it at all. Seems like a less-humorous Firesign Theater album.
Geyer-Symphonie was conceived as an actual performance play, meant to be staged but apparently not done so very successfully. I personally think it's Floh de Cologne's most interesting album, but you'll have to somehow be acquainted with the backstory of theatrical spoken-word/farce in rock to appreciate it; The Fugs and The Bonzo Dog Band in particular, although Krauts like Floh de Cologne and Oktober were far more "seriously minded" outfits. In their minds, they were part of a militant front against post-fascist capital, and radicalism was never merely a tool of rhetoric. A a band like Ihre Kinder or indeed Ton Steine Scherben meant their creed for real; it was revolution or death, as Rio Reiser saw it. Of course, he left early…
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Interesting, the same year Guru Guru released "Mani Und Seine Freunde" with some of the Kraan guys playing on it.
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
Sad Rain
Anekdoten
Ounce - 'OZ'
https://ounceband.bandcamp.com/album/oz
Spinning both Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi today. I can enjoy these albums for the drums alone, but of course there is so much more. The drum effect/panning on "Mushroom" is so great - what a great atmosphere and sound they got on that.
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
I often cite Czukay/Liebezeit as being one of the absolute top rhythm sections in my entire collection, along with Carter/Williams and Glover/Paice. All very different, but always so impressive to me for various reasons.
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Agreed! I always thought Future Days was my fav Can but when I'm listening to Ege and Tago, they seem to be right there as well. And the Mooney albums too....all phenomenal.
Future Days, Tago Mago, and Ege Bamyasi are my favorite Can albums, and certainly among my favorite music by anyone.
same here, Future Days is just so polished, like comparing Wolf City to Tanz...
Really getting into "Aumgn" and "Peking O". Peking has some blacked-out chicken sounds like some remote farm poultry got into a big 1.75 liter plastic bottle of cheap vodka, and/or Richard on a Friday night drinking and clucking along to Greek prog. Great stuff.
Future Days often gets me into an alternate state of mind that is only reached when I listen to Popol Vuh or Magma.
That's great Alberto! What are some of your fav Popol Vuh albums? And anybody else of course...
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