“Producer, composer and musician, Achim Reichel is a key figure in the explosion of krautrock… Late 60’s he launched his first solo musical project called A.R and the machines. Musically it provides a supreme sonic musical voyage turned to cycled psychedelic guitar playing with lot of echoes and delay… Today A.R and the machines remains a high class standard of hypnotic space-echo guitar inventions.”
“Next to EMBRYO, KRAAN are among those German groups who include psychedelic, sometimes ethnic elements to their distinctive, innovative jazz rock. At the beginning of their career, started in 1970, KRAAN free form jazz rock was really into jam sessions, totally improvised, mainly instrumental (featuring sax sections and many guitar / bass solos)… Really imaginative, inspired and technical these albums provide something new and amazing: an absolute trippy ethnic jazz rock. This particular facet of the KRAAN music culminates with their masterwork “Live” (1975).”
“One of the most original, layered, and innovative krautrock bands, Embryo fuses traditional ethnic music with their own jazzy space-rock style. Over the course of their decades-long existence, the group has traveled the world, played with hundreds of different musicians, and released dozens of records. Almost every album features different lineups and styles.”
Live in-studio performance by Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters, recorded for Musikladen in Bremen, Germany.
“West Space and Love started out in 2009 as a project with Siena Root members Love and KG, based in Stockholm and Dr Space(Øresund Space Collective). The first album came out in 2010 followed by II in 2015. In 2023, we managed to record a 3rd album at Dr Space´s studio in Portugal. It features 5 tracks and has special guest, Hasse Horrigmoe (Tangle Edge) on bass and percussion. All the tracks feature the fantastic sitar playing of Indian classical sitarist, KG Westman, who also played multiple other instruments as well. The tracks were created in layers using Love´s drums as the main feature for our creative outpouring. Enjoy this 3rd edition..”
“Causa Sui returns with the perfect companion to last year’s tour de force, ”From The Source”. Whereas that record was a tightly structured piece of work, that condensed many aspects of the band’s sound into a concise 45 minute LP, ”In Flux” presents the more loose and impulsive side of Causa Sui.”
“Hidden in the liner notes of Causa Sui’s new live album lies an invitation to join the Danish purveyors of expansive psychedelic jams for a midnight feast at Copenhagen’s legendary Loppen venue. Recorded in the heart of freetown Christiania, a place where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur like the edges of a particularly good dream, the band’s performance is a testament to their two decades of sonic exploration… This is Causa Sui at their most free-flowing and spontaneous, a band that’s clearly as comfortable in the live setting as they are in the studio. It’s a reminder that sometimes, the best music is the kind that’s created in the moment.”
“After their space-themed record -270°C (2021) and the following, earth-themed record Frohe Zukunft (2023) Kombynat Robotron are closing the circle with the waterthemed West Mata. With a total length of about 50 minutes split into three tracks the band returns to their longform jam-based approach to songwriting on West Mata.”
“4 international bands (Verstärker, Kombynat Robotron, Speck, Sarkh) contributing 1 LP side each, instrumental, about how to watch the ISS crossing their skies from time to time… or being overwhelmed by the rough beauty of the ocean…
Long and psychedelic tracks pulsating through space and try to follow the way of the space station around our globe and even beyond, to contribute you the opportunity to travel through your inner cosmosis while listening, only interrupted by the needle lifting, which could just be some stops at random interstellar stations, to release and gain passengers.”
“Like hearing the lost Amon Düül I recording you’ve waited 50 years for…Glenn Branca’s wall of guitars, the shamanic cacophony of The Boredoms, psych melters Comets on Fire and so much more inbetween. It is punk ib it fury, noise in iits rash extremity and psychedelic in form. It felt as though everyone in that room was connected to a universal mind decorder as wave after wave of pure sonic free flowing energy built and built to climatic zeniths…and then they did it again…and again.”