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Roky Erickson -
TRUE LOVE CAST OUT ALL EVIL (CD)
Music
Sample
<GoodbyeMP3>
In
1966
I
saw Roky & the Elevators in the CA Central
Valley on their journey
up to Haight Ashbury. They were a psychedelic shroud of sound
with Tommy's weird Jug and Roky's shriek front and
center. After too many LSD trips, shock treatments
and a chemical lobotomy, 45 years later Roky is
musically resurrected on this new studio album
backed up by Austin, TX band Okkervil River. It's
comprised of simple songs on guitar and voice,
recorded while Roky was incarcerated
enhanced by new instruments and sampled sounds and
sequenced between new & old songs like "Goodbye
Sweet Dreams" and "John Lawman" powerfully
reinterpreted by the band. Will Sheff's amazing
arrangements serve to illuminate Roky's gift of
music which saved his soul. Miraculously, now all this time later he's
still playing and offering everyone a chance to hear
in simple, at times raw and emotional performances
the living testimony of a rock and roll survivor. |
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Matthew Ryan
- DEAR LOVER (CD)
Music
Sample
<TheWildernessMP3>
Matthew Ryan is perhaps Nashville's greatest unsung
songwriter & indie recording artist. Over the span
of 10 albums he has explored the mysteries of life,
politics of passion, love, loss, death, anger and the state of things. His newest, DEAR LOVER,
is one of his most powerful and sonically diverse. A
recent visit to the ER seems to have brought
everything into sharper focus. The delicate beauty
of "Some Streets Lead Nowhere", Your Museum", The
World Is..." and "The End of a Ghost Story" are in
stunning contrast to the rest of the albums rhythmic
energy as evidenced by "City Life', "We Are
Snowmen", "PS" and the sonic guitar assault of "The
Wilderness". These days master storytellers live in
the margins while stars produce pre-fab product ad
infinitum our cultural bankrupt as a result.
Matthew's music is the real deal and may move you in
ways you haven't felt in a long time.
Contact:
dearfuturecollective@gmail.com |
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Gil Scott-Heron
- I'M NEW HERE (CD)
Music
Sample
<www.imnewhere.net>
From 1970's incendiary musical debut "The Revolution
Will Not Be Televised", to I'M NEW HERE
Gil Scott-Heron has blazed a path of emotionally
charged music and racial commentary no one else
dared to travel. He's been addicted to drugs, in and
out of prison, walking the talk and paying the price. This new album is a shockingly
intimate personal detailing of his life and baring
of his soul for all to hear. From the poignant
acoustic title track, the searing indictment of
"Me & The Devil" and the pulsing enhanced poetry of
"Your Soul & Mine", "The Crutch" and "Where Did the
Night Go", to the soulful jazz influenced beauty of
"I'll Take Care of You" it's a haunted and haunting
listening experience.
Masterfully Produced by
Richard Russell, the record is both a personal
condemnation and testimonial by one of the great
black artists and poets of the past 40 years.
Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OET8SVAGELA |
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Buffy
Sainte-Marie - RUNNING FOR THE DRUM (CD + DVD)
Check this Out:
http://www.creative-native.com/video.php
In the late 1960's Canada contributed some great
artists to the US music scene - Neil Young, Joni
Mitchell, Leonard Cohen & Buffy Sainte Marie to name
a few. The new Buffy Sainte Marie CD/ DVD release is
a far cry from her early Folk records. It's Native
American electronica mixed with exotic folk tinged
ballads and topical songs ranging the spectrum of sound.
The pulsing synthetics, percussion and chants on the
first three tracks leave your body throbbing,
while
"Too Much is Never Enough" & "Easy Like the Snow
Falls" with the catchy chorus of their majestic melodies will have you
singing along. Her version of "America the
Beautiful" enhanced by new lyrics she wrote
will give you the chills. A DVD documentary on her incredible life, musical career &
the work she's done founding the
Nihewan
Foundation is a wonderful accompaniment to this
great album. |
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Glen Delpit &
the Subterraneans
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LEAN TIMES IN THE LAND OF PLENTY
(CD)
Music
Sample
<WritingontheWallMP3>
Glen Delpit
ended up in the Central California San Joaquin
Valley by way of New Orleans.
He's played music
rooted in the Blues and Folk
there all his life . He formed his band The Subterraneans
in the 1990's, and their three albums to date stand up
tall alongside some of the rich and more famous
Alt-Americana bands of today. The new one LEAN
TIMES... features a veritable history of
his musical influences from Appalachian, to Bluegrass,
Bayou and Deep South with at times an early R&B
vocal inclination
a la Van Morrison. In this land of plenty & too much of
everything the music of this heartfelt handcrafted
album stands out.
Contact:
http://www.glendelpit.com |
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Electric
Orange -
KRAUTROCK FROM HELL (CD)
Music
Sample
<SundosMP3>
The
first Electric Orange album that came out in Manikin
Records in 1993 was their definitive work, until
now! The new one, KRAUTROCK FROM HELL,
has to be considered right up there with their
debut. Dirk Jan Muller and Dirk Bittner are the
mainstays of the band, and the space rock groove
they conjure up on this album is a real blast of
classic cosmic 'strum und drang' combining dense
keyboards, powerful rhythm section and celestial
guitar excursions to psychodelic effect. Set the
controls for the heart of space...
Contact:
www.sulatron.com |
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Robert Rich
- YLANG (CD)
Music
Sample
<FirstRainMP3>
Robert Rich gained renown for his "sleep concerts"
back in his college days and his deep catalog since
has been diverse and filled with exotic delights.
His new one YLANG, is my favorite
album of his, which is saying something. The
compositions are exotic and worldly, while the ebb
and flow of rhythmic synthetics, exotic percussives
and sonic embellishments fill out the musical spaces
between of the various themes beautifully. Cerebral
and magical, you will find yourself listening again
and again many times over.
Contact:
www.robertrich.com |
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Forrest Fang -
PHANTOMS (CD)
Music
Sample
<LittleAngklungMP3>
Forrest Fang has been around since the early 1980's
creating electronic tapestries filled with
electronic soundscapes and acoustic spices. With
PHANTOMS he has hit the mark perfectly
and created a magical sacred music work that
conjures up the spectre of Popol Vuh's early
synthetic works. Hints of "Vuh" and echoes of
"Aguirre" haunt the melodies and in habit the
margins of the ethereal sonic tapestries he creates
on several tracks. Whether intentional or not, this
feels like, and is, an homage to the late, great
Florian Fricke. Those who knew and loved his early
work should be captured in the spell of this album.
His music is "systematic" at times, this album feels
like it comes from the heart.
Contact:
www.forrestfang.com |
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Paul Speer &
Paul Lawler -
WONDERS (CD)
Music
Sample
<KrakatoaMP3>
Here we have a true super-duo of modern musical
composers. Paul Speer has been around for going on
25 years and broken into the mainstream
collaborating with Queensryche drummer Scott
Rockenfield on the Grammy award nominated
TELEVOID and prog-rock opus HELLS CANYON.
Paul Lawler is one the UK's leading electronic
adventurists. Their teaming up with vocalist Satine
Orient on WONDERS is both wonderful,
and sophisticated musically. It pulses
electronically, the rhythms sections propel the
music which is full of rich melodies, and the
arrangements overflow with powerful instrumental
interplay. This is a great album!
Contact:
www.paulspeer.com |
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Ramp -
DEBRIS (CD)
Music
Sample
<SkeletalMP3>
Of all the German electronic "bands" ['ramp]
(in fact, one Stephan Parsick), stands out as one of
the most conceptually unique and electronically
powerful German synthetic music experiments. Their
"doombient" sound is literally suffocating in its
densely sculpted and deeply subsonic vibrations. In
some sense ['ramp] seems gene spliced from
Lou Reed's METAL MACHINE MUSIC and inhabited
with a primal pulse that pounds and pulsates
relentlessly giving it a living breathing energy
that at times overwhelms your system. Beyond
ambient, it's more like the sound and fury of the
future, after environmental pollution has been
totally unleashed and the air we breathe has become
saturated with sonic DEBRIS that makes
us dizzy in the head. Warning - listening to this on
headphones is not recommended.
Contact:
stephen@parsick.com |
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Kraan -
DIAMONDS (CD)
Music
Sample
<SoulMP3>
Some bands grow old and can't conjure the musical
magic anymore. Kraan is not one of them. They were
never prog-pomp or spaced out electros, but made
music with lots of heart (great melodies) and a
pumping beat (bass/ drums) that got under your skin.
They've kept making albums and doing tours all these
years and this brand new release, DIAMONDS,
overflows with their patented mix of intertwining
bass/ guitar and beats that propel the various
tracks in different directions. The bands musical
mixture after all this time is still infectious,
loose, enjoyable and indeed timeless.
Contact:
www.bassball.net |
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Dieter
Moebius -
BLOTCH (CD)
Music
Sample
<MobiBlotchMP3>
Cluster was (is) still one of the German greats
musically. They just released an incredible new
album last year, and now comes a brand new solo by
Mobi. The album is mind-bendingly adventurous,
filled with layers of loops/ fractured beats and
dense atmospherics. He always made the effectual
bits for Cluster to go along with Achim's quirky
melodies. This time out he really comes up with some
amazing sounds and more than a few harmonic ideas of
his own that will linger in your heed long after the
album is done. BLOTCH makes for a thoroughly
enjoyable and provocative listening experience.
For more Info:
www.nepenthemusic.com |
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Eskaton - 4
VISIONS (CD)
Music
Sample
<SanzuMP3>
Back in the day Eurock
released this album on cassette only. This
brand new reissue has been totally re-mastered and
almost 30 minutes of previously unreleased music has
been added. The result is one of the best Zeuhl
inspired releases I've heard over all these long
years. The four original tracks are bone crunching
and rock solid, the 4 previously unreleased tracks
add spatial ambience and instrumental fireworks and
the new mix fleshes the album out dynamically so it
literally sounds like it was produced today. The
"new" 4 VISIONS will reach out of the
speakers and grab you more today than it did way
back when. The band is no more, but this new reissue
guarantees their musical spirit will live on!
Contact:
www.soleilzeuhl.com |
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One Shot -
REFORGED (CD)
Music
Sample
<OneShot33MP3>
REFORGED is a reincarnation of the very first One Shot album recorded back at the end
of 90's. It's been re-mixed and re-mastered with a
bonus track added from the original 90 minute
recording session. The result is an incredibly more
wild and raw album than the original filled with the
bands most fierce and adventurous playing. The
studio sheen from before is gone, replaced with the
incredible instrumental rhythmic rumbling
thunder and lightning strikes of guitar that creates
a man made sonic storm that leaves you plastered
against the wall as the last notes fade out. This is
One Shot's definitive musical statement!
Contact:
www.soleilzeuhl.com |
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Xing Sa -
CREATION DE L'UNIVERS (CD)
Music
Sample
<Feu2MP3>
Xing Sa has made a concept album quite like any
other. As the title implies this is nothing less
than a sonic imagining of the "Creation", and as
such it truly casts a powerful musical spell. The
band (a trio) use keyboards, bass, drums that are
enhanced by three guest musicians on voice, Chau
gongs and atmospheric saxophone. Each of the 6
pieces are subdivided into unique thematic segments
all of which combine into one powerful conceptual
whole. At times atmospheric and cerebral, then
alternatively powerfully intense, CREATION DE
L'UNIVERS is quite anything I've heard
before & makes for fascinating listening.
Contact:
www.soleilzeuhl.com
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http:sesame7.free.fr |
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Michael
Thomas Roe ~ Kluster '09 ~ Konrad & Wolfgang
Music
Samples
<MTR02MP3>
<BlaBla02MP3>
<kWh04MP3>
Konrad
Schnitzler
&
Friends
It seems like the 1980's
again when Konrad Schnitzler was releasing an album every
other month. Some were great, others not so... The 3
releases here range the spectrum of experimental EM
synthetics and treatments.
BRAIN
is a striking sonic conglomeration of rhythms, beats &
melodies filled with ambient passages and explosive sounds.
It's composed by MTR, a member of the current
Kluster International creative team. A
highly interesting and provocative work it evokes the best of KON past.
BLA BLA BLA by Kluster 2009 consists of each
person, MTR, KON and
Masato Ooyama, recording his voice onto a single CD with the
members mixing the recordings and adding effects (echo,
delay and processing). Done in 3 different languages, the words are
audible at times, but just as often buried in effects and
distortion as well. The effect is otherworldly, even making
for captivating listening at times.
10
kW/h is a blast from the past of klassik KON overkill - 10
CDs + a USB drive w/ an 11th kW/hour of added
electronic impressionism. The original Kluster team of Kon +
Wolfgang Seidel recorded the material circa 1973-1977 so the
sound is vintage Kluster evoking the heady days of Berlin
avant-gardism. If you've still got any brain cells left
unscrambled after all these years this LTD. ED. of 150 may
well obliterate them with the maelstrom of surreal
electronic strum und drang it conjures up.
Contact:
mthom@mindspring.com.com
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Miguel Noya -
BALLROOMS ON THE MOON (CD)
Music
Sample
<MiguelNoyaMP3>
Miguel Angel Noya was one of the first Latin
American keyboardists Eurock worked with back in the
golden age of progressive/ electronic music. He
began composing 30 years ago and his first album
GRAN SABANA was featured 25 years ago.
For the past 20 years he has led the Venezuelan band
Dogon who made several interesting records of
electro/ rock fusion. BALLROOMS ON THE MOON
is his brand new release which offers up all of his
musical gifts in one great package filled with
melody, layers of rhythm/ counterpoint, thematic
developments and dynamic arrangements as well as
ambient atmospherics. Miguel's music is far more
than just another recycling of Euro EM. It's great
to hear from him again.
Contact:
etnoneuro@hotmail.com |
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Klaus Schonning
- FLOW (CD)
Music
Sample
<KlauSchonningMP3>
FLOW is the 22nd album by Denmark's
pioneer of EM who released his first album
LYDGLIMT in the late 1970's. All along Klaus
has created a distinct and unique hybrid of sounds
using a diverse range of instruments always with
electronic at the forefront. His first 4 releases
are classic of dynamic/ melodic rhythmic
electronics. The 4 volumes of his SYMPHODYSSE
series are powerful neo-symphonic creations. His
early 2000 releases - STARS IN THE NIGHT,
INVISIBLE WORLDS & FAIRYTALES
conjure up visions of synthetic magic and powerful
synthetic visions with each listen. His brand new
album FLOW combines all the above
elements into an adventurous and beautiful
electronic tapestry that is quite unlike anything
else you've heard.
For More Info:
www.musicventure.dk +
www.schonning.dk |
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Mythos - GALLERY
CONCERTS (CD)
Music
Sample
<MysticauroraborealisMP3>
Mythos led by Stefan Kaske made one of the all time
great Cosmic German LPs released in 1971 on the OHR
Records label. Remarkably up to this day Stefan has
continued creating an incredible array of electronic
music albums in a variety of styles under the
moniker Mythos all of which offer myriad synthetic
;listening delights. His 2001 release THE
MODERN ELECTRONIC KAMASUTRA is an unheralded
masterpiece. Most recently his SURROUND SOUND
OFFENSIVE release and brand new
GALLERY CONCERTS CD establish Mythos as one
of the most creative EM concepts to have survived
creatively intact all these long years. Recorded
nonstop directly form the main mix the combination
of synthe, vocoder, flute & electronic bagpipes is
not only unique, but refreshing listening in the EM
saturated age.
For More Info:
www.mythos-music-berlin.de +
http://www.mellowjet.de |
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Ax Genrich -
AXYMORON (CD)
Music
Sample
<DalaiLhamaMP3>
The group Guru Guru was one of the true monster
power trios in rock history. In its original
incarnation - Neumeier, Trepte & Genrich - they made
3 albums filled with some of the most lysergic music
you'll hear anywhere. After Ax left the Gurus he
recorded several solo albums, then formed his own
trio Rif, later The Rockin' Daddies, and more
recently Psychedelic Monster Jam w/ Mani and
super-psych monster producer and bassist Dave
Schmidt. This compilation features music by all of
his incarnations as well as unreleased material, all
of which lets him showcase his diverse guitar chops
in wildly diverse ways.
For More Info:
www.sireena.de |
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Uli
Trepte - PORTRAIT (CD)
Music
Sample
<SpaceboxMP3>
Uli Trepte was one of the true pioneers of
experimental Krautrock who never sold out to
convention. He kept doing his thing until he
succumbed to cancer recently. His work with the
Guru's, Faust, Kickbit Information, Spacebox & Move
Groove contain the essence of his constant spirit
and devotion to exploring new ideas musically. In
the history of German rock the Spacebox albums stand
out as totally unique. The later, more rhythmic Move
Groove records channeled the essence of Hendrix
blues and the jazzy Beats creating in the process a
musical alchemy that transcended decades in time.
This retrospective CD offers many fine examples of
that. I'm sure Uli is still jamming up stairs, as
sometimes I get this strange sound in my head that
tweaks my face into a small smile remembering the
long years he and I "kept the faith" together
musically.
For More Info:
www.sireena.de |
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Johannes Schmoelling - A THOUSAND
YEARS
(CD)
Music Sample
<1000TimesMP3>
One of the great joys of doing
Eurock is hearing each new album released by Johannes
Schmoelling. During his period with TD that bands music
literally was reborn again due to his contributions. His
solo career as well has been filled with diverse,
imaginative amazing electronic "music". A THOUSAND
TIMES is no exception as the exotic synthetics,
strong melodic moments and creative arrangements fusing
piano, synthesizer and effects are masterful. If you are
looking for endless listening pleasure and creativity at its
best, this is it.
For more Info:
www.johannesschmoelling.de |
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Robert Schroeder - 30 YEARS AFTER
(CD)
Music Sample
<30YearsAfterMP3>
It was 30 years ago that Robert
Schroeder released his classic HARMONIC ASCENDANT
on Klaus Schulze IC label. Still today it stands up
musically. The new album 30 YEARS AFTER (his
19th) is an homage of sorts to that release and once again
demonstrates Schroeder's ability to create music that
combines warmly melodic melodies, mixed with powerful
pulsing rhythms and create musical magic. The sound and
music has a warm analog glow to it, but also sounds
thoroughly modern at the same time. Listen and enjoy!
For more Info:
www.sphericmusic.de |
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FSP/ Brendan Pollard/ Hashtronaut -
TIME OUT OF MIND
(CD)
Music Sample
<OptionCMP3>
This collaboration is a virtual
supersession of leading Euro EM musicians. Marcel Engels and
Ruud Heij have released a score of great Free System albums.
Brendan Pollards ROGUE ELEMENT release was an
all time EM classic. Here they team up with Michael Daniel
(aka Hashtronaut) who does amazing things with his glissando
and Fender Strat guitars. The musical result is a
supersonic, powerfully rhythmic set of four tracks that ebb,
flow, rumble and explode musically into an intoxicating EM
listening adventure.
For more Info:
brendon.pollard@ntlworld.com |
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Zao - ETHNIC 3 LIVE
(CD)
Music Sample
<Ethnic8MP3>
Among the ranks of French
legendary bands ZAO is right up there with Magma. Yochk'o
Seffer and "Faton" Cahen have made more great music over the
years than almost any other French artists. Here they team
up with percussionist extraordinaire Francoise Causse to
create ETHNIC-3 LIVE, a fantastic blend of
jazz fusion and ethnic world vibes. If you want to hear
truly great maestros at the top of their game this album
offers that. Musically it's a magical whirling dervish of
exotic, ethnic sound.
For more Info:
www.musearecords.com |
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Jeffrey Koepper - QUADRANTEON
(CD)
Music Sample
<Quadranteon2MP3>
This is Jeffrey Koepper's sixth
album in six years. Over that time span his work has been
getting more powerful and tuned into the classic Berlin
School vibe of the early 1970's. QUADRANTEON
is in effect a four part concept album that is linked
sonically by the powerful sequences he creates on the
Sequential Circuits Pro-1. Musically he alternates these
with a series of powerful
melodies and incredibly dense ambient movements and effects.
The combined result is spatial
and incredibly intense at times.
For more Info:
www.jeffreykoepper.com |
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The Tangent Project - SURFACE
(CD)
Music Sample
<Surface3MP3>
The Tangent Project, an East
Coast electronic duo is composed of Jeff Coulter
(electronics) and Harrison McKay (guitars).
They have a couple previous CD-R's, one recorded
on Chuck Van Zyl's Stars End radio show in Phila, PA. The
music they make fits that bill perfectly. Coulter's extended
spacescapes ebb, flow and pulsate, while McKay's
guitar lines weave a
laser-like
web of elaborate textures throughout the mix.
For more Info:
www.tangent-project.com |
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Roedelius - OFFEN TUREN
(CD)
Music Sample
<OffenTMP3>
Joachim Roedelius has recorded
many albums over the years and his music has incorporated
into it many
different tones, timbres and styles. This 1982 LP has never
been released on CD. Beautifully re-mastered and heard again
today it is a revelation. Virtually all of Achim's musical
ideas are on full display - densely ambient, quirky/
eclectic melodies and liltingly beautiful neo-classic
landscapes. All combined it is a shear listening delight
filled with quark, strangeness and charm.
For more Info:
www.nepenthemusic.com |
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Mikhail Chekalin
- LIVE
@
50
(NTSC DVD)
Recorded in May 2009 at a
private "birthday party" of his friends, the 3 Live pieces
he performed rank as perhaps the best examples of electronic
music Chekalin has done to date. Experimental still
stylistically, they are also filled with deep spatial
explorations, darkly ambient undertones and heavy symphonic
passages. Added film effects make give it a 3D dimension
that you can enjoy using the old red/ blue dual lens
glasses. A truly surreal &
sonically entrancing experience. |
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Krautrock - COSMIC ROCK & IT'S
LEGACY (BOOK)
KRAUTROCK
traces the history of this genre, both
artistically and politically, profiling key figures
and bands such as Ash Ra Tempel, Popol Vuh & Neu!,
as well as highlighting lesser known acts such as
Wallenstein, Deuter & Xhol Caravan. Through highly
informed essays from leading writers in the music
industry,
KRAUTROCK
provides a
definitive commentary on the scene. Including
detailed discographies of all the bands featured and
a timeline sighting important political and social
events that shaped the ethos of krautrock artists.
KRAUTROCK
is an indispensable
guide to the movement illustrated with vibrantly
unique artwork from album covers, gig posters,
memorabilia as well as unseen photos from landmark
concerts and visual documentation of this period in
German music. |
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Ensemble Dentro De La Nada - CACERIA
DE BRUJAS (CD)
Music Sample
<LaNada1MP3>
<LaNada2MP3>
Back in the 1980's Via Lactea made a couple of the most
unique "electronica cosmico" albums of that decade. Headed
up by keyboardist Carlos Alvarado the new album by his group
"Ensemble Within the Void" is a stunning amalgam of
pre-Hispanic ritual and celestial synthetics laced with
bassoon, oboe, sax, flutes and percussive exotica!
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Klangstorm
-
BRAINWASHED (CD)
Music Samples
<Klang1MP3>
<Klang2MP3>
Klangstorm are back together and have
recorded one heck of a postscript of post rock to top off
the first wave of their career. BRAINWASHED contains
6 tracks of found sound and guitar fireworks laced together
by various sonic exotica. Their sound still has a Can vibe
as strong rhythm section and guitar pyrotechnics combine for
a roller coaster ride of free associated experimental rock
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Luis Paniagua - EL CIELO EN LA TERRA
(CD)
Music Sample
<LuisPaniaguaMP3>
The brand new album by Paniagua finds him joined by master
violinist Farran Sylvan James and the musical result is a
fusion of soaring sacred melodies. Luis mastery of over a
dozen ancient music instruments and Farran’s fluid, soaring
string solos along with tonal colorations literally conjure
up an
beautifully transformational
listening
experience. |
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The Luminaries
- FORTYTHOUSANDPIECES (CD)
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The Luminaries were formed from the ashes of the late great
Metabolist in 1987 and sadly only released just one album.
Now 18 years later they have reincarnated themselves
musically and their 2nd release will remind you of the
thrill of a new album back then when it filled your head
with the strum und drang of guitar and bone crunching rhythm
section exploding. FORTYTHOUSANDPIECES is that
“beast” of a record, which may just make you feel young all
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Oculo Rapido - ANALOG PLANETFALL
(CD)
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Doktor Bob (creative nom
de plume Oculo Rapido) creates the sonic architecture for
the Eurock LIVE Podcast. ANALOG PLANETFALL
is his first album release, a powerful ambient space effort
full of deep dark undulations and surging currents of dense
synthetics that will fry your synapses. "A stunning example
of doombient sound..."
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Robert Jan Stips - ROND
(CD + PAL DVD)
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ROND is the brand new solo release on DVD + CD by RJ Stips the main man
from Supersister. Many of the bands “hits” and some new
material are performed beautifully by Stips alone on the
keyboard. A private release by RJ it’s packaged in a hard
slip cover box w/ Dbl digipak and cool, quirky artwork. |
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Embryo
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FREEDOM IN MUSIC (CD)
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40 years later
Christian Bruchard and Embryo keep making some of the most
original and adventurous world music fusion on the planet.
This 2008 recording contains their latest work which is
unlike anything else you’ll hear anywhere. |
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Galloping Wonder Stag - INFINITE ASIA
(CD)
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The music of VCSSZ explores the realm of music as ritual as
did VHK, but from the perspective of channeling the sound
and spirit of the Hun Magi who ruled the Steppes during the
Bronze Age. Into this cosmology Atilla incorporate the
essence of Bela Bartok and the resulting music is absolutely
unique and unbelievable powerful. Thundering percussives
create ceremonial rhythms, that combined with
multi-instrumental strings and winds create a cosmic hybrid
of folk fused with modern “rock” energy. |
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The American Music Compilation
(CD)
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In the 1980’s Eurock released an LP that featured Jasun
Martz w/ Eddie Jobson, Doctor Wize, Richard Bone and Anode.
Today re-mastered by Jasun, you will hear in amazing sound
quality, music featuring neo-chamber piano/ wind & violin,
electronic juju, industrial synthetic mini symphonies and
dynamic ambient soundscapes. Then and now, it still contains
some of the best in American experimental music. |
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Human Being - LIVE @ THE ZODIAC 1968
(CD)
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It was the Summer of
1968 in Berlin. Conrad Schnitzler, Boris Schaak, Hans
Joachim Roedelius and many other "musicians", artists,
created live "happenings" in the Berlin Zodiac art center.
The result was the first "electronic" (and other sounds) experimental
music from Berlin. This is that event captured on tape,
re-mastered for CD. The world has never the same again
afterwards.
For more Info:
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Cluster - QUA
(CD)
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Achtung! Here we have at last an
album of new music by Cluster. Their first studio release in over 13 years. QUA
is a dynamic 17 track electronic extravaganza that combines
the off beat rhythms, sequences and effects of Mobi with the lilting
soundscapes and
ethereal melodies of Joachim. Still all these years later
their music sounds fresh and new today and is
literally as good as anything they've done in the past.
For more Info:
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