Nothing less than the very first music major krautrock album

We go into the "Summer of '69": of course has nothing to do with Bryan Adams, and in Germany also nothing with Woodstock and a large scene. That one in the US, UK and the Netherlands, but in Germany awakened the underground scene, slowly but surely. At the Essen song days anno 1968 come some of these groups that will soon make history, already on, and Xhol Caravan from Wiesbaden. Only with the plates hapert's even what is in mind that there are no producers and labels, which in this respect to tackle something, but even that will be different a year later. After all, four LPs see in the summer of 1969, the light of day, two of them right from a Munich Commune, which has been split into two groups: while Amon Düül II with "Phallus Dei" deliver a worth listening to, but still far from truly strong album ( what will change soon, six months later, comes with "Yeti" a first-class rock album), the debut of Dilettantencombo Amon Düül I is hardly worth mention. In Cologne The Can publish with "Monster Movie" a true stroke of genius, but known the album is only in the spring of 1970, where Amon Düül II and the excellent crocodile from Zurich under as the enterprising Gerd Augustin for publication on United Artists / Liberty ( Treaty) provides, by then, the band sold their plate in self-distribution. If an LP that comes on the Hansa label, and produced by Peter Meisel, out; both Hansa and Meisel are more or less hit and Kommerzpop but which this product is light years away.

That the present CD features the album preceding single as bonus tracks, is musically not very important, in terms of the development of the history of this band very well: Goods Amon Düül II pure Psychedelics, The Can a motley crew and other Krautrock bands first hour as Guru, Embryo and Tangerine Dream Coltrane-, Hendrix and Pink Floyd's admirers who wanted to go where their models had stopped, so had Xhol Caravan their roots in Soul. They were a soul band who discovered psychedelic and free jazz for themselves and processed, and were then unique. If the two single tracks even the soul and the song format arrested, and even recorded with the singer of the direct predecessor band Soul Caravan, they then went in 1968 a formidable musical development by: From the Soul of Groove, the magnificent swing remained, which the often wooden rhythm of many Krautrock bands so benevolently took off, the vocals largely disappeared, instead, certain flute and saxophones together with a diffizil played Hammond organ the sound. Had Xhol Caravan then be able to play the opening act to Zappa and Miles Davis, they would not have done badly, and also mastered joint appearances with Soft Machine and East of Eden well. But where was the management, which would attempt it? The sale of the plate was modest, and after Hansi Fischer, one of the woodwinds, approximately one year after publication of the panel left the group and this reduced their band name to Xhol Xhol fell slowly but surely into oblivion.

What remains is this wonderful disc, which is more than four decades later, still very worth listening to. Three tracks on the first page, including the band's classic "All Green" in his griffigsten version on the LP-back then a piece of almost the entire plate side, which quickly became modern in the Krautrock (the debut albums of Can and Amon Düül II had the indeed, one track per second side of the LP), and "Raise Up High" is a beautifully intense jazz psychedelic rock trip that bizarre final number "Walla Mashalla" then completes the aural excitement. "Electrip" is a great album that should be preserved from oblivion, and who delves deeper into the history of early Krautrock, should not go past this plate and this group.