This new Soul Jazz release features many of the classic German electronic and Krautrock groups from the 1970s & 80s - including Can, Amon Düül II, Harmonia, Conrad Schnitzler, Agitation Free, Roedelius - as well as a host of lesser known artists such as Dzyan, Klaus Weiss, Gruppe Between and many more. Deutsche Elektronische rarities unearthed on the album include Kalacakra (whose fan-base included the great Moondog!) and their superb 'Nearby Shiras,' taken from their super-rare spiritual/psychedelic private press concept album Crawling to Lhasa, from 1972.
Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4 includes a wealth of German electronic experimental artists - the seminal pioneering group Harmonia (Roedelius, Moebius and Michael Rother), avant-garde guru Conrad Schnitzler as well as lesser known synthetic artists such as Klaus Weiss, Deutsche Wertarbeit, E.M.A.K. (Elektronische Musik aus Köln), Günter Schickert and others. Finally, the album also features an array of heavy and progressive German cosmic rock groups - Dzyan, Virus and the amazing Turkish/German tripped out sound of Alex's 'Patella Black', recorded at Can's Inner Space in 1973, produced by Holger Czukay and Jackie Liebezeit. Deutsche Elektronische 4 comes with extensive newly commissioned sleevenotes by David Stubbs, author of the seminal books 'Future Days: Krautrock and the building of Modern Germany', 'Mars By 1980: The story of Electronic Music', and 'Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and ist Legacy'.
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This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records' ground-breaking Deutsche Elektronische Musik series, 'a near-definitive guide to some of the world's most extraordinary music' (The Guardian).
»Auf Teil vier der im bunten Pril-Blumen-Look daherkommenden Serie sind bekanntere Interpreten wie Can (¿I¿m So Green¿) (...) Daneben sind einige Künstler zu hören, die nur Insidern ein Begriff sein dürften: Alex mit dem wunderbar groovig-psychedelischen, in Cans Inner Space Studio aufgenommenen ¿Patella Black¿, mittelalterlich-östlicher Psychedelic-Folk von Kalacakra sowie die Fusion-Combos Between und Dzyan.« (Good Times, Dezember 2020 / Januar 2021)
Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 2
1
Patella Black / Alex
2
Driving Sequences / Klaus Weiss
3
I'm So Green / Can
4
Laila, Part II / Agitation Free
5
Guten Abend, Leute / Deutsche Wertarbeit
6
Wolf City / Amon Düül II
7
Flammende Herzen / Michael Rother
8
Pink Sails / Klaus Weiss
9
My Strand-Eyed Girl / Virus
10
Ballet Statique / Conrad Schnitzler
Disk 2 von 2
1
Nearby Shiras / Kalacakra
2
Tanz in den Himmel / Emak
3
Mellodrama 2a / Et Cetera
4
Triumphzug Kaiser Maximilian I / Gruppe Between
5
Halmharfe / Roedelius
6
Dragonsong / Dzyan
7
Deluxe (Immer wieder) / Harmonia
8
Suleika / Günter Schickert
9
Schöpfung (1. Mose 1) / Witthüser & Westrupp