Show Notes
Send us Fan Mail It's a tale as old as time. Boy meets Moog III synthesizer. Boy drops a wad of cash to buy it. Boy and Moog blissfully record two studio albums and a film soundtrack together. Boy abruptly breaks up with Moog and finds religion. Boy is, of course, gifted and accomplished pianist Florian Fricke. His project, and at times even his alter ego, is Popol Vuh. In this episode we do some Before and After sampling: i.e., we talk through the records...
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Send us Fan Mail We've talked about Harmonia, and we've talked about Cluster. Time now to dig deep into the life and times of Brian Peter George St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno. Join us as we talk art school, Roxy Music, and Eno's terrific '70s solo records ... all of this just stage-setting, as far as we Krautrockers are concerned, for Brian's first introduction to the Harmonia boys, Moebius, Roedelius, and Rother, and the collaborations that followed. We call out specifically ...
Send us Fan Mail Today we talk about Krautfolk duo Bernd Witthüser and Walter Westrupp. These two budding musicians met on the Essen basement hipster folk scene, became fast friends, fell out (yeah: a girl), and reconnected after the Essener Songtage in 1968. After a first splash with their, um, Flipper the Dolphin single, W and W stole the show at Fehmarn. (Some might say Hendrix never recovered.) Tabs and joints and Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser soon entered the mix, and sessions wit...
Send us Fan Mail Today we get our Swiss on, as we look in on the Cosmic Couriers' collaborations with Bernese scholar/ mystic Sergius Golowin and Yenish artist Walter Wegmüller. First we depart this grim terrestrial plane and ascend to the mountain paradise of Goloka, where the vibe is chill and Lord Krishna reigns supreme. Now Wegmüller takes charge of our party and walks us through the Tarot's Major Arcana. With us on this journey are Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser and the Star-Maiden, Göttsching...
Send us Fan Mail Eau de Cologne. Floh de Cologne. Oh, that Floh de Cologne! Blending old-time cabaret tradition and '60s radical left-wing politics, the Flohs brought biting wit and considerable musical range to bierkellers and Uni stages all across West Germany. And it wasn't long before they laid a concept album/ beat-show down to tape. That record, Ohr Records’ first release (!), was Fliessbandbabys Beat-Show. Rock along with your two favorite middle-aged Gen X Conveyor Belt Ba...
Send us Fan Mail We were overdue to check in on Krautrock's unwitting supergroup, the Cosmic Jokers. But we weren't gonna do it without first going *deep* on Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser and Gille Lettmann. At various times visionary, provocateur, entrepreneur, programmer, pamphleteer, carnival barker, and snake oil salesman, Kaiser was an essential figure in the Krautrock project. His life-partner-in-crime, Gille, brought a Star-Maiden's magic dust--and some wicked vocals--to the ma...