Guru Guru - Hinten 1971

With its usual bass/drums/guitar parts, Guru Guru plays a trippy blues-kraut jamming. It's mostly instrumental and improvised with very original rhythmic and lead guitar sections, sometimes interrupted by monologues in German and strange screaming vocals. The last track contains a lot of psychedelic effects thanks to electronic gadgets.This album is a great answer to the English heavy and blues rock scene led by The Cream and others but really more outrageous and exciting. In the band's career, this album is in the direct line of their first effort UFO, a total free form rock with delicate psychedelic touches. Guru Guru representative style at his summit. (http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5019)

Amon Düül [UK] - Airs On A Shoe String 1987 (Best Of...)

Country: United Kingdom - Germany


  Whether the UK branch of Amon Düül really needed a compilation after the release of just two studio albums is an interesting question. However, "Airs On A Shoestring" is an interesting album in its own right, comprising the long, freaky improvisation "One Moment's Anger Is Two Pints Of Blood" from their debut, two more commercial hard rock tracks from "Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes From The Past", and "Hymn For The Hardcore", which would later appear on "Fool Moon".  

Amon Duul - 1989 - Fool Moon (Robert Calvert)

biography
The British Amon Düül were formed in 1981 in Great Britain by guitar player John Weinzierl (Penguin) and bass player Dave Anderson, who both had been members of Amon Düül 2. They published a few albums during the 80s; sadly most of them with very little information about who played on them; only "Die Lösung" gives some detailed information on the cover. From the information on "Die Lösung" one can see that the line-up was very interesting, at least on this record; besides Weinzierl and Anderson it features Robert Calvert of Hawkwind as singer (he was also responsible for the lyrics), Julie Wareing on vocals, Guy Evans of VdGG on drums and Ed Wynne and Joie Hinton of the Ozric Tentacles on guitar and synths. Their records were of varying quality; I recommend "Die Lösung", which should be something every prog-fan should like, and "Hawk Meets Penguin" for those who are not afraid of free-form improvisation in the style of the early Krautrock.
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A tribute to Klaus Schulze 1998

In 1998 I have been asked to produce a track for a Klaus Schulze tribute album. The first track I ever heard from KS was the second song on his „X“ album „Georg Trakl“. I decided to do a remix for this work and named it „Remember X“.
Klaus Schulze himself appeared on that album as well - as the „Schulzendorfer Groove Orchester“.
http://www.joergschaaf.de/Jorg_Schaaf/cds/Eintrage/2012/12/15_A_tribute_to_Klaus_Schulze.html
joerg schaaf


Tracks:
01. Amp-Sunrays (4:32)
02. Laurent Dury-Crystal (6:03)
03. Kazz-Franks Tango (3:33)
04. Sanjiva-Klaus Upside Down Under The Indian Sea (6:31)
05. Kenton Files-The Weight of Klaus (7:36)
06. Nemesis-The Return Of The Neuronengesang (6:23)
07. Subsonic Affair-Remember X (5:40)
08. Second Culture-Beyond the Actual Scene (8:47)
09. Bjørn Fogelberg-Brave New Sequence (4:57)
10. Bondes System-Yes, I am Sequenced (9:28)
11. Schulzendorfer Groove Orchester-The Schulzendorf Groove (14:25)

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