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The Cosmic Jokers / The Cosmic Jokers
(Vinyl LP – Klimt)
“Recorded in 1973 during a series of acid-fuelled all-night jam parties held at producer Dieter Dierks studio near Cologne, Cosmic Jokers was the work of a veritable krautrock supergroup that included Dierks himself, Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), Jürgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf (both of Wallenstein).
Don Cherry / Where Is Brooklyn?
(Vinyl LP – Klimt)
Trumpeter Don Cherry, an Ornette Coleman soulmate and a world musician decades ago, became one of jazz’s many early losses 10 years back. But saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, who joins him on this fizzing 1966 set, has since ascended to cult status, and he is still around to admire . In the 1960s, he knew no melodic fear at all, in which respect he was aptly partnered with Cherry. This is a quartet set, strongly influenced by the melodic approach of Coleman, but with a fierce abstraction of tone quite different from Coleman’s playful lyricism.
Popol Vuh / Affenstunde
(Vinyl LP – Klimt)
Brilliant debut by the godfathers of ambient and world music, Popol Vuh! Originally released in 1970, Affenstunde (literally Ape Hour) was the first album by a German band to employ the extraordinary sounds of the Moog synthesizer. Blending electronics with traditional percussion instruments, Popol Vuh – led by the legendary multi-instrumentalist Florian Fricke – created a tribal and dreamlike blanket of sound that would go on to influence many-a-band on the krautrock scene and beyond.
Randy Holden / Population II
(Vinyl LP – Klimt)
Randy Holden is an American guitarist best known for his involvement with the West Coast blues-rock group Blue Cheer on their third album ‘New! Improved!’ (1969). Holden obtained a sponsorship deal with Sunn amplifiers. Through this, he received his legendary sixteen 200 Watt amplifiers. His new band was dubbed Randy Holden – Population II which was a reference to the fact there were only two members in the band as well as being an astronomical term ‘Population II’ that defines a special kind of Star Group cluster type, having heavy metal in its composition.