Posts Tagged ‘Krautrock’

Album of the day: Bitchin Bajas – Tones / Zones (LP)

Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010

Praise for Bitchin Bajas‘ Tones / Zones (Important)  from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: With a name like Bitchin Bajas you would expect some bratty lo-fi garage pop or ironic washed out rock, but sometimes the name and the sound can exist in two entirely different worlds, and with Bitchin Bajas that’s probably for the best. The solo project of Cooper Crane from Cave, we first got a glimpse of Bitchin Bajas on their split 7″ with Moon Duo, but it’s on this full length that he really pushes his sound to such spaced out cosmic outer limits.

While Cave have become masterful at their ability to create rhythmic and propulsive kraut like jams, with Bitchin Bajas, Cooper is taking his aim at the more spaced out side of kosmische bliss. Evoking the kraut-drone / kraut-age of Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Deutsche Wertarbeit, Cluster as well as Terry Riley’s A Rainbow In Curved Air, this is such a perfect early morning sunrise salute of a record.

Tones / Zones also reaches the level to which modern day cosmic travelers like Arp, White Rainbow, Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never have ascended. The sounds here get locked in the most celestial grooves and you find yourself floating into the sky losing any sense of gravity or the mundane reality of everyday life. This is perfect music for dreaming, drifting and softly coming down. Majestic and so satisfying.

At 40 years old, Aquarius is the oldest independent record store in San Francisco. We try to only carry music we love, and we’re always searching for more new, cool, weird and wonderful music. All of which we then share with you, our loyal customers.

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Album of the day: Neu! – Vinyl Box

Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: It might be a bit melodramatic to say that a man had to die to make this box happen, but there can be no doubt that Klaus Dinger’s passing in 2008 made its realization a whole lot easier. The well-documented friction between guitarist Michael Rother ...read more

Album of the day: Cave – Pure Moods (EP)

Posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Tiny Mix Tapes: I don’t like to go nuts on titles as nose-tapping theses for reviews, but I think we can all agree that Pure Moods is a fucking great name for a record — an invitation to a real face-melter, if it’s as sarcastic as it ...read more

The Quietus: In Conversation with Moon Duo’s Ripley Johnson

Posted on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The Quietus’ Ben Graham talks to Ripley Johnson about Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips and the three R’s. “Are you really in Bermuda?” Ripley Johnson‘s soft Californian accent asks me down the line. It’s easy to imagine Johnson – main man behind Wooden Shjips, leading lights of the current garage-psych, neo-kraut, ...read more

Hallogallo 2010: Michael Rother and Friends perform the music of NEU! At Tilburg’s Incubate Festival

Posted on Friday, June 18th, 2010

Hallogallo 2010, performing the music of NEU!, has been added to the lineup of this years Incubate Festival, set to be held on Sunday, September 19th. The legendary German group NEU! released only 3 albums between 1972 and 1975, but these albums had an influence wildly disproportionate to their modest ...read more

Album of the day: Wolf People – Tidings

Posted on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: Wolf People’s Tidings sounds an awful lot like a reissue the first time through, a letter-perfect rendition of the freaky interstices between Cream and Hawkwind, with the Incredible String Band’s campfire folk songs floating through Jeff Beck’s borrowed electric blues and Jethro Tull’s panpipes tootling over ...read more

Album of the day: Mugstar – Sun, Broken

Posted on Friday, June 4th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: Liverpool’s Mugstar occupy a sort of no man’s land between grunge and space rock. On Sun, Broken the band builds a series of songs each from a simple repetitive motif, with mixed results. At 37 minutes, the album is admirably brief, but at the same ...read more

Hallogallo 2010: Michael Rother and Friends perform the music of NEU!

Posted on Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Michael Rother will start performing selected concerts around the world in summer 2010 with his project Hallogallo 2010. Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Benjamin Curtis (School of Seven Bells) and Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs) will join him. Together they will play music by NEU! as well as some tracks by Harmonia ...read more

Album of the day: Ulaan Khol – III

Posted on Friday, March 26th, 2010

Praise for Ulaan Khol’s III from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records:  Finally, the third volume in Ulaan Khol’s epic free-psych-drone trilogy. For those who don’t already know, Ulaan Khol is in fact Steven R. Smith, a beloved core member of the Jeweled Antler family, who has recorded on his own as ...read more

Album of the day: Cluster – Qua

Posted on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from BBC Music: Forty years young as a band next year, Cluster’s venerability is not unique in terms of the movement they are most often associated with – the Krautrock scene of 1970s Germany, which was footloose, sincerely experimental and in many cases highly influential. Yet their synthesiser-driven ...read more

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