Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen / 1972 torrent

Ash Ra Tempel

Schwingungen

1972


CD / 1993 / 320Kbps


Tracklist:

Light And Darkness:

1. Light: Look at your Sun
2. Darkness: Flowers must die (

Schwingungen:

3. Suche & Liebe


Personnel:

Manuel Göttsching – guitar, organ, electronics, choir

Hartmut Enke – guitar, bass, electronics

Wolfgang Müller – drums, vibraphone

Additional personnel:

Uli Popp – bongos

Matthias Wehler – alto saxophone

John L. – vocals, harp, percussion



Schwingungen is the second album by the German Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. It was released in 1972 on the Ohr Label.

Ash Ra Tempel's second album featured the first of several personnel changes, Klaus Schulze having departed for other realms and replaced as a result by Wolfgang Muller. A few guest players surfaced here and there as well, with one John L. taking the lead vocals - another difference from the self-titled debut, which was entirely instrumental.

The general principle of side-long efforts continued, though the first half was split into two related songs, "Light" and "Darkness." "Light" itself sounded halfway between the zoned-out exploration of "Traummaschine" and bluesy jamming, a weird if not totally discordant combination that still manages to sound more out there than most bands of the time.

Gottsching's fried solo, in particular, is great, sending the rest of the song out to silence that leads into "Darkness." Said song initially takes a far more minimal approach that bears even more resemblance to "Traummaschine," fading out almost entirely by the third minute before a full band performance (including Uli Popp on bongos and Matthais Wehler's sudden alto sax bursts) slowly builds into a frenetic jam. John L.'s vocals become echoed screams and yelps not far off from Damo Suzuki's approach in Can, and the overall performance is a perfect slice of Krautrock insanity, sudden swirls of flanging and even more on-the-edge solos from Gottsching and Wehler sending it over the top.

"Suche & Liebe" takes up the entire second side, the performers this time around concentrating on the quiet but unsettling approach, Gottsching's massive soloing kept low in the mix but not so much that it doesn't freak out listeners. The song concludes on an almost conventionally pretty band jam, something that could almost be Meddle-era Pink Floyd, only with even a more haunting, alien air thanks to the wordless vocal keening.


Straight, no chaser.
:)