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Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Magnificent late-'50s singles round-up that keeps on giving.
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Ash Ra Tempel
Ash Ra Tempel
(Ohr, 1971)
Kosmische rock power trio plunge into the vortex, twice.
A good rule of thumb for music that has its own internal logic and goes on for too long: stick with it, and odds are it will soon sound brilliant. Such is the case with the two epic jams of Ash Ra Tempel's debut. Amboss - AKA Anvil - drifts in slowly on a galactic dust cloud of Manuel Göttsching's guitar before the storm begins, underpinned by Klaus Schulze's tight-yet-all-over-the-place drumming. Sometimes he plays like a speeding woodlouse, at others a zooming bullet train; similarly, Göttsching's protean guitars move from Chuck Berry ur-riffing to what sounds like Hendrix playing a rusty gate hinge, a Tony Iommi sea shanty or Mick Jones doing doom metal. They keep it up for 20 minutes and end with a bang on the snare, as casually as if they've been rehearsing some Quo covers at 2 in the afternoon. It's less frantic on the flip, with the 25 minute Traummaschine - Dream Machine to you, Anglophones - coming in slowly on a softly howling void of effects. Eight minutes in there's the beginnings of a riff, by nine minutes some frowning hominid is banging pieces of bone together before the monolith and by 12 minutes there's a semi-Yoo Doo Right bassline, clattering bongos and some shredded guitar to charm the snakes slithering round the flickering acid campfire. As Julian Cope's ever-rewarding Krautrocksampler has it, this is "the power trio playing as a meditational force... at its greatest when it's impossible to work out what instrument makes which sound." Indeed. And well worth the day's round trip to buy at the Ultima Thule shop in Leicester in those pre-everything-for-free years before the internet.
Stuart Muirhead
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 22/10/2009
Further Listening
Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn (Ohr, 1973)
Acid Mothers Temple And The Cosmic Inferno - Starless And Bible Black Sabbath (Alien8, 2006)
Earthless – Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky (Tee Pee, 2007)
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Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Magnificent late-'50s singles round-up that keeps on giving.
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The Cincinnati siblings bed into their heavy period.
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The trumpeter's most soulful excursion entrances MOJO messageboarder.
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Great album, but out-of-print on cd at present. Guess it's mp3 only until someone makes more. :S
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Great album, but out-of-print on cd at present. Guess it's mp3 only until someone makes more. :S
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Great album, but out-of-print on cd at present. Guess it's mp3 only until someone makes more. :S
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Great album indeed! I am the proud owner of an original copy, with book cover. I was 19...
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Great album indeed! I am the proud owner of an original copy, with book cover. I was 19...
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Great album indeed! I am the proud owner of an original copy, with book cover. I was 19...
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Great album indeed! I am the proud owner of an original copy, with book cover. I was 19...
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