Description
2-CD (6-page digisleeve) with 100-page booklet, 22 tracks. Total playing time approx. 137 minutes.
• Progressive Rock from Germany!
• Never before has there been a comparable compilation!
• Towards the end of the 1960s, German bands began their first attempts to emancipate themselves stylistically from their US and British role models.
• ProgRock and Pchychedelia from our country were initially smiled at internationally and disparagingly called 'Krautrock' by cult DeeJay John Peel, among others.
• Unorthodox formations could not be pigeonholed, and so a scene with a wide musical range was created.
With the release of the first of a total of four issues, Bear Family marks another milestone on the way to a comprehensive documentation of the history of popular music in Germany from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s.
'Smash! Boom! Bang!' covers the complete history of Beat music in Germany on a total of 30 individual CDs; the CD documentation 'Für wen wir singen - Liedermacher in Deutschland', consisting of four triple CDs, describes the singer/songwriter scene with 274 individual songs, supplemented by the 10 CD box set 'Die Burg Waldeck Festivals 1964-1969'. And finally 'Aus grauer Städte Mauern - Die Neue Deutsche Welle 1997-1985', Bear Family's four-part double CD series with popular and weird sound examples and a total of about 600(!) pages of accompanying text.
With 'Kraut! Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979' we will release a double CD every three months in 2020 with a booklet of about 100 pages and biographies of each band, an exquisite selection of the exciting and influential bands of those days, some of which caused a sensation far beyond Germany.
Track Listing
Disc 1:- Lucifer's Friend - Ride The Sky
- Atlantis - Rock'n Roll Preacher
- Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen
- Tomorrow's Gift - Ants
- Ikarus - Mesentery
- Cravinkel - Keep On Running
- Silberbart - Chub Chub Cherry
- Novalis - Wer Schmetterlinge lachen hört
- Ougenweide - Ouwe
- Ramses - La Leyla
- Frumpy - How The Gipsy Was Born
- AR & Machines - Schönes Babylon (Beautiful Babylon)
- Nektar - Desolation Valley
- Eloy - The Light From Deep Darkness
- Galaxy - Supermarket
- Gash - A Young Man's Gash (Part 2)
- Thirsty Moon - Big City
- Percewood's Onagram - Braindrops Won't Kill The Fire
- Missus Beastly - Uncle Sam
- Abacus - Capuccino
- Abacus - Souls Married To The Wind
Additional Details
Label: Bear Family Records
Genre: Psychedelic
Language: English
Run Time: 137 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 03/13/20
UPC: 5397102176210