Davey
Headphoneus Supremus
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If you don't know Hash Jar Tempo, and love that instrumental psychedelic music, you owe it to yourself to check out Well Oiled from 1997. It's a collaboration between Roy Montgomery and Bardo Pond, and is a long suite in seven movements. Supposedly just a sample of a seventy-minute session which was improvised in 1995, this is the real buzz, formed from the groundwork layed down by the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Hawkwind, and other visionaries in the psych world. I also have Under Glass from a couple years later, which is very good too, if maybe just a small step below and a bit more experimental.
As expected from the Ash Ra Tempel reference in their name, they have a lot of Krautrock in their soul too. Bardo Pond has a pretty dense drone sound, but with Roy Montgomery they clean up the sound and turn it into more of an ambient feel. Kind of a soundtrack to a lazy day. Acid Mothers Temple is another band that references the name, albeit not quite as directly. But Ash Ra Tempel, they were the real deal, huh? Many fans here? The Tangerine Dream fans would know the story, but drummer/synth guru Klaus Schulze left and hooked up with guitarist Manuel Gottsching and eccentric bassist Hartmut Enke to form one of Germany's most cosmic bands, Ash Ra Tempel. And made history with that 1971 debut ... and it still sounds cool and cosmic
As expected from the Ash Ra Tempel reference in their name, they have a lot of Krautrock in their soul too. Bardo Pond has a pretty dense drone sound, but with Roy Montgomery they clean up the sound and turn it into more of an ambient feel. Kind of a soundtrack to a lazy day. Acid Mothers Temple is another band that references the name, albeit not quite as directly. But Ash Ra Tempel, they were the real deal, huh? Many fans here? The Tangerine Dream fans would know the story, but drummer/synth guru Klaus Schulze left and hooked up with guitarist Manuel Gottsching and eccentric bassist Hartmut Enke to form one of Germany's most cosmic bands, Ash Ra Tempel. And made history with that 1971 debut ... and it still sounds cool and cosmic
