Manuel Göttsching
Posted by: liam on 07 May 2007
Hi all,
just discovered E2-E4 by manuel gottsching i would just like to know if any of you could recommend any other cds as this is excellent.
cheers
liam
just discovered E2-E4 by manuel gottsching i would just like to know if any of you could recommend any other cds as this is excellent.
cheers
liam
Posted on: 08 May 2007 by Nick Lees
It wonderful, isn't it? A sort of krautrock Tubular Bells.
As you probably know, Göttsching was a founder member of experimental krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, along with very early Tangerine Dream member Klaus Schultze.
The first 5 Ash Ra Tempel albums are all rather psychedelic affairs with (usually) one side a guitar-driven piece of jamming with the other synth based. They're all good, but very definitely fit into the early krautrock scene and not directly linked stylistically with E2-E4. Klaus came and went eventually went his own famous way.
He was also part of the infamous Cosmic Jokers set-up - a bunch of krautrock luminaries (Göttsching, Schultze, Grosskopf, Dollase) brought together for a weekend by producer Dieter Dierks, fed titanic amounts of LSD and left to get on with it. Dierks recorded the sessions (all jam-based and similar to early Ash Ra), added effects such as phasing and weird voice-overs by his girlfriend, and then released a series of albums under the Cosmic Jokers name. All without the musicians permission, which ended in tears. If you like very early Ash Ra Tempel then the albums Cosmic Jokers, Galactic Supermarket, and Planeten Sit-in are all good stuff, whilst Gilles Zeitschiff and Sci Fi Party are less so.
An expanded (and official this time) meeting of the Cosmic Jokers resulted in the Tarot album by Walter Wegmüller - much loved by Julian Cope. This is also pretty good, though again in the earlier style.
Of more relevance to your question and where I suggest you start...
...after that, Ash Ra Tempel (often now shortened to Ashra) became increasingly indivisible from his solo works. Inventions For Electric Guitar from 1975 is labelled as both an Ash Ra Tempel and Göttsching album and is much more in the style of E2-E4, based on repetitious loops of sound all derived from his guitar and its effects.
Quite mesmeric and very very good, as is the album from the following year New Age Of Earth.
Also highly recommended are the pair of live recordings from Japan in the late 90s: @shra and @shra Vol.2.
His website contains samples from most of his extensive discography.
As you probably know, Göttsching was a founder member of experimental krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, along with very early Tangerine Dream member Klaus Schultze.
The first 5 Ash Ra Tempel albums are all rather psychedelic affairs with (usually) one side a guitar-driven piece of jamming with the other synth based. They're all good, but very definitely fit into the early krautrock scene and not directly linked stylistically with E2-E4. Klaus came and went eventually went his own famous way.
He was also part of the infamous Cosmic Jokers set-up - a bunch of krautrock luminaries (Göttsching, Schultze, Grosskopf, Dollase) brought together for a weekend by producer Dieter Dierks, fed titanic amounts of LSD and left to get on with it. Dierks recorded the sessions (all jam-based and similar to early Ash Ra), added effects such as phasing and weird voice-overs by his girlfriend, and then released a series of albums under the Cosmic Jokers name. All without the musicians permission, which ended in tears. If you like very early Ash Ra Tempel then the albums Cosmic Jokers, Galactic Supermarket, and Planeten Sit-in are all good stuff, whilst Gilles Zeitschiff and Sci Fi Party are less so.
An expanded (and official this time) meeting of the Cosmic Jokers resulted in the Tarot album by Walter Wegmüller - much loved by Julian Cope. This is also pretty good, though again in the earlier style.
Of more relevance to your question and where I suggest you start...
...after that, Ash Ra Tempel (often now shortened to Ashra) became increasingly indivisible from his solo works. Inventions For Electric Guitar from 1975 is labelled as both an Ash Ra Tempel and Göttsching album and is much more in the style of E2-E4, based on repetitious loops of sound all derived from his guitar and its effects.
Quite mesmeric and very very good, as is the album from the following year New Age Of Earth.
Also highly recommended are the pair of live recordings from Japan in the late 90s: @shra and @shra Vol.2.
His website contains samples from most of his extensive discography.
Posted on: 08 May 2007 by liam
thanks gary,
i was begining to get abit worried that nobody was going to answer my question.
thanks
liam
i was begining to get abit worried that nobody was going to answer my question.
thanks
liam
Posted on: 08 May 2007 by Nick Lees
You're welcome.
If nothing else it made me play @shra Vol. 2 (live in Osaka) - and reminded me how tight the band are: Lutz Ulbrich (ex-Agitation Free), Harald Grosskopf (ex-Wallenstein, Cosmic Jokers) and Steve Baltes (various trance DJ sets), and how beautifully recorded it is - Göttsching's guitar really chimes and the last track in particular, Move 9 Up (which is as near an out-take from E2-E4 as damn it), really grooves like hell. There's never any feeling that these are old guys going through the motions.
If nothing else it made me play @shra Vol. 2 (live in Osaka) - and reminded me how tight the band are: Lutz Ulbrich (ex-Agitation Free), Harald Grosskopf (ex-Wallenstein, Cosmic Jokers) and Steve Baltes (various trance DJ sets), and how beautifully recorded it is - Göttsching's guitar really chimes and the last track in particular, Move 9 Up (which is as near an out-take from E2-E4 as damn it), really grooves like hell. There's never any feeling that these are old guys going through the motions.