Ash Ra Tempel

Artist: Ash Ra Tempel
Label: Import
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988044370791
ASIN: B0006GB1CO

Release Date: 2004-12-16

Ash Ra Tempel

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Tracks:

Amboss
Traummaschine

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Album Description

Japanese remastered pressing packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

Trippy Beautiful Psychedelic Satisfaction.......2006-12-27

Kind of like the Butthole Surfers live Circa 1986 or so when they would just jam for a while. Kind of like aspects of Yo La Tengo Circa the Love and Genius album. Kind of like early Stereolab. The point is, they influenced a lot of well known modern bands. If you dig these, you'll enjoy Faust, and Can, and Ash Ra Tempel. Oh, have you heard Acid Mother's Temple?
It's pretty good for Dissertation writing.

Strange stuff.......2006-12-24

I never though I would end up owning stuff by Ash Ra Tempel :however Julian Cope's book made me want to discover this group. It is far from being all bad and it has not aged that badly but it is quite...special.

Not an album for everyday.......2006-09-27

I'm mostly german in blood, which is why I think I'm drawn to the so called "Kraut rock" genre. My favorite band in that genre would have to be the early Amon Duul II. I'm also really into the Tangerine Dream, which was what lead to me buying this Ash Ra Tempel album. Just know that out of the 40 or so minutes of music this cd contains, there is about 5 minutes of near silence at the beginning of both songs, which gradually build to a series of intensely grinding acid guitar and apocalyptic drumming. One time I listened to it after eating some pizza with extra mushrooms and it sounded like a completely different album. Since I don't eat pizza anymore, though, I found the album difficult to pay attention to.

The straightest face in German rock.......2006-07-27

Out of all the localised "scenes" in rock music history, I think it's safe to say that Germany's 1968-1974 era is my favourite. I simply cannot think of a more intensely creative and groundbreaking period of time - not even the California of the mid-sixties matches it. Where other scenes, upon retrospective listening, have been expanded, improved, crossed over, worn out and bastardised, leaving only a vague sense of sadness that the "scene" is over, the Krautrock movement seems different. Listening to it is still a massive experience because nobody has been able to dilute its integrity by adapting it. And, on top of that, I don't think it has dated in the slightest in the way that English prog rock has. The vast majority of it retains its impact on the listener even after thirty years of musical evolution.

I chose to begin my review like that because I think, on those terms, Ash Ra Tempel suppass even the likes of Can. This album is unmistakeably one of the most intense and straight-faced I've ever heard in any field. Many old psychedelic albums, no matter how revolutionary they appeared at the time, have become dated and typical in some way over time, but this one just hasn't at all. If a new band released this, I would still be stunned and call it the most engagingly intense album of the 21st century. Manuel Gottsching has to be one of the most impulsive, technically impressive and soulful guitarists in the history of guitar solos (especially ones that span entire sides of vinyl), and what could easily slip into self-indulgence never even comes close. What really makes 'Ash Ra Tempel' such a great album, other than the fire of the perfornances from the guitarist and Klaus Schulze on the drums, is Schulze's synth work. It swamps this record with dark, resonating ambience, creating a depth of sound quite unknown to albums of this time. The eerie ambient piece 'Traummaschine' is led by it, whereas the 'rock' song 'Amboss' is augmented with it, turning an already pretty damn scary piece of improvised music even scarier. However, good as this is, and prophetic as it turned out to be considering Schulze's post-ART career, I find myself wishing he'd just stayed on the drums for a few more albums. The man is a monster. He turns these jams into whirlwinds.

Ash Ra Tempel's debut album is dark, effective and absolutely timeless. Every instrumental touch is perfectly weighted towards forcing the momentum of the piece forward (whatever the momentum may be) and it's even, at times (i.e. at very stoned times), too much for the brain to cope with. Their third album featured guest vocals from Tim Leary, and the connection is clear - this is very much music to "Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out" to. The only difference is, this record is so otherworldly, listening to it sober will still prove to be a visionary experience.

The Emporer is Naked.......2006-03-22

No clothes to speak of if you ask me. Side 1 is pretty basic psychedelic rock jamnming, very pedestrian, hard to take seriously. Klaus Schulze deserves some credit for raising so much ruckus on one drum set in real time, but Jimi Hendrix (primary inspiration) this music is not. Side 2 definitely qualifies as "ambient", well ahead of that term or that style's popularization. It's a bit raw though, it just comes off as drug trip background music to me.

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