Wax Treasure (Vinyl)
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The Kraut Rock Super Group that never was …
„ The Cosmic Jokers for a series of jam sessions put together by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser and Gille Lettman February - May, 1973
In 1972, Rolf Ulrich Kaiser founded "Die Kosmischen Kuriere" where will be signed all the Cosmic jokers albums. The COSMIC JOKERS is not really a band but a reunion of several German musicians and personalities from the 70s psychedelic and esoteric philosophies (the mystic Sergius Golowin in the Lord Krishna project or the gipsy folk artist Walter Wegmuller in Tarot).
The interest of this side project was to create a cosmic music with a virtual musical tribe to develop the world consciousness thanks to LSD.
The COSMIC musical team gathered around the same message a bunch of well known musicians from the Berlin scene (Klaus Schulze, Manuel Gottsching...). The COSMIC JOKERS is an extreme musical trip, a unique adventure throw time and space. The music is for a large part improvised with proto-electronic gadgets combined to bluesy & spacey musical sentences built around the talented Manuel Gottsching's electric guitar style (always spacey and bluesy). This is real German acid music, a 'music of paradise', transcending music, breaking of the materialistic world, a protest against the reality. The combination of acid, music and fun acted as a catalyst for Kaiser's visionary powers.“
One of those unavoidable adulations,
..there behind is a whole drama!
Lawyers involved and Rolf U. Kaiser had to leave the country.
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@VVV my wife and I saw them do a free show outdoor show a few blocks from our place at the Logan Square Monument in Chicago back in 2015. they played "into ruin" from miserable and stretched it way the f out. it was so good. we twisted up a few fat ones and got stupid high and they steamrolled right over us.
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@indigo_nico Hahaha, that’s the best way to enjoy their shows! I do the same every time I see them... That must have been an awesome show, no doubt about it!
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@indigo_nico hahaha. I don’t know their music but I appreciate your story telling!! Lol
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Rainy saturday tunes
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Nothing like Turkish protest music to get this f’ing day going!! Selda - this album features her absolute bangers: ince ince & Yaylalar
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@Inorganic love it
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Selda drove me through the day @Inorganic.
Beautiful.
Did you know she sang one of my favorite FADO songs when she was 16’?
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Tunes of the past week!
https://open.spotify.com/album/6USj4Iyvi9GVIZDjDzu7Y5?si=vcDyFDFwQAKli1MIzziK4Q
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@Aetas thanks for sharing. This song is quite haunting.
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My cat’s favourite record
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Couldn’t help but follow with this masterpiece
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@popvulture never heard of this band but am listening now on my earbuds at work and really enjoying
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@popvulture - both of my cats are indifferent to more or less all music that is playing, and in my home its at least 16 hrs a day. they do get a bit more lethargic and sleepy when i'm playing jazz records. even when my son is blasting megadeth they just dont care. when i play EN, especially halber mensch the older cat suddenly gets all queasy with all the clanking noises and vibrato sounds. however i still think its his favourite record since he pays attention to something that is not a small bird or a large bug
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@GraemeE if you dig Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis is a must. Really good shit. People like to bandy about the "origin of post-rock" type thing for both, to which I'm kinda like meh whatever, but there's definitely a massive influence you can hear from each of them in other bands.
@prpx my cat is equally indifferent — maybe I'll try some Throbbing Gristle!
