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Though Harmonia began like a sideline excursion for Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster and Michael Rother of Neu!, the group became probably one of the most famous in the complete Krautrock/kosmische scene using the launch of many mid-’70s LPs. After two studio room albums documented as Cluster, Roedelius …

Produced in 1970, Guru Guru was a German prog rock and roll outfit whose largely instrumental function arranged the group squarely inside the boundaries of what’s commonly described decades later on as Krautrock. While guitarist Ax Genrich, Uli Trepte, and keyboardist/drummer (and Cluster collaborator) Mani Neumeier continued to be the …

Konrad Plank would be to Krautrock what Phil Spector would be to pop music, an inventive maker and collaborator with credits that add the endlessly influential rock and roll records that originated from Germany within the ’70s to obscure and not-so-obscure post-punk/fresh wave records from the past due ’70s and …

Forming in past due-’60s Chicago, the Flock forever languished within the shadow from the Chicago Transit Authority (later on famous as just plain Chicago), whose peculiar method of art rock and roll — incorporating horns as well as other unorthodox instrumentation into rock and roll and jazz forms — in …