TAGO MAGO

Prog rock fans will hate it, since it has none of the boring cliches of the ordinary progrock groups that were supposed to do something-related-to-music by just leeching the classicals and adding some utterly dull "modern" equipment effects. Krautrock fans will hate it too, as it is sung (?) in english and can only remotely be associated to rock, blues, jazz, contemporary, soul or whatever. For the rest, it's the most iconoclastic, influential and important post-rock'n'roll, post-bebop, post-pop, post-something recording ever made, period and fullstop. It even sounds utterly modern today, thirty four years after its initial release. Not that the other two CAN recordings with Damo Suzuki (Ege Bamyasi, Future Days) as well as the first one without Damo (Soon Over Babaluma) weren't superb, but this one stands in a class of it's own. Oh, and every "rock" drummer would kill his mom without hesitation just to borrow ONE of the hands of Jaki Liebezeit for just five minutes... Just five stars, because the site does not allow more.