I.D. Company (for Krautrock?)

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I.D. Company ("I" for Inga Rumpf and "D" for Dagmar Krause) was a German band that released their sole, eponymous album in 1970. The music, to my ears, combines elements of indo-prog/raga rock, psych, blues, acid folk, jazz, pop, RIO/experimental, soul, krautrock and progressive electronic. Inga and Dagmar sing (they each get a side for their material/leasdership) while there are 4 other musicians who play sax, sitar, drums, flute, violin, percussion and contra bass. There is also acoustic guitar but it isn't credited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.D._Company:

Seite Inga (all tracks written by Inga Rumpf)
Bhagavad Gita (6'01")
Bum - Bum (5'45")
I watched the women (4'43")
Seite Dagmar (all tracks written by Dagmar Krause, Gerhard Arnoldi, Eckhard Maronn)
He's out now (5'01")
Dünne gläserne Frauen (4'30")
Schneeweiße Hände (3'18")
Schwarzes Insekt (4'50")

http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/i_d__company

Dagmar Krause (vocals),
Inga Rumpf (vocals), Frank St. Peter (saxophone, flute), 
Hans Hartmann (sitar, contra bass), 
Joe Nay (drums, percussion),
Wolfgang Kliegel (violin)

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/03/id-company-st-lp-1970-germany.html:

schizophrenic in character, this krautrock masterpiece extends exploratory tendrils down two seemingly incompatible lines of investigation, each occupying one side of this LP and each fronted by a different powerhouse vocalist. Anyone initiated into the soul piercing hoodoo grammar of Dr. John's Gris Gris will find much to get emotionally wrung out over here, especially with Frumpy vocalist Inga Rumpf's uber masculine and completely wasted sounding vocals occupying center stage. Conversely, side B for much of it's length relinquishes warmth and happy wasted hoodoo vibes in favor of flinging you unceremoniously into a frequently harrowing psychic melee fronted by the hysteria tinged and Leslie cabinet shattered vocals of a young pre-Slapp Happy Dagmar Krause. Residual echoes of jazzy jamming cling to the edges of this amorphous febrile mass, but that only reinforces the deliriousness of the endeavour by offering the listener an olive branch only to yank the rug out from under your feet as you approach.

http://prognotfrog.blogspot.com/2007/07/inga-rumpf-id-company-with-dagmar.html:

Inga and Dagmar had sung together with The City Preachers and this was a totally different direction for them both, Inga going on to a great career with both Frumpy and Atlantis whilst Dagmar did some great stuff with the likes of Slapp Happy, Henry Cow and the Art Bears.

Bhagavad Gita:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4xue5cU8HE

He's Out Now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ic_QW7uNwM

Edited by listen - July 22 2009 at 23:51