Krautrock Rarities Articles

 

I think these were concurrent, and not quite a copy of one another or one influenced the other. Europe has had the benefit of a much larger music history and appreciation and trying to create something new is much more a possibility over there, than it is in America, that is still a controlled music environment, that still has very little appreciation for a lot of different music.  (... well, maybe not enough I should say!)

 

But the "attitudes" that a lot of that rock music, and blues and jazz, brought forth, was something that music history needed, and be it in electronic works or not, it was tried and experimented with, the sad side of things being that in America, record companies would not release the improvisations ... goodness folks ... c'mon, the Grateful Dead had more of these than all the other bands put together, and are we going to assume it was all bad, because we haven't heard any of it? Thus, it's hard to say that AD2 or Can's improv's  were better or worse ... I think the time frame helped these come alive.