SENSATIONS 'FIX : Portable Madness. Great Italian Kraut

hellogoodbye wrote: SENSATIONS 'FIX : Portable Madness. Great Italian Kraut   (BTW the japanese band Ballettirosadimacchia has recorded a RPI album in the eighties. http://www.italianprogrock.com/album.php?id=54 )

As a Japanes, cannot avoid BRAST BURN.

Lard Free

Braaaaaaainticket

BaldJean wrote: the British Amon Düül made some good albums, especially "Hawk Meets Penguin"

True that, i'll take the British Amon Duul over the original Amon Duul.

Heldon (France)

I know that you're using PA's categorisation as your guide for the purposes of the poll, and I like PA's placement for these (even if I would prefer album multi tagging), but I don't treat PA categorisation as the Prog bible.  The categories are a handy guide, and useful for making such polls though one needn't agree with the best-fit category placement, but I digress.

Heldon is Krautrock related -- one of my favourite bands too.  I wouldn't consider changing the category, but being familiar with the music and Krautrock, I can understand Neu!mann's thinking.

From the last paragraph by Elecgtronic Prog/ Krautrock guru Philippe:

http://www.progarchives.com/Krautrock-introduction.asp

Philippe wrote: 7. During the seventies, German bands were not alone to explore distinctive musical ideas, experimenting drugs with music, free jazz and electronic. German first releases received a percussive feedback from the 70’s underground rock scenes born in France, Swiss, Italy, England…almost everywhere in Europe. In France, Lard Free is one of the worthy representative answer to Krautrock’s melting pot of jazz, psychedelic and electronic influences. The spacey rock of the band in their three first albums obviously resonates with Krautrock (especially with the Berlin electronic rock scene). Still in France, the innovative guitarist Richard Pinhas (both in solo and with his group Heldon) also explored electronics, molecular machines in an hypnotic repetitive mood (“Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale”, “Electronic Guerilla”…)....

Anyway, I'm voting for Lard Free.

By the way, here's the beginning of PA's Lard Free bio by Hugues:

Sean Trane wrote: ]LARD FREE was a bit the project of Gilbert Hartman much the same way that HELDON was Richard Pinhas's project. Both groups hold many common points namely highly experimental but yet accessible music that can be likened to Krautrock, a good understanding of minimalist music such as TERRY RILEY, constant personnel changes and the same musical influences namely CAN, ENO and Robert FRIPP. Both Pinhas and Hartman collaborated on each other's albums.

octopus-4 wrote: The only band I know, I don't like it (Amon Duul) even thoug I like Amon Duul II a lot

If you like Amon Düül 2 then you should certainly like Amon Düül (UK), especially "Hawk Meets Penguin" and to a certain extent also "Fool Moon". I actually like "Die Lösung" featuring the late Robert Calvert of Hawkwind too. But "Meeting with Men-Machines" is rather weak; it only has one good track, "Brundi Drummer's Nightmare". That track is really exceptional though, here a link:

Don't confuse Amon Düül (UK) with the German Amon Düül, by the way.


Edited by BaldFriede - February 15 2013 at 05:10