AUF DER BAHN ZUM URANUS

Such an earthy sound and spacey picture like their moniker and the title of their album. "Auf Der Bahn Zum Uranus" was out in 1974 as the debut (and the most famous) album by a short-lived Krautrock legend GÄA. Pretty promising is the uncanny sleeve pic through that you could imagine how crazy this opus be, but via the whole creation you would get authentic psychedelic blues rock with trippy dry-fruity mellotron-based electronic congestion.

Contrary to inorganic spacey voice shots in the beginning, hard and bluesy melody lines based upon heartwarming mellotron-oriented atmosphere plus mystic acoustic guitar spices are crazy impressive via the first track "Uranus". This prologue explains their policy a lot. Basically their musical polarity should be not pushing artistic eccentricity nor asserting hallucinogenic weirdness but launching decent soundscape filled with catchy moments and unexpected cold electronic deposits. Given one of trends in early 70s Krautrock scene, this well-balanced and matured mixture (that reminds me of the similarity to Pinguin's "Der Grosse Rote Vogel" or Air's "Teilweise Kacke ... Aber Stereo") can be heard naturally. "Tanz Mit Dem Mond" has fascinating mellow texture, along with acoustic guitar and soft piano playing ... the last powerful electroguitar explosion is also enchanting though. "Mutter Erde" is another delightful pop / rock featuring immersive guitar sounds and a tad cheap chorus. Sometimes rhythmic distortion and melodic dissection can be heard but who cares ... this manner might make you smile. So-called slowtempo bluesy rock-ish temperature is in the following stuff "Welt Im Dunkel". The song itself is not so interesting indeed but mysterious air is all around amazingly. The self-titled epilogue has the most bombastic, shoegazey energy. Grateful improvised movements seasoned with hightone fulte-managed madness should be another pleasure of German Psychedelic Rock. They could have played this masterpiece upon stage incredibly with relaxing ... you can see easily.

Above mentioned, not so perverted nor kinky as sorta cannabis-created improvisational Krautrock vanguard, but hardrock-y psychedelic enough with sarcastic facets and cool structures. Another royalty of Krautrock? Yes.