SILOAH [ALSO RELEASED AS SÄUREADLER]

Born during krautrock's explosion at the beginning of the 70's Siloah deserves an interest for fans of psychedelic folk music. With a delicate free form sound the band delivers catchy, sometimes dreamy like songs for acoustic instruments, dominated by guitars and percussions. The "acid" folk mention reminds me some good kraut-folk items (Amon Duul's Paradieswarts Duul, Kalacakra's Crawling to Lhasa, Hoelderlin's Traum.), featuring "ethno-psychedelic", simplistic poetic romance and stoned vocals. "Yellow puppets" is a short "pastoral" piece for acoustic guitar & percussions, quite charming. "Krishna Golden Dope Show" is more into a "hippie" like trip, a bit old dated but it sounds nice, very folk with gorgeous peaceful effects, "monotonous" vocals and soft chorus. "Road to Larany" is a brilliant bluesy acoustic folk ballad. "Acid Eagle" is a freak out repetitive tune for ethnic like percussions and stringed instruments. "Alluminum winds" is a rather dark "acid" folk composition with not real coherence and no real sense of composition. Nice floating flute lines punctuated the ensemble. The new Garden of delights CD reissue contains bonus tracks & a full booklet of notes and photos. Not the best German "stoned" folk item but a few amazing atmospheres.

German group of Folk Progressive Rock tends Krautrok. Saureadler listens to especially around a campfire by the sea on the sand, between young or less young hippy, séches guitars, percussions, singings(songs), vocal little of psychédélisme inside has Amon Düül in more technical and more well-kept. The work remains however original, a music close to the community music and to the nature, without violence, the music is not twisted and listens to relatively peacefully.

It is not regrettably a major album of the progressive rock, but a nice album one one can décourvrire or make discover in group around a good fire(light) and around good drinks and the others substance the progressive rock under another shape.