Guru Guru
Känguru

Among the many cosmic couriers and psycho-disturbed German musicians, these Guru Guru are definitely among the most concrete. Few inventions or room for time to dilate into the void, but a lot of rock mixed with blues and psychedelia, with many peaks of excellent Sabbath-style Hard-Rock. The substantial difference between them and any other similar band from across the ocean is evident already in the form: in this their third work, only four tracks. Long suites of progressions and more or less heavy riffs shape this kangaroo that seems to leap wherever it wants across various genres.

Opening is the shorter "Oxymoron", a rather visionary blues that starts with a voice and a guitar riff that seem to come from a Teutonic Hendrix. The final part is particularly intense, where the rhythm is rendered more cosmic by estrangement effects. Very ironic voices, playfully almost, present us with the long "Immer Lusting" formed in a guitar crescendo that becomes increasingly massive and monolithic before vanishing into nothing after just five minutes, leaving only timid percussion, also alienated and hallucinated. It’s the beginning of a musical delirium where chaos reigns, or rather that free-rock tendency so dear to Neumeier and his associates, mixed with electronic effects that seem to recall the first Neu!. This leads to a final outburst where all the instruments gradually give up as if exhausted, leaving only the drums, which slowly fade out as well.

The third track "Baby Cake Walk" is the most complex and fascinating point of the album. It also opens with a nasty, very Hard and cyclical style in its riffs. It seems like Hard-Rock mixed with typically American desert Blues, but then everything stops, pauses, and there’s only silence that isn’t really silence, because there is always Rock, it just sometimes takes experimental paths that branch off from the classically rocking highway. In closing, another irresistible guitar outburst again highlights the remarkable qualities of Ax Genrich, former member of Agitation Free. The concluding "Ooga Booga" is as ironic as it is fascinating, initially based on a tight percussive rhythm, and then on two electric guitar tracks that hypnotize the listener, leading them to the end, where everything is slowed down and dragged almost to the breaking point by a hefty riff, as heavy as a rock that nonetheless manages to keep rolling for about ten minutes, just long enough for Guru Guru to accumulate their insights, set them to rest until the final release.

This will also be the final outburst of the classic trio before various departures and vicissitudes affect them as well. A work of the highest quality, perhaps second only to the previous UFO.