Dear @ALFAMA, if I had been born in Northern Europe my life would have certainly been better.

#buzz

Annexus Quam - Beziehungen (Ohr, 1972)

Also known as Ambition In Music, Annexus Quam (Peter Werner, Hans Kamper, Ove Volquartz, Harald Klemm, Martin Habenicht) was a collective of psychedelic music from Germany that emerged in the late sixties as a cosmic music collective but was mostly devoted to jazz sounds mixed with that sonic dimension known as kraut-rock (see particularly "Dreh dich nicht um"). The group released two albums. The second is this album released in 1972 and titled "Beziehungen," consisting of only four tracks dominated by a typically free-jazz imprint and jam band dedicated to improvisation with very particular harmonic constructions combined with a minimalism reminiscent of Philip Glass ("Trobluhs el e isch") and avant-garde experimental noise ("Leyenburg 2") which in "Leyenburg" culminates in a final surge with guitar work derived from the Hispanic tradition. Overall, in this case, it is perhaps the kraut component that is the least interesting. After all, it must be said that digging into German music from the sixties and seventies, this is not the first time one encounters such experimental recordings and groups that are also outside of those well-known canons and that, in a nevertheless parallel dimension mixed with the cosmic music of Tangerine Dream or the motorik of NEU! and the electronics of Kraftwerk, engaged in other genres like this little record here, which frankly is of disarming beauty and releases energy and feelings of freedom from the first to the last note.

#kraut #annexusquam #kosmischemusik

Annexus Quam - Troblush El E Isch (1972) HQ