Guru Guru

It's hard to tell now whether the term "krautrockoriginally concocted by the British music weeklies as a catch-all for the experimentally-minded bands coming out of Germany in the beards-and-bellbottoms era —was intended derisively or not, regardless of it's political incorrectness. But after German band Faust used the appellation for a song title in 1973, it started to transcend its origins, and over the decades it has become a generic tag for the post-psychedelic sonic storms stirred up by the likes of Amon Duul II , Guru Guru , Faust , Ash Ra Tempel and Can , as well as their more electronically minded cousins, Tangerine Dream , Kraftwerk , et al—music that has been incalculably influential to every generation of rockers to come along since. But while classic albums by the aforementioned artists have been comfortably ensconced in the krautrock canon for some forty years now, the books may have to be reopened in order to accomodate the arrival of The Lost Tapes , three CDs' worth of recently unearthed, previously unheard, archival Can material that seems sure to blow more than a few fans' minds. Read More