Kän Guru [PA] [Digipak]

Performer: Guru Guru
Producer: C. Plank; Mani Neumeier; Conny Plank; Guru Guru
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Ax Genrich (vocals, guitar); Mani Neumeier (vocals, keyboards, drums); Uli Trepte (vocals, bass instrument); Konrad Plank (guitar, keyboards). Liner Note Author: Matthias Mineur. Recording information: Windrose Dumont-Time Studio (02/1972-03/1972). Photographer: Tai M. L�dicke. Eschewing the absurdist sound collage aesthetic of Faust and the instrumental virtuosity of Can for mind-melting sheets of feedback-laden sound and unfettered improvisation, Guru Guru served as something of a Krautrock analog to England's Hawkwind, another gritty psychedelic act devoted to the simple pleasures of distortion, drugs, and more distortion. Guru Guru's third full-length, 1972's KANGURU, features four ecstatic forays into long-form improvisation and is often held up alongside 1971's UFO as the outfit's best work.

Record Collector (magazine) (p.84) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Oxymoron' manages to be both taut and gloriously messy, with Ax sounding like The Doors' Robbie Kreiger as well as Hendrix."

One of the original groups of the now famed Krautrock movement of 1970s Germany, Guru Guru positioned themselves quite clearly on the psychedelic rock end of the musical spectrum, considerably more so than their more proto-techno and ambient oriented colleagues. A predominantly instrumental act, Guru Guru mixed elements of free jazz, world music, and heavy American acid rock to create their sound. The band called it quits at the dawn of the 1980s, but have proven to be a quietly influential act on a host of contemporary psych bands.

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