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Schwingungen

Ash Ra Tempel's second album, with a side-long title piece in two parts, Suche and Liebe.
Manuel Göttsching, 1972

Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser produced and Dieter Dierks engineered. Side one, "Light and Darkness", holds "Light: Look at Your Sun" (6:20) and "Darkness: Flowers Must Die" (12:20); side two is "Schwingungen" (about 19:00), in the parts "Suche" and "Liebe". Players were Hartmut Enke (guitar, bass, electronics), Manuel Göttsching (guitar, organ, electronics, choir), Wolfgang Müller (drums, vibraphone), Uli Popp (bongos), Matthias Wehler (alto saxophone) and John L. (vocals, jaw harp, percussion). Wikipedia says the opening piece owes a lot to Peter Green's playing on Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross". AllMusic gave 4.5 stars. Listings give the original as Ohr OMM 556.020, which we could not confirm on a fetched page. Stated length is 38:40 though the listed times add to 37:40.

Track listing

  1. Light: Look at Your Sun6:20
  2. Darkness: Flowers Must Die12:20
  3. Schwingungen19:00

More from Manuel Göttsching

Ash Ra Tempel (1971), Starring Rosi (1973), E2-E4 (1984), Dream & Desire (1991), Die Mulde (2005)

Sources

  1. Schwingungen, Wikipedia
  2. Schwingungen, MusicBrainz