RARE 1974 "ZEBRA" = ACHIM REICHEL & MACHINES AUTOVISION PROG PSYCH KRAUTROCK
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ORIGINAL 1974 ZEBRA PRESSING
psychedelic-progressive underground
ACHIM REICHEL & MACHINES
AUTOVISION
GERMANY - ZEBRA -2949 016
RARE, ORIGINAL 1974 first pressing on the highly collected ZEBRA LABEL ...
Includes the plastic lined ZEBRA inner sleeve
Achim Reichel, the Psychedelic guitar master weaves a flowing adventurous journey within the still vastly unknown "Autovision" ... the 1974 album is strung-out with trippy passages containing an interesting mesh of cohesive unity. A skilled group effort, the players deliver complex rhythms which navigate through twists and turns creating an aural buzz to the listening experience ...
Producer, composer and musician from Hamburg (Germany), Achim Reichel is a key figure in the explosion of krautrock. Reichel was first a founder member of "The Rattles" at the beginning of the 60's. In 1968 he formed the "Wonderland band" with the drummer Frank Dostal. Late 60's he launched his first solo musical project called A.R and the machines. Musically it provides a supreme sonic musical voyage turned to cycled psychedelic guitar playing with lot of echoes and delay.
"Autovision" finds Achim Reichel and his machines a tad disorientated like they just stepped off a spine shattering merry go round, but there is something here - something that speaks to us - something that is simple like pouring water over your sister´s sandcastle, watching how the water just eats up every contour and leaves the once decorated tiny piece of beach like nature intended it in the first place. It´s a self-imploding album this one, and meandering like a waterfall dumping water from high altitudes in the same thundering way it´s always done. But just like the simpleness of such a natural wonder like the waterfall, these individual tunes also emanate a certain natural vibe, and we much like it in all of its layers.
The first two songs are what we´d call Krautrock n´ Roll meets Canterbury. The jazzy wind instruments and the (Steve Hillage) "Khan" Lp like feel of the rest of the band put together with some creepy background atmospherics - generate a slightly psychedelic and again meandering excursion into Canterbury that promises nothing - flips you the bird and just wanders away into a rocking implosion. In a way - the whole philosophy of these two tracks is like back when the beatniks jumped freight trains because they wanted to be transported somewhere, without anything looking remotely like a direction or a final destination, - just freeway dreamings cooked up by these intoxicated jazz enthusiasts who could talk for days on end about how sunshine hits the street and why all things need fire to live.
Hi ho silver and the train to India sets off with "Turbulenze" that surprisingly is a very meandering track, and finally opens this record up fully to the Krautrock sound it´s been threatening with. What probably is a hysterical mouse tap-dancing on a small hand drum, is followed up with some bewildering guitar patterns, that waffles around - suddenly changing pace and tone - and the track transforms into something like a psychedelic raga with some eerie electronics in the background - sounding like brightly colored wall-paper would - if it could speak.
Perhaps the most meandering of all these tracks is "Jay Guru Dev", and what´s really puzzling, is that it just might be our favorite off Autovision. A slowly developing guitar is the essence here. It strums its pointless melody, accompanied by an organ that conjures up the same sort of foggy soundscapes you can hear on Led Zeppelin´s No quarter. There´s almost a serene Popol Vuh feel to this one as well, and we think it´s rather meditative and beautiful - like walking through snow on warm naked feet.
Drei in Einz" closes the door to the Canterburian dimension with a meandering, slow, melancholic vibe, that sounds like it could have come from one of Kevin Ayers early nonsense albums, or on the other hand maybe it´s a forerunner to the Floyd track "Round and Around." Yep, know what you´re thinking, but it´s a lot better and much more delicate - ending with some sprinkling chimes that sound like they, along with the track, is being poured into sand. Psssht and it´s gone.
"Bringing At All Back Home" - ending the album is a good ol´ mouth harmonica playing a nice little sailor outro, making this album seem all the more impenetrable and fragmentary. It´s a giggle though and it only lasts 30 seconds...
Side A:
Eisenpferde
Tanz Der Vögel In Den Winden
Drei In Eins
Side B:
Turbulenzen
Jay Guru Dev
Kopf In Den Wolken - Beine Auf Der Erde
CONDITION: The cover is rated: "EX" (excellent) fragile & laminated has no problems, well handled over the past 42 years ...no bends, no writing, no split seams, no delete marks...
The vinyl is rated M- TOP COPY ... smooth and clear sides, plays immaculate! Both ZEBRA labels are clean
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!
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