Carla and Brad Talk About Krautrock

Feb 22 2025 21 ep. 91 mins 11
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... in which Carla and Brad talk about Krautrock, album by album, umlaut by umlaut, für immer.

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Klaus Schulze, Irrlicht + Moondawn

Feb 22 2025 131 mins  
Took a minute but we're back with a vengeance and a heaping helping of Synthy Berliner Klaus Schulze! We gushed about Klaus's drumming in our Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel episodes. Funny thing, though: Klaus's FIFTY-PLUS-YEAR career as a solo artist was a largely drums-free endeavor. Starting with 1972's Irrlicht, which he hacked together with a wonky amp, broken organ, some d

A.R. + Machines, Die Grüne Reise

Oct 13 2024 110 mins  
Today we accept a listener's invite up to Hamburg, for a visit with A.R. + Machines. Achim Reichel grew up near the docks, listening to sea shanties. He found work at the Star-Club waiting tables, but soon enough he was on its stage playing with the Rattles—and running with Lennon & McCartney. Come 1971 he ditched his bandmates for a tape machine. Krautrock followed. Turns ou

Amon Düül, Psychedelic Underground

Apr 21 2024 109 mins  
In today's episode, Carla and Brad tip their caps to the ten or more young Bavarians who stood up to Mom and Dad, demanded money for a swank downtown apartment, and most assuredly drove their neighbors nuts with the ensuing band rehearsals. Well, maybe we tip our caps more to the parents who funded this grand and glorious adventure. Musical Münchner communards choose attitude over

Popol Vuh, In Den Gärten Pharaos & Hosianna Mantra

Jan 25 2024 137 mins  
It's a tale as old as time. Boy meets Moog III synthesizer. Boy drops a wad of cash to buy it. Boy and Moog blissfully record two studio albums and a film soundtrack together. Boy abruptly breaks up with Moog and finds religion. Boy is, of course, gifted and accomplished pianist Florian Fricke. His project, and at times even his alter ego, is Popol Vuh. In this episode we do some B

Ash Ra Tempel S/T & Schwingungen

Sep 07 2023 114 mins  
Schoolyard friends Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke loved the Beatles and the blues ... like everybody else in a Berlin rock band in the late '60s. But then they got hold of Blue Cheer's record and some blow-the-doors-off British amps. Soon wunderkind drummer Klaus Schulze was at their door, sniffing around the new equipment. Things were gonna get LOUD. Ash Ra Tempel's soundquak

**Special Conny Plank Episode**/ Moebius & Plank, Rastakraut Pasta

Jul 06 2023 98 mins  
No figure loomed larger over Krautrock, as a genre, than legendary producer/ sound engineer Konrad "Conny" Plank ... and we've been looking for an opportunity to talk about him. Then we discovered the Rastakraut Pasta LP that he and Dieter Moebius recorded and released in 1980. Problem solved! From behind the board in Cologne's Rhenus Studio and then his own converted farmhouse in

Carla and Brad Make a Playlist

May 22 2023 96 mins  
We interrupt this podcast's regularly scheduled programming for a SPECIAL REPORT: We've made a Krautrock Playlist. The original idea was to have a "song draft": having dug deep enough into Krautrock, we would take turns claiming songs for ourselves. We figured this way we'd learn what each of us likes in particular, and what we like best. What happened is we came up with a list of

Brainticket, Cottonwoodhill

Mar 27 2023 106 mins  
It's 1969. Accomplished Belgian classical/ jazz/ R&B pianist Joel Vandroogenbroeck and English rock guitarist Ron Bryer have ditched their Basel-based blue-eyed soul band and will shortly link up with lysergic femme fatale Dawn Muir. The result? A square of light, a circle of thought, a triangle of NOTHING. It's BRAINTICKET! Join us as we talk about Brainticket's wild and wooly

Guru Guru, Hinten

Feb 20 2023 107 mins  
Accomplished jazz practitioners hear the siren song of psychedelic rock and find themselves a young, ripping guitarist to plug in with. Hold on: are we talking about Can again? Not at all. It's Guru Guru today: three amazing musicians laying down the soundtrack for when the aliens arrive. Or put differently, "music that's intended to mess with the cerebellum." (h/t David Stubbs) Th

Harmonia, Deluxe

Jan 06 2023 101 mins  
In the spring of 1973, guitarist Michael Rother looks in on two old acquaintances at their ramshackle farmhouse/ recording studio in Forst. Rother hopes to tour the UK with his current band, Neu!, and he *thinks* Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster might provide just the juice he needs for his live act ... Now what was it John Lennon said about life and making othe