Bunker Records 1972 / Now-Again Records 2017
Disc 1:
01 Screaming Skeletons
02 Missile Song
03 Belle's Song
04 Nothing
Disc 2:
01 Belle's Song (Extended)
02 Missile Song (Extended)
Disc 3:
01 Bear Song
02 Happy Stripes (On Cats)
03 Ghost Guitar
04 Bear Song (Alternate)
05 Harpy & Peregrine
06 Python Vs. Tiger
07 Giant Rock; Boulder Golem
The one and only album by German Oak has had a troubled history. Originally released in 1972, the band were helpless as the owner of the tapes put the record out without their knowledge and worse, added titles that reflected his own fascistic tendencies.
The album has been dismissed over the years as a pro-nazi statement, when in fact the band themselves had no affiliation to such extreme politics.
The music itself is brilliant; dark, heavy guitar, drum and bass jams. The two middle titles extend out and they are as kosmiche as it gets.
It's a shame it has taken until this 2017 re-issue for even the correct song titles to be included. his three disc edition has extended versions of the two main cuts from the LP, plus unreleased songs from after those sessions.T
Brilliant, brutal, underground jams.
4 comments:
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Interesting story. Never bothered to look them up, because I thought it's boring hard rock labeled as kautrock :D I was wrong. Reminds me a bit of Ejwuusl Wessahqqan.
ah!! at last! a decent re-issue from this album. Thank god the dictator speech has been ripped off from the tapes, and now it sounds as it should be: A melangic and tribulated post-WWII artistic expression from Germany.
When this was reissued the terms for purchase were insane and I sadly wrote it off. Thank you so much! You rule, ILIF!
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