Cosmic Jokers - Sci Fi Party

Cosmic Jokers - Sci Fi Party (1974)
Страна: Germany
Жанр: KrautRock
Год выпуска: 1974
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Трэклист:
Studio Album, released in 1974
Track Listings
1. Im Reich der Magier (8:27)
2. Der Herrscher (2:48)
3. The Cosmic Curriers meet South Philly Willy (5:25)
4. Kinder des Alls I (3:40)
5. The electronic scene (2:23)
6. Kinder des Alls II (3:43)
7. Interplay of forces (5:13)
8. Planeten sit-in (3:15)
Total Time: 34:54
Line-up/Musicians
- Dieter Dierks / bass
- Jürgen Dollase / keyboards, vocals
- Manuel Göttsching / electric guitar
- Harald Großkopf / drums
- Klaus Schulze / synthesizers
Releases information
Recorded: 1974, on Ohr Kosmische Kuriere
Доп. информация: In 1972, Rolf Ulrich Kaiser founded 'Die Kosmischen Kuriere' where will be signed all the Cosmic jokers albums. The COSMIC JOKERS is not really a band but a reunion of several German musicians and personalities from the 70s psychedelic and esoteric philosophies (the mystic Sergius Golowin in the Lord Krishna project or the gipsy folk artist Walter Wegmuller in Tarot). The interest of this side project was to create a cosmic music with a virtual musical tribe to develop the world consciousness thanks to LSD. The COSMIC musical team gathered around the same message a bunch of well known musicians from the Berlin scene (Klaus Schulze, Manuel Gottsching...). The COSMIC JOKERS is an extreme musical trip, a unique adventure throw time and space. The music is for a large part improvised with proto-electronic gadgets combined to bluesy spacey musical sentences built around the talented Manuel Gottsching’s electric guitar style (always spacey and bluesy). This is real German acid music, a ‘music of paradise’, transcending music, breaking of the materialistic world, a protest against the reality. The combination of acid, music and fun acted as a catalyst for Kaiser’s visionary powers.........

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In 1972, Rolf Ulrich Kaiser founded 'Die Kosmischen Kuriere' where will be signed all the Cosmic jokers albums. The COSMIC JOKERS is not really a band but a reunion of several German musicians and personalities from the 70s psychedelic and esoteric philosophies (the mystic Sergius Golowin in the Lord Krishna project or the gipsy folk artist Walter Wegmuller in Tarot). The interest of this side project was to create a cosmic music with a virtual musical tribe to develop the world consciousness thanks to LSD. The COSMIC musical team gathered around the same message a bunch of well known musicians from the Berlin scene (Klaus Schulze, Manuel Gottsching...). The COSMIC JOKERS is an extreme musical trip, a unique adventure throw time and space. The music is for a large part improvised with proto-electronic gadgets combined to bluesy spacey musical sentences built around the talented Manuel Gottsching’s electric guitar style (always spacey and bluesy). This is real German acid music, a ‘music of paradise’, transcending music, breaking of the materialistic world, a protest against the reality. The combination of acid, music and fun acted as a catalyst for Kaiser’s visionary powers.
This is the fourth authentic and chronologically produced album by the terrific ensemble of Cosmic Jokers, getting released within the same full year of composition and captivation, 1974, only with the difference that it actually combines new and adjacent music with excerpts and twitches from diverse such sessions, sort of like being a brand new release in a compiled inspiration and thematic. The ensemble is, as usual, Dieter Dierks as mastermind and joy-ride artist, Jurgen Dollase with impressive characters of keyboards but also a lush taste of noise and sound, coming incidentally or rather coincidentally on all krautrock levels, Manuel Gottsching as an impervious guitarist of rock, acid, psych and a bit of blues, mostly fancying a relaxed but never too far from hypnotic interpretation, Harald Grosskopf plays percussions and different rhythm emulations, just like the entire ensemble experiments instrumentality beyond the material and realistic sound, and Klaus Schulze helps a lot with the synthesizers and the mega-woof of an electronic emphasis having cosmic, abstract and void torrentiality. Much to a closed circle of music and impression, Sci-Fi Party invites Rosie to do some shadow-hollow recitations, just like a lot from Galactic Supermarket's sorrow and LSD-siac moments were blossomed under her voice.
As expected, this fourth album treats the singular, particular and vast to explore style the band has patented within all the rest of the albums , mostly pointing referentiality towards the ambitious kraut rock envisages, the electronic residues of experimentality, the well-imagined and roughly produced sound-hassle and noise-rock, plus towards an exploration of senses, difficult music and attractive shock-mind this ensemble, more than anyone else (though we can't call it quite supreme, in the end) permanently desired to explored. Madness music, confusion rock, tantra meditation and psycho-navigation can be qualities of both what is great and rotten, fascinating and elementary in Cosmic Jokers' strong affection for music and concept. A lot of the 'intergalactic trip' ideal can impress on how the album is both an uncharacteristic moment of music and style refutation and also shrieks towards cosmic and side-flipping bursts of imagination, once music actually becomes the leitmotif of sounds and harmonies and affects you on the scale of a mental drive and a psychic drift. The rest falls in other soundscapes and rock-deliciousnesses.
This entire pivotal style mostly had a great and ravishing style precision within the prime albums (the self-titled, plus a bit of Galactic Supermarket), leaving open a few more sessions of independent music, abstract kraut, cosmic lubricate shouts and more rock emphasis and glamor, not to mention that a low point was eventually reached as well, by weak and indifferent examples of music experiment (Planeten Sit-In fulfilling a dream of kraut-osmosis, but being too slow and bitter-tonal; Gilles Zeitschiff being a disaster). Sci-Fi Party has a pleasantly achieved craft, voluminousness and regular quality, something that can point it out as the best, most concrete and most indiscreet to listen album out of the entire second (more easy, more short and more vital sounding) phase. A lot of the usual vibrations and polymerizations, not at all artistic but very powerful, will create a long-reaching effort within this album, which sounds good and heavy plus is made out of cold emotions and a rough interpretation.
There is, furthermore, a split of personality within Sci-Fi's marauding composition, eight pieces creating a solid and hysterical point of kraut and sound-rock view, but also dividing a lot of themes, concepts and cosmic-flairs into different impressions. Most impressive are those experimental and woof-frantic moments when the kraut rock kicks in relentlessly, the sad and fragile visions do a lot of hazy tricks, plus everything is concealed under hypnotic and flaming sensations - it is mostly the craft of electronic harsh soundscapes and genuine acid mumbles. Thanks to the concept, the narration impresses an independent story, one both humorous and painfully dripping. The rock accents lead to full blows by Gottsching or Grosskopf, in a way this music is psychotic, but also heavy and dynamic (pieces like 'South Philly Willy' being more easy, whilst Im Reich Der Magier, for example, is hard and roguish). A lot of impressions remind of kraut rock, cosmic sound music and trauma sensibility, all of them having a general spontaneity and brave concept, much by Sci-Fi Party being both a torrid and recalcitrant hippy-hazy trip and an artistic moment of diverse and fine 'interplay of forces'.
Sci-Fi Party is the best Cosmic Jokers you can recommend after (and along with) the two epic classics, by a mixture of rock and tough kraut and by a synthy-sensual trip and a fix of emotions which sound robust, well-conceptual and illuminate a vision that's sustained by powerful music. In shorter words, it is a pleas