Harmonia was described by Brian Eno as the “most important rock group”. But you originally wanted to bring Roedelius and Moebius into Neu! at the time? When NEU! was invited to do a tour in the UK in 1973, Klaus Dinger and I faced the problem that we needed musicians to help us put our …
Gabi Delgado has passed away a few hours after publishing this interview. He meant the world to me, and he will be terribly missed by his fans. Things indeed can come to a certain end. Gabi Delgado, March 2020 For me, you are without a question the most influental German band. Many people would name …
In Germany circa 1969, the new generation was radically changing German music away from the bland pop Schlager songs of the past towards a psychedelic rock partially influenced by the American and British counterculture, especially Pink Floyd’s first two records Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets. Conrad Schnitzler (a musique concrete …
In 1967, I was still in school and played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound in Düsseldorf. George Harrison, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton were my idols. Then Jimi Hendrix came- and everything changed. In March 1967, he and his band- with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass, performed for …
‘Krautrock’ is now the common nomenclature for German avant-garde of the 70s, although that was not always the case- the term was originally used to mock and dismiss the experimental music bursting out of Germany at the time. The German innovators of Kraftwerk, Can, Faust and Neu! were artists who sought a conscious break from …
