Guru Guru "Lounge" and "Mani und seine Freunde" are out NOW !

A " Must have" for every fan of Krautrock.....
The new album, "in the Guru Lounge" perfectly straddles pop, rock, trance and jazz.
Yet the album flows and everything fits, regardless of "genre changes"

The re-release of Mani's first "solo" album, is a delight ! A collaboration between Mani and members of Kraan & Cluster, this long awaited gem is a perfect example of how exiting and new this music was at the time and still stands the test of time......

Coming soon is the re-release of MOSHI MOSHI, with a re-worked version of the classic anthem " DER ELEKTRO LURCH" as a welcome Bonus track.

Available wherever good music is sold to people with discriminating and adventerous tastes.

Some other classic albums by Hoelderlin and a picture of the current line-up.... 

HOELDERLIN

A few months ago, an old friend sent me an email after many years....
It was Christian von Grumbkow, formerly of the much "underated" Prog/Folk band Hoelderlin. I had reviewed their seminal "Traumstadt" double live LP in EUROCK Magazine and played their Music on ALIEN SOUNDTRACKS.....

It was such a pleasure to hear from Christian so unexpectedly...he was very exited to tell me that although he was no longer in the band, EMI Germany had seen fit to re-release TRAUMSTADT on CD....(it had seen a re-release earlier, along with their other albums, but i'm not sure if these were "official" or not) In either case, it was nice to see a "major" label take an interest in a back catalogue that did not then or likely will not ever set any Sales Records.

It was released in February of 2005 and should be freely available, at least in Germany....( Christian's efforts to have the label send me a copy have been unsuccessful, but that's ok.....i have the original and perhaps i will reprint my "original review" as well)

The good news is that this release has sparked a re-union of sorts with some of the original members and guest musicians....( Christian will not play guitar and unfortunately, his brother died in 1990)

The "new" HOELDERLIN will be part of a new KRAUTROCK re-union DVD, to be recorded in December this year, featuring KRAAN, KIN PING MEH, 2066 and THEN, BROESELMASCHINE & RUFUS ZUPHALL.

( i'm not sure if this one will be available via SPV as well, but as soon as i find out i will let you all know)

Christian, who was always an accomplished painter as well, is busy touring the the US and Germany, giving talks on ART & THERAPY and painting....check out his excellent work at this gallery : http://www.78thstreetgallery.com

IRMIN SCHMIDT visits America

Details in Can News below....

MORE NEWS FROM CAN & SIDE PROJECTS

CAN NEWS

• CAN DVD RE-RELEASE JANUARY 2006


• FIVE NEW REMASTERED CAN ALBUMS. OUT MARCH 2006


• CO-FOUNDER IRMIN SCHMIDT AVAILABLE FOR US PROMO

     IN SAN FRAN/LA EARLY DECEMBER

THE DVD
Containing access to everything you could ever want to know about CAN with rare insights into the personalities and methodology of the groundbreaking and legendary German band, Mute re-releases the CAN DVD January 24th, 2006 as a double DVD set.

The 2 DVD set contains a CAN documentary, a CAN free concert, CAN notes, CAN solo recordings, as well as new 5.1 surround sound mixes of classic CAN tracks, plus many extra features.

THE REMASTERS
The Grey Area of Mute/Spoon is scheduled to release five more re-mastered CAN titles in March 2006. These include: Delay, Flow Motion, Saw Delight, Can, and Rite Time. These follow the hugely successful release of the re-mastered editions of CAN's Monster Movie, Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, and Soundtracks (November 2004), and Future Days, Landed, Soon Over Babaluma, and Unlimited Edition on (June 2005).

IRMIN SCHMIDT VISITS AMERICA
One of the founding members of CAN, is traveling to the United States to give a presentation of his work at the Composers/Performers Forum at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles (Monday, December 12th, 1:00 – 3:00PM). Journalists are invited to attend this presentation.

Schmidt will be available for in-person and phone interviews in San Francisco December 6th and in Los Angeles December 13th.

Also available for promotional use is a new CAN EPK, available on DVD, this gives new insight into the band, background on the re-mastered releases and details the current solo activities of Irmin Schmidt & Kumo.

The EPK includes a DVD ROM section with discographies, biographies, high-resolution images, further information about the artists and an extended press kit comprising of international reviews and articles in both text and jpeg formats.

Spoonrecords.com  •  Mute.com

To attend Irmin Schmidt's presentation at the California Institute of the Arts, schedule an interview, request more information, or request a CAN EPK please contact:

Leslie Hermelin 212.255.7670 x241 (Leslie@mute.com)

News Update on Popol Vuh

The last 5 popol Vuh re-issues, "Sei Still, wisse ich bin", Cobra Verde, Florian Fricke (solo), For you and me and "Brüder des Schattens, Söhne des Lichts" are now DELAYED until sometime in the Spring of 2006.
Too bad, i was looking forward to them, but they are well worth the wait.....in the meantime, there will be more KRAAN and GURU GURU's coming soon, i'm sure some more Klaus Schulze as well (likely in the new year) and no news yet on any additional AMON DÜÜL 2 re-issues just yet.....

More soon on the OHM with DVD re-issue and Part 2 of the Alien Soundtracks Story .....including the legendary CLEM (Contact List of Electronic Music) it's "love child" the seminal "Stitching small tears " tape and it's upcoming CD re-issue with Bonus Tracks.

Also in the works, a portrait of one of the many "unsung " Heroes of the US electronic Music Scene, Stefan Tischler..his beginnings in PORT SAID through his many Collaborations to his current exploits.....in the meantime, check out his web site : www.StefanTischler,com