Julian Cope: Krautrocksampler UK '95 Head Heritage
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Krautrocksampler
One Head's Guide To The Great Kosmische Musik - 1968 Onwards"
by
Julian Cope
Krautrocksampler, written by musicologist and former ‘The Teardrop Explodes’ singer, Julian Cope, is a book describing the underground music scene in Germany from 1968 through the 1970s.
The book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1995 by Head Heritage, and was later translated into German and French. It has now been long out of print. Despite this continued demand for Krautrocksampler, Cope has stated that the book will not be updated or reprinted, claiming that it contains some "factual errors and that he doesn't want to position himself as an expert, having met people he considers better informed."
Krautrocksampler gives a subjective and very animated account of the phenomenon of krautrock from the perspective of the author, who states: "I wrote this short history because of the way I feel about the music, that its supreme Magic & Power has lain Unrecognised for too long." This subjectivity has been criticised for presenting "too narrow" a view of the genre, with critics citing "the lack of an in-depth assessment of Agitation Free or Xhol Caravan" as examples.
The book comprises a narrative of the rock and roll culture in post-WWII West Germany, along with chapters focusing on individual major artists, including Faust, Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Amon Düül I and II, Ash Ra Tempel, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser and the Cosmic Jokers and advocate of psychedelic drugs Timothy Leary. It also has an annotated appendix of "50 Kosmische Classics." Some chapters appeared previously in the UK music magazine The Wire and in the German music magazine Spex.
The cover is an edited version of the cover of Amon Düül II's album Yeti.
Book is in Excellent condition, Minor dinks to corners etc, which is how it would have arrived to me when I bought it new back in the day. Carefully read by me then has been sat on a shelf ever since..
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