Title: Ash Ra Tempel - 'The Best Of The Private Tapes' (Cleopatra)
Product review: When I first got my hands on this 2-CD release, I was very impressed with what it had to offer. To best describe the Ash Ra Tempel is to say they're instrumental cosmic rock. I was sort of blown away with "Halensee","Der Lauf Der Giraffen", the 12-minute epic "Niemand Lacht", the inventive "Wall Of Sound" and the spaced out "Hausaufgabe" (this one's a classic). That's only disc one. On disc two, things tend to get a bit diverse. "Lotus" and "Gedanken" are probably the better tracks, but "Deep Distance" is nothing short of pure brilliance. Ash Ra Tempel mainman / composer Manuel Gottsching has worked with Klaus Schulze (fellow Cosmic Joker) and Lutz Ulbrich (ex-Agitation Free) in the past. Another great collection of krautrock tracks to seek out. To this day, Ash Ra Tempel still exists.
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