The Monks
Delia Darbyshire
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Julian Cope’s “A Krautrock Sampler”
“Mars By 1980”
“Monolithic Undertow, In Search of Sonic Oblivion”
The Master Musicians of Jajouka
Amon Duul
Ash Ra Tempel
Edgar Varese
Continuing on with Can, Cluster, and delving deeper into Neu!. Continuing on with Conny Plank and Eno’s other Krautrock collaborators as described in “Some Faraway Beach”. This may be the year I finally get into Tangerine Dream. A good book can open up so many worlds and the Eno book, A Krautrock Sampler, and Monolithic Undertow are directed bursts of concentrated energy. When I finish books like these, I look at my YouTube and Amazon histories and how much new culture and music I have been enriched by, I think something akin to Neo saying, “I know kung-fu”. It’s like I’ve cleared a hill and I can look down and see the world in a greater focus. So much good music is in these books.