EKKEHARD SANDER Alle Wege 1972 HEAVY FUZZ PSYCH 45 HEAR

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

EKKEHARD SANDER SEPTETT "Alle Wege..." b/w "Erzahl Mir Von Dir"

Original 1972 45 on the East German AMIGA label

Vinyl:  Plays VG+ to VG++

All hail the fuzz-bursting, skull-crushing, floor-bursting sound of the mighty Ekkehard Sander Septett!  Yeah, I know, I know, it sounds like a friggin’ polka combo with a name like that, especially when you consider the songs are sung in their native German and have titles like “Alle Wege” and “Erzahl Mir Von Dir.”  But if you still don’t think Germans can rock, need I remind you of Klaus Meine und Der Scorpions?  Or Amon Duul?  Falco?  Or Uschi Obermaier, who was technically Austrian but too hot to be confined to one country?  Still not convinced?  Then click on the soundclips and see just how rockin’ Herr Ekkehard Sander was.  And turn on to the fuzz rippin’ foot stompin’ Teutonic tectonic-plate-shiftin’ sounds of “Erzahl Mir Von Dir,” which means “tell me about yourself” and is definitely NOT something you’d say to Miss Obermaier (who’d rather show you anyway).  With its occasional ack-ack bursts of Chicago style horns, it sounds an awful lot like fellow Germans the Rattles’ classic “Mister, Keep Your Hands Off My Sister,” which really was the name of a song (really), and is also what protective brother Tommy Obermaier said about two hundred times every day.  “Alle Wege,” meanwhile, takes the early Al Kooper Blood Sweat and Tears sound and gives it some piercing fuzz and rumbling bass.  This single, by the way, is mighty rare, and almost completely unknown, because who would expect a garage psych go-go killer from a band called the Ekkehard Sander Septett?  But rest assured, like the Scorpions, Amon Duul, Falco and Uschi, these Germans can rock.  It’s oomph, not oompa. 

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