FRITZ MULLER ROCK LP NWW LIST-KRAFTWERK-KRAUTROCK-BEUYS

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FRITZ MULLER

FRITZ MULLER ROCK LP

Roth-Handle

Original pressing, bizarre new german rock / krautrock with touches of avant-garde all around. From collaborators of Joseph Beuys & Kraftwerk. On the Nww list of influences.

Some info on the release: Rare 70's new german rock / krautrock / experimental craziness from Fritz Muller & co. released on the Roth-Handle label.

Fritz Mueller is one of the most innovative musicians of the German Rock Scene. Born 1945 as Eberhard Kranemann in Germany, he studied the classical double bass at the Dortmund Conservatory, played Bach / Mozart / Telemann - orchestra music and played in some Jazz bands. Then he went to Duesseldorf to study painting at the Arts Academy. Beside experimenting with colours and painting abstract pictures he experimented with sounds, at first with cello, clarinet, tenorsaxophone, electric guitar, hawaii guitar, later with electronic instruments. Together with some other art students he founded the experimental music group

PISSOFF in 1967. Angry about the social development in Germany and the conservative behaviour round about , they destructed the rules of music. In concerts they played free improvised music nonstop for three hours. Everyone played as loud as possible - without harmony, correct notes, predominant structures and norms - and the people liked it. Freedom pure. Chaos. Sound terror. JOSEPH BEUYS, art professor at the academy in Duesseldorf, liked it so much that he made a performance together with PISSOFF in the famous Duesseldorf Creamcheese Club, Frank Zappa's favourite German club. This was the time when Florian Schneider-Esleben heard this sound and joined the band.

He became a friend of Eberhard Kranemann. The two curious musicians made some more experiments with music, out of which KRAFTWERK was born. After four years of collaboration he began to work together with Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother in the band NEU!. Then he gave himself the stage name FRITZ MUELLER, worked as a solo artist in concerts and recorded at the conny plank studio in Wolperath, formed the FRITZ MUELLER BAND, toured for concerts in Germany, worked in conny's studio again, played in radio and television. The 1977 FRITZ MUELLER ROCK LP, co-produced by conny plank, is now, 2007, thirty years later, one of the most important documents of the GERMAN ROCK HISTORY, now called PSYCH HEAVY KRAUTROCK and KRAUTROCK KEY BAND.

Here's a review from Mutant Sounds blog: "An uber-rare and headscratchingly odd Nurse With Wound list item, Fritz Muller Rock was a Conny Plank-produced one-off project by one-time Kraftwerk/Neu! live member Eberhard Kranemann (he's featured on the legendary Kraftwerk "Ruckstop Gondelero" beat club footage). There are great gouts of dumbo hard rockin' ramalamma on display here to be sure (ranging from the weirdly amusing to outright atrocious) but these bits are bizarrely forced to cohabitate with incongruous outbursts that range in tone from glazed Floyd-ian grandiosity to an 8+ minute slab of acid fried psychosis called "Fritz Muller Traum", that sounds like Ron Geesin leading a marching band through an early Tangerine Dream synthetic vaporspace and which is obviously the reason for it's inclusion on "the list".

Condition: Vinyl lies in very good+ condition, looks crystal clear, but has a tiny mark on side a:, track 4, that provokes a click, which means that at that moment you need to lift the needle and put it further on to proceed, otherwise would be close to mint-. The cover lies in very good condition, with overall storage wear, sticker removal and leftovers on the top right corner and slight ring (see picture).

Tracklist

A1 Ich Kauf Mir 'Ne Gitarre 2:50 A2 Bratkartoffel Rock'N'Roll 2:14 A3 Raketenlied 2:55 A4 Gisela 3:22 A5 Schulwand 3:20 A6 I'm Sittin' By The Seaside 3:40 Vocals - Christa Fast A7 Yes, We Can 4:02 B1 Postmann 3:50 B2 Ich Stehe Morgens Um Sieben Auf 3:55 B3 Fritz Müller Traum 8:40 B4 I Don't Understand It 4:15

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