Lp KROKODIL Another Time - Krokodil Records - Klp 02-2021 - STILL SEALED

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lp KROKODIL

Another Time

Country of release: Switzerland, 2022

Originally released: 2021 (CD only)

Label: KROKODIL

Catalog number: KLP 02-2021

Bar code: -

Folding cover/gatefold sleeve: Yes/ YES

Includes inner sleeve

Condition Record: mint

Condition Cover: mint

lp is still sealed / lp IS STILL SEALED

Photo from my own lp / Photo take From my personal copy

Tracks Side 1:

1. Another Time (4:56)

2. How This Works (3:14)

3. Shadow Blues (4:21)

4. In My Dream (6:53)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Sirens (4:18)

2. Better Slow Down (8:16)

3. Dear Prudence (6:10)

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Revival of KROKODIL without Walty Anselmo. Switzerland's first rock musician steps back into the second row. An era is coming to an end.

The legendary Swiss band is back in a new formation and with a new album. But guitarist and singer Walty Anselmo is only there as a guest for health reasons.

KROKODIL 's pioneering role in Swiss music history, in the development of rock and pop, cannot be overestimated. The Zurich band , officially founded in early 1969 by Düde Dürst, Walty Anselmo, Hardy Hepp, Terry Stevens and Mojo Weideli, was not only a Swiss rock band from the very beginning, it was also the first Swiss supergroup with international appeal. Equipped with a worldwide deal with the US label Liberty, to which global stars such as Ike & Tina Turner, CANNED HEAT and Cher were signed.
The KROKODIL had broken new ground, especially musically. Even in the Beat era, Swiss bands emulated their international idols and wanted to sound as much like them as possible. Not so KROKODIL : “We wanted to play our own material,” says Düde Dürst. KROKODIL were a progressive, psychedelic and absolutely uncommercial rock monster in which “everything, really everything was possible”.
KROKODIL were not a typical prog rock band. It was progressive, but also psychedelic and bluesy. Mojo Weideli's blues harp shaped the reptilian sound. KROKODIL were unique and more American-oriented than most other prog bands. Improvisation was an essential element, and song structures were open, not as rigid as most other progressive bands. The songs left room for spontaneity and interaction, especially Live . However, due to the lack of performance opportunities in Switzerland, the band concentrated on the German market. Whether as a “heater” for top acts like PINK Floyd and Uriah Heep or at major festivals. In Germany, KROKODIL were omnipresent and usually played in halls with around 6,000 spectators. Often in a package with their German label mates, the Kraut rockers Can and AMON DÜÜL II . KROKODIL were a sought-after live attraction, and Walty Anselmo in particular left lasting impressions as the psychedelic master of ceremonies on guitar and sitar. The “Hamburger Abendblatt” wrote: “Anselmo is undoubtedly one of the most interesting musicians on the German scene, with one caveat: he is Swiss.”
Then, after six intense years, the oven was out. The four remaining musicians were tired of the vagaries of the young rock scene, taken advantage of and exploited by the music industry. The drugs did the rest. “We were drained and burned out,” says Dürst, “Drugs were the killer.”

Now, 50 years later, it is making a comeback. A comeback with a delay, the starting signal was actually given a year ago with the new interpretation of the cult album “ An Invisible World Revealed ” from 1971, a milestone in Swiss rock history. But then Corona came and the planned concert revival had to be canceled.
The band has the brand new album “Another Time ” in their luggage. A Corona product, because it was only the concert-free period that made the album possible. The joy about the new song material is clouded by the absence of 75-year-old Walty Anselmo. The first Swiss rock musician has been suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years. When “World Revealed” was re-recorded, he was still there and in good spirits. “I can still manage a slow blues,” he said in March. The illness is now affecting his guitar playing too much, which is why he is no longer able to be a permanent member of the band . “But the crocodile blood still flows in his veins. “Walty is and remains a part of KROKODIL ,” says Dürst. Whenever his health allows, he will attend the concerts as a special guest. With Anselmo's departure, an era comes to an end. The pioneer had a significant influence on music in Switzerland, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.

So the new KROKODIL has a new face. From the original formation, only drummer Düde Dürst (75) and bassist Terry Stevens (76) are still there. Dürst was always active after KROKODIL , most recently during the comeback of Les Sauterelles. Terry Stevens, on the other hand, didn't really find his feet as a musician after KROKODIL ended. “Dr Ängländer” worked as a sound engineer at the Zurich Opera House until his retirement. Singer legend Hardy Hepp (77), who now works as a painter in Wallenwil TG, will join Anselmo as a singer at concerts in Switzerland. Mojo Weideli died of heart failure in 2006.
Keyboarder Erich Strebel and guitarist and singer Adrian Weyermann are new. The Freiämter Strebel native knows Dürst from Jo Geilo & THE Heartbreakers and “Back ToThe Groove", played with the Trüeb family, Michael von der Heide and 15 years ago slipped into theater projects, as musical director and arranger, especially for Erich Vock and Marco Rima. The 50-year-old is a tasteful keyboardist who gives the KROKODIL a new touch, while at the same time inserting himself into the cosmos of psychedelia with a lot of musicality and flair.

Adrian Weyermann (49), like Dürst, is from Niederdörfl. The former frontman of Crank and The Weyers is not only Dürst's dream guitarist, but also Anselmo's. “We get along great on a human and musical level,” says Weyermann, and Anselmo is enthusiastic about his successor’s work.

Despite the new formation and new instrumentation, the new KROKODIL manages to build on the old KROKODIL . Everything is still possible, there is still freedom, breaks and changes in rhythm. The pieces can be up to eight minutes long and the Sound is psychedelic. But of course the pioneering days have long since passed, “Another Time ”. But the new KROKODIL also relies on the power of the collective. Dürst often provides the basic rhythmic structure, Weyermann adds an idea, but the piece is worked out together in the band . Everyone gives themselves into the creative process. Crocodile groove.

Adrian Weyermann is the band 's first and best singer, but Strebel, Stevens and Anselmo also have their parts as lead singers. Weyermann wrote the song “ Shadow Blues” specifically for the singer Anselmo. Stunning! Terry Stevens sings inimitable behind the beat on “Better Slow Down”. A stoner anthem for the eternal smile. Nice to smile and a potential hit - if the song wasn't eight minutes long.

The KROKODIL is more than a nostalgic project from the early days of Swiss rock. The band is ambitious and concerts have already been booked in Germany. Is “Another Time ” perhaps even KROKODIL ’s best album? Dürst smiles mischievously and says in the broadest Zuritüütsch: “No way.” ( )

(Stefan Künzli/tagblatt.ch/kultur/rock-das-krokodil-faucht-wieder)

Düde Dürst - drums, tabla, percussion, backing vocals
Terry Stevens - bass, vocals
Adrian Weyermann - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Erich Strebel - Mellotron, piano, organ, accordion, vocals
&
Walty Anselmo - Vocals, Guitar

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KROKODIL were not a typical prog rock band. It was progressive, but also psychedelic and bluesy. Mojo Weideli's blues harp shaped the reptilian sound. KROKODIL were unique and more American-oriented than most other prog bands. Improvisation was an essential element, and song structures were open, not as rigid as most other progressive bands. The songs left room for spontaneity and interaction, especially Live . However, due to the lack of performance opportunities in Switzerland, the band concentrated on the German market. Whether as a “heater” for top acts like PINK Floyd and Uriah Heep or at major festivals. In Germany, KROKODIL were omnipresent and usually played in halls with around 6,000 spectators. Often in a package with their German label mates, the Kraut rockers Can and AMON D