OKKO SITAR & ELECTRONIC LP PSYCH-PROG-KRAUTROCK-FUNK
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OKKO
Sitar & Electronics LP
- Re-issue
- Label :No Label
- Condition :mint/mint- (cover/record)
- gatefold cover
Scarce grey area pressing on vinyl originally released on the legendary german BASF label(that released also records from Wolfgang Dauner, Amon Dull & Sun Ra). Tunes by Okko Bekker, known for his record Liliental together with Conny Plank and Asmus Tietchens, his appearence on the Cluster & Brian Eno album on Sky Records and his various collaborations over the years with Asmus Tietchens.
Amazing sitar psychedelia from the early '70s. Dutch hippie Okko combined his instrument, sitar, with rock and electronic elements. The result was a tremendous album with some cool original tracks like 'Ganges Delta,' 'Himalaya Highway' or 'East Indian Traffic,' together with a couple of brilliant Beatles' covers, all of it with great sitar of course, but also Moog, tablas, flute, guitars, bass and drums. The album should please anyone into psychedelia, rock, sitar sounds and funky sitaresque stuff ala Ananda Shankar in its most rocking version.
Here's a review from the internet: "I'll admit that I have no clue who Okko Bekker is beyond the sounds on this album. It's basically one of those lounge-exploitation affairs where the producers use some unconventional instrumentation to hide the fact that the basic charts provide for music that would be perfect at a 1957 corporate martini party. Okko was contemporary with Cosmic Jokers, Kluster, Cluster and Ash Ra Tempel, Dzyan, Can, Gila and Popol Vuh, Anima, Wallenstein and Broselmachine, Floh de Cologne and Xhol. Mr. Bekker chose to use sitar, and electronics (duh), and tabla, and fuzzed-out guitars (ooh!). All of these things hit my soft spot, so I'm pretty entertained by this album.
Most of the tracks are funky, Bollywood-ready instrumentals that portend to create some kind of Indian imagery. I don't know; I doubt the "Ganges Delta" comes across nearly as 'groovy-like' as it does here, but between the sitar and freaky synth lead, I don't care. There's a psychedelic lounge cover of the Beatles "If I Needed Someone," which is pretty fun, and a barely recognizable rendition of "A Day in the Life." "Himalaya Highway" sounds ready for play in your more confused local Indian restaurant, and "Shiva's Lullabye" is a far finer way to make a chill lounge track than by using 101 strings. Released at the same time with Guru Guru, Neu!, A.R. & Machines, Holger Czukay, Seesselberg, Machine Nr.9. "Painted Sails on Ganges" actually manages to be an extended track in a genre where songs tend to stay short, and it's a perfect track for the low-rent, basement psychedelic shack. "Santana" doesn't really sound like that band apart from some percussive similarities, but it does mix sitar and synth on the melody line in a truly odd way.
I can't say that this is any sort of classic, although it's definitely a few cuts above the typical psychedelic exploitation. I can say that it's wildly entertaining for myself, and you may find yourself a fan of its grooviness too. Let me say it one more time: groovy."
Vinyl lies in mint- very fresh condition, quite clean and plays nicely all along, while cover lies in mint-new condition!! ...impossible to find in any condition!!
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