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THE COSMIC JOKERS

One day in 1974, Manuel Göttsching, guitarist for the legendary Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, walked into a Berlin record store and heard some wildly cosmic guitar sounds blasting from the speakers. He was shocked to discover that he was listening to a new Krautrock supergroup, and that he in fact was the guitarist. The Cosmic Jokers were the greatest Krautrock supergroup that never was, a cosmic joke even on most of the musicians who played on the sessions, unbeknownst they were members of this new "group." Over several months in early 1973, producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser organized several wild acid parties at Dieter Dierks' sound studio, where the musicians played in exchange for a small fee and all the hallucinogens they could ingest. These musicians included Göttsching and Klaus Schulze of Ash Ra Tempel, Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf of Wallenstein, and Dierks himself. They had all been part of the Cosmic Couriers, a loose group that had musically backed Kaiser-produced records by Swiss artist/poet Sergius Golowin, gypsy Tarot-reader Walter Wegmuller, and even acid guru Timothy Leary the year before...

"THE COSMIC JOKERS"

Produced by von Gille Lettmann and  Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser

1974       LP     PDU RECORDS     Pld. SQ 6012   Quadro Stereo Mono

MADE IN ITALY     ORIGINAL  PRESSING

SINGLE COVER

Quadraphonic/Stereo/Mono version

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  PDU -  BLACK LABEL - SILVER/BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) Pld. SQ 6012 

Catalog on label (Side B only): Pld. SQ. 6012 [(P. 025411) (P. 025412)]

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): P-025411 - 20-12-74  I  TZ

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): P-025412 - 20-12-74  I  TZ

On labels (Side A):  Die Kosmischen Kuriere

(Side B):  A Cosmic Couriers Production

P. 025411

S.I.A.E. (boxed)  PDU

QUADRO-STEREO-SQ

? 1974

P. 025412

rim text reads "Riservati tutti i diritti..........Fabbricato e distribuito dalla EMI Italiana S.p.A. -Made in Italy-"

Rights Society: S.I.A.E.

On Front Cover: (top right corner): PDU Quadrifonico Quadro Stereo Mono Pld. SQ 6012

On Back Cover: (top right corner): COSMIC MUSIC THE SOUND OF THE COSMIC COURIERS COSMIC MUSIC

(bottom, right edge): Distrib. EMI made in Italy

(bottom, left edge): grapyche magica 2000 milano

tracklisting

Side A: GALACTIC JOKE

Side B: COSMIC JOY

grading

RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

The first of Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser's exploitive cosmic space rock albums is also the best, and certainly kicks the seat out of the many jam bands that arose in the '90s. Unlike most "super groups" who collapse under the weight of their own hubris, the Cosmic Jokers, who were never really a proper group anyway, almost improve upon the sound of their precursors, namely Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze from acid-jam-supreme Ash Ra Tempel, and Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf from blitzkrieg psychedelic Wallenstein. Structurally, the record is similar to those vintage Ash Ra Tempel albums, with two sidelong suites, the first side representing the peak of the acid freakout and the second side more relaxed, acting as the chill out later in the trip. Thus, the first side, "&Galactic Joke," has more emphasis on Gottsching's freaked-out guitar, as the music slowly builds to full phased-out fury and then subsides and builds again. The flip side, "Cosmic Joke," is mellower, though no less improvised as it travels with Schulze's keyboard washes at the forefront into deepest space on a similarly slow ebb and flow. The effects are laid on much thicker than on a normal Ash Ra effort, especially on this second track, enhancing the sci-fi aspects as the mixing board of Dieter Dierks adds another dimension to the sound. Unlike later Cosmic Jokers records, where vocals were added in, this album is completely instrumental, letting the music stand by itself...(AllMusic)