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Faust unbound, curated by keyboardist Hans-Joachim Irmler. Drones, grooves and collage roam free, another founder's window onto the collective's fearless, uncategorisable body of work.
Fliegen Lernen
Faust's vaults, opened by the band itself. Co-founder Gunther Wusthoff curates unheard tapes and fragments, motorik grooves, collage and pure invention from krautrock's great disruptors.
In Green
On In Green, Ivan The Tolerable offers a one-sided LP of compact, colour-saturated psych drift: a private transmission from Oli Heffernan’s ever-restless studio world. Its singular format suits music that feels concentrated rather than slight - a bright pocket of guitar haze, electronic residue and intuitive, unhurried motion pressed onto one vivid side.
Salewski Parlamenti
Salewski is a drummer, composer, and a core member of the avant-garde pop scene. Between 2016 and 2018, he collaborated with various artists from his creative circle. Salewski arranged these songs, which were compiled into an LP and released on the Echokammer label in 2018: Salewski II "Chansons," featuring Inida Kreuz, Manuela Rzytki, Rosalie Eberle, Pico Be, Anna McCarthy, Anton Kaun, and Albert Pöschl.
To perform the music live, a band was formed consisting of Pico Be (Autoboy) (Vocals), Anna…
Schmetterlinge
*2026 stock* "A new step in the artistic development of Joy Unlimited was the composition and recording of the ballet music Butterflies for the Bonn City Theater . The ballet - played live at every performance for weeks - was a huge success, not just because of the sophisticated music, but also because of the imaginative modern choreography by Lothar Höfgen, a student of Maurice Béjart. Many parts of Butterflies were used in a television program filmed by SWF about Joy Unlimited and the singer a…
Reflections
*2026 stock* "A new step in the artistic development of Joy Unlimited was the composition and recording of the ballet music Butterflies for the Bonn City Theater . The ballet - played live at every performance for weeks - was a huge success, not just because of the sophisticated music, but also because of the imaginative modern choreography by Lothar Höfgen, a student of Maurice Béjart. Many parts of Butterflies were used in a television program filmed by SWF about Joy Unlimited and the singer a…
Embryo
This album is not merely a meeting of musicians—it is a ritual of wood, metal, skin, and breath. A quiet spell that grows into an ecstatic dance. Embryo on Kryptox: a new chapter in an endless journey—shimmering, borderless, and open as the horizon itself. For more than five decades, Embryo has been moving between worlds. Founded in Munich in 1969, the internationally connected collective is not a conventional band but a living organism: Kraut rock dissolves into jazz, free improvisation merges …
Exotic Moods
JJ Whitefield dives deep into the golden era of library music, drawing inspiration from KPM, De Wolfe, Bruton Music, CAM and the composers who shaped the genre. Slow Moods presents 14 original instrumentals packed with atmospheric grooves, exotic touches and meticulously layered overdubs. East Asian and East African influences meet locked-in rhythms and sharp arrangements.
The Lost Tapes
*100 copies limited edition* Without a shadow of a doubt, this release is surely the most astonishing and the strangest of Fractal Records' catalog, through the history of this band, and notably regarding the existence of this record, which seems to be one of the most enigmatic albums in the entire history of German rock from the end of the 60s to the present day! NB: The incredible story of Graograman is told in a 12-page booklet.
Absolutely no information is currently available on this group, …
Soft Power
*2026 repress!* Ezra Feinberg’s third album Soft Power sees the composer-guitarist enlist an impressive array of fellow musicians including Mary Lattimore, David Moore (Bing & Ruth), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Robbie Lee and share the life affirming lead single ‘Future Sand’.
Defined by its abundance of melodies, repeating figures and ecstatic improvisations, Soft Power exudes an enlightened and transformative spirit to empower the listener. Feinberg, a practising psychoanalyst and former founding me…
Barker Final
On Barker Final, Ivan The Tolerable closes the door on 1a Barker Road with a set of songs conceived, performed and mastered entirely by Oli Heffernan. The album feels like a final dispatch from a long‑running home studio, where restless experiments in tone and texture are distilled into a focused, late‑night farewell.
The Faust Tapes
There’s something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973. Faust’s second-and-a-half album hit the shops to celebrate their signing to the nascent Virgin Records, who were looking to take advantage of the zeitgeist for German music at that time. Undeterred by the fact the band’s unwillingness to engage with the commercial landscape had seen them dropped from Polydor, Branson and co cooked up a suitably spectacular m…
Faust
Few debut albums arrive with the kind of self-contained logic and radical spirit found on Faust's self-titled 1971 statement. Released at the height of rock music's imperial phase, it marked the beginning of a project that would sidestep genre and expectation entirely, offering instead a fractured, exploratory take on what popular music could become. This Bureau B reissue offers a fresh opportunity to engage with one of the most curious and uncompromising records of its time. Faust emerged from …
Saat
Recording in a good studio in 1972 with an accomplished engineer/musician such as Dieter Dierks (Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, Tangerine Dream, and yes, the Scorpions), certainly enabled Emtidi to expand their musical style on 'Saat.' The end result was a shimmering, lush cosmic folk trip, with multi-tracked and treated acoustic guitars plus electric piano, fragile angelic femme vocals, vibes, and mellotron, (punctuated by the occasional acid guitar solo). Yes, 'Saat' is an elevated cosmic folk …
Nachtfalter
Günter Schickert's debut Samtvogel (1975) was one of the most significant guitar albums of the krautrock era. Points of comparison from today's perspective are Syd Barrett or Pink Floyd's more adventurous early recordings. Schickert's follow-up, Überfällig (1980) was released on the legendary Sky label. Once again a milestone recording, it showcased Schickert's hypnotic echo guitar which developed into one of the hallmarks of the krautrock sound. Schickert's new album Nachtfalter, translating as…
Cosmic Century
The third album from Wallenstein, originally released in 1973, stands as the band's definitive statement and one of the peak achievements of the entire Kosmische Musik movement. Led by keyboardist Jürgen Dollase and guitarist Bill Barone, the group had evolved from their earlier heavy progressive sound into something far more expansive and cosmic in scope.
Cosmic Century is exactly what its title promises - a journey through infinite space rendered in swirling synthesizers, celestial guitar work…
Blitzkrieg
One of Germany's longer lasting bands had first started as Blitzkrieg (until they found out a British band used the name as well) and changed their name to Wallenstein and kept their former name for the album, gracing it with a war-themed gatefold cover. Produced by the unavoidable Dieter Dierks and released on the ultra collectible Pilz label in early 72, this debut album is stunning effort that transformed the 200 MPH speed notion into music. Keyboardist Jurgen Dollasse's very international gr…
Orgasm
*2026 stock* Certainly one of the greatest UFOs in music history—Cromagnon and its concept album “Orgasm” dating back to 1969—about what was to happen thirty years later: a blend of industrial, metal, and experimental music, bathed in improvised LSD-fueled experiences. “The project wasn’t supposed to be smooth, otherwise humanity is lost. There’s room for computers, but the soul is gone.”