yeah i always wondered whether there was any kraut crossover here inna (sharp intake of breath) kozmigroov stylee. one micro-fact i always cherished was that jaki liebezeit was a onetime member of alex von schlippenbach's globe unity jazz orchestra, and i always thought that must be some kind of indication of shared turf.
Another kraut crossover could be based around Embryo, who had both Mal Waldron and Jimmy Jackson (Amon Duul II) on their two Brain records,
Steig Aus and
Rocksession. Hey, Waldron even did a session for Japo with Jackson, Eberhard Weber, and Fred Braceful. The Weber/Braceful rhythm section also played on the first Et Cetera album (see below), as did Embryo's Siggi Schwab. And Braceful played in Exmagma, who went from freeform krautrock to Canterbury-like jazzrock in two albums... okay, I'll shut up.
Incidentially, his Girl from Martinique on MPS features Robin Kenyatta, the recently departed saxophonist.
I believe it was Kenyatta's
Girl From Martinique on ECM that featured our man Dauner.
Also
Rischka's Soul on Brain was reissued as
This Is Wolfgang Dauner. They is one and the same album.
My Dauner picks are the three Et Cetera albums (
S/T,
Knirsch and
Live) on MPS. There were some rumours of impending reissues but I've yet to see anything.
The first
Et Cetera (aka
Lady Blue on Brain, a label notorious for its repackaging moves) bears some traces of the dorky loungevity of the
Oimels lp, but the two lengthier cuts are satisfyingly outside. The opener is particularly stonking, ripe with Dauner's overdriven keys, free dissonance and some primal rhythmic gyrations.
Knirsch is acid fried jazzrock. Larry Coryell guests and contributes a much slower version of "Yin" than appeared on the muso-stricken Eleventh House debut. Bongs out, lads.
Knirsch also has one of the most cracked MPS covers.
Live is a double album that embraces eastern European folk themes, free electric jazz, addled blues and collective percussion. Oddly enough, it doesn't seem that far removed from Sun Ra's sides of the same era.