"Revelatory and propulsively arranged." - The New York Times The first ever oral-history of
Krautrock the sound that changed modern music. West Germany 1968. Like everywhere else in the
Western world the young generation is pushing for radical change still suffering the
after-effects of the Second World War. Many stream out of the lecture halls and onto the
streets. Some into the underground. And some into the practice basements in search of the
soundtrack of the movement. >The unique and adventurous sounds that German bands like Can Neu!
Amon Düül Popul Vuh Tangerine Dream Faust Cluster or Kraftwerk produced back then now
known as Krautrock are considered a blueprint for modern rock music. And the stream of their
creative admirers and continuators has been constantly widening since the first fans like David
Bowie and Iggy Pop: whether Blur Aphex Twin Sonic Youth Radiohead or the Red Hot Chilli
Peppers. >In Neu Klang Christoph Dallach interviews its pioneers including Irmin Schmidt
Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay of CAN Neu!'s Michael Rother Dieter Moebius of Cluster
Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk Brian Eno and many others. Their
answers combine to form an oral history that points far beyond the individual band histories:
on the one hand into the past to Nazi teachers post-war parental homes free jazz terrorism
LSD and extremely long hair but just as much into the future to global recognition
myth-making techno or post-rock.
