Exmagma – Exmagma 1973 , Krautrock, Fusion, Space Rock, Free Improvisation

Exmagma – Exmagma 1973 , Krautrock, Fusion, Space Rock, Free Improvisation The EXMAGMA LPs usually get filed under Krautrock, but there’s nothing typically German in the way they develop their freeform experiments, that turn out to be well structured on the third hearing. No AMON DÜÜL freakouts, no metric rhythms à la CAN, and two albums that - though mostly instrumental - sound totally different. They’ve been often described as Jazz Rock, Fusion, or even Electronic Avant-Garde, but none of these pigeonholes could ever do them justice. Bored with YES, GENESIS, SUPERTRAMP and all the crap they nowadays try to sell you under “Symphonic-Prog“, they dropped some acid and set sail for new shores, weaponed only with sticks, strings and keys. True story: in 1973, when I lives in Germany, I was coming home to Bremen via Train from Wuppertal. Every time I would come back home from a vacation (in this case: Herbstferien) my first stop before either switching trains to get