Two improvised tunes, each one about 20 minutes. It's like Westcoast Psychedelic from the late 60s, but it's from late 90s Germany. Stunning!!! Impossible-to-find record.[emil / recordsale.de]
Original LP Liner Notes:
We’ve been traveling ... for a long time now ... exploring sound galaxies ... exploring spaces ... sonic structures ... harmonic nebulas ... and black holes full of fuzz!
When we started this journey our heroes were San Franciscans mostly ... they still are! We have seen trends come and go ... hell, we’ve seen bands come and go! And we decided to ignore all those prophets ... we’ve seen them come and go, too! We just kept on travelling ... learned how to come up with our own sound and songs ... a lot of them since our “Quake Moon Spook”-LP and our “No Man’s Garden”-EP ... and maybe we should release another album of songs ... or two ... or three ... but this here is another side of the COSMIC KANGAROOS: This is where we
improvise!!!
At every rehearsal we warm up this way ... nothing is planned ... exploring the unknown parts of those galaxies ... getting lost on purpose ... being careful ... or letting it all explode ... or being exploded?! Discovering ... being surprised by unfamiliar surroundings ... or sometimes by objects somehow familiar?!
Whenever possible we have a tape rolling ... find out later where we’ve been! And people kept asking why we didn’t do those things on stage or on record ... well, being a proper psychedelic band we started doing those thins on stage and here ... is the record! It will show you some of the strange and wonderful things inside this sonic universe ... open your ears and follow us there!
Both pieces were recorded live onto 2-track at Purple Turtle Studios in 1998 and were digitally treated afterwards by Kermit Kangaroo (inspired by Dirk Oesterwind) ... they were collectively improvised by Groucho Kangaroo on drums, Kermit Kangaroo on bass and Mecky Kangaroo on guitar ... the cover was done by Mecky this time ... and Henning Küpper of the Lollipoppe Shoppe helped Purple Turtle Records with the release and distribution of this record.
"If you’re a long-term fan of one or more of the participating groups or of modern acid rock in general, you won’t need much convincing to add this gem to your collection. But even if you’re completely unfamiliar with this whole scene, yet interested in dipping your toes into the wide world of spaced-out guitar music, I would highly recommend this idealized ISS homage as a gateway experience to the genre."
my full review on Veil of Sound:
https://veilofsound.com/2022/09/23/VA-ISS_Vol1.html Der Ohlsen