Label: Rotorelief

60年代の終わりにPOT（Part of Time）として知られ、1979年にはエクスペリメンタル/ニューウェーブ・グループAluへと発展、1974年に残した1stアルバム[Golem]はNWWリストの超名作として知らている最高峰のジャーマン・カルトバンドSand。1st再発を機にフランスRotoreliefが開始したこのバンドの未発表音源発掘シリーズの第三弾[North Atlantic Raven]。73年~76年までの3作品が収録されており、古典的なクラウトロック・スタイルに捉われない独自の実験精神を打ち出したバリバリの前衛サウンドが聴けます！！未体験の方は是非。

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Previously unreleased album by German trio Sand, composed and recorded in 1973, '75, and '76. The once-croaking raven now flies silently over the ocean, higher and higher. Where are you rolling, sun-ball, and why don't you fall? The sandy Golem crumbled into dust. His brave struggle against the mighty forces of darkness soon dissolved in voiceless space. There is something magical and inexplicable in creation, and Sand absolutely manifest these mysterious phenomena. Storytellers, musicians, shamans, geniuses -- Sand were known, at the end of the '60s, as P.O.T. (Part of Time). Then Sand -- Ludwig Papenberg, his brother Ulrich Papenberg, and Johannes Vester -- developed a more avant-gardist, proto-industrial, visionary, experimental approach, becoming a truly unique entity in the history of music. Not dependent on a classic krautrock style, Sand is nevertheless part of this movement of German cosmic/psychedelic bands, in addition to being the originators of proto-industrial musics. Johannes Vester: vocals, guitar, VCS3. Ludwig Papenberg: congas, VCS3, drum box, guitar, organ. Ulrich Papenberg: bass. Guests on "High Tension": Klaus Pankau, electric guitar; Micky Westphal, bass; Dietmar Burmeister, drums. Cover painting by Babs Santini. CD in six-panel digipak.