The third and final album from this band from Germany.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, keyboards, saxophone and vocals.
This band released two albums under the name Xhol Caravan before they shortened their name to just Xhol for this, their final album.
This band was one of the first ever krautrock bands.... if not the first ever krautrock band. Their 1969 album Electrip is one of the great albums in this genre. I reviewed it back in October 2012 for # 1 of this blog and gave it a great rating.
This album, where I had to censor the album title so this blog was not removed from the internet, is forty minutes long and starts with a sound collage.
The opening here is slow and the first half of the album is pretty dire, to be precise. The band has let their standards fall like a rock from their second album to this album. The final half of this album has got some good vocals and space rock.
The saxophones on the final half of this album also gives this album a bit of a blues, soul and fusion flavour. But most of the album is space rock flavoured krautrock.
The result is a decent enough album from a band who never got the attention they deserved and deserve.
2 points
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