COSMIC JOKERS - galactic supermarket LP Disco

COSMIC JOKERS - galactic supermarket LP Disco180g, black Vinyl. 1974. the Cosmic Jokers were basically Klaus Schulze, Manuel Gttsching, various Ash Ra Tempel and Wallenstein members doing late night jamming. Galactic Supermarket is one of them, and is more rock oriented than many others. It's no surprise the music bears more than a passing resemblance to Ash Ra Tempel, because of Manuel Gttsching and his guitar playing. Also Jrgen Dollase gives some nice keyboard work, particularly the piano,

Title track “Future Times” is another psychic turning point towards optimism and the title that would come to inform the record’s overall emotive arc

immediately recapturing the sound and material that had fallen dormant in 2003 and driving it forward with every show of their extensive touring over the last 18 months

and somehow reminiscent both of late Coil and Devo stage personas

while drawing intensely personal inspiration from the natural world

When I listen to the album now

The drawing and painting on the cover are by Eden Veaudry

soul and jazz into one seamless output

planes overheard

and splatterpaint-party perfect

layered echo vocals

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wrapped in lyrics both open-hearted and openly political