Siloah

Vinyl LP pressing including bonus tracks. Coming out of the boiling Munich scene of the'60s that also gave us the original Amon Düül (Thom Argauer had played in a dixieland band with Chris Karrer in the late '60s, actually), Siloah are one of the best kept secrets of the krautrock production. Siloah had a hardcore including Thom Argauer, Manuela von Perfall, Heinrich 'Tiny' Stricker and Wolfgang Görner, plus a host of guests coming and going, everybody was free to join and play at any time, guest members often joining from the Baumstassen commune around which the band was living before they eventually moved to an abandoned farm on the outskirts of town. Their first LP is a trippy acid psych masterpiece recorded in 1970 and privately issued on German Blues and Undergrund. It showed a strong influence from US West Coast psychedelic music and has a lovely acoustic approach. It's sound is free, full of improvisation and with a charming amateurish feel all through it. It will appeal to lovers of free spirits like Amon Düül themselves, Kalacakra or even Música Dispersa.