A customer came into the store yesterday and was shocked to see all the great krautrock/prog titles we just put up for sale (Amon Duul I and II, Brainticket, Kollektiv, Dzyan, Alice, Abacus, Gomorrha, Ash Ra Tempel, Agitation Free, Cressida, Peter Michael Hamel, more!). He asked to see a few of the albums (I’m pretty sure he purchased the Dzyan), and we talked for thirty minutes or so about the genre. He told me I needed to go home and look up a band called My Solid Ground, so now that I’ve found it I will present you with it. The self-titled album from 1971 is legendary in krautrock/progressive circles, often hailed as a masterpiece. The music is sometimes aggressive, sometimes melancholic. It features superb lysergic guitars, weird and spacy distorted voices, and great organ works. My Solid Ground often draws comparisons to Pink Floyd or Group 1850. The album was recorded in Köln, and originally issued on Bacillus, a label that ranks right up there with Brain and Ohr. They put out stuff by Nektar, Krokodil, Omega and more. A couple of tracks like the massive 13-minute opening “Dirty Yellow Mist” and “The Executioner” reveal the secrets of early 70s psych/rock with monotonous, spacy riffing grinding into the third mind zone.
My Solid Ground
My Solid Ground
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Tracklist:
01. Dirt Yellow Dust
02. Flash Party IV
03. That’s You
04. The Executioner
05. Melancholie
06. Handful Of Grass
07. Devonshire Street W1
08. X
09. Y
10. Z
