Released on the Kosmiche Kuriere label (KK 55002), this album features Swiss writer Sergius Golowin spoken word pieces juxtaposed to the music of Jerry Berkers and Jurgen Dollase of Wallenstein, Jorg Mierke, Klaus Schultze, Walter Westrupp and Bernd Withuser. In his quintessential tome on the German progressive/psychedelic music scene Krautrocksampler, Julian Cope writes of Lord Krishna Von Goloka:
“In which, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser offered us the second of his great Mage Recordings. After Timothy Leary (KK5001) had so moved the producer with 7Up, ‘The Kaiser’ and his Starmaiden Gille Letmann decided to stay in Switzerland and record some more of the wise old men. As with Leary, the recording of Sergius Golowin, the middle-aged ex-MP, was nothing less than a full-on Vision-saga. Six musicians accompanied Golowin’s pronouncements throughout the LP, and it’s most remarkable of all that the speaker showed such restraint, often letting the band fly off into Ash Ra Tempel-land at any opportunity. It makes the most sensational combination and a long Kosmiche-epic of high magic proportions. Opening with the 15 minute plus “Der Grigen”, the LP announced its occultural intention with sombre pre-Christian keyboards then softly softly into the ritual…a building slow amoeba production, at first scouting but soon positive in its holy direction. This music is a life, but then “Der Reigen” means the dance and these performers are whipping it out. There is one very different song on this LP, called “Die Weisee Alm”. It’s a piece of Jurgen Dollase music and it is very beautiful indeed. The chords are mawkishly Cosmically sentimental, in a huge Alpen Euro-keyboard way as Golowin tells us of the Edelweiss blooming. It sounds unlike any other song I’ve heard before, conjuring up the same daft but nevertheless true feelings as something like David Ackles’ heroic “Montana Song” from American Gothic.
“The huge unfolding driving thing called “Die Hoch-Zeit” covers the whole of Side 2, in which Klaus Schultze’s drums are combine harvesters in a Canadian wheat field 50 miles across. Massive choirs of mellotron hold the distant horizon and the machine that is the music covers the land like locusts. Dry dry music. Arid heavy tragedy — Side 2 of Joy Division’s Closer. Golowin doesn’t even say a word for about the first eight minutes…There is no doubt this is the very highest magic — believe me. The Ur-klang of Mesolithic Man. No intellectual ever made music such as this. Golowin has three wives and lives in the mountains still. His voice and that music. A righteous vision.”
Sergius Golowin
Lord Krishna Von Goloka
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Tracklist:
01. Der Reigen
02. Die Weisse Alm
03. Die Hoch-Zeit
