COSMIC JOKERS - COSMIC JOKERS (LP)

""Recorded in 1973 during a series of acid-fuelled all-night jam parties held at producer Dieter Dierks studio near Cologne, 'Cosmic Jokers' was the work of a veritable krautrock supergroup that included Dierks himself, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), Jurgen Dolase and Harald Grosskopf (both of Wallenstein). This free-form freak out-consisting of two epic tracks, the 22 min 'Galactic Joke' and the 19 min 'Cosmic Joy', was first of five albums by the group to be released on Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser's Cosmic Couriers label. A first rate slab of space rock up there with other classics of the genre." (label info)