For a long time now, I’ve been kicking around the idea of launching a new podcast series. I struggled to choose between two different music genres that I was interested in presenting — one genre that I’m quite familiar with, and another that’s not quite so familiar to me. I ultimately decided to explore the less-familiar genre:
Krautrock.
The term
Krautrock means different things to different people, but it’s generally accepted that it refers to a broad range of experimental music created in Germany in the late 1960s and 1970s. For the most part, Krautrock tended to be somewhat stylistically removed from the traditional blues and rock & roll influences typical of most rock music at that time.
Rather than struggle to find the words to describe Krautrock, I say:
Let the music do the talking! Let’s just dive in and
hear what Krautrock was all about.
Be forewarned: This isn’t going to be
toe-tapping good-time music. Some of this stuff is really
out there! It’s probably more appropriate for late-night headphone listening — rather than something you’ll want to blast out of your boombox at the next family barbecue.
I hope my regular listeners will be adventurous enough to join me on this musical excursion. Being who I am, you know I’ll probably emphasize the
rock part of the Krautrock equation, but I do intend to probe the
experimental boundaries of the genre as well.
The first new podcasts are in the works, so stay tuned!
