West Germany after World War II was a country in shock: estranged
from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But this
orphaned landscape proved fertile ground for a generation of musicians
who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the strange and beautiful
sounds that became known as Krautrock.
Eschewing the easy
pleasures of rock and roll and the more substantive seductions of blues
and jazz, they took their inspiration from elsewhere: the mysticism of
the East; the fractured classicism of Stockhausen; the grinding
repetition of industry; the dense forests of the Rhineland; the endless
winding of Autobahns.
Faust, Neu!, Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel,
Amon Düül II, Can, Kraftwerk—the influence of these groups’ music on
Western popular music is incalculable. They were key to the development
of movements ranging from post-punk to electronica and hip-hop and have
directly inspired artists as diverse as David Bowie, Talking Heads, and
LCD Soundsystem.
Future Days
is the brilliantly reported, deeply researched story of the groups that
created Krautrock, and a social and cultural history of the Germany
that challenged, inspired, and repelled them.
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