Thursday, 7 August 2008
Ashra
Artist: Ashra
Genre(s):
Electronic
New Age
Discography:
The Making Of Cd3
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
Die Mulde
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Sauce Hollandaise
Year: 1998
Tracks: 3
Life In Japan Vol. 2
Year: 1998
Tracks: 5
Life In Japan Vol. 1
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
The Private Tapes Vol.4
Year: 1996
Tracks: 5
Sunrain The Virgin Years Compilation
Year: 1996
Tracks: 13
Tropical Heat
Year: 1991
Tracks: 6
Walkin' The Desert
Year: 1989
Tracks: 5
Sueco Latino
Year: 1989
Tracks: 1
Belle Alliance
Year: 1980
Tracks: 8
Blackouts
Year: 1977
Tracks: 6
Live At Cologne 1973-02-28
Year: 1973
Tracks: 2
The Making Of Cd2
Year:
Tracks: 4
The Making Of Cd1
Year:
Tracks: 3
E2 - E4
Year:
Tracks: 2
Ashra was the bit phase of the spacy Krautrock outfit Ash Ra Tempel, where founder (and, sometimes, fillet of sole member) Manuel Göttsching refocused the project's focal distributor point and began to pore more heavily on electronics. Especially with the revolver membership, Göttsching had constantly been the focal point in time of Ash Ra Tempel, making their mind-bending psychedelic jams into showcases for his cosmic guitar work on. However, at the offset of the Ashra eRA, Göttsching was literally a one-man set, backup his guitar explorations with synths and sequencers that made his music profound cleaner and more than pleasantly reflective. Ash Ra Tempel's status as a departure business organisation was in doubt by the ending of 1973, having fallen into a Göttsching-plus-guest-star blueprint; Göttsching released a solo album under his possess key out in 1974, Inventions for Electric Guitar, where his interest in electronic music began to clear. Less a regrouping than a renaming, Ashra's inaugural release was 1976's New Age of Earth, one of Göttsching's finest efforts under whatever distinguish. The 1977 followup, Blackouts, was as well lone solo. For 1979's Correlations, Ashra became a full fledged band for the first time, with guitarist Lutz Ulbrich and drummer Harald Grosskopf officially joining the batting order. However, after 1980's Belle Alliance, the mathematical group went on hiatus. Göttsching recorded the proto-techno masterpiece E2-E4 under his have mark, and Ashra didn't seem again until a 1989 reunion for the album Walkin' the Desert. Tropical Heat followed in 1991, and the mathematical mathematical group continued to record sporadically through the '90s.