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A.R. & Machines
Die Grüne Reise - The Green Journey
Life Goes On Records (LIFE041)
1x Vinyl LP Album Reissue Unofficial Release
Release date: Jan 1, 2024, Europe
A.R. & Machines is the solo project of one Achim Reichel. Released in 1971 the album still retains a magical touch. Ranked between the most original kraut albums of all the time, Die Grune Reise (aka The Green Journey) really is a trip. Turning his back to the original beat movement, Reichel embraced the infinity of a multi-layered sound, experiencing the most prolific path of prog rock while joining the obscure meanders of the lysergic renaissance. The Green Journey is a masterpiece of doubly/triply-tracked, tape-machined, echo-plexed and looped space-guitar-madness, with a host of skronk, thunderous percussion, tribal whoops, and head-busting, three-dimensional, lysergic lyrics.
As the artist himself proclaimed, "I was just trying something out with my guitar, when out of the blue, the Akai X-3300 began to repeat endless cascades of guitar echoes. My guitar suddenly sounded like ten."
- "...the final result of a kind of higher awareness..." --Julian Cope
A1
Ich Bin (Fröhliche Abenteuer Für Sinne, Geist Und Triebe) - I Am (Happy Adventures For Senses, Mind, And Inclination)
A2
Station 1: Globus / Im Selben Boot (In The Same Boat)
A3
Station 2: Schönes Babylon (Beautiful Babylon)
A4
Ich Bin Dein Sänger. Du Bist Mein Lied (I'll Be Your Singer. You'll Be My Song)
A5
Station 3: Body (A Book's Blues)
A6
Station 4: ....Als Hätte Ich Das Alles Schon 'Mal Gesehen. (....As If I Have Seen All This Before.)
B1
Cosmic Vibration (Ein Nachmittags-Konzert) - (An Afternoon Concert)
B2
Come On, People
B3
Wahrheit Und Wahrscheinlichkeit (Ein Lexikon Zur Selbsterkenntnis) - Truth And Probability (A Lexicon For Self-Knowledge)