1976 by Günter Schickert / GAM

Complete album download contains...
1. Gam Jam 21:05
2. Apricot Brandy 12:35
3. Fur Elise Und Alice 11:55

An impromptu GAM session recorded in Günter's cellar on a ghetto blaster in 1976. It so blew me away, that I insisted we should release it on cassette, despite the fact that the recording quality wasn't brilliant. Günter said "okay" and it went on to sell reasonably well for a mere "official bootleg" cassette.
The 3 tracks that make up GAM 1976 are full of invention, notably the huge "GAM Jam" in the spirit of early Ash Ra Tempel or Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive", with walls of echo guitars, bolstered by power-drive drums and deranged vocals. "Apricot Brandy" is a radically different version of the Schickert "Samtvogel" classic, whereas "Fur Elise & Alice" has to be one of the cleverest classical adaptations you'll ever hear.
Since acclaimed as one of the best kept secrets of Krautrock (or, words to that effect) by Julian Cope, who as much as insisted that we should put it out on CD. With the CD remaster, I retained the raw edge to keep its character, subtly enhancing its power and clarity. So now everyone can witness that Krautrock was not dead after 1975, it had just moved underground again!

original cassette review...
GAM: 1976: This is a real treat, a live in the studio session by Gunther Schickert and Axel Struck on guitars with Michael Leske on drums ... three long tracks, it sounds like a cross between the 1st Ash Ra Tempel album and Gunther's two solo albums. Powerful music propelled along by dual guitars and driving percussion, the sound literally takes off into cosmic space.
[by Archie Patterson in Eurock]

Tracklist

1.	Gam Jam	21:04

3.	Fur Elise Und Alice	12:01

Credits

released November 30, 2018

GAM
Günter Schickert: guitar, vocals, trumpet.
Axel Struck: guitars, vocals.
Michael Leske: drums, percussion.

Recorded in Günter's Cellar, Berlin (1976).
Remastered by Alan Freeman (13 May 2002).
MC (AMC 017) c50 © 1987
CDR (Auricle AMCDR 021) © 2002 45:52
DL (Auricle AMCDR 021 DL) © 2018

See also...
GAM Eiszeit: cosmicegg1.bandcamp.com/album/eiszeit
GAM 1979 Final Freak-Out: auriclemusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979-final-freak-out

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