Ashra

Classically-trained guitarist Manuel Göttsching started his career under the name Ash Ra Tempel in 1970. The most shamelessly psychedelic of the Kraütrock bands, their line-up fluctuated until, by the time of their New Age Of Earth album in 1977, there was only Göttsching and a huge bank of machines!

If The Grateful Dead were teenagers in 1970s West Germany, this is how Dark Star would have sounded.