HARALD GROSSKOPF - Synthesist LP doom

HARALD GROSSKOPF - Synthesist LP doom"Harald Grosskopf was in his early twenties when LSD 'blew [his] reality away,' as he recalls. Born in Hildesheim in 1949, he had previously drummed in fairly conventional rock bands, most recently for Wallenstein. Their label boss Rolf Ulrich Kaiser was fond of facilitating jam sessions for musicians on his Ohr und Pilz label, often supplying his 'cosmic couriers' with LSD (unbeknown to them, on occasion). In one such session, the drug inspired

geht aber in vielen Aspekten weit darüber hinaus

it pairs familiar genre signifiers like pedal steel and guitar strums with warbled synths

Twelve new songs to infect the world with their ideology and musical vision

Depressive post Black Metal shoegaze from New Zealand with elements of post rock & atmospheric doom

soaring vocals and even a vocal appearance by a toddler

memorable lyrics of Joseph Talbot delivered with all of the spite and wry humor he puts across on the stage

" this 23-track 2xLP fills in the distorted gaps of their initial

Buenos Aires

With the publication of “Smetak” (1974)

shadowy music that embraces darkness while offering Rose’s bright vocal as chinks of light in the cracks

Ordeal is his latest solo output

being also a dark preacher in the band Strasbourg