Various - The In-Kraut Vol. 3

Guten Tag! Three Is The Magic Number. Willkommen to the third and final installment of Jonathon Ross championed IN-KRAUT series.
lOnce again we take a deep trip into the funky musical spheres of 1960s and 1970s Germany - an undiscovered
universe full of Hammond-heavy grooves, tight big band arrangements and fuzz guitar enhanced dancefloor nuggets. Dip into a motherlode of 20 rare Soul, Beat, Now Sound, Mod, Jazz & Soundtrack gems - most of them appearing for the first time on CD.
lTHE IN-KRAUT VOL.3 kickstarts with the incredibly switched-on "Glory Be" by Daisy Clan, a great mod stomper drenched in fuzz guitars and heavy percussion - masterminded by German music biz legends Joachim Heider and Michael Holm. Wa-ouuh!  The party continues with Bavarian groove agent Ambros Seelos, a man who certainly knew how to cook up a groove and make you wanna shake your butt. Just listen to his "Hangman’s Rope"  from 1972!
Super-fantastisch!
lIK3 naturally features a couple of cool and unique cover versions. Dieter Zimmermann tackles Led Zeppelin’s "Whole Lotta Love" orchestra-style - adding a whole lotta fresh new twists and turns to the played-to-death rock classic. Inga, who later recorded as Inga Rumpf, rocks Sonny & Cher’s "The Beat Goes On" - full of deadpan icy vocals à la Nico. And Katja Ebstein - a lady who represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest for an unprecedented three times (!) - delivers a great "druggy" take on The Beatles’s "A Hard Day’s Night". Her sitar-laden cover sounds like the Fab Four may have treated their 1964 classic in 1969 themselves. Way out.
lSpeaking of "way out": Film music maestro Peter Thomas paints a crazy end-of-the-world scenario with the hilarious "The World Is Gone". Musical and lyrical madness to the max. Apocalypse now! Hammond organ god Ingfried
Hoffmann appears with two knock-out groove nuggets: The Lonnie Smith-like "Stroke It", and the supremely funky "That’s Me Boy" by his late sixties outfit Memphis Black.
lTrombone ace Peter Herbolzheimer strikes with his all-star killer big band Certain Lions & Tigers - delivering a great, latin-flavored and most unusual version of "Fever". Rolf Kühn, one of Germany’s most distinguished jazz musicians ever, calms us down again with the deliciously chilled-out "Playmate", featuring a great Fender Rhodes part, topped off by Claus Ogerman-like strings. Wunderbar!
lWe are also proud to present Georgees’s super-rare soundtrack nugget "Butterflies Never Cry". Written by long-time Hildegard Knef collaborator Kai Rautenberg, it sounds like something taken directly from the score to "Barbarella" (1968). Yes, it’s that good. The German Top Five are just as impressive. Their take on rare groove classic "The Champ" - one of the most sampled tracks in hip hop history - is even more funky than Alan Hawkshaw’s original. Jawohl!
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Tracklist: 1. Daisy Clan: Glory Be 2. Ambros Seelos: Hangman’s Rope 3. Gene Williams: My Soul Is Black 4. Dieter
Zimmermann: Whole Lotta Love 5. Georgees: Butterflies Never Cry 6. The Rainbow Orchestra: La Avispa 7. Inga: The Beat Goes On 8. Heinz Kiessling: Drift 9. Certain Lions & Tigers: Fever 10. Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra: The World Is Gone 11. Frank & The Top Ten: Beach Bunny 12. Adam & Eve: The Witch 13. Hazy Osterwald Sextet: The Call 14. The German Top Five: The Champ 15. Katja Ebstein: A Hard Day’s Night 16. Acid: Hipguard 17. Rolf Kühn: Playmate
18. Memphis Black: That’s Me Boy 19. Ingfried Hoffmann: Stroke It 20. Karl Schiller: High

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