''Electrip'' is the second of three studio albums by the German band

Xhol Caravan Xhol Caravan, known first as Soul Caravan and later as Xhol, was one of the first bands to participate in the so-called Krautrock movement in Germany in the late 1960s. Their music draws from varied influences and fuses rhythm and blues and free ...

, an influential member of the

krautrock Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It originated among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electron ...

music movement. The album was recorded and released in 1969, and marks a significant departure from the band’s debut effort, 1967’s '' Get in High''. While that album spotlighted the American blues origins of then-singers Ronnie Swinson and James Rhodes, by 1969 Rhodes and Swinson were gone and so were pop and blues conventions. On ''Electrip'', these are abandoned in favor of extended forays into

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free jazz Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventi ...

, fusion, improvisation, and experimentation. Originally released on

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, the album was repackaged and rereleased in 2000 on the Garden of Delights label.

Critical reception

On Allmusic, ''Electrip'' was rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and is described as "a classic of early Krautrock, a uniquely German twist that took rock & roll into new realms, and the record was a blueprint for the many German jazz-rock groups that followed."Semprebon, R
Allmusic Review
accessed June 6, 2016.

Track listing

Personnel

* Skip van Wyk – drums * Tim Belbe – saxophone * Klaus Briest – bass * Öcki Brevert – keyboards * Hansi Fischer – flute, sax * Peter Meisel – noises

References

External links

Electrip at Discogs.com
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