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GERMAN OAK - Self-titled 180g vinyl LP

Artist: German Oak
Title: German Oak
Catalogue No: FBLP1001

“..imagine a brutally-recorded, brazen and ulta-skeletal industrial white funk played with all the claw-handed technique of Red Crayola recording their famous Hurricane Fighting Plane. This is the sound of German Oak” Julian Cope

During the summer of 1972, best remembered for thye bloodshed of the Munich Olympics, the 5-man Dusseldorf instrumental group German Oak entered the Luftschutzbunker (Air Raid Shelter) studio to record their first, eponymous album.

The purpose of recording in a bunker was to recreate the feelings experienced by German soldiers during the Allied invasion of 1944. The strange acoustic conditions in the bunker made the music, which was a series of long, spacious guitar jams, sound distant and filled with echo. Originally released on the Bunker label, this strange and unusual album has become somewhat of a legend.

Side 1
1.    Air Alert
2.    Down In The Bunker

Side 2
1.    Raid Over Dusseldorf
2.    1945 – Out Of The Ashes

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