Let's be clear here, Krokodil was... prior to this album - and after this album - a blues rock band. I think it ruffled my feathers a bit to even refer to them as Krautrock, and when one listens to a track like 'Odyssey in OM', and the band is firing on all cylinders with a deep Indian raga groove, and then.... then... a harmonica starts blasting out. Aaaaaaaaaa. Yuk. Stop! The issue here isn't blues rock itself. My goodness, every hard rock band from the late 60s and early 70s worth a salt had a foundation in the blues. No, the issue here is the type of blues. We're talking old-timey railroad hard-a-times-a-comin' blues. Country blues. Not in my interest area I'm afraid.
What makes An Invisible World Revealed so interesting is the juxtaposition of styles, something that I've come to appreciate more in the last decade. This album really is freaked out Krautrock... as played in some rundown club near the West Virginia and Kentucky border - in 1926 - with of course a sitar, mellotron, and heavy phased out electric guitar and Dieter Dierks at the controls. Where the highlight of the week is watch the preacher go into convulsions for 4 hours on Sunday morning.
There really is no other album like An Invisible World Revealed. Not from Krokodil nor anyone else for that matter. It's actually a bit incompetent, which only adds to the grade. So yea, I get it now...
Personal collection
CD: 2010 Second Battle (Germany)
Legit repress of 1999 CD with tri-fold digipak and history in German and English. I need to add this version to Discogs as of this writing. It does still contain the 3 bonus tracks, which are more loose "West Coast" jams, and not really belonging to this album. They are fine as bonus tracks, but no Krautrock here.
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