Wolfgang Dauner - 1969 - Rischkas Soul

Wolfgang Dauner

1969

Rischkas Soul

01. Jive Samba
02. Flute-Woman
03. Just Bring It Out
04. Reading Machine
05. Kamasutram
06. Blues Far Out

Bass, Cello – Eberhard Weber
Drums – Fred Braceful, Roland Wittich
Guitar – Siegfried Schwab
Piano, Organ, Flute – Wolfgang Dauner

Record is called "Dietrich's Soul" on the cover.
Recorded Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg/Germany, November 28th, 1969.

The more one investigates, the more one experiences, the more one finds that the world is wider and more vast than they ever imagined. Case in point, Wolfgang Dauner, hailing from Germany, and probably the first to explore jazz fusion and experimental rock, making him the godfather of the current Kraut Rock movement ... and still directly influencing electronic music today.

Rischkas Soul is both adventurous and ambitious, yet is unpretentious, honest and amazing tight. This classic and highly overlooked presentation from 1969, privately pressed and released, is a time capsule of sorts, where Wolfgang Dauner sets out to build a sightly psychedelic structure filled with soul and jazz, centered around Dauner’s piano and organ ... capturing the swinging London mystique of the 60’s. In doing so he’s given Rischkas Soul a funky rhythmic backbeat, over which he’s laced fiery guitar solos filled with wah-wah and mild reverb that mesh in a musical dance with injections of atmospheric and ripping organ washes.

This is a body of work that was experienced and understood by few at the time of its release, but has charted the course and musical endeavors of everyone who heard it at the time. It’s truly one of those “not to be missed” bodies of work that will connect dots and open doors that you will never be able to close.