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Ash Ra Tempel - Inventions for Electric Guitar
2009-6-25 by Eric Fillion
Inventions for Electric Guitar is Ash Ra Tempel’s sixth album although it would probably be more accurate to describe the album as Manuel Göttsching’s first solo effort.
Göttsching’s performance and recording experience with Ash Ra Tempel, as well as his work on projects such as Seven Up and Tarot (with Timothy Leary and Walter Wegmüller respectively) predisposed him to pursue experimentations with electronic and improvised music. Inventions for Electric Guitar provided the vehicle for those experiments and allowed Göttsching to discover commonalities in approaches and interests with Terry Riley and Steve Reich, whom he met in 1974 and 1976.
“The incredible career of the electric guitar since the beginning of rock’n roll times and my personal experiences on that instrument within the last six years gave me the possibility to lead the guitar to a new way of performance – electronic music.” Manuel Göttsching
Ash Ra Temple VI provides further evidence of the depth and immensity of the soundscape that emerged out of 1970s German musical explorations.