Members of the krautrock group Can, who shared decisions and all songwriting credit.
"... Spoken by the saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, the composer Irmin Schmidt and the guitarist Lutz Ludwig Kramer, these assertions from the newly translated oral history 'Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock' explain the high stakes driving Germany’s counterculture in the decades following World War II. After the unthinkable, Germany’s youth inherited a 'country in ruins, and thus a ruined culture' (says Schmidt), a partition between the democratic West and the Soviet Union, a global fear of all things German, an identity crisis and a question: how to respond to the crimes of their parents? All easily forgotten when you’re listening to the buoyant and life-affirming music that generation produced in the 1970s.
Kraftwerk,
Can, Popol Vuh and their peers — a diverse movement often reductively called krautrock — raised the bar for electronic experiments and collaborative democracy in popular music, and helped set the stage for punk, industrial music and techno. ..."
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