Achim Reichel & Machines came from my home town of Hamburg. The blond-haired Achim was the figurehead of the Rattles in the 60s, and later he was part of the wonderful Wonderland (who had a hit with “Moscow”).
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In 1971, he seems to have been evidently under the influence of certain chemical substances when he set to work on his first solo album “Die Grüne Reise” (The Green Journey”). Tone-loops and sound ragas, together with drifting, outlandish melodies, were to be heard on this fascinating album. It was followed by five more albums in a similar style.
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“Dat Shanty Alb’n” (“The Shanty Album”), in 1975, marked the definitive end of the psychedelic and electronic sound experiments, and Achim Reichel mutated into a down-to-earth nautical kobold…