This band, from Wiesbaden, were originally called Soul Caravan. The band had made one fairly lacklustre LP, upon which they accompanied two black GIs who seemed to think they were Sam and Dave.
After the two Americans had returned home, the rest of the band fell under the influence of Pink Floyd, acid and Rolf Ulrich Kaiser (RUK), the egomaniacal self-inventor who assumed the role of intergalactic postman in his incarnation as the ‘Cosmic Courier’, and who also delivered a huge amount of revolutionary music – albeit combined with a great deal of indigestible babble.
In 1969, Xhol Caravan‘s album “Electrip” – which was full of weird music and which came in an extraordinary psychedelic sleeve – appeared, of all places, on the Berlin label “Hansa”, which otherwise specialised in insipid ‘Schlager’ music.