Like life, Schwingungen is an indication that things have changed. No more the fierceness of artwork but now a more contemplative scene of two lovers watching the sun rise. No more the fevered two side long tracks but a more than ample four (though the CD joins the final two tracks together). No more the unrelenting drive for raw noise, but a more thoughtful and hippy like affair.
I bought this CD in 2004, seemingly from ebay during one of those "I must own all the krautrocksampler CDs" drives that I appear to have lived through multiple times in my life. I think I listened to it once, thought it was okay and put it back on the shelves. According to the database, I last listened to this in 2004.
It's much less of a beast than the prior record but somehow it's superior. Look at Your Sun (6 minutes) is laid back and relatively mellow, Flowers Must Die is heavy and driving. Unlike the previous record this has vocals all over it - John L. declaring in the latter that he wants to be adored. Don't we all.
The last track (Schwingungen: Suche & Liebe) is more like a cross between Amon Duul 2 and Traummaschine from the previous record. It starts off all ambient and melancholic and then goes off into a spacey far out bass heavy thing which is actually pretty good.
Not much to say about this one - it's pretty far out which is good but it's somewhat unrewarding. Despite all the promise it never goes bonkers like Ash Ra Tempel and turns out to be somewhat of a letdown. But a letdown in krautrock terms.
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