ONCE UPON A TIME...Correlations

 

ASHRA  Correlations  (Virgin,1979) - Electronic

     Those familiar with Manuel Göttsching’s Ash Ra Temple and even early solo Göttsching albums may feel lost on Correlations. Its an odd nut in his discography, though a rewarding one given time. Its certainly not as overtly psychedelic as the early Ash Ra work; not as tied into hippie culture as their collaboration with Timothy Leary or as critically lauded as New Age Of Earth. Like their collab with Leary though, its a record that seems to split fan opinion harshly. Given that the album was released in ’79 its not impossible to imagine that something like the emergence of disco might have had an effect on Göttsching, though not in any dancefloor ready capacity. There’s a propulsiveness to much of the record, provided by the drumming of Harald Grosskopf, whose influence here could also explain the influx of synth-pop to Ashra’s sound. Grosskopf would release his own overlooked gem, Sythesist a year later. Those disco and proto-syth elements give the record its own unique space that floats somewhere between Minimal Wave knob twiddlers, Prog’s slide towards ’80s slickness and the Kosmiche atmospheres that Göttsching had long since been perfecting.

TRACKLIST : Ice Train

                    Club Cannibal

                    Oasis

                    Bamboo Sands

                    Morgana Da Capo

                    Pas De Trois

                    Phantasus

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