{"id":321,"date":"2011-01-17T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/german-oak\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T02:02:54","slug":"german-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/german-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"German Oak &#8211; German Oak (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/German2BOak-1.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;In the strange Olympic summer of 1972, the D\u00fcsseldorf instrumental group (community of 5 hippies \/ open mind artists) German Oak entered the Luftschutzbunker (or Air Raid Shelter), in order to record their eponymous first self-titled LP. The purpose of recording in a bunker was to recreate the feelings experienced by German soldiers during the Allied invasion of 1944. The strange acoustic conditions in the bunker made the music, which was a series of long, spacious guitar jams, sound distant and filled with echo&#8230; By consequence German Oak\u2019s music is very tortured, dark and weird, dominated by heavy, \u201cdistorted\u201d guitar solos &amp; rhythms. The background creates \u201cpainful\u201d &amp; \u201cambient\u201d sequences thanks to delay echoes, electronic \u201cfuzzy\u201d noises &amp; repetitive bass lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germanoak.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the strange Olympic summer of 1972, the D\u00fcsseldorf instrumental group (community of 5 hippies \/ open mind artists) German Oak entered the Luftschutzbunker (or Air Raid Shelter), in order to record their eponymous first self-titled LP. The purpose of recording in a bunker was to recreate the feelings experienced by German soldiers during the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/german-oak\/\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;German Oak &#8211; German Oak (1990)&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,538,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-673","category-german-oak","category-germany","category-krautrock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}