Neu Klang

The Definitive History of Krautrock

Christoph Dallach author Katy Derbyshire translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:27th Mar '25

Should be back in stock very soon

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The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music.

The unique and adventurous sounds that German bands like Can, Neu! In Neu Klang, Christoph Dallach interviewed its pioneers and their answers combine to form an oral history that points far beyond the individual band histories.The unique and adventurous sounds that German bands like Can, Neu! or Kraftwerk produced in post-war 60s Germany, now known as Krautrock, are considered a blueprint for modern rock music. And the stream of their creative admirers and continuators has been constantly widening since the first fans like David Bowie and Iggy Pop. In Neu Klang, Christoph Dallach interviewed its pioneers and their answers combine to form an oral history that points far beyond the individual band histories.

'Neu Klang provides a valuable set of first-hand accounts [of Krautrock].' - Ludovic Hunter-Tiley, Financial Times
'Neu Klang is laudably ambitious in scope.' - Poppie Platt, The Telegraph

ISBN: 9780571377688

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448 pages

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