Radagast Project (GER 1992-2000)

RADAGAST PROJECT was/is the psychedelic folk project of former PEACE'N'STUFF bass & flute player Christof Köhler (aka Koehler, aka CK – listen to tr. 8 on the HLFP 01 sampler!). The recordings you find here go back to the period between 1992 and 2000.

1. Snake River (1992) - 6.38

Part of a song/sound collage called "The Snake Song", this piece somewhat follows the music of German classical space krautrockers BETWEEN. It's really a hybrid of late 80s/early 90s New Age sounds and 70s krautrock with eastern influences.

2. C & A - 5.07

Here CK forms a cosmic folk duo with legendary busker ANDI PAULO, posted here recently. This song was written and recorded on 4-track-tape recorder in Heidelberg, Germany, around 1995.

3. Radagast - 8.41

Kind of a whimsical space folk theme with none-too-serious lyrics telling the story of the infamous Lord Of The Rings character.

4. Kalte Liebe - 5.45

A demo from the aborted "Roy Rohrbach" folk opera, recorded in Heidelberg in 2000 on 4-track; this is a song with a rather dark mood, with flute & vocals panicking (in the original greek meaning of the word). There are evident ROY HARPER influences and there's lots of early Roger Waters / PINK FLOYD octave bass pumping in the instrumental parts, a wild spanish guitar in the middle – and thank God you probably won't understand the lyrics... Also brings to mind the acoustic side of the 1st "Dance of the Lemmings" LP of AMON DÜÜL 2.

 

By the way: CK was the lightshow man for CLOUD NINE & THE VITAMIN C (1983-1992) and is also guesting on their Album „Draw Down The Distance“ (recorded in 1992 and released in December 2023) playing flute on the song Sunspots. That song is also featured on the first HLFP Sampler (in a different mix version than on the LP), and you will also find another of CK's songs there, which again sounds very different from the music here: Synthespacer, as already mentioned above.

If you like german psychedelic folk in the style of FIT & LIMO or you enjoyed the ANDI PAULO post not too long ago, you should definitly have a listen to this stuff. Recommended!

Radagast Project

(mp3-zip, 4 tracks, 26 min)

Get it HERE!

(New link 05/2024)