Sunday, May 20, 2007

Roland und die Dada Dogs-st,LP,1981,+Paramashivam Trifft(East meats wets),LP,1982,Germany


These are the two Roland and Die Dadadogs LPs . Roland played with Guru Guru. The band took it's name from a suggestion from Chicago disk jockey Saul Smaisyz. Roland has a large collection of instruments - he's known largely for his sax and guitar work with Guru Guru but he has a passion for collecting instruments and these records capture a playful approach to indian music - from the title joke on the classic "East Meets West" title to the playfulness of Dadadog and Mandarin Banana.
I've had a hard time ever finding any info or references to the two Dadadogs records and as such prize them as some of the rarer krautrock stuff . Kraan's Peter Wolbrandt plays on the other one and Kraan's bassist Hellmut Hattler appears on this one - last I checked this one wasn't even listed at the main Kraan site on the web. Great kraut rock with eastern/jazz even punk influences.Highly recommended!
thanks to melio for these!
get them here and here

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, Roland and the DADADOGS are really great :-D
Btw: It seems, that the links contain the same LP (Paramashivam...)

Klaudius

basso said...

yap, it's the same. no link for the same titled lp here

Eckhard said...

Thank you for posting the Paramashivam. I have these two on vinyl in deep storage somewhere (I think only 1000 or 2000 of each was ever pressed, right?) I deeply appreciate being able to hear Roland doing the Occupants' "Dadadog"! Any chance you could post the other CD as well? Thanks! Eckhard