Cravinkel

Released on the Phillips label in 1970, Cravinkel, the English spelling to the last name of the German band's guitarist (Gerd Krawinkel). They recorded this album in London with producer Rainer Goltermann The group's self-titled debut features ten short tracks, only a couple of which are longer than four minutes. The music is a mostly straight-forward Brit-rock sound augmented with blues, West Coast country, folk, and psychedelic. There are some hippy-esque tunes like "Get A Feeling Going Round" and "Candlelight" which sound a bit different.

The quartet made a second album “Guards of Lonliness”(1972), But changes in the musical directive, and new members coming on signaled a change. Another album came but the musical tides had switched. The band had splintered by the mid-70s.

Read full Bio