from the LP Together, Brain Records, 1972There were two distinct veins of krautrock, and while almost all of the tracks I’ve posted in the Honeypot thus far fall into the spacey electronic school of thought, there were a substantial number of bands which subscribed to a more Western-leaning approach, top amongst them being the Hanover, Germany-based crew Jane; basically, by any other name, this style of kraut is essentially blues-based prog rock, but the one feature which sets both Jane and others like them (Frumpy for one) apart is their insistence upon jamming at a mid-to-slow tempo, probably less of a plan than a natural outgrowth for people who were consuming entire caravans of hashish, “…when I wake up in the morning, it’s the end of the day…”! Jane never fails to deliver on a lazy afternoon, almost like they infused the proceedings with consciously positive vibrations, ably predicting both the needs & the heady nature of their audience.
