timothy leary ash ra tempel seven up vinyl lp

Seven Up (50th Anniversary Edition)

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LP, Gatefold,, Sticker, 50th Anniversary Re-Edition with 4 page Inlay including an original Manuscript
by Timothy
Leary and photos from the recording session

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“Seven Up” is the third studio album by Ash Ra Tempel and their only album recorded in collaboration with
American Ph.D. in psychology, Dr. Timothy Leary. The Coverart for “Seven Up” was designed by famous
Swiss Artist Walter Wegmüller. Recorded in August 1972 at Sinus Studio in Berne, Switzerland, remixed
September 1972 at Dierks Studios in Stommeln, Germany. First release in spring 1973 by OHR Musik – the
first release on the new sub-label “Kosmische Kuriere”, Kat-Nr. KK 58001.
We release “Seven Up” in a Re-Cut carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching himself, on September 9th
2022, also being Manuel Göttsching´s 70th Birthday. Our Edition features the full original text for the “7 levels
of consciousness” by Timothy Leary in English, i.e. “Instruction Manual for Pleasure Panel” plus a previously
unreleased glimpse view of the original scripts incl. notes and mark ups as well as partly unreleased photos
from the recording session.
As for the music itself we again refer to Julian Cope´s review and remarks from his book “Krautrocksampler”
(published by Head Heritage, 1st ed. 1995):
“When the Leary Mob met the Kaiser Gang, the sparks flew ever Up-wards… 7up is a stone classic in every
way. Yes, it is unlikely to find Timothy Leary singing lead vocal in a cosmic group, but even weirder that he
chose to sing a wild yelping freaked out blues !
Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke had begun their careers in The Steeple Chase Blues Band back in the
mid-’60ies, and they quickly felt their way through what Barritt and Leary were aiming for. They reconciled it
all as a kind of West Coast chordless psychedelia, where blues riffs sparkle out of nowhere and the sheer
weight of synthesizers renders everything with an unreal Pere Ubu/early Roxy Music quality.
The greatness of Ash Ra Tempel burned so brightly on 7Up that there is really nothing else like it. Hartmut
Enke and Manuel Gottsching here returned to their riffy roots. It can hardly be called a retro act, though, as
the context of music is everything. And with Dierks at the controls, even the New Kids on the Block would
have sounded psychedelic.7Up is like a late night radio show glimpsed through a shattered tuner where all
but the most truly dangerous sounds have been allowed to stay, to drift and to dance around the
performers.The result is an extreme gem, a flash of hysterical white lightning, and a pre-punk Technicolour
yawn in the grandest of traditions.
In typical Ash Ra Tempel style, the record is divided into two pieces, “Space” and “Time”. Within this, though,
Timothy Leary’s ideas are allowed to free-flow and the two sides are therefore divided into mini-songs all
segued together. The highlight of Side 1 is “Power Drive”, a West Coast burn-up that transcends any W.
Coast music I ever did hear. Leary and Barritt present the greatest twin-vocal of all time, coming on like
Jagger and Morrison but too caught up in their own maelstrom to be anything less than Heralds of the
Punkfuture still five years away.
In chaos it was conceived and in chaos it was recorded. Yet Dieter Dierks, the great Aural Architect of the
Cosmic Couriers, turned 7Up into a personal triumph and a Kosmische dream.”
Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel – “Seven Up”
TIMOTHY LEARY – voice
BRIAN BARRITT – voice
MICKY DUWE – voice & flute
LIZ ELLIOTT – voice
BETTINA HOHLS – voice
PORTIA NKOMO – voice
HARTMUT “HAWK” ENKE – bass, guitar & electronics
MANUEL GÖTTSCHING – guitar & electronics
STEVE A. – organ & electronics
DIETMAR BURMEISTER – drums
TOMMY ENGEL – drums
DIETER DIERKS – synthesizer & Radio Downt