I have been listening to Ash Ra Tempel’s music and particularly Light: Look at Your Sun from the album Schwingugen (1972) which has vocals by John L. Since Ash Ra Tempel’s exquisite music for the film Le Berceau de Cristal (1976) is on the film soundtrack of Solitude (2022) I was in the atmosphere of Ash Ra Tempel. Not only is Manuel Göttsching’s music of a transcendental order, with the masterful guitar build up in this track and its spiritual but also psychedelic and cosmic, slightly menacing atmosphere. I wanted to see what happens to introduce this music into the sacred space of the church, St Stephen Walbrook, London in this experimental event. I am singing with John L and also follow vocally as far as I could, Manuel Göttsching’s guitar which screeches, cries and screams to transcendence.
The video of the performance is also in Manuel Göttsching’s website