Artist: Yatha Sidhra
Genre(s):
Ambient
Discography:
A Meditation Mass
Year: 1974
Tracks: 4
Yatha Sidhra, from Freiberg,Germany, near both the Swiss and French borders, was a fugacious group that only when lasted retentive enough to record unitary piece of music. That one piece of music of music was the 40-minute "A Meditation Mass" which stretched over deuce sides of the LP of the same appoint released in 1973 by the fabled Brain label and considered one of the classics of cosmic Krautrock.
Yatha Sidhra's roots go game to the mid-'60s, when deuce brothers, multi-instrumentalist Rolf and drummer Klaus Fichter began playing in assorted groups together, starting with a mortal mathematical group called Lea Gamble that consisted of them and 2 American ex-service men. By the early seventies the Fichter's were teamed with French bassist Jean-Michel Boivert and flutist Peter Elbracht in a surd rock isthmus called Brontosaurus, which because of the flute sounded a bit like Jethro Tull. In early 1973, Rolf Fichter started work on a lengthy modern work, "A Meditation Mass," and presently began to perform it live with Brontosaurus. At one gig Achim Reichel, a key design in German rock music, was awestruck enough by the piece that he befriended the lot. Reichel managed to catch them a narrow with Brain Records to record the slice, under the consideration that they change their refer to something more than conquer for "A Meditation Mass," which did not sound at all like Brontosaurus's other corporeal, as the piece was far more hypnotic and moony. The diagnose Yatha Sidhra was chosen because it had a mystic good to it.
By the time the album was recorded later that year, guitarist and bassist Matthias Nicolar had replaced Boivert. Reichel produced the album, and on it Rolf Fichter played Moog, flute, vibraphone, electric piano, guitar and vocals. Brain released the album in 1974 with a die-cut foldout breed with the album's title in cut off stencil. The group presumably only existed to make the one recording, and non very much thirster than that. Rolf and Klaus Fichter finally re-emerged as the duo Dreamworld and released a couple of records in the early eighties of quite conventional ELP-styled synth-prog with none of A Meditation Mass's magic trick and mystique.
