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Seven Up (album)

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Released
  
1973

Seven Up (1973)
  
Join Inn (1973)

Release date
  
1973

Songs
  
Space, Time

Length
  
37:18

Artist
  
Ash Ra Tempel

Label
  
Kosmische Kuriere

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Recorded
  
August 1972 at Bern Festival and Sinus Studios, Bern, Switzerland, overdubs recorded October 1972 in Stommeln, Germany

Genres
  
Krautrock, Space rock, Psychedelic rock

Producers
  
Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, Gille Lettmann

Similar
  
Ash Ra Tempel albums, Krautrock albums, Other albums

Seven Up is the third studio album by German krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel and their only album recorded in collaboration with American psychologist/drug advocate Timothy Leary. It was first released in 1973.

Contents

Background and recording

Seven Up was mainly recorded at the Sinus Studio in Bern, Switzerland in August 1972. Some tracks, like the vocals on "Downtown" by Portia Nkomo and Michael Duwe, were recorded later at Studio Dieter Dierks near Cologne, Germany.

Timothy Leary was living in exile in Switzerland at the time, having escaped from prison in San Luis Obispo, California in September 1970.

The name "Seven Up" was thought up by lyricist Brian Barritt, after the group were given a bottle of the lemonade drink 7 Up that had been spiked with LSD.

Track listing

  • Music by Ash Ra Tempel, lyrics by Timothy Leary and Brian Barritt
  • Personnel

  • Hartmut "Hawk" Enke - bass, guitar, synth/electronics
  • Manuel Göttsching - guitar, synth/electronics
  • Timothy Leary - voice, "direction", lyrics
  • Michael Duwe - voice, flute
  • Additional personnel
  • Brian Barritt - voice, lyrics, arrangements
  • Liz Elliott - voice
  • Bettina Hohls - voice
  • Portia Nkomo - voice
  • Steve A. - organ, synth/electronics
  • Dieter Burmeister - drums
  • Tommie Engel - drums
  • Dieter Dierks - synthesizer, radio downtown, recording
  • Klaus D. Müller - performer (no role specified)
  • Peter Geitner - design (cover)
  • Walter Wegmüller - painting (cover paintings)
  • Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser - production
  • Gille Lettmann - co-production
  • Kurt Zimmermann - recording (Sinus-studio)
  • References

    Seven Up (album) Wikipedia