Xhol

condition (record/cover): EX+ / VG+ (lamination peeling off)

Xhol began life in Wiesbaden as a soul revue called Soul Caravan, covering Otis Redding and James Brown, before mutating into one of the most defiantly underground of the German bands. Motherfuckers GmbH & Co. KG was their last record, taped in 1970 but held back until 1972 by a falling-out with Ohr's Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, and it is a collage as much as an album: it opens with Radio, a montage of dial-twiddling and station fragments that prefigures the start of Faust's debut, then moves through a long cosmic organ solo and stretches of free-jazz sprawl.

The crude, handwritten sleeve, the word Caravan half crossed out, matches the contents exactly. A genuine outlier even by the standards of this music. The Ohr pressing.