Kraut Fishing in America: Sand- Golem (1974)

This is a truly puzzling krautrock curiosity. Creaky, dated, and slightly fanstastical, it has a hint of proggish woodland magic and a smattering of industrial avant-noisemaking as a counterbalance... not required listening but for a krautrock junkie it's very rewarding. Produced by Klaus Schulze, which is extremely notable. Honestly, I don't know what I think of it yet, except that it's definitely something. Julian Cope, whose krautrock authority is often dubious in my opinion, has a pretty good piece about it on his site, so here's a link, and a sample quote:

...And so Sand was born - a cosmic and drummerless trio with a lead singer who played VCS3 synthesizer and sang mysterious and pedantic English lyrics in a voice like a Frisian Puritan reared on Melanie Kafka and David Bowie. Sample lyric? "He is an old loggerhead - actually long ago he is dead." Reviewer’s comment: Nuff said.
On arrival in Berlin, these three longhairs beat a path to Klaus Schulze’s front door and asked him to produce their first LP, to be entitled Golem. Why did they want to call it Golem? Well, Golem was a mysterious Jewish figure from the 16th century who had been fashioned out of the earth. The members of Sand used ‘Golem’ as a verb to describe the transmutations which occurred when they played together. In the words of Johannes Vester:
"To experience with the unknown, to give life... that was our impulse... [those lyrics expressed] exactly what was in our mind when we Golemned."

Get Golemned, you'll probably like it