Brainticket

Originally assembled in 1968, the little-known experimental outfit Brainticket blended Swiss, German, and Italian personnel and operated within the late-1960s/early-1970s Krautrock sphere. Although personnel shifted repeatedly throughout the group’s existence, its best-known configuration featured Joel Vandroogenbroeck on organ and flute, Ron Bryer on guitar, Werni Frohlich on bass, Coismo Lampis on drums, Wolfgang Paap on tabla, Dawn Muir handling vocals, and Hellmuth Kolbe managing potentiometers, generators, and sound effects. During the first half of the 1970s the ensemble released three albums—Cottonwoodhill in 1971, Psychonaut in 1972, and Celestial Ocean in 1974—before splitting up. A brief return in the early 1980s yielded the further pair Adventure and Voyage, after which the project again faded from view. In the late 1990s the long-unavailable first two albums finally appeared on compact disc.