Debuting at the "Pop & Jazz Festival" in Bilzen in Autumn 1969, Rufus Zuphall (from the Northern German town of Aachen, next to the Dutch border) had a lot of influences at play in their music: Teutonic folk, Dutch psychedelia, a notable nod to Jethro Tull with much flute and dynamics, and a great deal of innovation of their own. Their self-produced debut WEISS DER TEUFEL is considered one of the underground classics of the Krautrock era, a mostly instrumental, live and vibrant excursion full of raw energy and riddled with surprises. PHALLOBST saw Rufus Zuphall succumbing to Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser's whim to turn Pilz into a folk label, and features an excellent version of the folk standard "Portland Town", alongside some rivetingly complex progressive numbers. AVALON AND ON is a posthumous release comprising of PHALLOBST, an LP of archive recordings (including demos for an aborted third LP), two LP's documenting their concert in Aachen (17 June 1972) from their farewell tour, and a single by Günter Krause.

Klaus Gülden (flutes, percussion),
Günter Krause (guitars, vocals),
Helmut Lieblang (bass),
Udo Dahmen (drums, tablas),
Erich Engels (percussion)

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