Kokodril-Getting Up For The Morning (1972)

Kokodril was a Swiss band that emerged in the late 1960s, playing an addictive mix of acid hard rock, swampy blues, progressive and psychedelic touches with hints of Eastern and Indian sounds. Kokodril consisted of Walty Anselmo (guitar, sitar, and vocals), Düde Dürst (drums), Mojo Weidili (harmonica, flute, and percussion), Hardy Hepp (violin and keyboards), and Terry Stevens (bass). On their first two albums, "Kokodril" (1969) and "Swamp" (1970), the band explored a style related to the hard blues of bands like the British group The Groundhogs, but with a progressive edge. With their next album, "An Invisible World Revealed" (1971), they introduced more complex sounds of blues and psychedelic music, featuring a prominent Mellotron and highlighting the impressive atmospheric suite "Oddyssey In Om". "Getting Up For The Morning", released a year later, showcased a band more firmly established in the krautrock sound, with its wide variety of underground styles ranging from blues jams like "Schooldays" to motorik-like sounds with the acid folk of "Song No. 2 (Thought Under Conditions)", and including exotic tracks such as the interlude "Was There A Time", the powerful, dusty blues of "Rabatz", and the psychedelic and progressive sounds of "And I Know". However, the band began to show signs of creative exhaustion with their next release, "Sweat and Swim" (1973), which still maintains undeniable creativity, as demonstrated by tracks like the atmospheric, Pink Floyd-esque "Daybreak", the southern rock "All I Ever Wanted", the space rock "Skylabd", and the rural blues "Two to Twelf". Some time later, they disappeared until almost forty years later, when in 2013 some of its members revived the band, releasing several albums that recaptured some of Kokodril's original essence.