Cravinkel was founded in 1969 by Gert "Kralle" Krawinkel, who later -in the early '80s- achieved world wide fame with Trio (of the hit 'Da Da Da'). The Hamburg-based Cravinkel relocated to a country house to find a place where they could develop their musical ideas. The eponymous first Cravinkel...
With their second album, Cravinkel left the realm of British rock-blues music and instead turned towards a sweeping psychedelic and progressive sound. In 1971 the band, now with a new drummer (Günther Thoenes, formerly of Sphinx Tush, who also cut a bunch of exploitation Hendrix tribute-LP's as...