Sparklich Sound Rock

This recordings and to found them are actually a little sensation.

Sound Essence is more than happy to present these two dedicated musicians and their unique music to music lovers.

Their first LP, “Sparkling-Sound-Rock,” will be released in July 2025. You can expect the finest west german private krautrock, space electronics, dubby new wave, NDW, and punk funk from the early 1980s!

R&S BAND from Göttingen & Kassel consists of Dr. Hosé Reindell (keys, vocals) and Sandrino Sandinista Sander (drums, percussion, vocals, sax).

In the late 1970s, they founded the Krautfusion JazzRock band Aquila as a quartet, which primarily jammed live.

Enthusiastic about the prevailing Zeitgeist and fascinated by the fusion of electronic, funk, and rock music, they already used a Jupiter 5 and a Moog synthesizer alongside the classic Fender Rhodes and the Hammond organ.

In the early 1980s, they continued as a duo, the R&S Band, and became more musically specific.

Numerous private recordings were made, which now reflected the new ravages of the times. This first, very exciting and previously hidden period between 1980 and 1982 is now being compiled, curated, and released for the first time by Tom Sky on the SOUND ESSENCE record label.

Krautrock meets electronic music, NDW, and New Wave, resulting in a unique and new version of this stylistic blend.

Fresh, intellectual, intricate, ranging from groovy to pop and funky.

In addition to numerous subsequent theater performances in the early 80s under the theme “Programmatic Music in Pictures” with dancers Anna Boreda from Spain and Birgit Widowski, they also performed at festivals in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

In 1984, the R&S BAND merged with the Munich-based cult band EMBRYO-DISSIDENTEN and toured Europe with them.

During this period, the Dissidenten’s sound was characterized by Arabic sound patterns fused with modern European sound structures.

After this European tour, Horst Reindell and Sandrino Sandinista Sander were still caught up in the ethno jazz rock fever, but wanted to remain true to their own sound.

This led to the creation of a unique style within the framework of “groovy Ethno & Afro Wave sound,” as the press described the band in the following years.

After some pre-productions, they finally founded the band Savanna Talk in 1986, together with, among others, Zulu King Charles Kuchena from Zimbabwe.

The band achieved its first radio hit in 1986 with the song “Namibia Wardance.”

The first European tours and festivals followed: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Several TV appearances on WDR and HR followed.

The Prague artist Petr Vrana shot a video clip with the band for the documenta 1987 as an official contribution to the artistic program of the world’s largest exhibition of modern art in Kassel. The clip went around the world.

Horst Reindell and Sandrino Sandinista Sander always remained true to music, later under project names such as Der Geheimbund, Vision Earth or 3Stein.