Think retro-futurism without the glamour: not gleaming strobes but fluorescent cobwebs; no flared trousers, but chrome-dipped hooded cloaks. This is the alternate timeline of R&S Band and their Sparkling-Sound-Rock – a fifty-minute trip through sonic futures that never quite happened, crafted from the DNA of another past.
At the core of this project stand Dr. Horst Reindell and Sandrino Sandinista Sander – two sonic time capsules whose shared vision ran 1980s clubland through a centrifuge of Krautrock propulsion, spaced-out electronics, dubwise New Wave and NDW idiosyncrasies. With just a pinch of… Punk-Funk? These private recordings, made between 1980 and 1982 in Göttingen and Kassel, resist easy nostalgia: they pulse with the energy of unfinished futures, not archival dust.
There’s a Jupiter-5 here, a Moog there; a Hammond flickers through the murk. The grooves are loose, angular, alive. While it would be easy to box this reissue as part of a retro wave, what emerges instead is something far less curated, far more strange. Sparkling-Sound-Rock doesn’t recreate the spirit of the time – it reactivates it.
Sparkling -Sound-Rock
