Ash Ra Tempel and solo
Following Berlin’s astral travellers along their myriad paths, Andrew Male.
Space-rock men 3: Ash Ra Tempel (from left) Manuel Göttsching, Hartmut Enke and Klaus Schulze in 1971.
“THERE WAS no ‘idea’ behind it,” said Klaus Schulze in 1997, discussing the 1970 formation of Ash Ra Tempel with Manuel Göttsching. “We just did it. No big thing. [Back then] people founded groups, joined groups, left groups, disbanded groups. Nobody cared.”