ZIGURI – KOELSCH-SCHICKERT-ERDENRE

LP version. Includes a CD copy of the album. “Ziguri [tsiguri]”: In the Mexican Tarahumara language the word for Peyote cactus, containing the hallucinogenic alkaloid mescaline. Gr Schickert has built a reputation and following amongst friends of psychedelic music. He and Manuel Gottsching pioneered the use of echo guitar. His solo albums from 1974 and 1979 have attained cult status. Ziguri initially rehearsed in SO36, the legendary punk club in Berlin-Kreuzberg (subsequently finding themselves entangled in the street riots on Oranien Strasse which were a regular occurrence at the time). Their first gigs took place in squats, at street parties or underground clubs, before graduating to venues like Tacheles, Der Eimer and Schokoladen.