KAMASUTRA by IRMIN SCHMIDT & INNER SPACE

A good four decades after its making, a rare gem is up for release: the soundtrack to Kobi Jaeger's erotic and educational epic 'Kamasutra – Consummation Of Love' composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt & The Inner Space.A precursor to krautrock pioneers Can, Schmidt's 1968 recording assembles Can's original line-up – Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit And Malcolm Mooney - who later went on to craft the band's seminal debut, "Monster Movie". The film 'Kamasutra – Consummation Of Love' switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late 1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that – more than a millennium earlier – had spawned the erotic teachings of the Kamasutra. Fast-forward to the present day and you will find the film's well-intentioned, in parts pedagogical approach bristling with (un)intentional comedy. Many bands and composers from the late 1960s were intrigued by eastern philosophy and influenced by oriental sounds. Besides several laid-back, percussive instrumentals laced with flutes and sitars, the soundtrack also features three vocal tracks: "I'm Hiding My Nightingale" (sung by Margarete Juvan), "There Was A Man" (sung by Malcolm Mooney) and "I'm Around You Everyday" (sung by Michael Karoli). "Kamasutra – Consummation Of Love" was mastered from the original analogue tapes by Calyx.