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Manuel Göttsching

Sat., Aug. 16, 8 p.m., $40, St. Mary's Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk, 800-965-4827, thegatherings.org.


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Published: Aug 12, 2008

Rock/Experimental

Think Syd Barrett minus the insanity, or Brian Eno without the better-paying pop-music day gigs. Manuel Göttsching is one of the forefathers of space rock, having co-founded Krautrock group Ash Ra Tempel in the early 1970s. The band was short-lived but influential, with all those latter-day droning guitars and psychedelic wails certainly owing a debt (he's even immortalized in a Tokyo wax museum, complete with a photo-op 3-D replica of the cover of Ash Ra's Le Berceau de Cristal album). For the past 30 years, Göttsching has recorded mostly solo, under his own name and as Ashra, combining his ethereal guitar work with synths and sequencers to create minimalist planetariums of the mind. Göttsching reunited with co-founder Klaus Schulze to revive the Ash Ra Tempel name in 2000, and is now making his ridiculously belated stateside concert debuts, first in New York and then in Philly as part of the Gatherings series.

Sat., Aug. 16, 8 p.m., $40, St. Mary's Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk, 800-965-4827, thegatherings.org.